Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Career Change, Jessica on Mar 23rd, 2010
Ten days ago, work was getting to be a drag. I was working (a little) in an isolated cell, I was sick, and I was feeling a bit blue. Then something funny happened. Simon got sick, further restricting how much time I had to wrap things up, and I got busy. The clock was ticking […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Mar 21st, 2010
Simon is in love with a show that ceased production the year he was born. The love affair was launched nearly a year ago, when my mother popped an old VHS tape of Blue’s Clues into her player. I wondered then if the show would stand the test of time. Did it ever. He adores […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Mar 17th, 2010
Yesterday I betrayed a value I hold pretty dear, and I’m not at all happy about it. You see, I lied to Simon about something, which I don’t like, and in doing so I complied with rigid gender stereotypes I find stifling and ridiculous. You know that saying that if you are not part of […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Mar 15th, 2010
It’s been obvious since, well, birth, that Simon is more like his dad then me. It began in the neonatal ICU, when his blood type, inherited from Matt, was at odds with mine, resulting in massive jaundice. A few months on, I realized that he had his father’s coloring and face shape. A few years […]
Posted in Jessica on Mar 14th, 2010
Some days, everything just comes together, and today was one of those days. Matt would disagree, as he is dealing with an ear infection. And Simon would disagree, as he is nursing the same bug I had last week. But I, at least, have had a pretty swell day after many rather tedious ones. It […]
Posted in Career Change, Jessica on Mar 12th, 2010
I was laid off two weeks ago Wednesday, and I’ve been floating in a rather uncomfortable, liminal space ever since. The first two days were pretty good. Lots of friends and colleagues called or wrote to support me, I had a good conversation with my soon-to-be former boss, and I was feeling almost settled into […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Mar 9th, 2010
We’ll have actual text again soon. Between wrapping up my job of 8 1/2 years and being ill, the creative fires are fizzling at present. Simon isn’t fizzling at all. Last week, Matt took him to the grocery store. When Simon thanked the checkout clerk, as we have trained him to do and as he […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Mar 5th, 2010
Simon has reeled off some truly amazing lines of late. Thing is, he’s reeled them out for Matt, and Matt has begun to feel weird about posting on “my blog”. It wasn’t supposed to be “my blog”, but my blog it has become. So I’m going to dole these out one or two at a […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Mar 2nd, 2010
Well, it’s a good thing I recently read Po Bronson on children and violent television. And it’s an even better thing that my friend Beth posted in the comments about her sweet boys watching some dodgy stuff. Because two weeks ago Simon’s Papaw turned on the TV when Tom and Jerry were on and the […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 28th, 2010
Not much to say here, really, other than that a good look at those hands goes far towards explaining why I can never, ever recall doing this at home when I was little.