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 […]
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 […]
One of the first pieces of advice I can recall getting as a journalist was this: When you’re profiling someone, don’t go around asking people for illustrative stories about your profile subject. The surest way to make someone’s mind to go blank is to say, “You have any good anecdotes about Amy?” I find the […]
Yesterday was the first birthday party of first grade. I hope it’s the first of many. Actually, at the moment, I really don’t. I need some time to recover. Even at their best, other kids’ birthday parties can be stressful, if it’s not your crowd. And this wasn’t. I’m just not a walk-right-up-and-introduce-myself kinda gal, so I hung […]
Yesterday began with a bang (the rear bumper of my brand-new car against the trailer hitch of a truck parked behind it) and a whimper (my poor husband appearing in my office door in the worst pain I’ve ever seen) and while everything ended okay (minimal damage; kidney stones) I was pretty much a wreck […]
This evening at dinner, I asked Sophie how her day at school was. I’ve asked the question many times before, but have never gotten this response: “BOOOORRRING!” she bellowed, with all the panache of any saucy 6-year-old. I know very well that it wasn’t any such thing, but I was tickled with the answer. Sophie’s […]
Yesterday Miss Y shared the good news that Sophie wrote her first sentence in first grade! And here it is: My mom goes poo.
As usual, all of the posed First Day of School shots I took of the girls failed to do them justice – partly because Sophie won’t look at the camera, and also because Annabelle tends to insist on wearing a white shirt and pulling her hair back, making her image look a lot like a mug shot. I […]
Tomorrow is the first day of school. Both girls are fast asleep — took baths, accepted earlier-than-summer bedtimes without complaint. The backpacks are labeled, I cut the tags off the first-day-of-school outfits. Now there’s nothing left to do but freak out. I’m good at that. Without meaning to (I was only looking for the link, and […]
