Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Me: What’s today? Pie: My birthday. Me: How can you tell? Pie: Because there’s balloons and writing on my wall and the usual stuff that was on Doodles’s birthday. Me: How old are you? Pie: I’m turning five. Me: How is five different from four? Pie: ‘Cause you get to go into kindergarten. Me: What [...]
Yesterday was the boy’s birthday, so I had to be nice to him. Tomorrow is the girl’s birthday, so I’ll have to be nice to her. Today is nobody’s birthday. Today I can be a raving bitch. I really, really like today.
Me: So what’s today? Doodles: My birthday. Me: Are you sure? Doodles: Yes. Me: How can you tell? Doodles: Because I got presents and I got streamers on my door. I have stuff written on my windows. And I get to choose what I want. Me: And what do you want? Doodles: A lot of [...]
Tonight is my last night with a six-year-old boy. And my last few days with a four-year-old girl. I’ve told them both they could do whatever they want on their birthdays. The girl gave it lots of thought. “I want to go to the Res. And if it’s rainy, then I want to go see [...]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The Necessity of Disney Channel Hypothesis: Children are addicted to the Disney Channel and will experience tremors if it is withdrawn abruptly. Experiment: 1. Take two children to museum specializing in avant-garde art. 2. Place them in a room that is showing a Runa Islam‘s video Be the First to See What You See As [...]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
We’re still a family of four. It was touch and go there for a while with Pie. There was a real chance she was going to be voted off the island. But apparently she got the immunity idol and we’re all still here. At the moment, Adam and the kids are swimming in the hotel’s [...]
I actually tried posting last night, but the WordPress app ate my post. Day one of vacation was a success. Breakfast with the in-laws at Rye. Then, over the protests of my children who declared they hate farms, we spent a couple of hours at Billings Farm, where we had to tear Pie away from [...]
Pie: We’re almost there! Me: Almost, but we’re not too far. Pie: I know we’re almost there be because when the roads get smaller, it means you’re getting close. … Hey! Houses! I didn’t know people lived in Vermont!
Adam got a new car. I may have mentioned this. Who can remember? His old Camry was a hand-me-down from my grandmother (it was his second from her). The Pimpmobile, so named for the gold-rimmed tires and the windows that were tinted to levels that are actually illegal in Massachusetts. He loves his fancy-shmancy new [...]
I so heart my podiatrist. I had my third visit with him today. My petroneus longus tendon has been giving me problems. Bad petroneus longus tendon! My podiatrist gave me a brace to wear and some exercises to do. It helped significantly. I can walk without pain. But the running is still an issue. At [...]