Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener, Simon says... on Aug 23rd, 2012
Whereas on Tuesday Simon was too tired at the end of the day to chat on the ride home (he takes the bus in the a.m., but I pick him up from school in the afternoon), yesterday he was a real chatterbox. Some of what he had to say was pretty funny, and he had […]
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener on Aug 21st, 2012
The big first day of school was today. And honestly, I’m fried, but not for the reasons you’d expect. Here’s what my last 48 hours have looked like: The Lead-Up Sunday at around 7 p.m.: I run into my sister-in-law at the grocery. We chat about school of course. During which I time I learn […]
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener on Aug 19th, 2012
This spring and early summer, Simon and I kept track of a few birds’ nests via the web. There was a red-tailed hawk family in NYC, another red-tailed hawk family in Philadelphia, and a bald eagle nest in rural Minnesota. You wouldn’t believe the drama these three nests provided. In Philadelphia, the male hawk got […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Kindergartener on Aug 14th, 2012
Two weeks ago, I took care of Simon’s friend Caroline so the two could go to tennis camp together. The experience was enlightening, reinforcing a few things I knew, teaching me other things I only suspected to be true, and providing one pleasantly surprising discovery. Such as: Having two kids is easier: When we were […]
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener on Aug 10th, 2012
Simon will head off to kindergarten in 11 days. The where is no surprise, as I set my sights on Brandeis back in November. The when is also no surprise, as I’ve been staring at the Jefferson County Public Schools calendar for months now. It’s the how that is shocking people. Simon is going to […]
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener on Aug 8th, 2012
Until this summer, I had forgotten how thrilling the Olympics could be. Years of doping, abandoning all pretense of the games being for amateurs, and the introduction of sports of which I disapprove sucked a lot of the excitement out of me. There was a time, though, when the four years between games seemed interminable, […]
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener, Simon says... on Aug 5th, 2012
Tonight in the car, Simon began talking about scary thoughts again. The fear du jour was cancer, which he apparently knows about in reference to George Harrison. He then consoled himself with the notion that every day many, many babies are born. This spurred a long, meandering, and hilarious conversation, which does not require any […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Kindergartener on Aug 3rd, 2012
This is what my week looked like: I sent Simon to camp at the Louisville Tennis Club, not to be confused with the Louisville Tennis Center, with his friend Caroline. Camp was 9-12 and Caroline’s parents both work full time, so that meant we also had play-dates every day all week. It was a great […]
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener on Aug 2nd, 2012
The upside of having a child with interests different than your own is the opportunity to learn about and appreciate something new. The downside is the nearly limitless potential for botching it. Here at Cowling Avenue, Simon’s sportiness is bumping up against my cluelessness in surprising ways. Specifically, I have misread what is telling and/or […]
Posted in Jessica on Jul 31st, 2012
Many moons ago, I used to listen as my mom reeled off the list of foods that didn’t agree with her, shake my head, and say caring, sensitive things like “Face it mom, your body rejects food.” Honestly, I thought much of it was mental. Or cultivated. How could so many different things bother one […]