Today I am largely engaged in care work – feeding ice to a pale and sweaty six year old who can’t keep food or drink in his stomach today; following him around the house with a Clorox wipe; washing the numerous linens he is soiling, bless his virus-ridden little heart; shifting him from couch to…
Category: Liam
Drizzly Zoo Trip
Faced with the prospect of a rainy Saturday with the kids by myself, I contemplated staying home – them destroying the house, fighting, bouncing off the walls. I contemplated the aquarium – eleventy million people, kids scattering in three directions and being swallowed up in the crowd in seconds. So I settled on the zoo!…
Why My Sons are the Best
Craig knows new words every day. Every day. Today, for example, he said such sentences as “No bedtime yet for Craig.” “Line ’em up, cars!” “I want juice or milk baba.” “Aunt Corrie, Aunt Caki, Aunt Amanda, uuuuuum, who else? Nana! Grandpa Doc!” When he is being disciplined (gently) or put to bed or similar…
Babies Babies Babies
I’m surrounded by preggos. One friend at work just had a baby girl and three others are pregnant with boys (due in December, January, and March). My sister is also due to have a baby girl any old day now, as is a cousin down in Florida. It’s fun. It’s also been great to remove…
Those Boys, Though
Yesterday, Jack went to a Cub Scout meeting with his dad. Craig was asleep, and so it was just Liam and me. Middle child that he is, my Liam flourishes under individual attention – and he so rarely gets it. I took the stolen moment. First we got out paints and paper, and he painted…