1. Nine years ago today, at 7:29am in Berkeley, CA, I had a baby! Go me!
2. She is a completely spectacular kid, funny and smart and an absolute joy to be around. Go me! (yes, I am taking credit for some of that.)
3. The last nine years have been the most fabulous, hilarious, awe-inspiring and educational of my life. Go me!
4. I somehow managed to get the ( Read more... )

i need a home shaved ice/sno cone maker, that can possibly accomodate a dozen or more snow cones over the course of a couple hours. anyone know of one that doesn't suck, and doesn't cost a whole lot?

slushie maker is an acceptable alternative.

the "problem" with having good backup childcare (that is, my dad living with me), combined with having practically no social life is that on the rare occasions i DO need someone to babysit soph, A. i have no idea how to go about arranging it and B. she FREAKS OUT at the thought of being outside of her comfort zone (being home or at her dad's ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

last year, soph immediately started coming home from school really jazzed about it, happy and excited and obviously having fun. this year, so far, when she comes home, she's a lot more subdued about it. she is usually good at telling me when something isn't going right for her, and i've asked, but she says class is good. her delivery, tho, leads me ( Read more... )

soph on her first day of first grade

( Read more... )

just finished a 20-minute phone conversation with soph. i miss my baby! wah!

that said, i shall go home and have ice cream for lunch without worrying about being a bad example. yay!

parenthood is such a mass of contradictions.

soph's flight was supposed to leave three hours ago, but they are still in oakland. now i have three+ extra hours to be nervous ( Read more... )

i'm really not quite as obsessive about it as i seem here. i promise ( Read more... )

so soph and maggy are going to have separate birthdays, because they both want to invite EVERYONE and there is no room for EVERYONE in our backyards ( Read more... )