Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Simon says..., Toddler! on Apr 20th, 2009
A compendium of recent sayings that caught my notice. Yesterday at the park: Mommy go running that way. I go running this way. That was one of several times he used “this” and “that” correctly. Yesterday night, at pre-bed story-time, he sighed happily, leaned into me, hugged me, and said: I love you, Mommy. He’s […]
Posted in Jessica, Simon says..., Toddler! on Apr 18th, 2009
Today, as the family walked through the BBC Brewing Company parking lot after dinner, Simon turned back and said Bye, bye restaurant! Bye, bye ABC. How cute! we both thought. What a funny little boy we have. Then, later, we watched Cars (AKA “Race Cars”) for the umpteenth time. Matt started to talk about the […]
Matt and I are generally opposed to toddlers running around in diapers. Yet somehow, a few days ago, we needed to take a breather between wrestling Simon into a new diaper and wrestling him into his pants. During that time, he decided to try on my gardening hat, which got hilariously close to fitting him (I’m […]
Well, here’s another post bound to fail to capture the moment. I’m going to give it a try anyway. It was around 8:30 or so last night, and Matt, Simon, and I were all on the bed. Simon should have been tucked into bed by this point, but we tend to run late on Thursdays […]
Yesterday, just past 3:00 a.m., my great-uncle Eddie died in Detroit. He’s the youngest of the four Kahn siblings who arrived in the US in 1922—my Bubbie’s “kid brother.” That leaves the oldest of the bunch, my great-uncle Dave, as the sole surviving sibling. He’s 99 years old and lives in a nursing home about […]
For anyone who has chosen to not have children, you may perhaps already know that the statistics back up your choice. For the fact is that when given questionnaires about life-long happiness, childless couples consistently report greater measures of happiness than ones with children. The one caveat here is that the couples need to have […]
A few years ago, I decided to rethink our family’s Passover seders (a seder is a service you have at home for the holiday that centers around a meal and telling the story of the exodus from Egypt). We were still following a traditional, Hebrew-heavy model that wasn’t cutting it with our interfaith, child-filled crowd. […]
Exact words spoken by Simon todayat lunch-time: Simon eat burrito. Burrito tastes yummy. Next time we’re in SF, we have a date at La Taqueria, OK?
When you work from home, it is more crucial than ever to maintain professional decorum. In that way, people know you are truly working from home, as opposed to, you know, “working”. Matt and I put on a clinic of at home professionalism on Wednesday evening, when he had a regularly scheduled meeting from 5:00-7:00 […]
I hate my skin. It itches all summer from sun sensitivity, it itches all winter from dryness and wool sensitivity, it’s prone to sprouting little red bumps on the backs of my legs and arms, and I’m now wrapping up my third decade fighting acne. Everything bothers my skin, even things like “hypoallergenic” or mineral-based […]