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I’ve come to accept that a big part of parenting is sleep deprivation.
While Aya has a firm bedtime (no later than 7:30 pm on weeknights), she gets up pretty much whenever she wants to — which is usually before 6:30 a.m. Which means I get up before 6:30 a.m. Even on weekends*. [...]
After spending about two weeks down with tonsillitis, Aya has started complaining that she’s bored with summer vacation. She has cabin fever. She’s tired of computer games and DVDs and TV. Hanging out with her dad isn’t good enough; she wants to meet up with her friends. She wants to go out and do things.
She [...]
Part of the appeal of the school we have Aya in is the focus on field trips. There are a lot of them, probably about two or three trips a month, all tied to various classroom projects. It’s a parent-oriented endeavor. The parents pay for the field trips, drive, bring supplies, and supervise the students.
Each [...]
This week’s Recommended Reading list is a bizarre mix. Just click and see what you get. You’ll get no previews from me this time!
Where The Wild Things Are
13 Ways to Quickly Improve Your Decision-Making
Porta Hell No
New… and True… and Trite
Why my mom is the coolest
Time for a change
Let me know what you [...]
We went to Aya’s open house at school last night. I don’t remember any parent nights when I was in kindergarten, so I didn’t have much to compare it to. I only remember open house from 3rd grade and up, and those were tiresome affairs with bitter teachers.
I didn’t take photographs, so words [...]
Aya seems to be doing a lot better.
She was coughing constantly Thursday into Friday. It’s croup, which she hasn’t had for more than a year. None of us really slept Thursday night. Her doctor gave us the okay to give her some promethazine/codeine cough syrup so she could get some rest, [...]
Thank you to those who left me IMs last night/this morning. Sorry I didn’t respond! I’m at work now; after two and a half hours of sleep, I don’t think I’m going to be very productive today.
Or coherent.
The on call doctor finally called about 7:30 pm last night. When we told him what was going on, [...]
This is the kind of surprise I can do without.
I was commiserating with a co-worker today (another working mom with two kids around Aya’s age: one a year old, the other a year younger) about the colds going around the office. Right now, our office manager, three attorneys, and one secretary are all sick. We [...]
All music evokes emotion in me. I associate different songs (and entire albums) with emotional experiences and different phases of my life.
For instance, the Chrono Cross soundtrack by Yasunori Mitsuda is entirely evocative of nursing Aya. For those six weeks after Aya was born, I’d drive Lil to work, drop Brian off at college, [...]
Aya knows how to use a digital camera, operate Brian’s MP3 player, and call me on Brian’s cell phone. She can install CD-ROM games on her own computer and surf through her favorite sites on the internet - usually PBS Kids, My Little Pony, Barbie, and Nick Jr. She is quite blase about using a [...]
