Usually Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. I’ve said it here before: no presents, no cooking, just wild costumes and roaming the streets after-dark. Is it wrong for a mother to take more pleasure in her own Halloween costume than her children’s? This year I was a Rockette-esque Showgirl in a flouncy hot-pink taffeta [...]
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Preschool Graduation
June 24th, 2010 1 Comment
Fancy dresses? CHECK Fancy tights? CHECK Party shoes? CHECK Potluck dish, plus picnic blanket, plates and utensils? CHECK Two hyper & overtired girls and one frazzled mom? CHECK Then it’s time for the annual preschool Graduation Ceremony in the school garden, complete with adorable kid singing, ribbons bestowed on each child and a MayPole dance! [...]
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Sugar Kitty
July 13th, 2009 3 Comments
It’s 6 pm on a Tuesday night and my daughter darts up to me like a hummingbird high on nectar. She’s hit the dessert table at the preschool potluck and scarfed down an enormous double-chocolate frosted cupcake. Eyes preternaturally bright, grinning ear to ear, she zooms past and screams in delight, “SUGAR KITTY!” This [...]