Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener, Simon says... on Jun 27th, 2012
At least mine, as self-reported, does. So we’re watching tennis today, some blonde woman I don’t know who used to be ranked #1 or close to it playing some brunette I also don’t know who’s an up-and-comer from Austria. It’s match point for the brunette. She blows it. It goes another game or two. Another […]
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener, Simon says... on Jun 24th, 2012
Time for more homeless quotes from Mr. Simon. (“Mr. Simon” is TM my cousins Arnie & Jane.) Upon counting his cousin Ben’s shots and calculating points at an arcade basketball game: “I’m like a score-board” On his preferred route driving home from his grandparents’ house: “No, no, Daddy. Don’t stay on 64; take 264 to […]
Posted in Jessica on Jun 21st, 2012
The last six months have afforded me the opportunity to observe a vast array of sports parents in their natural habitat. Now, I’m not really getting the hard-core folks yet because Simon is playing in junior-junior, non-competitive leagues. So I can look forward to an up-close and personal* view of the insane screamer at a […]
Posted in Jessica on Jun 19th, 2012
At age 15 months, I learned how to walk. Forty-one years later, I’m finally learning how to do it correctly. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? Anyone who knows me much knows I have a funny walk. It can best be described as duck-like, as my feet splay to the sides giving me a distinctive waddling gait. […]
If I’m honest, parenthood has made a hypocrite of me. Thankfully, I’m not alone in this. Two years ago or so, in a chat with a dear friend from graduate school, the discussion moved as it so often does to our children. We hadn’t seen each other in a while; a work trip took me […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Kindergartener on Jun 12th, 2012
For the entirety of our vacation, Simon was a study in motion. At the end of our first day of travel home, we hit a soccer complex in Asheville so he could continue his athletic pursuits. Nine a.m. our first day home, Simon was on a tennis court having his first official lesson of the […]
No, no, I did not change my name. I did, however, change my persona for the past week. When Matt and I got engaged 17 years ago, it never occurred to me to take his last name. I had a (since aborted) academic career to think of, but more than that, I had a strong […]
Simon is what happened. This is our first beach vacation with Simon, and boy does having a kid change everything! It would take more energy and thought than I’m currently capable of to explain all the differences, so I’ll distill it into two observations. 1. On a typical beach vacation, I’d read a book every […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Kindergartener on Jun 5th, 2012
Oh wow. It’s lunch on our third full day at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. So far, Simon has enjoyed the following: Tennis: He’s already played four times The Beach: He’s been three times and today tried out the boogie board. He rolled a bit, but took it like a champ, sang Beach Boys songs, […]