Hello again

It’s been a while! My site has fallen majorly by the wayside which both feels appropriate (see first point below) and makes me a bit sad. There’s a lot I’ve already forgotten. I want to analyze a bit more why I haven’t been posting… but that’s something I need to think a bit more about first.

A few notes to catch up on major points, and then hopefully back to posting semi-regularly.

1. Most importantly: We have a new family member, AB! See this post for more on that experience. Three months out, we have a happy, healthy baby girl keeping us busy. I think the thing she finds most entertaining besides me twirling my hair (?!) is her brother BB dancing and jumping around with his stuffed animals or Duplo inventions. Someone once told us that one is an existential reckoning, and two is a logistical reckoning. We are finding that extremely true. (What is three? …A political reckoning? Not planning to find out, lol.)

2. Also important, meant to mention a while ago: I’ve been full time with the Eames Institute since earlier this year. 🎉 Random, but I came across the Ishinomaki Bench via this article in EI’s Kazaam! magazine. Could be a really nice one to make.

3. Exciting stuff: We’re in the middle of buying our first place, a coop in our current neighborhood. Board interview is the next step. 🤞 Sam has actually already met the other members (it’s a small building) and they seem great, so hopefully it’s straightforward.

4. Also, this blog’s 10 year anniversary came and went in June. I had ambitions of publishing it in some print-on-demand format to mark the occasion, but alas. I’d still love to do it, some day.

Lots of other things happening too. BB is getting so big, he is just loooooong. Such a smart kid, and so much like Sam. Still a toddler, so of course there are toddler-specific situations to deal with. The book “How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen” has been super helpful in that regard.

Tomorrow is Halloween. BB is going to be a red dragon (“Ooh, can you roar? Can you breathe fire?” “No! That not part of the costume.”), AB is a skeleton (at BB’s request), Sam is a werewolf (or werebear? BB is pretty sure he’s a bear, and he is the authority after all), and I’m a witch. We carved our pumpkins last weekend. One is a cat, specifically our neighbor’s cat Nabu, and the other is most definitely a happy jack-o-lantern. NOT a scary pumpkin, at BB’s insistence.

Pic above is a dragonfly on the fence around the flamingo pond at the Bronx Zoo. BB got a big kick out of using the binoculars, usually the wrong way round, and of showing his snake stuffed animal to the python in the reptile house.