So This Is What You Think Of Me

Posted on March 3rd, 2011 by Matt

Yesterday wasn’t just Constance’s birthday. No, there was another special person in our lives who would have been celebrating had he still been walking, and writing circles around, this fine earth.
Dr. Seuss.
He’s a part of our daily lives, as he is for many parents and children, and I’ve come to rely on his steady [...]

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Tuckered Out

Posted on February 24th, 2011 by Matt

A week or two ago - sometime during the lost days of illness - I was in the midst of writing a blog post when suddenly, the house was eerily quiet. Gone were Nola’s loud, repetitious ramblings of every book she knows. Gone were the stomping feet running up and down the hallway whenever I [...]

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Christmas Post

Posted on December 27th, 2010 by Matt

Nola understood the concept of Christmas about as well as Charlie Brown prior to Linus’ classic speech, but that didn’t make it any less perfect. In fact, this was one of the best holidays of my life. Snow began to fall on Christmas eve and didn’t stop until the number 26 had firmly replaced my [...]

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Swiftly She Goes Berserker

Posted on December 9th, 2010 by Matt

I’ll give Taylor Swift one thing - she’s one hell of a babysitter.
I suppose I should back up and come clean about Nola’s aural problem. She has devolved into an outright, helpless music junkie. As an infant she was merely an aficionado, singing along to the likes of Florence + The Machine, The National [...]

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Who Wears Short Shorts?

Posted on April 1st, 2010 by Matt

Nola wears short shorts now that the mercury has threatened to rise to 80 degrees on the first day of April - my beloved mother’s birthday (Happy Birthday, Mom!). After two full days of snotting and wheezing and fevering, Nola seems to be back to normal and ready to show some leg, dairy be damned.

And [...]

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Absolutely Floored

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Matt

Nola’s attempts at walking have been very frequent, very nearly upright and often bruising. Now that she’s craving a faster method of transport than hands-and-knees motoring, her crawling has gotten quite rapid, too. Which means that every now and then she can’t keep up with herself and kersplats, face first, right into the floor.
We wanted [...]

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