WTF is this half birthday business? I have no issue with families celebrating their kid’s anniversary of getting toe hair, if that’s what they want to, but do I really need to drag my not yet two year old to TWO birthday parties per child per year? So far explanations have been “in January you can’t do anything fun” (huh? I have a January birthday and we had tons of fun!) and “it’s just an excuse for cake” (can’t we have cake without the gifts/hats/etc. stuff?)
Maybe I’m just getting old and grumpy but you know? I’d rather just have a plain old barbeque or something and not tie in the birthday ritual stuff. I really wonder if it is a good idea to hype one’s child up for two birthday parties a year. And basically I just feel snarky about it.
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I took Noah on the GO Train yesterday, for the first time that he can actually remember. He’s super into trains right now, and I sort of have this goal to provide him with one groovy Toronto experience per week or so, so I thought: hey! trains!
He was a bit scared to get on the GO Train when it arrived and sadly I had folded up the Mac, so I kind of had to drag/lift him on. He would have been fine if the train would only have waited, say, 5-10 minutes at the station. :) But once he got over the indignity of it all he sat wide eyed, and after we got off (in the Beaches; I wasn’t quite up to going all the way downtown) he waved bye-bye with great enthusiasm and then talked about the train for the next two hours or so. So it was a success.
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I hired my nanny for a few extra hours today, which she has at the moment, so I can attack the “workshop” in the basement, which has turned into a pit of dust, junk, and I’m pretty sure a cat threw up under the workbench.
If it goes well I might do it again now and then (her time permitting) and not just for housework/work purposes. The reason for doing that room right now is that there are tools in there lying around unsafely, which worries me, and because Carl and I have been fighting about it since a month after we moved in, and I’m tired of it, and this way at least he takes a financial hit, because I am like that about this one. So today first I work and then I clear that room out.
All of which leads to my next post, which I will do as a break in a bit.
