This weekend was refreshing — like eating popsicles with your best friends. Actually, that’s exactly what I did. For the first time in too long, Ray and I ventured away sans kids to LA for a dear friend’s wedding. It was barely 80 degrees, but the ceremony took place in the direct sun (I can’t [...]
Nothing says “summer” (not to mention “over-achieving babysitter” — Courtney and Sophie made these together) like pinwheels. Share:
You can’t really see the veil in this photo, but above is Sophie, practicing to be The Bride in this week’s dance recital. She will be performing (something, I’m not sure what) while Annabelle sings along to a song called “Happily Ever After,” from a musical called “Once Upon a Mattress.” The most interesting thing [...]
Annabelle: “Sophie, are you proud of having Down syndrome, or embarrassed?” Sophie: “Happy!” Share:
I’m working late tonight, and look what arrived in my in box from Ray, taken in our front yard. I don’t think it needs any description. Share:
Last night we were out for dinner for Father’s Day. So was the rest of the city. Get this: I had a conversation with a complete stranger. This happens less than you might think, particularly in Phoenix, a place where we all tend to travel in our own private little bubbles — a byproduct of [...]
Yesterday morning I got up extra early to make Annabelle’s birthday cake. I wanted it to be a stressfree experience — serene, happy, full of love — to avoid the pitfalls described in Aimee Bender’s new book “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake,” which I wrote about last week and read last weekend. (The ending really creeped [...]
I’m a big believer in thank you notes. Not voicemails or emails or texts or Facebook wall posts or tweets — the kind of thank you note that actually arrives in the mailbox with a stamp on it and handwriting inside. That’s not to say that I always manage to get one sent, or that [...]
Yesterday I stuck my hand in Sophie’s mouth, and guess what? Four loose teeth. Including the one in front of the shark tooth. Phew. Now if those little suckers can just hang on til the stationery arrives for Tallulah Fairbanks, Sophie’s tooth fairy. Sophie informs me that she actually has seven loose teeth (her favorite [...]
I went to Southern California and rode “It’s a Small World” all weekend. But I wasn’t at Disneyland. Instead, another friend and I strapped ourselves in our dear friend Kathleen’s Honda Odyssey as she led a tour around the world — Little Tokyo, Little India, Little Saigon. We sampled sweet Japanese mochi from a shop [...]
