Comments on: Once Upon a Snowy Afternoon

By: Whose Dream Is It Anyways?

Whose Dream Is It Anyways? — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:30:33 +0000

[...] purple book of Virgil’s Aeneid that I used in high school, I am as elated, as happy, as ever spending a snowy day doing small household chores. Life with Charlie—-life raising a child, perhaps—is about seeing what are his own [...]

By: Marla

Marla — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:45:35 +0000

Sounds like a great afternoon! Thanks for sharing it with us. We go through the same thing when we don’t have an evening run smoothly. Lots of repeating, panic and then big melt downs. Not fun!

By: Regan

Regan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:57:59 +0000

Kristina–this is a keeper.
Thank you for sharing your and Charlie’s snowy day.

By: gretchen

gretchen — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:46:22 +0000

These are my favorite kind of posts Kristina- a day in the life of Charlie and his mom. He’s becoming such a big helper!

By: Niksmom

Niksmom — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:48:51 +0000

Sounds like a wonderful afternoon spent simply being together and enjoying life. You can always practice writing his name on a worksheet another time but the moments you shared yesterday are priceless.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:45:33 +0000

In Charlie’s case, I think it is because he considers the first Barney DVD or CD or video or cassette as what Barney is—the others aren’t that “archetypal” idea of Barney. His favorites were the older, original videos, with simple sets and not a lot of special effects.

By: athina

athina — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:18:36 +0000

“…with Charlie always requesting to buy the ones we already had…”. My son does the same, too. Why do they do that?

By: Leanne

Leanne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:51:52 +0000

I could picture Charlie’s “spring roll” and his grin.:) Thanks for that.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:07:45 +0000

It sounded enjoyable! It snowed here in Mass as well, and I wrote a little bit about that. It’s fun because, unlike in Reno, the snow came when it was somewhat suppoesed to (Reno usually gets snow only by January, and even then erratically; one year it’s six feet, another it’s half an inch).

On the tangential note, I remember when I asked about spring rolls/summer rolls/eggrolls in the past, it was complicated. Summer rolls aren’t fried, though they incorrectly get frequently called spring rolls. The difference between egg rolls and spring rolls is slight, if anything; both are fried, use egg, are are filled similarly. I think that egg rolls are traditionally larger and have more filling, but the terms are used interchangeably.

Cliff

By: Autismville

Autismville — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:04:44 +0000

Jack doesn’t do well with unstructured time, but of course neither do I. Thank you for sharing such a lovely visual of your snowy afternoon…