Posts from September 2005

Effortless

Alice doesn’t take morning naps anymore. Breaking her of the habit was easy: I stopped going downstairs to get her before 7am while Jerry was[…]

PizzaMonster Update

“Mommy, I’m not afraid of the PizzaMonster anymore.” “Why not, Helen?” “Because, he goes to school. He goes to high school.” “Which high school does[…]

And then, in the next instant, a dose of reality…

Helen comes up to me this afternoon and says, “Look, Mommy, I have a bleed.” Which translates roughly into “I have scratched this bug bite[…]

Three

In the car yesterday as we were coming back from the grocery store, Helen observed, “Mommy! That car doesn’t have a ROOF on it!” Helen[…]