“Hey Mom come here, I need help with the green eyeshadow,” Sophie called from the bathroom. “Um, okay,” I said, taking in the situation, the big, blurry smears. “You want me to get it off your cheeks?” “No! I want you to put it on my eyebrows and all over my eyes,” she said, pointing […]

Ms. X called last night. “Leprechauns came to my classroom!” “Really?” I asked, just a split second before I got it,  even though I had a St. Patrick’s Day plan, too. I’d bought gold-wrapped chocolate coins (AKA Chanukah gelt) to put in the girls’ shoes, because Annabelle had told me a few weeks ago that on […]