Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Mar 31st, 2011
The last three months have brought some terrific quotes that didn’t quite flesh out into full vignettes. They’ve been sitting around as drafts for a while, tid-bits I’m afraid I might lose/forget if I don’t commit them to type. The first and oldest dates to January or early February. Having played foosball and loved it […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Mar 28th, 2011
Matt and I are still a bit fried from our week of sinus hell. His having a work all-nighter Wednesday night didn’t help any, either, but that’s a whole ‘nother story. So Friday night when Simon brought up death, I was tired and not terribly excited about being engaged in such a potentially draining conversation. […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Mar 24th, 2011
Yesterday Steepleton delivered and assembled Simon’s new play set. It took the crew (two very nice guys) three hours to put together, and Simon sat and watched for all but about 20 minutes. Most of the time, he sat right by the mulch line and watched as though it were a TV show. During part […]
Posted in Jessica on Mar 22nd, 2011
Matt has spent the last few days struggling with his second (third?) major sinus infection of the year. He’s been upgraded from “acute” sinusitis to “chronic” sinusitis and gets to discuss more aggressive treatment options with an ENT tomorrow, having been referred yesterday. There’s only so many antibiotics and so much cortisone a man can–or […]
Posted in Little Boy on Mar 20th, 2011
We had some fun at Chenoweth Park today. Simon, for reasons I still don’t understand, called me “Reverse Launcher” the entire time. We shot off Sky Lofter three times, each with great success. I tried to video the descent two times, with less success. Next up will be the HeliCAT. Simon was beyond excited by […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Mar 19th, 2011
Filed under “Having kids changes everything,” I offer Exhibits Y & Z. One would likely have never happened before Simon came along. The other certainly would not have. Exhibit Y: One of my favorite mystery writers is, or more accurately was, Elizabeth George. She writes the Thomas Lynley series about a titled , handsome, Bentley […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Mar 17th, 2011
It’s been a while since I blogged about Simon. Given the title and ostensible purpose of this blog, that seems improbable. But ten days or so of schedule updates, health updates, and running updates has pushed the eponymous subject of Kid Amnesiac to the back-burner. Not in real life, mind you, strictly in the literary […]
Posted in Jessica, No Boundaries on Mar 15th, 2011
My No Boundaries 5K leader, Jeff Wells of Fleet Feet Louisville, regularly insists that training is “fun”. “We’re going to have fun, here!” he’ll enthuse, right before leading a group of winded running newbies into the 45-degree rain for a session.Or demonstrating all the massage gadgets we might need to soothe tired/sore/injured body parts. Every […]
I think my marathon is over. The guests are gone. Simon is well. I’ve completed my first three running training sessions. Mom is home and on the road to recovery. Matt’s band had a good show. Our two days of babysitting are complete. It’s the last two together that nearly did us in. Matt’s band […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Mar 10th, 2011
I wasn’t going to advertise what my mom’s surgery was, but I think she’ll be OK with it and I have to relay something Simon said. Mom had a bladder reconstruction. Seemingly, having three babies sitting on her bladder eventually took its toll. Everything works just fine; gravity (and the Goldstein kids) just moved it […]