Ruby’s birthday started off with a bang yesterday as we arrived at school to find that the place had been ransacked by leprechauns. Despite the leprechaun traps placed all over the school, the entire building was covered with little green footprints. The water had all turned green. Chairs were tipped over, books were upside down, […]
Category Archives: Ruby
To Ruby on Her Fifth Birthday
Dear Ruby, You are turning five today. Seeing as how you can’t read yet (almost!), I assume that you are reading this at an age older than five. Thinking back to my own parents and my own childhood, the thing that I wish the most is that I could go back and talk to my […]
Four No More
Today is the last day that Ruby will ever be four years old. That’s it. The end. Finito. Bye bye. No re-dos, no do-overs. Hope you enjoyed it, ’cause it’s gone forever. At least that’s how I am looking at it. She is quite excited. The problem with kids is that they want to grow […]
The Best Time For Bad Guys
As we were driving home from preschool yesterday, Ruby and I had this conversation: Ruby: “I think the best time for bad guys to come out is at night, right?” Me: “Yes, because it is dark, so people can’t see them, I guess.” Ruby: “Well, I have a nightlight in my room, so when I […]
Pop Lyrics as Filtered Through a Pre-Schooler
We listen to the radio a lot in the car. We listen to kids songs on the iPod as well, but as often as not we are tuned to a pop music station. Sometimes I worry that the lyrics are not appropriate for my children, but when I actually stop to listen to how they […]
Ruby Plays “Wedding”
An actual conversation I had with my four-year-old yesterday: Me: How was school today? Ruby: Good. Me: What did you do? Ruby: Oh, I played wedding. Me: (suddenly terrified) You did? Ruby: Yes. Me: And how do you play wedding? Ruby: Well, you just have a wedding silly! Me: I see. And who did you […]
How to Be Happier
Simone and I read a study once that said that throughout a wide variety of tests they had only found one surefire way to increase happiness. I’ll give you a hint, it didn’t include making more money. It didn’t even include spending more time with friends and family or achieving your goals. According to this […]
The Funniest Thing About Girls
As Ruby was getting ready for school today, she was very insistent that she wear a dress and tights instead of a shirt and pants. I don’t really care about that, so we picked out a nice warm winter dress and some (I think) matching tights. When we arrived at school, one of the other […]
The Roof Collapsed, and Other Problems
Ruby is going on a field trip today. Normally this would be very exciting (and in fact, it is very exciting to her), but the field trip is to the sister school a few towns over, and the reason for the field trip is that the roof collapsed. Tuesday morning we drove up to the […]
Cookies S01E04 – Cornflake Wreaths
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! This is my last posting before the big event, and so I would like to leave you with this gift: a special Christmas episode of “Cookies.” In reality, Ruby and I made several types of cookies this Christmas, including several batches of caramel bars, candy cane cookies, peanut butter […]