Grace graduates from Kindergarten Friday. I cannot believe she'll be entering 1st grade in a few months. I let her have a big chocolate chip cookie and milk today after school. She was ecstatic! She broke the three-inch cookie into several smaller pieces then dunked each bite into the milk before eating, sometimes stopping (sometimes not) to ( Read more... )

Molly snores and often sleeps with her eyes open. Disturbing.

"You kill my juice!"

I am looking at my hands resting on the keyboard. My room is dark save for the bright glow of thecomputer screen. My monitor is my spotlight. My fingers are like arthritic nubs. The outer reaches of the keyboard, (backspace,, delete, tab) give my apendages life beyond the confined space of the alphabet ( Read more... )

While my daughter takes her bath, I check my email and keep track of the time and her in the next room because I can hear her. After she gets clean, I let her play while the tub drains. When the water's gone she usually summons me for a towel. A few nights ago, when I heard the remaining water go down the drain, I expected the usual call for a ( Read more... )

I gave my daughter a quick lesson in perspective today. Strange because the hubs is the visual artist. We were reading a Barbie book where Barbie answers the letter of a little girl with an anecdote that shows how Barbie can truly relate to everything a little girl could be experiencing. In the "letter," the "little girl" asks Barbie if she has ( Read more... )

dan and grace are playing candyland;they are super-cute. when g said she wanted daddy to play with her, i smiled. sometimes, she is such a mommy's girl and i think it hurts dan's feelings. grace just won...again. she's won just about every game she's played. it helps that we play with the alternate rules for the younger players. uh, yeah.

I am wearing headphones that fit so well ( Read more... )

shank's pony informal walking, on foot.

one reason why i like the dictionary.

Sitting on my stoop this evening, watching Grace play, an old boyfriend walked by. I would not have noticed it was him had I not seen him around the neighborhood before. I've seen him at the grocery a couple of times before and am sure it was him. We dated more than 12 years ago. I can't say that we actually dated because we had more of a ( Read more... )