Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Family, Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 25th, 2010
Ooof. I got a bit behind. Partly, this is a matter of my rather busy schedule of late. But mostly it’s because ever since I got my new computer, I’ve been stuck with Vista. And the geniuses at Microsoft decided to strip the “Publish photos to the web” function from Vista. So instead of selecting […]
A week ago today, I brought home my new furry bundle of joy, Cambria. I didn’t intentionally set out to upend Matt’s plans for a pair of kittens in November, but he’s (yes, he’s a boy) clearly not the pair of 5-10-month-old kittens we planned to adopt in November. It began on Saturday, when I […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Oct 8th, 2010
All good things come to those who wait. I’m starting to believe that. After a few challenging months, life again seems good and easy and natural. I feel, in all honesty, that we have arrived at a domestic promised land. For one, Simon has at last made great progress on the second phase of potty […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Sep 10th, 2010
I’ve been too busy to blog for the past few days, what with it being Rosh Hashanah and my having three services to attend and a holiday meal to help prepare. I’ll catch up anon, but I have one quick post to make before I forget. My calendar says that it’s 5771 as of Wednesday […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Sep 1st, 2010
Thank God it’s September. What a long, strange, miserable month August was. The very first week I attended a cousin’s wedding and watched my friend Gabriel’s family reunite. Then it all crashed around me. Sudden pet death. Anticipated pet death. Family illnesses not blogged about. Two deaths related to friends of the family. Except for […]
I’ll keep this brief, as I wrote quite a bit about a Percy when he turned 15 a year and a half ago. After four weeks of an iron supplement and two weeks of thrice-weekly subcutaneous fluid therapy, Percy appeared to have turned a corner yesterday. He had been more active and social for over […]
I had planned to write a tribute for Tristan when he turned 15, but he had other plans, took a sudden dip in health this week that we hardly noticed with all the Percival drama, went into total renal failure today, and had to be put down at age 14 years, 3 months. I wrote […]
Posted in Family, Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Jul 6th, 2010
I hosted a July 4 party this year, my first ever. This has always been my brother Perry’s holiday, but he returned from vacation the night before this year and so didn’t have time to put on his usual grilling, explosive-laden extravaganza . I’m guessing he’ll reclaim the day next year, but I’m so happy […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Jun 28th, 2010
Six months ago or so, getting together with his cousins meant that Simon spent much of his time with Liv, the oldest of my brother Steve’s brood. Liv is now 11 ½ and has always been the “Mommy Jr.” of her household. So the larger Goldstein family would get together, and I would inevitably find […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Jun 21st, 2010
The Gallery photo album is down for a bit. We’d been using an outdated model, and the clock finally ran out on the old version working. Once Matt figures out the new, overhauled software, we’ll be back in business. Today is the official beginning of summer, as the 97-degree temperature is making all too clear. […]