We Go With Him

Charlie really wanted to go meet Jim at the train last night. Then he insisted on standing on the platform for the New York-bound train,... Read more →

We inevitably settle into a routine and the one for these winter weekends seems to ever to start with Charlie waking up at the perfect... Read more →

An exchange with a friend on Facebook left me unable to resist looking up this Christmas show of childhood memories past: I had forgotten that... Read more →

Night + snow = a very changed landscape. Read more →

As you may have heard, we got a lot of snow on the East Coast here overnight on Thursday, and woke up to the view... Read more →

It wasn't even 5am when we heard Charlie's voice on Wednesday morning. After a (quite short) while, he was up and dressed and clomping in... Read more →

Yes, the shoveling thing again, last evening. I have to say again, Charlie's way of shoveling snow has that uniquely Charlie-esque quality to it. It's... Read more →

I guess the big news Monday was that the temperature went from 11, to 9, to 8, to 7 and down to 6 degrees Fahrenheit... Read more →

It was 18 - 21 degrees on Sunday here in north-central New Jersey and Charlie showed that he can be some runner. In the morning... Read more →

At our appointment two weeks ago, the neurologist increased the dosage of one of Charlie's medications just a bit. Previous attempts to change his meds... Read more →

Friday afternoon, Charlie got off the bus after school (there had been snow the previous night but not a lot, so there was a Delayed... Read more →

Charlie in the fall of 1998, when he attended a daycare center on the campus of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, where... Read more →

Whoever was driving the large truck above did not calculate correctly as to how far he could get before having to stop. Ahead of the... Read more →

Happily, the call I got at 5.30am Tuesday from Charlie's school was for a 'delayed opening' rather than an all-out snow day. School started at... Read more →

Not another snow day on Tuesday after the one last Wednesday and the three-day weekend in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! There is... Read more →

Yes, it was to the beach again for us on Sunday and how not, with temperatures in the low 30s, warm if faint sun, Charlie... Read more →

Saturday we went down to the beach and, as I am especially happy to report after Jim's and Charlie's aborted ride last Sunday, they did... Read more →

It was both a usual kind of day for us yesterday and a not so usual day, in the very best of ways. Despite taking... Read more →

Charlie woke up just around 7.30am on Thursday and was ready to go by 5 minutes to 8am. He had a good ride up to... Read more →

I don't mind snow---I far prefer being cold and piling on sweaters and scarves to sweating it out under the simmering summer sun---but I can... Read more →