We turned our backs for a second:
(looks like water is a them everywhere - we want neko to learn to swim like a fish too)
One year ago: moving quickly on the grass
Monthly Archive for May, 2010
Urban child rearing means (to me at least) having the best NY has to offer: museums, cultural gatherings, friends all over, music, deli on every corner, great food and on and on but it also means: stoops, hauling heavy child with tractor sized stroller on onto subway platform, food shopping 6 miles away and hauling said food up stairs, becoming friends with the UPS guy so he hides packages under the neighbor’s motorcycle awning (shhhhh). A huge help in the schlep less department has been diapers.com. No, I am not benefiting from this post, heck, I didn’t even get a coupon sent to me via email exulting what a loyal customer I have been.
It’s like buying cheese doodles in those giant plastic bins they sell at staples(yeah, i need printer paper and 80 lb of cheese doodles) - we never run out of creams, shampoo, diapers, plastic anything and even boogie wipes (never used these but the concept seems intriguing).
Neko obviously appreciates the monster boxes arriving, on cue, on the 4th of every month. she spends an awful lot of time just climbing in and out and often begs us to push her around like go carts….who needs hand crafted wooden gems when we got cardboard?
One year ago: eating out
I did it
I hit lots of walls - not the kind made of cement block, but the kind in my head made of blisters, heat exhaustion and that little voice nagging ‘quit’. The one thing that kept me going, kept my feet moving in the intense heat and knee aches was neko and peter. The thought of them at the finish line, and the idea that I was doing this crazy thing for her, for my daughter, that one day I could tell her, that yes, you can do anything if you just try, and try hard….I got across the 26.2 mile mark with my two biggest fans standing there:
I love you Peter and Neko for allowing me to do this!
Plus I love Anna, Hiva and Kristin for pushing me this whole season and getting me through this…..let’s run more!
One year ago: family fest in Miami