November 20, 2007

why didn’t you say anything?

A few months back, I had a nice e-mail from a woman named Margaret Renkl; she was writing a story about parents who had struggled with medicating their children for various psychiatric conditions, and she wanted to know if I would talk with her. She had found me through a comment I had left at Judith Warner’s New York Times blog, Domestic Disturbances, on a post about medicating kids with ADHD (comment number 77, if you’re curious). I said yes, I would be happy to talk with her. We e-mailed back and forth, and this month, Margaret’s article appeared in Parenting Magazine. You can read it here.

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November 8, 2007

for Chris

Who texted me to say that she was freezing.

It was sunny and 70 here today.

October 17, 2007

oh, you’re right, that is absolutely . . . wait, what were we talking about?

My bag came today! And, in the SAME UPS delivery (which arrived during a HAIL STORM I kid you not) I also got my copy of The Handbag: An Illustrated History. And I got down on my knees and thanked the lord, because he is good, and he understands my love of the handbag.

Amen.

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October 16, 2007

swimming in the shallow end

On Saturday, I have a lunch date with the uber fantastic Shana. I am excited about this for two reasons; on is that Shana is just so damn fun to be around and I know that I will wind up laughing until I pee my sides hurt, but the OTHER reason is that in her previous life Shana was a Makeup Girl and she’s going to take me to Sephora and make me look 20 years younger!

Is that asking too much? Nah.

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September 13, 2007

to the woman sitting behind me in church this morning

A kazoo is perhaps NOT the best toy to give a preschooler during Mass.

I’m just saying.

(Manicure update: not chipped yet!)

August 20, 2007

we didn’t drown, but we might as well have

I was jolted awake this morning at SIX FORTY ONE am by the phone. Clearly, I thought, someone has died, because why else would ANYONE be calling us at SIX FORTY ONE on a SUNDAY morning?

Except today is Monday and we had all overslept. Dammit.

The phone call was from Charlie’s teacher, who wanted to know if I could sub for their aide, who is sick. I said of course! mostly because I wasn’t awake yet and was so happy no one was dead. And then I took the Universe’s Fastest Shower and ran around like a chicken with my head cut off until we were all ready to go.

Somehow, we were not late for school, which was awesome. But mostly I still feel like I’m not ready to start my day yet, even though it’s nearly 2:00 and the kid-free part of my day is nearly over. Gah. (more…)