Give me October in Vermont and I’ll give you apple-picking, leaf-raking, and blazing orange-red hills. I’ll also give you 35 degrees and raining. This morning I manhandled A. into her winter parka and physically pushed her out the door. She was refusing to go outside due to the cold, and I was having an [...]
Entries Tagged as 'preschooler'
The Dark Season
October 18th, 2009 1 Comment
Tags: daylight saving time · Parenting · preschooler · winter
Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself
April 10th, 2009 No Comments
You can call me Diana Whitney, the poet formerly known as Diana Sabot. My 3-and -a-half year old daughter, whom I’ll refer to as A., now calls me “Diana” too. As in, “Hey Diana? You know my friend Hello Kitty?” Sometimes she still calls me “Mommy”, but we’ve entered a new phase of self-expression and [...]
Tags: preschooler