Snow....and A Tricky Fellow

Man our alley seems long when it's covered with snow.....and no snowplow.  Ernie dug the Honda out though. Then I watched supportively while some he and some neighbors pushed out a stuck card down the block and happily went back inside.  Being in the house I hadn't realized quite how bad it was so I was happy I ventured out just enough to make me appreciate the warmth inside!

A pretty quiet snow day.....lots of reading....a good episode of the Gilmore Girls....great dinner and a hell of a fire built by Owen.

Leo is proud of his Lego sign (he based it on the Hollywood sign), and rightfully so. I think it's quite striking.

 

I got an email from my beloved Sarah Eckhardt the other day.  She is finishing up her dissertation and listening to some of the taped interviews she did with Hedda Sterne.  She sent me this quote she thought I might enjoy:

At work, at the museum, Josef’s assistant, Cynthia, has a really wonderful child.  His name is Leo and he’s three and a half.  I keep track of what he says because I tell everybody stories about her son.  He says wonderful things.  Like they were driving and he was upset because it was dark and he kept saying, “Turn the lights back on!  Somebody turn the sky back on!”  When the fireworks went off at Fourth of July he was very scared and he thought the sky was breaking and so Cynthia told him it was ok to go to bed because his dad would fix it overnight and in the morning he remembered and said, “Daddy fixed the sky!  Daddy fixed the sky!”  And he was running all over the house.  He is very smart.  He is a very smart child.

It made me laugh and cry a bit at the same time---because I realize how much you forget---and it made me wish I'd started this blog long before I did.  Once in awhile I go back and read old bits of it and I'm amazed....amazed at how long ago it's been since I started writing this.... and how things have changed for better and worse.  Time is an awfully tricky fellow.