We had a super fabulous thing happen today at the Hawthorne Street Fair. We were at the kids’ play area behind the toy store, and one of the store employees walked up to us with a big shopping bag full of books and toys and told us that it was a present in celebration of [...]
Right from the beginning, I’ve tried to be careful of the way I describe the world to Hanna, of the words that I use, because that’s the foundation for the way she’ll think, the way she’ll see the world. As she grows and has her own experiences, she’ll make her own decisions about how things [...]
I am feeling utterly restless and unable to sleep. The weather on my computer says that the temperature is down to 70, but I don’t believe it. Everything just feels so stuffy, and Ryan is taking up the whole bed, despite my repeated elbows to his back, and whatever the temperature really is it is [...]
It’s National Night Out! Did you go out? Hanna and I did, and went to the barbecue at the Presbyterian church up the street. The police and the firefighters came to visit, and she got to climb around inside the fire truck (or as she pronounces it, ‘fia cuck’), which just about made her year. [...]
