One of the things I wanted to know after Davey was born was what he would look like. I had barely a moment to gaze into his eyes before he was whisked off to the Special Care Nursery, then another too brief visit a few hours later when we were told for the first time […]

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I’m sitting here at my desk with a headful of L’Oreal Espresso hair color (shhh, our little secret), listening to Bob Dylan and Green Day on my mP3 player and trying to get my head in artist mode. In a few hours I will have my reception for my solo photography exhibit. This is my […]

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Do you really want me to write today? Because I must warn you that my thoughts are a tangle. I am trying to gather them up and have them make some sort of sense, to put them in some sort of order, but they keep slipping through my mental fingers. Here are the threads I am […]

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There are levels… layers… of adjustment.
Today we met with Davey’s school team — school director, regular pre-K teacher, sped teacher, therapists — to discuss his Kindergarten program for the coming year. The meeting went well, we all agreed on the type of program and support he needs. And he needs a lot. A year ago, […]

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Four kids, one stomach virus, five days.
A snowstorm on Monday that closed school.
A half day of school today.
Another possible snowday on Friday - to be determined.
A federal holiday on Monday.

Reinforcements arrive next Wednesday in the guise of a set of grandparents!

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Not literally today, of course. It’s a gray winter day in New England.
But hey, that’s ok today!
My photographs, all 23 of them, are mounted and matted and framed. They are offically ready to hang and tonight I drop them off at the gallery. Yesterday the curator sent me a copy of the press release and […]

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What ever happened to all that NaBloPoMo gumption? It has fled with the late autumn. We are in deep freeze here. The windows are frosted over so that all I can see is a white haze where usually is visible the barn and the pasture and the dark shapes of the horses milling around the […]

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I’m still here. Really, I am!
So much to pack into a short few weeks around here. Christmas of course and the aftermath of Christmas. Another five-day hunt for Davey’s glasses. We turned the house upside down. I think literally ripping the structure from the foundation was our next step - we’d looked everywhere else. Except…. […]

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For the first time EVER - and maybe for always - I am done with all major Clausing efforts before bedtime. Before the kid’s bedtime. Usually I, like countless other parents, am up into the wee hours watching tv and wrapping presents on the living room floor. Not this year. We have had a surprisingly […]

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There are 24 days in the Advent calendar. Twenty-four tiny bits of chocolate. There are four kids.
24 / 4 = 6
No fights, no squabbles, everyone gets the same amount.

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