Today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic. It’s Sophie’s first ballet recital. Annabelle’s a veteran of the stage — she’ll be performing twice, ballet and jazz (my mother the ballet purist was slightly horrified by the latter, til she saw Annabelle rehearsing) — but for Sophie, this is only the beginning. Or perhaps […]
I’m not ready for kindergarten to end. Sophie is. Technically, at least. She’s learned as much as she’s going to learn. She knows her letters and numbers and she holds her own in the classroom. Usually. Ms. X gave me a rueful look when I arrived this morning for the fourth Junior Achievement lesson. “She’s […]
I really need to swap out the party hat for the work hat and get something done today, but first, I have to tell you about what just happened. A colleague sent me the link to a piece in the Washington Post about a new memoir called “Bad Mother,” by a woman named Ayelet Waldman. […]
I need a Chocolate Dance Party in my kitchen. Time to get going on Sophie’s birthday music mix. This morning, Annabelle rode her bike to school for the first time. She and Ray rode; Sophie and I drove. At first Sophie was bummed, then she got excited. (Ray has told her that when she’s 7, […]
Okay, now I feel worse. I was emailing with one of Sophie’s service providers today (not one I’ve written about already on this blog) and mentioned the whole Dr. Death thing, hoping she’d tell me I’m being silly, that this psychologist is just fine — or, at least, that she’d never heard of her. Oh […]
I feel dirty. I sat here for a while this afternoon and contemplated writing about the Elmo show we took Sophie to this weekend, or the craft documentary Annabelle and I saw, but I couldn’t get going on either. My “to do” list was tugging at me. I often write “to do” at the top […]
Ms. X has a reputation among parents as a real hard-ass. I attribute this in large part to the fact that so many parents can’t manage to get their kids to school on time. I am often late to a lot of things in life, but one non-negotiable is school. Sure, we’ve had the occasional […]
This morning I was cleaning out the girls’ school folders, part of my daily, desperate attempt to get organized — or at least find the surface of the dining room table. I love those folders. You never know what you’ll find. Confetti, sometimes, or a note about the swine flu, but this morning, a small […]
It’s official. We’re in the home stretch. “Do you know what today is?” I asked Sophie, when she showed up in my bed this morning. “Today is May.” “MY BIRFDAY!!!!!!!!!” “Well, today is not your birthday, but it is now May, your birthday month.” Big smiles all around. Plans are already underway for the birthday […]
