I have a lot of cousins. First cousins and second cousins and fake cousins (i.e. children of close family friends) and real cousins. Weekends were full of family get-togethers. Our parents would eat and drink and play mah-jong upstairs while the kids played and ran wild in the basement. We literally grew up together. Those [...]
I remember his floppy salt-and-pepper sprinkled hair. I remember his round belly. I remember sitting at the dinner table with my Mom, brother and sister and my eyes lighting up when he would walk up the stairs from the garage in time to join us for dinner. I remember that his specialty dish was scrambled [...]
I mentioned before that we went to Disney World right before Thanksgiving. Now, I have to tell you the truth. I wasn’t entirely excited about going to Disney. While I do have very fond memories of visiting Disney when I was a kid (It’s a Small World! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! Dumbo!), I couldn’t help [...]
I was planning on posting something about my kids – some cute thing that I’ve done this month like how they set up a farmers market in our apartment or the debate they had on election night about who to vote for or the books that Jasper has authored (as he likes to say) [...]
One of you is long and lean. One of you is short and (more on the) squat side. Both of you are brothers. Both of you are so full of emotion that can only be expressed as physical exuberance. One of you can’t go through a day without at least 10 hugs. One of you [...]
Last Thursday was bittersweet. On the one hand, I knew that you were ready – ready to move on to a new school, ready for new challenges, ready to be a big kid. On the other hand, you love your preschool, your teachers and your friends. Walking to school on the final days, I [...]
There has been a bit of memory capturing going on here lately – trying to slow down and embrace the summer memories that we are creating. But there’s one thing in particular that I wanted to capture. You turn three years old this week. Has it been three years already? The years seem to have [...]
Little boys and fountains – they seem to be drawn to each other like moths to a flame. Jasper is definitely the instigator. Ever since he was little, he has loved the water. When we traveled to Italy with him when he was two and a half years old, we literally had to stop and [...]
