Wading Pool Party

Since beginning to learn to swim and getting two mermaid tails, Blitzen has been obsessed with pools.  She saved her allowance for several weeks and purchased a very cheap kiddie wading pool.  She then informed Andrew and me that she wanted to have a pool party for her school friends.  We talked a lot about this.  [...]

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Fairies, resuscitated and school, explained

Ok, so last night, as Blitzen was falling asleep, she carefully laid out her argument for why Therapist V is incorrrect about fairies. 1)  Fairies are in lots of books 2)  There are fairie sized plates and other household objects in the fairie house and SOMEBODY has been using them 3) Some mornings, when we [...]

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backups

We have about 473 backups.  Backups are the folks that you have named to the agency as babysitters and supports.  They go through a background check, they are interviewed by the agency, they are trained in first aid and cpr.  They are allowed to watch your child when you can’t. I was kidding, of course, [...]

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the surprise party

On Thursday evening, Blitzen decided that we should throw Andrew a surprise party.  We chose to do it on Sunday afternoon since weekdays are pretty busy for us.  Andrew’s birthday is today.  Happy birthday, my love. Our good friend P and my dear Aunt B, both responded to my very late Friday afternoon invitation.  In [...]

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the mermaid play

Blitzen came home the other day with her little composition notebook  filled with the signatures of her friends — everyone had, apparently, signed up for a part in Blitzen’s mermaid play.  What mermaid play, you might ask?  By the time I got home, Andrew and Blitzen were sitting at the kitchen table, assigning each child a [...]

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Fairie house building in the great outdoors

Blitzen, Andrew and our friends J and D built an awesome fairie house in Central Park.  When asked what the fairies do at this natural oasis, Blitzen replied ‘They sit on the bench and do nothing but watch the sunset…..’ Sounds good to me!

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Back from the trip

Lots of things to process here and I’ll try to do it slowly over the next several days.  Blitzen had a really rough end of the week.  Really rough.  I came back early rough. I probably over-reacted.  Andrew says that I was just missing Blitzen and used the nuclear meltdown as an excuse.  That could be [...]

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More swimsuit stories

Swimsuit mania continues.  Yesterday, for the first time in more than a week, I arrived home to see Blitzen clad in traditional clothing – no swimsuit on under or over her street clothes. But she is still having a lot of fun with the now plural swimsuits.  On Saturday, at the store she saw a red polka dotted [...]

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bedtime playtime

After a long day of playing with our friends in NJ and a drowsy drive home later than our usually scheduled bedtime, we carried Blitzen into the house, slipped on her pjs and patted her back as she lay practically comatose in her bed.  Suddenly, she sat up and asked with alarm ‘did i get bedtime playtime?’. [...]

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Snow and other kids and life

It snowed, it snowed, it snowed.  Just a little bit of snow but Blitzen’s reaction was so funny when she peeked out the window on Saturday morning.  “I can’t believe it really snowed, y’all.”  Followed by mad, hysterical giggles and much jumping up and down. Andrew and Blitzen had lots of sledding fun – I [...]

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