You'll be sorry you asked.
Okay. I have received a nudge I haven't posted in 40 weeks or so. Lets see, how about a quick recap:
41 weeks ago: I was prod. mgr. in tech for a show called "Tall Grass" at Theater Row. The show was okay, at best: a vanity project for a wall streeter turned playwright whose style was kind of like SNL skit meets masterpeice theater. The staffing was kind of disastrous- snippy stage managers, unrealistic designers; bad attitude city- made better by the fact that our whole family was sick as dogs.
40 weeks ago: apparently, according to my calendar still in tech for Tall Grass- is this really possible? I guess so- no changes. see above. I do remember they had nice wifi available up in the upper lobby- so why wasn't I posting?
39 weeks ago: Pdt. Mgt Load in and Tech for another show: Fugue- total oppposite of TG. Well written show, established playwright. Great designers. easy staff. Easy load-in. dreams of Broadway before our eyes- unfortunately mediocre reviews.
38 Weeks ago: My in-laws anniversary, my mom and grandmother's bdays. I went to lunch with my mom for caviar as we have done for the past 10 years or so. It was just us this year. Nice little place on the second floor somewhere in the 50's on Madison. She always takes home a spoon as a keepsake, oh and she always pays. I provide the birthday wishes. We spent the weekend with friends in Vermont. Snow. Snow. Snow. We cross country skied- much to Lev's chagrin, we tried to drag him along in a sled thing. he pouted for about 3 hours straight. the next day we discovered that even though he was only 22 months old he could walk in snow shoes. He uttered what I will at least always recall as his first sentence- he said with a combination of spite and pride, "MAMA! LEV -SKI!"
37 weeks ago: I went to see the amazing Coast of utopia trilogy with my mom. 9 hours of Tom Stoppard on Russian intellectuals. Just my cup of tea. At the end you got a pin. I ran the Utopia marathon. It was really great theater for the most part. Some amazing visual images , engaging for the whole time. But in the end the ideas, which can be so annoying to some theater goers, as often with Stoppard, seemed to be a bit fleeting. I don't really have a solid sense of THE BIG IDEA 9 months later.
36 weeks ago: Normal week. D had school and variety of therapeutic interventions. L. caused trouble. I had an undoubtedly too long staff meeting for Tribeca project.
35 weeks ago: Seder. I hosted for the first time as a real grown-up- Mexican restaurant seder doesn't count. We got past the school's fifth disease scare- so our 2 pregnant guests could come. The lamb was well received. D did the four questions.
34 weeks ago: D started his soccer class with his preschool class. First week- not a rousing success. The beloved Wesley- the child he follows around to take all social cues from was not interested in playing, hence neither was Dashiell.
33 weeks ago: J and I went to the first open house regarding Kindergarten school applications for this year. Only 44 weeks or so until we find out where he's accepted. J promptly packs up and leaves for 6 weeks in Asia on Spongebob Sq. Pants Tour.
32 weeks ago: Nephew born in Pittsburgh: Harrison Augustus Kelson. healthy and happy mom and dad. In weeks to come he will be known for sporting an incredibly jaunty bouffant hairstyle. 2nd weeks of soccer- we ditch Wes and play with great glee. Attended an interesting panel at the preschool about talking to young children about death and dying. Kids get familiar with using "skype" to talk to daddy every morning. we explore concepts of sun and earth placement using a globe and flashlight to explain where Daddy is and why its always night there when its morning here.
31 weeks ago: Tribeca film and family festival. IT happens. Its big. I run around like a maniac but don't get too stressed by it anymore. Al my super hip children's musical act selections are big hit with all 300,000 people who attend on a glorious sunny day.
30 weeks ago: Went to a Yankees game with my Dad. It was fun. We went to a night game. I used to go to games with him all the time in Pgh. Haven't been much lately. I think I might prefer to see the Mets, but he prefers to see the yankees and honestly I just like sitting outside at night enjoying the atmosphere.
