Grandparents are like fairy dust sprinkled in a child’s life. Well, the good ones are I should say. I grew up close to all my grandparents, but especially so with my maternal ones, Pearl and Lester Wolfson. They were like second parents to my brothers and me, giving us all two more people to worry […]
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
It’s rare that I begin a post feeling so defeated, but I have a sinking feeling this entry is doomed unless or until we capture the moment on camera and then figure out how to stream from the site. The thing is, Simon has a super adorable new-ish habit, and I think it’s going to […]
Well hello there, birthday. Has it been a year again already? It seems like it was only yesterday that my big birthday plans went south at that last minute when Simon and I both got sick. The calendar tells me I am, indeed, 39 today, but the plans are pretty small this year. To be […]
Staring at my KIP calendar back in October, one line brought shivers down my spine: “December 22-January 4: NO SCHOOL WINTER BREAK.” Like many a parent grown accustomed to child care, I looked at this line and could only think one thing, “What the heck am I going to do with him for two weeks?” […]
In the next week or so, I hope to go back and catch up on some of our goings on that slipped through the cracks between red helicopters and endless Chanukah celebrations. But first, I need to launch 2009, and I can’t think of a better way than to relay a story from my mother-in-law […]