I love calendars. They're the perfect excuse for splurging for 12 gorgeous and gloriously glossy pages of inspiration.
Yet we have no calendar for 2007. I now find this quite telling: we've gotten sucked into a kind of timeless spiral of ear/eye/nose infections and strep for the little one - since January 1st, number of weeks entirely free of illness or antibiotics: 0. And high level of domesticity for me (never before entering the mother club have I had to pay such close attention to laundries and groceries and bed times and dust bunnies (she likes to eat them)).
Clearly we would have lost track of time were it not for lil A. Who astounds* me: she easily learned the names of all 8 adults present here for Easter weekend, she stacks blocks and sorts stuff, she hums and mimes her favorite songs, she instantly got what the potty is for, she's already starting to do pretend play, and she retells short stories (an airplane flew overhead, the cat was here then ran away). I keep thinking about what it means in terms of human development: we develop a sense of imagination before we even know how to speak, how to hold a pencil, how to walk down a full flight of stairs, how to tie a shoelace, how to put a shirt on.
*: I have no shame saying I'm astounded by her, because I continue to live in a state of denial about the fact that she 'belongs' to me. I keep thinking that she's a wonderful (and challenging) gift that somehow fell into my lap. And I don't think it's because she looks nothing at all like me, because I'm told that personality wise she's a spitting image of my baby self.
Btw - I'll try to post pictures soon.
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On my nightstand
Just finished - have you read?
Eat Pray Love; Bird by Bird (couldn't finish); The Twilight Saga; Persepolis 2 (Marjane Satrapi); The Angel's Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafon); The Whistling Season; Mary Barton; Hearts of horses; the worst hard time; Syngué sabour (wow); Mal de pierres; le boulevard peripherique; les chretiens; la trahison de thomas spencer; The Eleventh Man (Ivan Doig); Histoires des paysans de France (Michelet); Old School (Tobias Wolf); The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society; Coastliners; Love walked in, and, Belong to me; The man of my dreams; Silent Spring; Options for girls: a door to the future; Three cups of tea; Wives and Daughters (sort of); Corelli's Mandolin (sort of; skimmed it only); Prep; American Wife (I'm so impressed by Curtis Sittenfeld's writing); North and South; The blessing of a skinned knee
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Motto
Do one thing every day that scares you - and another that makes you laugh.
1 comment:
ZenScribe said...
I'm so-so-so glad to see a post from you. Must be a good day today then. Thank goodness for that. The year of daycare illness is so difficult to get through, almost harder than the first. But for all that they're constantly ill, their development or enjoyment in life is not hampered. I learned patience and endurance through Wee's modeling of it.
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