A crazy killer walked into an elementary school today and killed 28 people, including 20 children and his mother. Facebook is teeming with comments from parents wanting nothing more than to hug their children tightly and let them know they love them.
Category Archives: Frazzled Working Mom’s Fleeting Moments (2007-2013)
Big Sister, Little Sister
Another video special from the archive, with the playful accompaniment of the Blues Brothers. Chloe, then six, acting silly while her adoring little sister, Sophie, not quite two, looks on in awe (and tries to keep up with her).
The 2012 Gingerbread House and Christmas Tree
Let the year-end festivities begin! We’ve been celebrating Hanukkah and decorated the Christmas tree. Grammy and the girls worked on this year’s gingerbread house, which is a real achievement. The terrific trio has greatly improved their gingerbread house building skills.
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Giddy-Up!
This walk down memory lane with the kids’ videos has been a blast. I wanted to post a video that included Chloe tonight, but I just couldn’t resist another Sophie special. In this clip, we caught her during her cowgirl mode, soon after she turned three in the fall of 2008. Take note of her precise diction and her pride.
We filmed her right around the time Nanny died. I was extremely sad during those difficult weeks, but the girls were always magically able to cheer me up. Having a little monkey like Sophie in the house was the perfect tonic.
Toddler Sophie Reads a Book
As mentioned in my previous blog post, I have rediscovered old Sophie and Chloe videos from years past. I found this clip from February 2009, when she 3+ years old, particularly amusing. Sophie is “reading” one of my thrillers (Faithless by Karin Slaughter) upside down. You can catch words here and there, but for the most part, Sophie’s talking nonsense and channeling Chloe’s voracious reading (she’s even sitting in Chloe’s preferred reading spot on the couch) and our nightly reading sessions with her.
Grammy’s Birthday and Sophie’s, Too!
“Do you know what day it is today?” Sophie excitedly asked me when we arrived home this evening. “Sure I do,” I responded, impressed that she remembered her grammy’s birthday.
Spending Time with Family
It’s been a lovely weekend – spending time with family, going to the movies (between the 10 of us on Friday, we saw “Skyfall,” “Lincoln,” “The Rise of the Guardians” and “Sessions”), doing sone local shopping and visiting the Museum of the Moving Image, a gem of a museum in Queens that has a little something for everyone.
What Makes Me Proud
We never got around to going around the dinner table to share what we were thankful for, because we were having too much fun eating.
But in the spirit of keeping Thanksgiving alive even though we stopped stuffing ourselves a couple of hours ago, following are a few of the things I’m thankful for this year (in no particular order).
The Gang’s All Here
Almost everyone, anyway. The rest of the gang will be at my mom’s tomorrow. In the meantime, my aunt and uncle from Ithaca are here and my mom, my brother and my sister-in-law joined us all for dinner.
Fall Leaves
It’s that time of year. It’s not fall if Sophie hasn’t had a go at a leaf pile. Enjoy her antics to the music from the soundtrack of “Les Triplettes de Belleville,” a terrific animated French film by Sylvain Chomet.
Ah, the joys of youth.