Monthly Archives: January 2011

Small Graces

After giving Katherine’s winter hat up for lost we discovered it neatly draped over a fence post in the parks this morning.  Someone had apparently reclaimed it from wherever Katherine had thrown it on a recent walk with Sydney, and … Continue reading

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Quite the dinner

I’m a sucker for new pizza ideas, and the other day Sydney and I stumbled across one that sounded great.  For those of you who are in the Ithaca area, it comes from Hazelnut Kitchen, a great local-foods restaurant in … Continue reading

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Making the midwife laugh

My first appointment with the midwife was, to put it mildly, confusing: lots of terms I had trouble translating, lots of confusion about what’s standard both here and in the States.  And she frowned and said, “you’re small” when measuring … Continue reading

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Not out of the woods

I thought that maybe this time around we could do away with most of the gadgets that come with children.  We already worked through the trials of finding a stroller (my workhorse!), and we have no need for a carseat … Continue reading

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We’ve reemerged

With the unwieldy slush gone and the worst of the flu behind us, we’ve reemerged from the house. Sydney made the mistake of going out birdwatching without cleaning up (he’d been holed up on the top floor, working hard for … Continue reading

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