Another Terrific Year. Summer/Fall 2016

Email address change: Please change our e-mail address to mkyankee@gmail.com

It's been almost a  year since our family blog has been updated.

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• Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. Let's hope so.

 Happily, we can share that the months have been kind to us.

Our kids and grandkids are well and happy. 

All we can ask for.  

                                                                                                     

We've enjoyed spring and summer with our Long Island family and friends. Some of our Delray playmates are also Snowbirds so we have played nicely with them. Won't be long before we return to VR (Virtual Reality to the uninitiated); last two weeks in October and again following Thanksgiving and an early Chanukah.

Hadn't realized Canasta could be this much fun (to view the video, FB FRIENDS can view it on my Facebook page)

The Cardinals won our division decisively and drew a bye for the first round of the playoffs.  Today we completed round three of the playoffs in the morning game.  But in the afternoon game we dug a hole for ourselves, blowing a 7-4 lead against our rival Dodgers, in the first-of-three finals. I still expect that we will take the league championship next Wednesday. Stay tuned.  Prime seating remains for Wednesday, 10 a.m. at Cantiague Park in Hicksville.  Bring your own refreshments. 

              
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Ethan turned thirteen. So proud of him. 

Loved celebrating his bar mitzvah with family, friends, and 105 of Ethan's closest friends.

Uncle Jay, Aunt Stephanie, Cousin Jolie

Poppy, Grandma Alice, Aunt Shelly, Uncle Bruce

Ethan and Emmy have had another wonderful summer at Blue Ridge and Equinunk.

                                                                                                   Emmy has hit double digits and is running

 for Student Council. I previewed her speech. She's a natural.

                                                                                           

Jolie has begun kindergarten and loves her teachers and classmates. 

Brynn has graduated to a bed and begins pre-school when she turns three in November.

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Oh, to be a kid again during summer.  

Nothing beats chasing butterflies, jumping into a pool . . .






    


     

   
         . . . playing games with the little ones . . .

  

      . . . celebrating weddings and birthdays

The Ladies (sans Jolie and Brynn) 

and The Men

. . . and just hanging with family and friends.

Friday morning ROMEO breakfast--an institution

                                        

                                    
                                    
                                     Missing a Good Friend

John Hinton was a great Yankees fan--almost as great a baseball fan as he was a teacher.  Mostly he was a wonderful, talented friend. 

Will miss our consulting trips to Chicago, sharing ideas about mathematics teaching methods, and spring lunches at Applebee's debating the merits of our Yankees winning or losing the pennant. Must say I was frequently the more optimistic of the two of us.