Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Dec 28th, 2009
There are many things to love about small children: the whimsy, the total lack of self-consciousness, the imagination and joy in discovery… and sometimes, if you are in the right frame of mind, the absolute brutality of their honesty.
Consider this exchange:
Jessica: “Simon, can you tell me who you love?”
Simon: “I love Grandma.”
Jessica: “I know you [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Little Boy on Oct 18th, 2009
When Matt and I collapsed in bed Friday night, we both had the feeling that Simon was dreaming happy dreams, reliving what had almost certainly been the happiest day of his life.
Simon was too young to understand his first birthday and got scared when everyone sang to him. Last year, I planned way too much [...]
Hi A & H:
Your comments offered much food for thought and also made me realize I’ve left part of the story out. The book really does have a bad and misleading title, and Simon does not qualify as “difficult” under the author’s rubric. School has quit talking to me about this, too, so I know [...]
Every now and again I get slapped in the face with the fact that becoming a mother to Simon has changed me at a pretty profound level.
Sometimes the realization comes with a groan, such as the day I made a sandwich for Matt and caught myself cutting off the crusts and dividing it into tiny [...]
That’s how long I’m happy being away from Simon. I know this for a certainty as I just wrapped the better part of five days being on the road.
I left town on Sunday. But we spent most of that day together, as my flight didn’t leave until he was ready for an afternoon nap, and [...]
Yesterday was kind of funny. Our house was thrown completely off schedule by a scheduled air duct/couch/carpet cleaning and two afternoon meetings of mine that occurred past my regular hours and required Matt to cover me for.
The carpet and couch cleaning wasn’t a big deal, but the air duct cleaning made the house sound like [...]
The week before our friends Ian and Christine arrived, we talked a lot about them with Simon, showed him pictures of their daughter Alise, and talked about how much he’d like spending time with her when she stayed with us and how they’d surely be best friends. We assumed that he would take one look [...]
Up until having Simon, I wasn’t that much into kids. I wasn’t mean or impatient with them, but I didn’t seek them out, didn’t really know what to say to or do with them, and was terrified of being alone with them. What if one cried, or fell, or did something I didn’t want him [...]
I am unteachable.
Dear friends Ian, Christine, and Alise are due to arrive in Louisville for a visit in 8 1/2 hours. Not content to clean up the status quo, I undertook a few projects to spiff up the place before they arrived. I did this at a time when Matt worked long hours, school was [...]
Hearty congratulations are in order today for Shawn and Yun, who sometime after 1:00 p.m. yesterday welcomed identical twin daughters Amber and Allison into the world. Amber and Allison join older sister Kalyna, who is a lovely and precocious 2 1/2, to fill out the mini-van.
Special kudos to Yun, who carried the twins to full [...]