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Monthly Archive for August, 2012

Quotable August

While listening to “Hell’s Bells” [I’m not the parent responsible for that exposure]: “‘Hell’s Bells.’ Hey! That rhymes.” and also: “The guitar sounds like ‘too much awesome’ [the name of an effects pedal Matt built], but the singing sounds like ‘too much horrible!” An Olympics Observation: “South Korea’s flag looks like a broken cookie.” Thinking […]

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All About Me

Last Friday, Simon came home with an “All About Me” sheet to fill out. It reminded me a lot of the “Tell Us About Your Child” sheet we got in the Twos, except this time Simon got to speak for himself. Here are his replies and my commentary: Favorite Color: Indigo. Yes, “indigo” and not […]

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Pearls of Wisdom

Whereas on Tuesday Simon was too tired at the end of the day to chat on the ride home (he takes the bus in the a.m., but I pick him up from school in the afternoon), yesterday he was a real chatterbox. Some of what he had to say was pretty funny, and he had […]

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Big K

The big first day of school was today. And honestly, I’m fried, but not for the reasons you’d expect. Here’s what my last 48 hours have looked like: The Lead-Up Sunday at around 7 p.m.: I run into my sister-in-law at the grocery. We chat about school of course. During which I time I learn […]

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Fledge

This spring and early summer, Simon and I kept track of a few birds’ nests via the web. There was a red-tailed hawk family in NYC, another red-tailed hawk family in Philadelphia, and a bald eagle nest in rural Minnesota. You wouldn’t believe the drama these three nests provided. In Philadelphia, the male hawk got […]

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Duet

Two weeks ago, I took care of Simon’s friend Caroline so the two could go to tennis camp together. The experience was enlightening, reinforcing a few things I knew, teaching me other things I only suspected to be true, and providing one pleasantly surprising discovery. Such as: Having two kids is easier: When we were […]

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The Bus

Simon will head off to kindergarten in 11 days. The where is no surprise, as I set my sights on Brandeis back in November. The when is also no surprise, as I’ve been staring at the Jefferson County Public Schools calendar for months now. It’s the how that is shocking people. Simon is going to […]

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Carrying the Torch

Until this summer, I had forgotten how thrilling the Olympics could be. Years of doping, abandoning all pretense of the games being for amateurs, and the introduction of sports of which I disapprove sucked a lot of the excitement out of me. There was a time, though, when the four years between games seemed interminable, […]

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Tonight in the car, Simon began talking about scary thoughts again. The fear du jour was cancer, which he apparently knows about in reference to George Harrison. He then consoled himself with the notion that every day many, many babies are born. This spurred a long, meandering, and hilarious conversation, which does not require any […]

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Tennis Partners

This is what my week looked like: I sent Simon to camp at the Louisville Tennis Club, not to be confused with the Louisville Tennis Center, with hisĀ  friend Caroline. Camp was 9-12 and Caroline’s parents both work full time, so that meant we also had play-dates every day all week. It was a great […]

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