Last September, I was innocently driving my van when a tree jumped out of the woods and attack, crushing it dead. It was, for the record, the most frightening experience of my entire life. The tree hit just behind my head, where the Bulldozer–then 1 1/2–would have been had he been with me. It was […]
The baby–who really ought to be sleeping through the night by now (your siblings were!)–keeps waking up. Repeatedly. Math lessons are interrupted for character correction. We take a detour from the regularly scheduled program to talk families and who is related to whom and how and what’s our new cousin’s name again? The to-do list […]
Or rather, casts off! My Little Miss got her casts off today. (See here for the back story.) After 5 weeks in the casts, her muscles have atrophied a bit, so she has to learn to walk all over again. Given her speed at going from the couch to the bike (in casts!), I’m not […]
The Gigglemeister has met “No” and he does not approve. Mommy: “No, you may not hit my computer.” Firmly, gently, remove hands. As heard by baby: “It’s the end of the world! How dare you! Oh, the humanity!” I swear you’d think I slammed his fingers in the laptop rather than move it out of […]
Thursday morning my 7 year-old daughter had surgery to lengthen the tendons in both ankles. Needless to say, we’ve been a little distracted of late. She is (was) an idiopathic toe-walker and her tendons shortened over time. So Thursday, she had her tendons cut and her feet casted to about a 10 degree past flat […]