It’s not often that a photograph, a family photograph I should specify, has the power to shock me. Yet that’s exactly what happened last month when I feasted my eyes on this: That would be my great-grandmother (my mom’s mom’s mom), Freda Leah Soirifman Kahn. This picture was taken in 1935, meaning my Bubbie Kahn […]
Category Archive for 'Jessica'
Mid-Term Report
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Little Boy on Nov 23rd, 2009
We’re now slightly more than three months into the new school year, and things are at once very much the same and altogether different than they were back in August. I’ve still got a sweet, sensitive kid on my hands who is uncomfortable with some crowds, some loud noises, and changes of any kind. On […]
Shifting the Blame
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Nov 19th, 2009
By all rights, this is Matt’s post. But he’s unlikely to take the helm, so here goes. Advance warning: Potty humor ahead. Last night Matt was reading to Simon in bed while I took a phone call from a fellow KIP parent about an upcoming fundraiser. In the midst of a story, Simon interrupted to […]
Karmic Payback
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Nov 17th, 2009
Let’s do some math. By even a conservative estimate, Matt has gifted me with an hour of back/neck/foot rubs every day since, oh, about 1987. Take off the four years we were broken up and/or lived apart in college, and that means we’re talking about 18 years of back/neck/foot rubs. At an hour a day […]
A Goventure
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Nov 13th, 2009
Just in the past few weeks, Simon has begun to really unleash his imagination in play. It’s been amazing–and hilarious–to watch. Here’s one sample to take us into the weekend. We’re in the bathtub, and Simon is playing with the foam numbers we used to line up on the wall. They stick together reasonably well, […]
Solid Citizen
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Nov 11th, 2009
We have entered the era of “helping,” as Simon now wants to help Matt and me in all matter of chores. Sometimes, his help is actually helpful. When Simon wants to pick up toys, put laundry in a basket, carry things to the table, or put handfuls of leaves in lawn bags, he is indeed a […]
Silly Girl!
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Nov 8th, 2009
Matt and I have been hearing a lot of our own language parroted back at us lately. And we’re not alone. Just a few days ago a friend (the father of one of Simon’s classmates) described his daughter placing her finger-tips under his chin, lifting his chin up a bit, looking him in the eyes, […]
Fabulous Mommy
Posted in Jessica on Nov 4th, 2009
I ran across this Vogue Italia editorial about six weeks ago (in the equally fabulous Project Rungay blog) and it still makes me smile. Click on the image to see the full pictorial. In my own little fantasy world–which is what the entire pictorial was about I suppose–this is exactly what I look like when […]
A Little Levity
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Little Boy, Simon says... on Nov 3rd, 2009
Man, between fear of layoffs and actual funerals, it’s been a bit serious around here, no? Time to introduce some levity. In advance of Halloween, we read It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown a million times. In fact, I’ve already blogged about that. With Simon, it can be hard to tell how much he understands […]
The Ridiculous and The Sublime
Posted in Family, Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Little Boy on Nov 1st, 2009
Not from one to the other, but both at the same time. This week has been about Halloween. Which is, almost any way you look at it, a ridiculous holiday. You dress little kids up in costumes, go out door to door, and extort candy from neighbors on threat of vague “tricks”. How did such […]