Just quickly– We’re going to see Magic at Steamer 10 — they’re already in the car! Apparently many of these vacation shows are still available. Jennifer Silverman, one of the editors of My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities, will be signing books at 2 pm at … [Read more…]
Okay, every single summer, I say to myself that this is the year that I’m going to catch the New York City ballet at SPAC, and every year the beginning of summer flies by and I realize that I’ve missed it again. I don’t want that kind of heartache to befall you, gentle reader, so … [Read more…]
Guess what? I figured out how to find the statistics on the number of people who’ve looked at the blog, and it was more than 9! Yay! It gives me the energy to keep plugging away. I’m going to try to learn how to make my links prettier, for one thing. And one of my … [Read more…]
My big girl questioned me pretty hard on the whole Santa issue a while back, when she was only 3 or 4. I mean, come on, shouldn’t they remain naïve at least through kindergarten? Anyway, she was persistent, looking for inaccuracies and loopholes and. . . I’m just not so good at lying. Finally, I … [Read more…]
I wish that I had fabulous things for you today during your long wait for bedtime. Do you have something for me to do? The only things I find are church services and lights-looking, and those are in the evening. Dude, it is 4 or 5 hours until the evening. One thing I thought that … [Read more…]
I’m generally a very cheap person, from a long line of cheap people. (At Thanksgiving my sisters and I realized that three of us were wearing–with modifications–the same unbelievably unflattering Old Navy harem pants because we couldn’t pass up the super-sale deal. I tried to find a link, but the Old Navy people are so … [Read more…]
Last weekend we organized a big caroling outing in our neighborhood. Now, Christmas Caroling at nursing homes and hospitals is a wonderful activity: warm and organized, with a captive audience. But I like the idea of boosting neighborliness. Even though it’s intimidating.   I realized, as we started walking down the street, that I hadn’t expected … [Read more…]
My girls were thrilled with Albany Winterfest yesterday. Loved the jugglers and trampoliners and fireworks, and they came home with prizes that were not nearly as crappy as what we usually get from, say, Chuck E. Cheese. In fact, I just ran upstairs to check and see if they were perhaps not even made in … [Read more…]
I’m actually pretty tuckered out. We’ve been entertaining and running errands like crazy, and what I’d like to do most is hunker down and complete my annual screening of It’s a Wonderful Life while emptying my tins of goodies. But maybe you have guests to entertain, children who are bored, or more energy than me. … [Read more…]
Phew. I know that the whole line about how you, too, can start your own blog in minutes is theoretically true, but when you have this vision in your head of what it should look like, it actually takes longer. Really, just starting to write this, I feel like I should be hunched over with … [Read more…]
