More Than Four Sides

Category: kids

  • Found draft from 2017

    I’ve been cleaning up my desk, and my desktop computer (after having a bit of grief with needing to update it to get it responsive again – had 3+ weeks of not being able to restart it, but now it’s fully functional again). I checked on what was sitting on my external hard drive, and…

  • Changing perspective

    How magic it is to simply change how you look at a situation or circumstance (are those two things really different?).

  • The importance of community

    I don’t think of myself as the most social of people.  I have difficulty dealing with crowds of people I don’t know.  I hate showing up at a party where I don’t know anyone, and trying to get into conversation with people.  When I do end up at big crowded parties, I am most comfortable…

  • Walking to synagogue

    This morning, it was just J and me.  S and Dad had a double-header baseball game scheduled at 9am.  We gave J the choice – go to baseball, or come to shul (synagogue) with Mom.  He chose the latter (I don’t flatter myself – he chose that because it gave him an extra 30 minutes…

  • Gone, 34 years…

    I’ve been absent from this virtual space for awhile.  My last post was in October and it was prompted by the book club I belong to (From Left To Write).  And, prior to that, I was posting from Sierra Leone. This month, January, is the month that my father died, 34 years ago.  My daughter was…

  • We got a dog!

    Welcome to Boxer! So far, he’s been a very easy – going addition to the family (he’s asleep at the foot of our bed as I write this).

  • I have OKCupid to thank…

    For my daughter finding and marrying the man who suits her to a T. and apparently, the data of the OKCupid algorithms predicted their compatibility and bliss pretty well, as they scored around 95%, according to her. It’s a funny thing to see your daughter get married, and then to see her happily interacting with…

  • Leaving town…

    I’m going out of town for three whole days. This is the second time that I’ve left the boys since we brought them home, and J is not liking it at all (S is so independent, he minds less, although he did express the odd concern that I might be flying to somewhere unsafe, i.e.…

  • A Very Difficult Sunday

    This past sunday was the first day of Hebrew School for J. He was not excited. We tried, as always, to preview this transition for him. We told him about the plans the day before, but he wasn’t too interested in hearing it. We woke him up on Sunday morning, in plenty of time for…

  • Second week of school, interrupted by concussion!

    Our first week of school, our new kindergartener came down with a viral illness, and had to stay home for two days. Luckily, he returned to school without difficulty, and this week, for him, went smoothly. Not so much for his big brother. I got a call in the middle of the afternoon from the…