Dear OBoy, I want to tell you something so that I remember it and so that you can know that it happened when this day has long past. Yesterday afternoon we went to the grocery store as a family. Just this week you have started to be able to fully buckle and unbuckle yourself from… Read more »
He came over, laid himself across my lap, and asked “Can you scratch my back please, Mommy?” For the record, the answer to that will always, always be yes. :: :: :: :: :: :: Welcome to this week’s Parent ‘Hood link up! Please read these guidelines before linking your post: 1. Today’s link-up will run… Read more »
We have this thing for wildlife around here. And by ‘thing for wildlife’ I mean wildlife has a thing for entering our very clearly defined territory. Never mind that we live in a rather urban neighborhood, we’ve had: a bird in our living room a squirrel in our basement a stray cat in our kitchen a… Read more »
{The Sri Lankan coastline from my plane window this morning.} “You go on a airplane and go see O, Mommy?” He parrots back to me bits and pieces of what I have told him about this trip. “And den you give him his happy birthday present? Then you come home?” OBoy and I have had… Read more »
