One of the biggest challenges about having two kids (aside from, you know, taking care of two small people as opposed to one) is not comparing them. As you live through it the second time around, you are inevitably pulled back to the first time. Then you (and by you, I mean me) start trying…
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Someday
It is impossible to follow all the parenting advice we get from the moment we announce that we plan to join The Club. The toughest? “Enjoy every moment.” There is a part of you that knows this advice comes from a place of nostalgia, from a parent who has forgotten all the miserable, tear-your-hair-out moments that…
Inferior
When he sat down at the new piano and began playing – a lovely improvised piece that somewhat resembled Pachelbel’s Canon – I fought back the tears, swallowed my pride for the millionth time, and smiled back when finished. Having our own piano had been a dream of ours since we were engaged, lazily imagining…
Our winter wonderland
What is it about us that we can avoid laundry, dishes, bills, and work like the plague, but lose ourselves for hours trying to master a new technology? That was me this weekend, attempting to figure out how to use iMovie for the first time. I started small, making a short 60 second video for…
Toddler progress report
I’ve written many a progress report in my decade of being a teacher. Recently, however, I received my first one. For my child, that is. Theo’s not even one and a half and only goes to Montessori two days a week, but his teacher dutifully marked out what he can and can’t do so far…
