One of the good news/bad news things about living on a boat is that you’re really close to your neighbors. Often, this is cause for happy. Sometimes, not so much. I was sitting on the stern of my boat, chatting with two of my neighbors from another dock, when the two little girls (9 and [...]
Archive for the tag 'Rowan'
August 22 2010
What He Makes With the Legos — Habitat
This creation blew me away. He spent two days on it — days he was supposed to be sorting the rest of the legos, but apparently, it was far too fascinating to build with them instead. There’s an insane amount of detail going on here. He’s arranged the areas in the habitat by theme. It’s [...]
August 20 2010
Shorter Years
Today, I packed up all the diapers, to send them to my sister in law Ria, and her new baby Arianna. Aurora has been accident-free for ages now, and last week, decided that it was time for big girl panties. In fact, when we went to the beach and she got damp, necessitating a change [...]
August 12 2010
Sorting Legos
Remember those six crates of legos that Steven brought Rowan for his birthday? Remember the plan for sleeping on them? Not so much. After a great deal of discussion, not a little of it in the form of parental profanity when yet another piece got stepped on, we decided that a massive sorting effort was [...]
August 6 2010
Playing in the Sacramento River
Last year, we let Rowan and Kestrel go to Nana and Grandpa Allen’s for a week. Without us. It was a huge step for me, as a mother, to let my babies go, even to people who I knew were going to take fabulous care of them. But I also recognized that it was time [...]
July 25 2010
Rowan’s Eight — A Lego Birthday
Rowan is very nonchalant about his birthdays. He wanted a cake. Not three cakes like I made his brother, or two like his sister had. Just one. Vanilla, please. Nothing fancy, just cake. He wanted sushi. Just the regular order; he didn’t want, say four whole Lion King rolls to himself. No. Just the usual; [...]
July 18 2010
Stretching Wings
Children grow. It’s a fact. We know it, in our heads. Growing up is the natural thing, the expected thing, the process we’re supposed to encourage and support. But try telling it to my mommy heart. My mommy heart wants to hold him close and keep him safe and not let him out of my [...]
December 20 2009
A Marina Holiday
Yesterday was the Marina holiday party. It’s like that, when you have lots of chaos in your life; you have to wait for some sort of external motivation to do the decoration thing. Otherwise, your brain is saying “oh goodness, that looks and sounds like more work…” So. Considering that we live on a boat, [...]
December 8 2009
Sprouting
We eat a lot of sprouts, on this boat. Not only are they little nutritional powerhouses, but they’re yummy finger food, they lend themselves to recipes well, they’re easy to store in the tiny storage space available on a boat, and, well, they’re fun. Just recently, the Sproutpeople, my favorite supplier, ran a sale on [...]
January 6 2009
Beautiful
OK, I’m his mother, I’m biased, I get that. But is he not beautiful enough to break the heart? Jason just took these shots randomly the other day.
December 23 2008
I Want To Be Like You
As I’ve mentioned a time or two before, Aurora is growing fast. Way faster than her brothers did, mostly because she has them to look up to, and an intense motivation to catch up to them. I didn’t post the other day when she started crawling, but she is. It’s still not super-organized; more like, [...]
