Last full day at elementary school. Woohoooo! You know, she rides down this hill many a morning with her hands up over her head, and I trail behind her with my heart in my throat. She’s been trying to teach me to ride hands free – she has a mantra that she repeats that has …
Category Archives: Fun
Compliments
Dropping Hot Wheels off at school the other morning, I gave him a hug and a kiss. HW: Mummie, why do you smell so good? ME: That’s nice of you to say, HW! HW: You smell like… hand sanitizer. ME: Thanks.
Juxtaposed
Hot Wheels is in a sweet spot. He just turned 7. He’s still completely obsessed with cars and numbers and running super fast. He’s competitive and sometimes a total knucklehead, but at the same time he’s surprisingly tender. There’s a curiosity in him that hasn’t yet been locked into any assumptions about what he should …
Scramble
We’ve taken to playing Scrabble, or Scramble, as Hot Wheels calls it, over dinner. I think it just might be the perfect game for Hot Wheels, since he’s what you might affectionately call a ‘reluctant reader,’ but he loves with a bright hot passion any game that involves points and scores. He’s not competitive at …
Back Again
Hey – did you know it’s November? What just happened?? It’s time for a little catch up. First things first though – I have to wish my awesome nephew a super happy wonderful birthday! Here he is: He’s a little elusive. Not quite as elusive as his sister, though. Lots of birthdays this month – …
Colorful Birthday
Honey’s birthday landed on a Friday this year, so it coincided with soccer practice. Since our Friday practices are a bit of a party every week, we decided to bring some cupcakes. And Tom rode up with a bunch of balloons, which made it super special. We went with a multicolored approach… I finally bought …
Lucky 13
On September 13th thirteen years ago, Tom and I had a humdinger of a wedding, surrounded by our incredible family and friends from all around the world. It wasn’t the wedding I’d always dreamed of. It was far more layered and beautiful than anything I could have imagined. It rocked. Yesterday, he gave me a …
What a Weekend!!
FRIDAY Every Friday afternoon, Honey’s soccer team has a practice. I’ve mentioned it before, because we’ve had it this way for three years now – Friday soccer practice ends at 5pm and we all know that’s cocktail time. So we usually bring some snacks and drinks to the practice and kick off the weekend in …
Lordy Lordy
I just turned 40. Somebody give my mother a stiff drink. It’s surprising enough to me, so I can only imagine what she’s going through. It’s been an awesome birthday though. I’ve been showered with drawings and ridiculously cool presents and wonderful shared meals and drinks with friends – it’s been nothing short of spectacular. …
What Just Happened?
Would the little squirt who pressed fast forward on the season remote please report immediately to my office? Speed up the end of winter any time you like, but summer?! You stinker. I swear the last day of school was yesterday, but somehow the kids are supposed to go back tomorrow. Plus, we had weeks, …