Imagining a parent as a child is hard to do. My parents were pretty young when I was born–22 for my mom; 27 for my dad. But they always seemed old to me. I was recently watching with my kids a video from 1974 and it’s shocking that my parents were actually, truly young. In [...]
It’s the saga of the fish. Who knew fish would give me such headaches. Tomorrow night is the first night of Passover, and I’m hosting, as I like to do. Out of all the Jewish holidays, Passover is my favorite. I love the story, I love the Seder, I love the food. Doodles, even, is [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The boy and I start watching Food, Inc.. It begins by talking about how fast food has changed the way food is produced in this country. We’re not three minutes into it before the boy says, “Mom?” “Yes?” I reply. “For my next birthday, can we go to McDonald’s?” “Just keep watching…” I tell him. [...]
Report cards came out last Friday and my son is brilliant. Brilliant, of course being a subjective mom’s interpretation of grades that run all over the place. Our town has this incomprehensible grading system of B, P, M, and E. B=beginning a skill, P=progressing on a skill, M=meeting expectations, E=exceeding expectations. Doodles had a healthy [...]
I always walk into the Container Store thinking, “This is going to change my life!” and then I walk out the same old me but with one under-the-bed container for wrapping paper, and it’s just so sad. I hate shopping. Have I mentioned that before? I just hate shopping. We’ve been in the “new” house [...]
That’s it. After almost eight years of marriage, for the first time ever, Adam is sleeping on the couch (for the night; everyone knows he naps there regularly). Booted out of the bed. Sleeping solo. Don’t fear. Our marriage isn’t in trouble. Just our basement. Adam’s camping out on the couch so he can get [...]
Some days just don’t go as planned. Today is one of them. The weekend was good but hectic with lots of running running running to get to places on time. Doodles and Pie had their last morning of hockey. Hockey ended at 10:30. Pie had a birthday party to attend at 10:30. Run run run. [...]
Doodles and Tab have started their own business. I’ve insisted they wait till April vacation to really get going, but in the meantime, if you need anything done, they’re in service.
Every week we get a delivery from Boston Organics, which delivers a big box of organic fruits and veggies to our door. Now, I’ve never doubted the organic creds of the company, but a big fat green preying mantis/grasshopper/green thingy that appeared with our veggies definitely speak to the pesticide-free nature of our produce (and [...]
If there’s a greater torture to mankind than Wow Wow Wubzy, I have no idea what it is. This has got to be the most vacuous, vapid, piece of TV crap ever created. But Pie loves it. And Doodles is off at the Cub Scouts, weighing in his car for the Pinewood Derby, and little [...]