So Thomas starts preschool today. It’s a momentous occasion. He’s leaving behind friends that he has known his whole life. He’s leaving behind a comfortable, safe and happy existence and moving on into something new and unknown. I asked him how he felt about starting school and he said “I’m going to miss [my friend] [...]
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Maybe for His Sixteenth Birthday?
Parenting involves a lot of lying. Which makes things difficult when you’re raising a kid who can smell a lie the way most kids can smell baking cookies. Thomas notices every inconsistency, every hesitation, every bemused grin. He is also a master interrogator, pouncing on the holes in his relentless quest for the truth. I [...]
Nina
When we started looking for a daycare for Thomas way back in early 2005 we had had no idea what we were doing. Due to the fact that most of our friends are late bloomers, or out-of-towners, references were hard to come by. In fact in our hunt for a daycare provider we received just [...]
The Day Elvis Died
Today, my brother, and I are writing about the same day from our past. Be sure to read his post. On August 16th, 1977, my mother wrote the following quote in my baby book. Benjamin’s and Matt’s daddy died tonight at about 7:30 p.m. He had bought a 1942 dump truck. He was going to [...]
Eleven Years, Or a Lifetime
I don’t remember the first time I met her. It very likely could have been at the age of seven or eight, on a soccer field with orange rinds in our mouths, as we gently slapped hands after a game. Or perhaps in the super market as I attempted to drag my mother down the [...]
Siblings
In my last post I wrote about being busted by Caroline for yelling at Thomas. It was a moment I won’t forget. But it isn’t the first time one of the two has stuck up for the other. Recently Caroline was given a timeout for throwing her food to the floor (twice, in open defiance) [...]
Confronted
Lately Thomas has been a bit moody. He’s been whining and literally crying about the smallest things. If he gets the wrong colored bowl at breakfast, he cries. If the “wrong” person drives him to daycare, he cries. If the sun shines through the wrong window, he cries. These aren’t giant fits he throwing to [...]
She’s a Peach, She’s a Doll, She’s a Pal of Mine*
Caroline was born on July 1st, 2007. (Look, pictures! You didn’t know that site existed did you?) It was her due date, but not her choice; the labor was started by induction. Although really she and Liz didn’t need much help; when we arrived at the hospital the nurses found Liz already at 4 cm. [...]
Father’s Day
Last night I wrote a Father’s Day post that was a monument to sadness. It started dim and went straight into grim. It was awful. In retrospect I think I was writing something that needed to be written but not necessarily something I wanted to be read. At least, not on Father’s Day. So I [...]
33
My favorite episode of the television show Battlestar Galactica (2005-2009) is “33″. It’s first episode of the series, picking up where the initial mini-series left off. In that mini-series humanity was nearly annihilated by evil intelligent robots called Cylons. The only known survivors escape on a flotilla of mismatched space ships, escorted by an old [...]
