Neighbors
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Apr 29th, 2010
Today was the Derby parade at KIP, and I’ll post (adorable) pics later. But for now, I really love this shot of Simon playing with his next door neighbor Ruby that I took last night.
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Last night, with a ton of help from my mother, I hosted my very first Passover seder. A hybrid preschool/family affair for 14, I went into it with a few clear-cut goals: Create a seder that was short and sweet enough for 3- and 4-year-olds to sit through; Cook a vegetarian Passover dinner; Invite new […]
Brutal Honesty
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.” […]
The Time of His Life
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]