Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Nov 23rd, 2010
A funny thing has happened over here on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These are my Agotich days, the days that Gabriel drops her off at my house between 7:15 and 7:30 in the morning on his way to work. In the beginning, I was happy to help but found these days long. Between the child-minding, the […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Nov 21st, 2010
I often wonder how many things I attribute to Simon are, in fact, symptomatic of a specific developmental stage and vice versa? For the most part, I’ll never know. But a friend’s blogging has just turned up one instance of something I thought peculiar to Simon. Of late, Simon has been enthralled by games of […]
“She’s adorable. Where did you get her?” That little gem was my first taste of what it’s like to be an adoptive mother to a child of color. I’m not, of course, but this is what I look like to the other parents when I carry Agotich to and from her preschool class. The AJ […]
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 […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Little Boy on Oct 20th, 2010
I’m still trying to decide if this is good timing, bad timing, or given-what-is-not-bad timing. I’m thinking the third… Sunday was Simon’s big kids’ birthday party at Sunny Acres Farm. We invited his first friends Sophie and Leah and his entire class to come out this barely commercialized farm to enjoy pumpkin painting, a hayride, […]
Any good trip involves a revelatory moment where you learn something about your hosts and, if you are lucky, about yourself as well. My short trip to Norway included two of those moments, both at my friends’ wedding reception. The first arrived during the speeches. In Norway as in much of Europe, speeches play a […]
I am back from Norway with much to tell about Scandinavian hospitality and graciousness. The wedding I attended was lovely, my friend the groom radiated joy in a way I have never seen him do before, and the weather took an unexpected turn towards the mild and sunny. Other than my recurring insomnia and astronomical […]
Posted in Friends on Sep 16th, 2010
Agotich is getting used to me and my house. Today she happily followed me around, carried my shoes for me, snacked on a fruit bar, played ball, and went crazy over a ball popping toy before we headed off to school. She talked, jumped, squealed, and happily shrieked more than I’ve seen to date. I’ll […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, KIP (Preschool) on Sep 16th, 2010
The quintessential introductory question in San Francisco is “where are you from?” One of the biggest shocks of moving back to Louisville was realizing that the ice breaker here is “where did you go to high school?” I didn’t get it at first, but now understand that this question allows the average Louisvillian to find […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Sep 6th, 2010
Saturday was little Jillian’s 3rd birthday party. Jillian is one of Simon’s classmates, and holds a special place in my heart. She’s the one who cried every morning at drop-off, resulting in Simon’s characterization of each school day as “Jillian cried”, she’s the one who prompted an unexpected conversation on race last year, and she’s […]