I can't explain how amazed I am that Ali is really reading, both by sight and sounding it out as needed, and can express herself in written form. It seems a magical thing to watch her suddenly be able to decode such a huge, previously incomprehensible part of our world ( Read more... )

"Медленно минуты уплывают в даль ( Read more... )

Went into school today to look at my new room, check on my desk, and grab some stuff. Wound up staying two hours working on my class list. As per very good advice I'm looking up grades in science and math last year and what they're taking this year, and their photos are a side benefit. I got through about a third of the names ( Read more... )

I could tell they reeeally didn't want to do it. They waited until literally the last moment. And there's a 95% chance that they'll rehire as soon as the state budget gets done and the city gets some more $$. But they did it anyway. And it's a small consolation that they pinked every single non-tenured teacher, and I must have been the last to get ( Read more... )

Hasik is in a daddy phase - mommy is not good for much these days, and is likely to get a shove (we're working on that, but he learns these things slowly). This morning was no exception. While daddy was downstairs getting ready for work, I went up to get them two ready to go to KB (1st day in preschool for the boy, too). I went up when I heard him ( Read more... )

Yesterday we got the usual day care report. Down where it says what he's been doing all day in the first person, it says something like, "Today I saw a UPS truck outside and then went and yelled to everyone, 'Truck, truck!'" At dinner I asked him in English, "Did you see a truck at school?" He looked at me with perfect understanding and said calmly ( Read more... )

So end my days of laziness unstructured family time. Back to work - 5 days a week, on a salary ( Read more... )

On the drive home it hit me. Jason will now have his own experiences, completely different from anyone else's. I remember coming up with this notion with bloguser when Ali went to pre-school. Today it is his turn. I dropped him off, had a chat with the teachers, he didn't want to let go of my hand, but was bribed with snacks. So Ali and I then went to her ( Read more... )

When I heard yesterday that Farrah Fawcett died, before marrying Ryan O'Neal like she wanted, I thought it kinda sad, but her heyday was before I was born, much less in this American culture. I didn't have much emotional connection, just some romantic-sentimental fluff on the edge of my thoughts about the circumstances - cancer isn't nearly so ( Read more... )

I've publicly admitted it, and the world has not crashed down around me in the form of a terribly screaming baby toddler going on and on for hours.

The boy had his last lapping of "mamino ka" last week. At first it was a coincidence of falling asleep in the car for the day nap, and someone else putting him down at night, then I asked bloguser to put him ( Read more... )