Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 25th, 2010
You really can’t. We are back as of last night from our annual trip to the mountains–not unsurprisingly, the mountains in October on a clear and sunny weekend made for a much better trip than last year’s trip to the mountains in December during a snow-storm. Thank goodness. Who needs a vacation like that again? […]
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, […]
Posted in Birthday Letter, Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 17th, 2010
Dear Simon, You turned four yesterday, and I could not be happier for you. I mean it! This year I am not going to introduce any moist eyes or hand wringing into the equation. Your birthday will include little nostalgia, few observations about the speeding up of time, and no regrets about how far you […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 15th, 2010
It’s all about popular! It’s not about aptitude It’s the way you’re viewed So it’s very shrewd to be Very very popular Like me! (Glinda singing “Popular” in Wicked) The writing has been on the wall for quite some time; I’ve just willfully ignored all the signs. Like many parents, I had wanted my child […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 13th, 2010
I’m a big believer in the little moments of life. Weddings, graduations, and birthdays make for better photo album entrants, but often it’s the smaller moments that linger in our memories and make a more lasting impression. Where Simon is concerned, I’m expecting memories of our playing tickle kisses to take center stage when I’m […]
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 […]
Simon-centric programming will return shortly. I have pictures to post and two more Norway posts to go, and a quick update on our family status to squeeze in the middle. Today’s installment is about irony. The Sunday after the wedding was my last day in Norway and my only day with nothing on the agenda. […]
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 […]