after a day of “running” errands with bea in the pouring rain, which has been incessantly pouring for about two weeks straight, I am so glad to be back inside. running is really the wrong word for the kind of errands we do. I had three things on my list to do today – apply [...]
Now that I feel like I’ve settled somewhat into life as a stay-at-home mom, I’ve started trying to refine my goals and challenges. It would be very easy to sink into the pit of quicksand that is depressive lethargy, and I find myself slipping in that direction at times. But I’m working hard at keeping [...]
Beatrice has just learned to laugh in the past week or so. Yesterday we were walking home from buying groceries for dinner, and Bea was on my front in the didymos. Suddenly she started laughing at something she saw, and I looked down and saw her laughing and burst out laughing myself. Then she started [...]
On Saturday night, I was feeling sick. Tom had just gotten back from being away in Toronto for three days, and Bea wasn’t sleeping well because she is teething and/or having a growth spurt. Actually, her lack of sleep could really be due to any reason you can think of – a rock fell off [...]
You are given a moment. What do you do with it? Does what you do depend on how much time you know you will have available to you? Do you need an uninterrupted segment of time in order to actually accomplish things? I am not usually an ADD-type personality, but I feel like parenting has [...]
I would like to write something witty, clever and short to introduce some links I found today… but I also want to go to bed now. so, I hope that was witty and clever enough. (oh, am I lazy or just pragmatic these days?) Two links to New York Magazine – Kids, The Internet and [...]
