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Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Weekend Bliss

It may seem strange to say about a 22-month-old, but Simon enjoyed his first real weekend day today. He’s been alive for about 86 weeks, but until now the difference between Monday and Saturday was pretty slight. He may have had a nanny on Monday, but he was still at home, one-on-one with an adult, […]

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I’ll collect my thoughts later. For now, my single observation about life is that everything is happening at once, and not all of it is good. As a result, I’m pretty frazzled right now. If I squint, I can just make out a clearing on the horizon, but much like Vegas, I’m worried that everything […]

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Happy to Be Wrong

Such an unusual state of mind for me, but no less true for it. I had been a font of negative prognostication this weekend. Simon, Matt, and I had a lovely, low-key Saturday and Sunday, featuring sandbox play, coffee houses, yard work (thanks for all the help, Jim and Evie!), dinner with friends, and lots […]

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Welcome Theodore Oliver!

That would be the handsome fellow pictured below.

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Nijibabies!

A huge congratulations–and an impatient post again, already!–to dear friends Tony and Katherine on the birth of their second child, and to Master Thomas on the birth of a sibling. All I know about baby two is that he/she (but probably he as per a slip of the tongue of the sonogram technician) arrived at […]

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TGIF!

Rarely have I been so happy to wake up to a Friday. And I’m not alone. The entire Whitworth-Goldstein household is ready for the long exhale that is a weekend, having come through a pretty challenging week. The one who most needs it the most is Simon, but Matt and I are trailing close behind. […]

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I’m telling on my husband. But I’m not mad at him at all. Quite the opposite, I really feel for him. Yesterday he made the mistake I’ve been expecting to make. It, of course, involved preschool. I took Simon to KIP yesterday because I had a big, big call from 12:00-1:30 and wouldn’t be able […]

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Somewhere in the large and cluttered main office of Shary Hyman, the Director of Keneseth Israel Preschool, I imagine a thick file folder marked “Whitworth, Simon”. If you were to peek inside, you would find a group of papers neatly clipped together. The top of the stack is comprised of the usual boring administrative stuff: […]

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Update

OK, more info soon but when I picked Simon up today, he was sitting at the table with the other children, happily eating his lunch, and talking to the kids and teachers. Panic averted.

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Preschool Week 2

I had a whole different post planned for today, but it’s not seeming terribly relevant at the moment. Maybe later. Matt dropped Simon off at Keneseth Israel this morning, and he began crying the minute he realized where he was. He managed to give the school director a high-five at the door, but this promising […]

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