Made By Humans
The other day — the day before Valentine’s Day, to be precise — the Bit got out her air-dry clay before school. She was making a cake, and she asked me to help. I piled on a few layers for her, and as she worked I made some bigger pieces of clay and decided to […]
The Bit, like most kids, loves to dress up and play pretend. And she really loves pretending that she’s a doctor and someone — a parent, a doll from the dollhouse, a stuffed animal — is sick. She will use anything at hand to be her medical equipment. For a long time her “medicine” was […]
My sister-in-law is amazingly great at picking presents for the Bit and me. Her job is working with preschools and early childhood education programs, so she knows all the best toys, great books and whatnot to get the Bit, but she also manages to do pretty well picking goodies for me, too. This year, it […]
When I decided to send the Bit to preschool, it was a difficult but really calculated decision. I knew that if I was going to continue working, if I ever wanted to make more of a name for myself or write a book ever again, I was going to need more time to work. I […]
Thanks to the fact that the Bit is home and has been sick and I’m only working during naps on non-holiday days, things have gotten pretty quiet around here. Which is how it should be this time of year, I imagine. I’m busy doing a lot of reflecting and thinking about the year to come, […]
I like to give the grandparents something each year that’s related to the Bit or that she made. Last year everyone got a calendar full of pictures of her, but I just didn’t feel like doing that this year. I thought it would be great to give them each a picture of her, but what […]
Whenever I know the Bit is going to be home for a few days more than normal I try to have some special things planned, especially when I know we’re going to be stuck at home for a while as we were over Thanksgiving. It turned out she got an extra day off because she […]