It smelled like poo in temple this morning, but that’s understandable, since we were at the children’s service. I’ve been meaning to take the girls to a “tot shabbat” forever, so I was pleased when my dear friend Kacey mentioned her family would be at the Rosh Hashana service. We tagged along, joined by another [...]
Some poop went down the past few days (and trust me, I didn’t bore you with most of it) so I wanted to end the week on a lighter note, with a picture from the dance party Sophie and I had a couple mornings ago. I never thought I’d be the kind of person who’d say something [...]
Last night, the girls and I sat at the dining room table to do homework. Annabelle had some fancy-schmancy assignment involving decorating her spelling words (some nights it’s drawing them in a shape of pyramid or making them blocks), so once Sophie finished reading her little book, I took her spelling words off the fridge, handed [...]
Miss Y emailed this afternoon: I know you’ll appreciate this-today in math we were creating our own subtraction sentences and pictures to illustrate the math process. When Sophie came to share hers with me (8 elmos and 6 went away, 2 were still there), I noticed something new….at the top of the page, where I [...]
It was inevitable, I suppose, that this week would come crashing down on my head even before Tuesday was over. We’re in the final throes of putting together the “Best of Phoenix” (ironically titled, if you ask me) and in many ways it’s the best and worst one we’ve done. Always a ton of work. [...]
The response to my email requesting that my colleague not use the word “retard” around me: i believe you used the word yourself today. so the answer is no. And my response (and the long explanation is that I did repeat the word back to him at the staff meeting yesterday): it’s true, i was [...]
After our weekly staff meeting at work today, I sent the following email to a co-worker, entitled “a favor”: i really hate to bring it up, but i need to ask for a personal favor. i know we’re hardly PC around here, but still, i’m wondering if you could please refrain from using the word “retard” [...]
Here’s how it went down Wednesday night. You’ll have to forgive me, some details may be a bit askew, but this is basically what happened. “Hey girls, come into the living room and sit down for a minute,” I said. Annabelle looked at me suspiciously. “Is this about Rosy?” “It is, sweetie.” She squeezed out [...]
This morning I held Rosy the Dog while the vet gave her the euthanasia shot. Afterward, my mom and I wiped away the tears and did the math. At 14 and a half , Rosy was just about 100 years old in dog years. (I think.) She was not a small dog, though she was a [...]
The past few weeks, I’ve been doing some organizing. I know I always say that, but this time I’ve been digging a little deeper, opening Rubbermaids I’d ignored for a while. Ditto for the scary piles that migrate to corners of my house. It hasn’t been all bad. In fact, I’ve coined a new expression [...]
