October 2009
7 posts
Kitchen time
Lila has recently started wanting to help me more in the kitchen. Now that she’s tall enough to reach the counter and old enough to follow a recipe, her involvement has moved from “help” to genuine help. She can peel veggies, mix batter, knead dough — almost everything except wield a knife. An interesting side effect is that when we start cooking, she starts talking....
Sunday morning
The girls were up at seven, and so was the dog. I fed and let out Sully; the girls helped themselves to the TV. Everyone seemed okay to me so I went back to my warm bed — and didn’t wake up again until nine, which is pretty much unheard of in these parts, these days. The girls had been left alone with the television so long they actually grew sick of it, turned it off, and began...
This is one sick puppy
Sullivan ate something wrong. Something very, very wrong, judging from the fact that she ignored her breakfast this morning and ran straight outside to start gnawing on grass. She’s now sitting on my lap, despite the alarming sounds she’s emitting. I think she’d jump off before crapping all over me, but perhaps this is overly optimistic. Having had two infants, it’s not...
Hot yoga
I’m pretty sure today was my last day of hot yoga. I bought a punch card for ten visits when my usual yoga classes were unavailable, after the Y fire. And today was number ten. I’m not buying another anytime soon.
I never really could come to terms with the amount of sweat in that studio — my own (a shocking, unprecedented amount) and everyone else’s (slipping and...
Truth fairy
Here’s how the conversation went. We were walking out of Cedar Chest Kids and heading back to the parking garage when Lila said, “Mommy, is the tooth fairy real? Tell me the truth.”
I stalled. “What do you mean? Did somebody say something?”
“Some kids on the playground were saying that the tooth fairy isn’t real, that it’s really moms and dads. Is...
Nut desegregation
Stella is allergic to nuts… OR IS SHE?
Backing up a bit: When Stella was a toddler, she ate some cashews. Quite a few cashews, in fact, before I caught up with her and took away the bag. And a few hours later she broke out in a set of angry hives, all over her little baby body, and we landed in the Cooley Dickinson ER at nine o’clock p.m. for a shot of epinephrine and good ol’...
Layoffs
Magazines have been dropping like flies for a couple years now. When I was at Wondertime it seemed like every couple weeks we learned about another title that was folding. And then of course it was our title that folded.
Today it was announced that Conde Nast is closing several more titles, including Cookie. This one is particularly noteworthy to us Wondertimers. We saw Cookie as one of our...