Sophie’s not supposed to have a very good memory. There’s the whole Down syndrome thing, of course, and on top of that even though the sensors fell off and we never got good test results, she’s got to have pretty bad sleep apnea. Last night I found her asleep on the couch, sitting straight up, […]
Today is Sophie’s 10th birthday. She’s come a long way. Me? Not quite as far. “Mommy, what’s this?” Sophie asked the other day, holding up something small and hot pink. There’s a lot of stuff in Sophie’s room, and a lot of it is small and hot pink, and on this day a lot of […]
Dear Laural, I was busy getting my kids ready for school this morning and missed your post on the phxfoodnerds message board, in response to the Amy’s Baking Company craziness. A friend sent it to me. I hear it’s been taken off the board, and I applaud Dominic Armato, who runs phxfoodnerds, for doing that, […]
Yesterday afternoon, the following email from Sophie’s fourth grade teacher landed in my inbox, entitled, “little note from Sophie”: Hi Amy, I had Sophie dictate a note to you about a little haircutting incident she had today. She was working on her art project for the multicultural festival and it seems she wasn’t very interested […]
