My friend’s kidneys are failing. I was supposed to go over to her house Monday night to visit her. I haven’t actually seen her very much in the last two weeks, though we only live a couple of miles apart.…
Category: holidaze
it takes more than one day for me to turn 40
We started on the day before my birthday. It was a way to take the pressure off. So much import, this milestone. Plus, that day we had childcare. So we both took the day off and I had a pedicure…
pancakes, sleep, axes
Mother’s Day! I asked Scott for Dutch Baby pancakes. I was having a craving, and I found this recipe up on the internet and it looked easy enough (a second site recommended doubling the butter, which I recommended to him.…
i am the hamantaschen
Success! I ended up using Claudia Roden’s recipe, after seeing another blogger write about it, here. I don’t think these are the cookies of my childhood but, no disrespect to Aunt Edith, I do think I like them better. Now…
new words and fried potatoes
He doesn’t know how to say Hannukah yet, but lately he’s picked up a few more words. Animal sounds: He was facing off with the cat the other morning — each on either side of the childproof gate in the…
high anxiety
Today we laid low, after having traveled 2-1/2 hours (each way) by car yesterday to visit Great Aunt Dorothy. I hadn’t been hugely enthusiastic about the idea of plunking the boy in the carseat for such long stretches but he…
the army crawl is gone
It happened so fast. One minute, we were having our upteenth millionth conversation about how Jonah’s belly crawl is in fact a legitimate crawl and there’s no need to get up on hands and knees but maybe if he’d been…
birthdaypartypalooza
The first birthday playdate party… The first present — a wooden forklift/truck (a.k.a. “Cuck!”) Story time with Nana Judi Parallel play with Flann — the first guest The youngest guest Party in full swing And everybody came, and everybody sang,…