Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Third Grader on Jan 29th, 2016
So I took a little/long break from here, owing to busy-ness and just plain not having much to say. Or at least, not much about Simon. But that’s changed, so here I am. Where am I exactly? I’m 30 minutes from meeting Simon at the bus-stop (he now rides the bus home a few times […]
Posted in Jessica, Third Grader on Sep 2nd, 2015
[Note, this was originally written nearly a month ago, right before our site went down and as beginning-of-year distractions were piling up.] Our lives are often sorted, measured, or arranged by age groups. Market researchers, educators, marathon organizers, and camps all create somewhat arbitrary age groups by which they order and divide people from one […]
Posted in Jessica, Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2014
Like so many years before it, 2014 is ending on a sprint. Part of that sprint is owing to my own tendency towards procrastination. What can I say: I respond to deadlines. But the other part is owing to a phenomenon I know many are familiar with: the too many chiefs, not enough Indians school […]
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader, Simon says..., Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2014
About a year and a half ago, I dragged Simon out on a run with me. He was six and made it two miles, and I was pretty impressed. By the summer’s end, I decided he could run the Dare to Care Hunger Walk with me. Here’s what the Hunger Walk sounded like back then: […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2014
This week I had tennis camp.I loved it because every day we played at least 2 games & we got tee-shirts. I met Zakson, Ben, & Kellen. They were really nice. I won king of the court 3 times. I wish I could go back next week.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2014
In Time Warp Trio they used the book to get into the future & are trying to get back to the 1995.In my future play-date I hope I go to putt-putt & play monopoly . My play-date is with my bubbie at 12:00 & the Time Warp Trio kids went 100 years into the future.
Posted in First Grader, Friends, Jessica, Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2014
This week I began to teach Simon an important life lesson: When to deploy vagueness or the white lie in conversation. The need arose when one of Simon’s friends, Griffen, complimented him on a play-date. “Simon, you’re my best friend!” Griffen happily declared. “You are in my top 3,” Simon replied, which I suspect was […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2013
Between the preschool and volunteering in Simon’s class, I spend a lot of my time around other people’s children these days. They almost always amuse me, but the occasional child is particularly endearing. These days, I’m especially fond of little Raja and Kalli (names changed). Raja is a spitfire who I suspect causes the occasional […]
Posted in First Grader, Jessica, Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2013
If the whole Simon messy desk incident from last week was shades of young Matthew, on Friday I heard a report that took me straight back to my own school years. When I was in elementary school, I was a good student. By middle school, I was a very good student. And by the time […]
Posted in Jessica, Kindergartener, Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2013
Last Monday, about five minutes before it was time to head out the door, Simon broke down into ugly, sobbing, tears. He didn’t want to go to school. I’ve seen this before, of course, but this time I wasn’t worried or anxious over the tears. Because while the cure for perfectionism and anxiety is elusive […]