Am in the midst of attempting to make cupcakes for the next round of celebration, the party at preschool. Birthdays at his preschool are a week-long event with themes selected by each child and then celebrated in craft activities all…
Jonah has been talking a lot about death and reincarnation lately — not that he knows the latter word but the idea is pretty strong for him. Of course his whole take on the issue is kind of adorable… Our…
I subscribe to Freecycle. As a Freecycler, I’ve passed along some pretty cool stuff and picked up some pretty cool stuff. There have been duds. The trio of giant wicker pumpkins comes to mind. It’s a bit like gambling. Or…
Mavis’ secret love nest has been found. I should explain that a while back, we had been experiencing Mavis’ disappearances, growing to 24 hours at a time, just before we installed the girls in their new coop – a larger…
(Note: One word of not-genteel language may appear in this post — more than once. Adjust your screen, browser, expectations, whatnot, accordingly.) Today Jonah had his other first day of preschool. We already went through the first day back in…
Our regular childcare person called in sick on Monday. I panicked, but Scott kept his head. “Why don’t you call Heather and see if she can take Jonah?” Heather, the woman founding the preschool where Jonah will be this fall,…
Wow. So, I did it. Got the courage up to break ties with our current preschool. Thank you everyone for your support on this. I sent them an email on Saturday – I know, not the most direct approach. But…
Having seen the lovely presentation put together by another preschool parent in honor of Chinese New Year, I boldly volunteered to bring a little of the culture of my people to the kids for Purim. And then these things happened:…
