Simon’s bout with the stomach bug, which began the evening of Matt’s birthday, seems to have ebbed today. Yesterday was a rough day, but it did result in an endearing line. When I went to tuck him into bed, Simon offered me the following advice: “No good night kiss tonight, Mama. Not on the lips. […]
Category Archive for 'Family'
Posting got a bit sparse at the end of March on account of all the family drama already posted about and then the last 8 days being tied up with KIP’s annual fundraiser and my finishing an all-consuming editing project. April wasn’t scheduled to start off much calmer. Today was to begin with a trial […]
Not to be outdone in the week’s misery index, or determined to start off next week’s with a bang, Matt has come down with a case of shingles. For those keeping score at home, that puts us at one crown (Simon), three car repairs (all on the Camry), one sinus infection (me), three skin biopsies […]
The Non-Hypothetical
Posted in Family, Jessica, Uncategorized on Mar 14th, 2012
Non-hypothetical question of the day; pretend like this is a word problem in math class: Given one house, two drivers, and two cars, solve for the following: Person A has to pick up Agotich 4 miles from house and get her to preschool by 9:00 a.m. Person B has to drive Simon to school by […]
Chanukah Grace Notes
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 21st, 2011
Chanukah this year did not get off to a great start. In fact, it started with a tray of home-made dreidel treats falling off the roof of our car and splattering all over Taylorsville Rd. I had put the tray there when loading the car, and then promptly forgot about it. Surprisingly, it survived a […]
Our Town
Posted in Family, Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 25th, 2011
Louisville is a small city/big town, the kind of place where everyone is, or seems to be, a few degrees removed from everyone else. I didn’t feel a part of the web of the city my first few years back. I had been gone for seventeen years, and many of my connections were lost or […]
It Takes a Village
Posted in Family, Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 18th, 2011
Against the backdrop of birthday preparations last week, other stuff was percolating. This stuff, which I will get to in a moment, demonstrated to me more than anything that it takes a village—or better still an army—to raise a child. It all started the week before last, when I had a five-day fever that didn’t […]
It’s been one year to the day that I brought home Cambria, my shelter traumatized, shy, then two-and-a-half-year-old Siamese mix. Owing to his back story, it took much longer for him to warm up to us than it did for Percy or Tristan. But he’s so clearly there now! He’s still not a lap cat, […]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any pictures, and I have three I’d like to share. First, there’s Simon at the pool. He began Red Cross swim lessons at the JCC this June, then switched over to the new Lenny Krayzelburg Swim Academy classes in August. This is a new system that works in […]
I don’t often feel like I’m being censured by my African friends, even when I wear shorts (children’s clothes) or short skirts (not for married ladies!) in their presence. I think they’ve even washed their hands of my having one child, or perhaps just assume I’m barren and/or planning to adopt. For the most part, […]