Category: Curie

It has been a filled month, Erin starts a new job soon, it looks like we are buying a house, Albert has budgets and a Board meeting, Erin has a Board meeting for her old job and one for her new job. As stressful as it gets, being mindful of family always helps. Even then, we worry about reading, and school, and sleep, and calcium, and screen time and everything else that comes with parenting.

The kids are excited about the new house, and we have tried to keep up with things to do as the weather starts to warm. We began our month with Easter at Pinstripes, which was too expensive again, and went to the river to do an Easter egg hunt with Isabella’s family. Continue reading “Curie April 2018”

Curie continues to grow and become more sophisticated. She is in size 6 at this point and can think of the wind as God. She wants to be a to be a scientist or a chef, loves showing Elia how to do things and is proud of her sister when she can do the things that she taught.  She is trying very hard to be helpful and is generally so unless she is tired or Elia has taken something away, or she wants something Elia has. Her drawing has become more sophisticated too with her learning to draw giant eyes with sparkles in them like in anime or manga and will ask you if you want her to draw your picture with both eyes open or winking (the picture, not her while she is drawing. While drawing with Albert, they worked through the proportions of a face and she took to it very quickly (as did Elia).  Continue reading “Curie March 2018”

The months go by faster and faster it seems. Within a blink of an eye both girls are growing and learning and it is crazy to think that just a while ago both were babies. In February, we celebrated Erin’s birthday and Valentines Day, and while we decided not to celebrate Valentine’s Day between us, for the kids we buy big heart boxes of chocolate and extra flowers in addition the ones sent to work so that the girls have some at home. Both girls are so excited to plan and celebrate that they forget that you want to surprise at times. This means getting more gifts and chocolate making it a month-long celebration. Nothing wrong with that. Continue reading “Curie February 2018”

There is a constant anxiety in raising kids, whether it is reading, or the dentist, or screen time or bullying or any of it. In recent days, it has felt like there is always something, and unlike embracing milestones as when the kids were smaller, it is like waiting for the other shoe to drop. The best thing to do is to treat them like the milestones they are, but with the stress wearing from work, and life, there is a wearing down, of feeling run down so that it is not as easy to cope with the new issues. Other parents must feel the same way, there are memes and stories on Facebook and anecdotes from other parents that parallel our experience, but like adolescence, it feels like it is unique to you and makes you feel very lonely. All of this is more than balanced out by the joy of your child’s hug or desire to be with you, but it would be remiss if we did not document the challenges as well. Continue reading “Curie January 2018”

The problem about getting behind in writing is not remembering everything that happened in the month and resisting writing what happened after that month. We also did many things that have already been documented in December,. Disney World in particular was a great experience for the girls and though Curie couldn’t ride Star Tours again (it was in a different theme park than the ones we went to) she did get to meet princesses and ride other rides. The pearl she got was particularly special, as was the bubble wands that Alice and Derek graciously bought for the girls.  Continue reading “Curie December 2017”