Category Archives: grace

Why I Want My Kids to Be Child Actors

Posted on May 5, 2014 by yogamamame

I’m going to be honest here. There is nothing much fun about sitting through two-and-a-half hours of someone else’s elementary-school-aged kids performing in a low-budget production of a play designed specifically to be performed by elementary-school-aged kids. Yet there I sat … Continue reading →

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Take Me Out to Which Ball Game?

Posted on March 31, 2014 by yogamamame

Among the many things Spring says to me—spring break, and the final sprint to the end of the school year, and, mostly, utter and grateful relief for the end of winter, along with a soupcon of panic at the idea … Continue reading →

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Babies No More! Happy 5th Birthday to Lily

Posted on March 19, 2014 by yogamamame

Jake’s little sister arrived on Friday, proving that Friday the 13th isn’t so very unlucky after all.  *** Jake arrived home with his sitter on Saturday evening to give Mike and me both big hugs.  “Baby Lily,” he said sagely when … Continue reading →

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I Resolve Not to Resolve

Posted on January 6, 2014 by yogamamame

The plague of the exam in the class I haven’t attended all semester is looming large these days. The paper due in half an hour that I keep not writing because I am busy buying a new house. The locker … Continue reading →

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Tenacious

Posted on July 17, 2013 by yogamamame

I didn’t think she could do it. My tenacious little four-year-old decided to pass the deep end test at the JCC pool last night. And darned if she didn’t do it.

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Our First Ballet Recital

Posted on May 28, 2013 by yogamamame

Cute little four-year-old girls in pink tights and pink leotards and the closest approximation of a bun their mothers could manage, pink tutus bouncing as they scurry across the stage in pink ballet slippers. There was a time, not so … Continue reading →

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Sometimes You Don’t Get the Memo, Sometimes You Get It But Don’t Read It Very Carefully

Posted on May 13, 2013 by yogamamame

I was feeling, as the school year draws to an end, like I had done a pretty good job of insinuating myself into my son’s school. Jake’s only in kindergarten, but—and I don’t say this proudly because I know it … Continue reading →

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Lily Is Not a Morning Person

Posted on April 22, 2013 by yogamamame

Lily is not a morning person. I fully expect this to be as true twenty years from now as it is at this moment, when she is four years old and apt to act at any random time of the … Continue reading →

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Thank You. I Love You. I’m Sorry. Please Forgive Me.

Posted on January 16, 2013 by yogamamame

If you’ve been reading my posts regularly, you may have assumed that my long silence has been caused by a whining-three-and-a-half-year-old-induced fit of hysteria. You’d be close. The holidays held their own trials, with disrupted schedules, too much stimulation to … Continue reading →

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Sita, Ram, and Post-Election Relationships

Posted on November 7, 2012 by yogamamame

So a long, long time ago there was this chick, Sita, who opted for a totally forward-thinking way of choosing the guy she’ll marry.  She gets to sets the conditions. And being smart enough to choose the marriage-choice option that … Continue reading →

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