![]() There is always someone from whom you can borrow a random recipe ingredient or a laundry card. We didn’t want to have to get in a car to go everywhere and we wanted easy access to cultural activities, like the theatre, to which we subscribe.Ĭleveland Park is in the North West quadrant of D.C., and feels, next to Manhattan, actually quite suburban to me! We are a stone’s throw from Georgetown, Tenleytown (home to American University), and Embassy Row. We live on a main street, in an eight-story building that is a mix of retirees, young families, and everything in between. We were determined to raise our kids in the more racially and socially diverse city. Michael, a born and bred city kid, always loved urban life. I always wanted to live in the city and fled the suburbs for NYC right after high school. ![]() Although we didn’t meet until later in life, my husband and I are both originally from Chicagoland. We live in a Co-op in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It seems like yesterday that he was my baby in blue glasses. ![]() ![]() He is my sweet introvert, and is named after my stepfather, who died when I was 23. The kid wouldn’t hurt a fly, unless that fly was his brother. He is the one reminding the other kids and the teacher of the rules. James, almost 2 years younger than Max, is our bespectacled “tough guy.” James looks sweet and behaves impeccably at school. His giant blue eyes have been stopping hearts since he was a baby! He is a wonderfully sweet boy with an incredible amount of energy, but he struggles to regulate his emotions. He excels at dramatic play he creates his own games with disparate toys and sets up scenes that he spends 15 minutes illustrating for us. Max, our oldest, has a creativity in everything he does that is awe inspiring. A part of my soul will always belong to New York City. The quarantine is the longest time I have not been to New York since I moved there to attend Parsons School of Design. I truly lived in two cities for five years and didn’t give up my apartment in New York until I was eight months pregnant with my oldest son. has been more of a slow evolving concept than a hard reality. Transitioning my business from New York to D.C. This “very D.C.” fairy-tale is all the stranger for someone who thought they’d never leave New York. After three years of long-distance dating, we were engaged in Lafayette Square Park (yes, that Lafayette Square Park) and married at the Supreme Court. Although we both refused the set up initially, it was meant to be and happened naturally. I did not tell her that when I first walked into her office, our matching hazel eyes met, and the world stopped for a moment. I had sworn off dating for at least two years after a very recent break-up. He lived in Washington, D.C I lived in New York City. My just-married, identical twin sister - Michael’s coworker at the time - tried to set us up when I came for a weekend visit. I met my husband as I was starting my business. His prerogative in life is to make my dreams come true. I like to say that before I met him, not only did I not know men this kind existed, but I certainly didn’t know I would marry one. My husband, Michael, is a serious government worker by day, and a super silly dad by night. I’m Lani, the 43 year-old entrepreneur, personal stylist, fashion blogger, and mother of two rambunctious boys: James (6) and Max (8). Like so many of us her life was thrown into turmoil while trying to figure out how to work from home and run school and parent, but now the family is settling into some sort of normal and appreciating what they are learning in the process. She is an entrepreneur and lives with her husband and two kids in DC. But here we are, in July and we’re still talking about how the quarantine has changed lives. 4 or 5 Living With Kids posts and we would be back to normal. When I first started asking parents about how their lives had changed because of the COVID pandemic I thought we would be out of it in several long weeks.
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