March 2012
2 posts
Separation anxiety
When we started preschool at the beginning of February, I was really worried that S would freak out when I left them there. So I spent the first 3 days of school with them, though I left the room quite a bit. And it was no big deal at all!
Then V got sick and everything changed. All of a sudden, my tough-as-nails, independent girl got separation anxiety and became painfully clingy. S, on the...
Bonus grandmother
My great-aunt Rosy died last week.
She married my grandmother’s brother but was also my grandfather’s sister, so she always felt like a bonus grandmother to me growing up. She and I shared a birthday, which made her even more special to me.
Her life would seem unremarkable to most, but she was amazing. She experienced more than her share of tragedy in her life, but she always...
