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 […]
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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 […]
Yes, another post about Chanukah. I apologize, but we did have a total of four Chanukah related festivities this year. The last one came Sunday at my Dad’s. He really wanted to have his annual Chanukah party as scheduled, but he was also really tired from radiation treatment related to a prostate cancer recurrence. So […]
So I’ve been trying to write about our Chanukah, which was fabulous, for four days now. Thing is, I’ve been so busy getting ready for Chanukah (I was knitting on deadline), then helping with Chanukah, then getting my house in order and cleaning our basement, and then getting ready for Christmas, that each day ended […]
Do you like my new jeans? I think they fit pretty well. The color may not be the best, but then again, these really weren’t designed for my demographic. I am modeling the Revert Flex Brite skate jean. They are made by CCS, a company that touts itself as being the world’s largest skate shop. […]
For the second year in a row, Simon enjoyed someone else’s birthday party better than his own. Turning one sent Simon into a puddle of despair. As the family gathered around to sing, he became overwrought and overwhelmed, and he dissolved into tears. Then, six short weeks later, we went to his friend Colin’s first […]
Most days around here are categorized as good (Simon sleeps and eats well and isn’t frustrated much or often) or bad (Simon sleeps or eats poorly and seems fussy most of the day). But today wasn’t really either. Today was just funny. It was also a day that he blew several of our dearly held […]
Following the advice of our First Steps physical therapist, we are trying to get Simon to spend more time playing on his feet. To quote Amy, we’re moving Simon’s world up off of the floor. To this end, we’ve moved a train table into our living room and put many of Simon’s toys on it, […]
The thing about being a blabbermouth, is that when you broadcast your every thought, your words have an unfortunate tendency to come back to haunt you. Not quite 11 years ago, at Matt’s and my rehearsal dinner, my sister-in-law Stacy gave a toast in which she recalled with cheek-reddening accuracy a monologue I had given […]
Traveling with a baby is a little (lot) stressful, but being with friends makes it all worthwhile. Our first full day in the Bay Area, a friendly bystander in a park got this group shot of all of us–originally a group of five couples, who have now morphed into a group of five families. Our […]