I will be the first to admit that I’m not good at math. And this is a math question. Partly, anyway. I think it begins with math — but I’m not sure it ends there. Where are all the people with Down syndrome? I managed to schedule my summer travel so I arrived home in […]
The other day I did some housekeeping on Girl in a Party Hat, which included updating the blogroll, and I was struck by how many of my fellow bloggers have stopped blogging — or, at least, haven’t updated their blogs in a year or two. I get it. I started my blog when Sophie was […]
In an effort to break up the “Full House” rerun marathon threatening to continue through the summer, last night I took the girls to see a community theater production of “The Miracle Worker.” I was a little obsessed with Helen Keller when I was a kid, and Sophie already owned a copy of the script […]
hi every one this is Sophie i am 11 and i got a phone so i did a sachions and the 1 one is cuddle the 2 is nils and the 3 is fashion and 4 is phpter i booth that was fun and the last a stumbler pray with my reply […]
For many years, I wrote about Sophie’s school without naming it. Now that she’s finished there — moving on to junior high — I have no reason to keep the name a secret — and every reason to tell you what a fabulous place it is. Was. Is — for lots of kids. Not for […]
I’ve never considered 11 to be much of a birthday. Shoved between 10 (a whole decade!) and 12 (last year before you’re a teen!) it’s always been an inauspicious no man’s land for me. Of course, there’s no such thing as a small birthday in our house (I blame myself — okay, and my mom) […]
The other day Sophie, Ray and I went for a walk. Sophie walked between us, and one point reached out and grabbed each of our hands. “Will we go for walks like this our whole lives?” I asked, saying it as much to myself as to Sophie. “No,” she said matter-of-factly. “I’ll go for walks […]
one day me and my grandma are going to the mall and we got lunch and then we went shopping for cloths and then we went to h and m and then we bumped into Sarah and her mom i said that can i sleep over together and we went out for dinner we got […]
This morning Sophie stumbled into the kitchen and announced — half awake but smiling — that there are only four more Mondays left in the school year. I looked at the clock and I wanted to cry. Not only because of my worries about junior high, and my mushy feelings about her current school — […]
Sophie spent the weekend disappointed. It began Friday afternoon, when I wouldn’t let her participate in Annabelle’s ballet class. I tried to make it up to her — literally. In the cosmetics section of Walgreens. “I need dark eyeliner,” she told a helpful clerk. “I’m doing a dramatic dance.” The clerk looked at me. I […]
