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Was being 4.5 always this tough?

“Where are you going, Elijah?” I asked my son after he had gone to the bathroom. We were all sitting at the dinner table finishing our meal.
“I’m going upstairs,” he said with a hint of attitude.
“Elijah, we’re still eating dinner. Please come back to the table.”
“But I want to be ALONE!” he screamed at me.
Me, […]

Not more change

“You know, she did it again this morning,” Gem told me over the phone during the day yesterday. “She put her hand over the seat belt so I couldn’t unbuckle her and get her out of the car to go to school.”
“Again? What is going on with her?” It was more of a rhetorical question […]

My Friday morning at school

I’m off today so that I can go to my Okapis’ school and celebrate Shabbat with them. So I had a couple of hours with them this morning before I even took them to school. We had such a lovely time. We did some bird watching out back – despite the torrential downpour we are […]

Oh yes it was Daddy’s Night…Oh what a night!

Last night was Daddy’s Night at the Okapis’ school and it was really quite enjoyable. I’ve been meeting most of their school friends because of parties or the few times I have gotten to take them to school this year, but seeing them all in one place and meeting their dads – instead of their […]

Against everything I am trying to do

It was the most emotionally difficult moment as a parent, trying to be strong, but my guilt and empathy pushing tears out of my eyes. There is no way I can recreate the moment in words because the words didn’t matter as much as the intensity of our feelings, the sense of helplessness we both […]

It is his turn to shine now

Gem and I spent almost the first two years as a parent worrying about Elijah and whether or not he could measure up to Jordyn. She is so outgoing, so assertive, so seemingly confident and assured, and willing to take risks. She crawled first, walked first, spoke first. She can snap and whistle and has […]