Cute kid things observed on a Tuesday morning: Liam comes up to me as I do the morning’s dishes, offers me a tangled mess of strings, and says sweetly “Will you untangle dis pweese?” He waits patiently for the ten minutes it takes me to tease the $2 binoculars out of the tangled mess of…
Category: Jack
A Bit Beat
I just dropped a cool wad o’ cash at Old Navy for some duds for my oldest dude. Every spring and fall I do a shop like this – either at Children’s Place or Old Navy or Target or somewhere – and nowadays I tell myself “this will get two more kids’ worth of wear,”…
Jrol Pecrs
I wanted, by the way, to say hi how are ya, thanks for reading. I’ve gotten lots of comments from new folks lately, and it makes me happy. I mean, without you this is just a journal. These musings are consciously shared with a wider audience, and I like it when my audience pokes their…
Field Day
Craig and I went to Jack’s school Field Day yesterday. It was a gorgeous spring day in the South – clear blue skies, temps in the low 80s. I strapped Craig into the ergo baby carrier, put a blanket over his exposed skin (but failed to put sunblock on my own . . . DUH),…
Springtime
We have landed in the season of the year when Jack was born. What a beautiful time that was – April in North Carolina. During that 2008 maternity leave I would have lunch at a patio table in our backyard, holding him in my lap; take him on long walks through the neighborhood; nurse him…