Funny how things happen. I wrote that last post before I took a good look at the fridge. Sophie’s third grade teacher does something that I absolultely love. She has a pouch on the wall and slips of paper on a shelf beneath. Students are asked to fill one out in honor of a classmate […]

“Is this one-inch or half-inch?” Annabelle just asked me, holding up a black binder. “One-inch,” I said, not looking up. Until last week, I didn’t even know that binders had sizes. Now, thanks to Annabelle’s new school, I am intimately aware. She hid behind the binder and groaned. “Really?” I asked in my most cheerful […]

“5:30 is the new 7:30!” Ray announced cheerfully yesterday morning, as the entire family skittered through the house, getting ready for Annabelle’s first day of school. Ouch. The old school started at 8:50 (9 this year!) and we live, oh, about 30 seconds away. The new school starts at 7:45 — across town. Yesterday morning […]

Two bits of breaking news. 1. Annabelle got her ears pierced. I wasn’t so sure it would ever happen. We promised her she could do it when she turned 10 (only because that’s the age my mother chose for me, and it seemed as good as any) but she didn’t seem too interested — for 10 […]

“Do you think we’re doing enough to make Sophie feel like it’s a special day?” Ray asked as he grabbed his stuff and headed out the door to work yesterday morning. It was a good question. Ray wasn’t sticking around for The First Day of School. But he’d taken most of last week off to […]

Ah, the wonders of modern medicine — not to mention modern mothers. My mother had her hip replaced last week. The surgeon came out of the operating room and announced that she has the tissue of a “very muscular man.” When my father made a face, the surgeon amended that to “the tissue of a 39-year-old.” That […]