From the monthly archives:

December 2007

The Poo’s Perspective

December 31, 2007

The Poo received a digital camera for Christmas, one made just for kids by Vtech. It is fascinating to see the world from her perspective.
Here is Christmas, as seen by one just-turned-three-year-old:

If you’ve got time to kill, you can see the whole set here.

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From Us To You

December 24, 2007
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Someone Was A Very Good Girl This Year

December 18, 2007

She sat down on the stairs, her face skeptical.
“Poo, there’s something I think you want to see,” her father said, looking like a little boy himself in candy-striped pajama bottoms.
“What, Daddy?”
“Santa came in the night while you were sleeping!”
Her eyes widened, and her resolve to remain on the staircase deepened. We looked at each other [...]

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The Kindness Of Not-Quite Strangers

December 17, 2007

This has been a trying month.
The Poo turned three, and with that came a sea change in her. Her equilibrium is off, and therefore so is mine. She’s been really sick, and so have I. Christmas is stressful for us in so many ways, and I know this is also affecting her mood and behavior.
It’s [...]

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Joy

December 16, 2007
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Three

December 15, 2007

Three years ago right now I stood in the kitchen of a downtown loft apartment, teary-eyed and craving the comfort of a cup of coffee.
The locket I normally wore around my neck was pooled inside my nervous palm, a necklace given to my mother by my father on the occasion of her 21st birthday. Inside [...]

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The Best Reason To Get A New Purse That I’ve Ever Heard

December 14, 2007

The Poo finally decided that swallowing her own vomit was maybe not such a good idea.
Unfortunately, she decided to let it all hang loose during lunch.
At a restaurant.
She was eating the first meal she’s taken since she came down with this plague on Monday, her beloved grilled cheese. Just as she asked for a second [...]

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How Did THAT Happen?

December 13, 2007

Stuffing Christmas cards into envelopes last night, I came across a name I didn’t recognize.
“Who’s that?” I asked my husband, pointing.
“Oh, that’s so-and-so,” he replied.
Oh, I said, and nodded, continuing to stuff and peel, stuff and peel.
“It’s weird, we’ve haven’t been gone that long … ” Mr. C began.
“But it seems like we’ve been here [...]

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O The Pathos

December 12, 2007

 
The Poo is so sick that all she wants to do is lay on the couch and play pbskids.com. She won’t speak, except in a whisper.

For more Wordless Wednesday photos, click here.

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The Crackdown

December 9, 2007

The Poo finally exhibited her worst behavior in front of her daddy.
Last night we attempted 5 o’clock Mass, and our girl was in top form. Backtalk, loud talking, yelling, singing at the top of her lungs, fake burping (I know, what the hell?), inappropriate dancing, defiance, extreme wiggling … all in front of the other [...]

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