The one thing you can never say to my kindergartener in the morning is “Hurry up.” Well, that and “We’re late.” Saying either of those things will immediately result in a complete meltdown of a crying fit and then you will never get anywhere. What is required is a delicate dance of getting the child […]
Category Archives: Ruby
Ruby The Christmas Sheep
Ruby was very excited to be in the Christmas pageant at church on Sunday afternoon. Since she is in kindergarten her role was a small one, but she took it very seriously. The younger kids were to play animals at the manger scene, and sing the first verse of “Away in a Manger” all by […]
Gingerbread House Making Party
Some time ago, a year? two years? my wife discovered a blog wherein an annual tradition was described. This family held a gingerbread house making party every year, and we have been talking about doing one ever since. This year we finally got our act together and put one on. Six houses, six families, two […]
How I Killed Magic: The Polar Express
Every year in Vermont (and possibly other places too), The Vermont Children’s Trust Foundation puts together a ridiculously awesome holiday experience known as “The Polar Express.” The event is based on the now-classic children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg, and not really based on the creepy and weird, but for some reason now also classic, […]
New Adventures in Medication
Well, it’s official. Ruby’s epilepsy medication is not working. We’re switching to something new. I don’t know if it will work, but at least it feels like we are doing something. The neurologist gave us two choices. One medication has a slightly higher rate of success, but far more side effects, and the other still […]
My First Ambulance Ride
If you know me, or read any of my posts, you may know that I generally try to use humor to deal with stuff. Part defense mechanism, and part grease on the wheels of life, I try very hard to see the humor or the absurd in any given situation. If I can laugh at, […]
A Visit to the Neurologist
Two weeks ago, as many of you know, we started a very scary couple of days here with regards to my daughter’s epilepsy. Ruby, who is five years old, had three very long seizures within a four and a half day period, sending us to the emergency room and freaking us completely out. Since then, […]
Emergency Rooms, Bacon, and Chocolate Pudding
This is not what I wanted to write about today. I wanted to tell you about my trip to New York for auditions, the Halloween party that I went to, impending storm stuff, or pretty much anything else but my daughter’s health issues. Sadly, that is all I have been dealing with for the past […]
Wednesday Night in the E.R.
Last night we went to a party at a farm. It was promising to be a really fun night, with tons of delicious looking food to eat (lobster!) and good friends to talk to. My five year old daughter Ruby was off playing with one of her friends and my wife and I enjoyed some […]
The Perspective Provided By School Pictures
It’s always weird to go back and look at old pictures and try to reconcile how you remember feeling at the time the picture was taken with what the actual image says to you now. I see my high school graduation photos and remember thinking how old and grown-up I felt, like I was ready […]