Halloween is fast upon us. A while back, K decided what our family would be: I would be a cat, she would be a mouse, and Baby S would be, you guessed it, a piece of cheese. (Dad seems to be lacking in the season’s spirit, and has not succumbed to family pressure, so he [...]
Archive for October, 2010
A lesson from a six year old
Posted in Parenting on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Disappointment
Posted in Being the people, Dance/Arts, Parenting, Writing, tagged auditions, disappointment, kathak, revisions on October 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
K doesn’t like tags in clothing. (Who does?) They scratch her, and she always wants them taken out. (Why haven’t more clothing makers adopted the tagless system of printing the relevant information on the inside of the neckline?) A few days ago, we went clothing shopping, and she picked out a few items, including a [...]
Found Time
Posted in Parenting, Writing on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 4:48 pm on a Wednesday. I find myself with an unexpectedly quiet house. Baby is asleep, after 45 minutes of my efforts to coax her into slumber, aided by some Orajel for her gums which will soon, I’m assuming, sprout a tooth. Of course, now that I’ve written this, she’s likely to wake up. [...]
