Serendib Parenting

She kindly posed with her brother so Kev could take a picture for me.

We’re doing an extended birthday celebration for Anand over the next few weeks, due to circumstances (mostly Mommy having a bad cold, and also being out of town helping my parents next weekend). We’re going to do an escape room in a few weeks, for example. But he did get a few presents yesterday —

First day of sophomore year, high school. I set an alarm to make sure I got up in time to get Kavi breakfast, if needed, but she’d already made plans to meet up with friends at a coffeeshop for breakfast, which is even better. She went off smiling and happy; hope every day of school

Just some pics of morning Anand, who is very excited that there are only a few weeks left of school. Is it a little disheartening for a teacher to see how much her child wants teaching to stop? Maybe a little! At age 12 and 3/4, he is getting taller and his voice is deeper,

It’s Kavi’s 15th birthday today, so I made her bombatoast for breakfast. She ate two pieces, which I consider a triumph since on school days she tends to run out the door without breakfast despite all my pleading. Kavi is the best daughter (yes, yes, I know many of you think you have the best

I had a supplemental board-related meeting at OPRF at 3:30 yesterday, except that it got cancelled and rescheduled for next week, so I ended up with some free time there, and I’d offered Kavi a ride home from school, sparing her a 30-minute walk home in close to 90F weather, so I collected her. Then

This Mother’s Day, I’m thinking about how much harder it will be to keep my daughter safe if Roe is overturned. I wanted very badly to be a parent, and I’m so glad I had the opportunity. But I’m also glad and grateful that I got to become a parent when I chose, at age