29 weeks ago: 30yo sister in law in Illinois suffers a ruptured brain anueryism. She survives and is air lifted to Madison wisconsin. Mayhem ensues in jay's family,and her family -their 3 kids are getting lost in the shuffle. Big concerns on everyone's part. Lev celebrates 2nd birthday. A lot going on, it was a little understated. Eh, he'll never remember.
28 weeks ago: I travel to Chicago on business, a weird drug company industrial thing and decide to take boys and nanny along so we can go in and help stabilize things for family in Illinois. We have 3 days in Chicago and then head off to be a 5 kid family for a week. We cook a lot of freezer meals, learn some new songs to sing in the car , discover that tupperware and underwear are a hilarious rhyme, Lev announces a bit too loudly and too often that he doesn' t like baby Ethan and for entirely different reasons we manage to piss off sister-in-law's crazy sisters - aggravating a family feud which ends in them calling father in law an old drunk. I send a poison pen email, which I should know better than to actually send, but do anyway. Children's welfare hangs in the balance in my opinion. Sister in law continues to recuperate, unfortunately not kept blithely unaware of fighting- which actually continues to this day.
27 weeks ago: Jay still away. Boys are used to it. I go to see a Neil Labute play with my friend Kelly- thankfully not directed by him. It was okay. We had a nice meal afterwards.
26 weeks ago: Jay returns from Malaysia and Singapore. Readjustment home just as hard as adjustment away. He is meanwhile preparing to leave again in a week and go be supportive of his brother in Illinois- see week 27.
25 weeks ago: Apparently I got lucky. We know so, because sperm fertilized egg and Hurricaine Keljan prepares to reach category 5 early next year.
24 weeks ago: Jay in Rockford all week painting brother and sister-in law's house. His family has this strange ritual of doing home improvements for people when catastrophe strikes. Sister in law is home form the hospital and doing well all things considered. I make clear my wishes to Jay if anything happens to me and I'm in the hospital, no members of his family are to come in and renovate our home in any way.
23 weeks ago: Surprisingly Jay is required to return to Asia on about 1 day's notice.
22 weeks ago: The boys and I celebrate the 4th as we have for the past few years on Robert's roof in Brooklyn heights. We are benevolently tolerated breeders at a party full of gay men and young theater types. we bring along a pregnant Alex and Howard for support. I do this weird event at Radio City- a nationwide Highschool and younger Dance competition thing. No I don't dance. I just Stage Manage.
21 weeks ago: I think Jay returns this week- its not in the calendar, but he did make it back sometime...
20 weeks ago: We went cabin camping in a trailer park near the Jersey shore. Lots of fun. we roasted marsh mellows, discover seagulls love goldfish crackers and go to the beach . On the way home we stopped by Philly to meet new niece, Georgia. Lev continues to show great love of babies- his only acknowledgement of her was, "Mama, put that baby down." Fun times ahead.
19 weeks ago: Travel with Alex overnight to Hershey Park to see Police reunion tour. It was Lame- though I thought it a bold ironic move on their part to put up slides of dinosaurs behind themselves while playing "walking in your footsteps." Oh well. We also ate bad diner food, but had a nice time 2 gals away for a night. no partying hardy though. We were both pg.
18 weeks ago: Some other family of Jay's comes to visit us- well they visit NYC, but we see a lot of them, Its fun. The boys love older girl cousins. It turns out Dashiell still hates art museums. I don't get it. He has no cultural expectation not to like them. I think he gets a little bit visually over-stimulated ad needs to check-out.
17 weeks ago: Jay paints our house, luckily no one is sick or anything- the boys and I have just decamped for 3 days at a friend's beach house in the hamptons. lah di dah. we are very classy. this is our plan from now on- it seems everyone who does have a beach house feels quite isolated once they're there and is just begging for guests; we can't help but oblige.
16 weeks ago: First sonogram and midwife's appt. Heartbeat is seen. All appears to be on track.
15 weeks ago: My whole family meets up for a week in St. Michael's Maryland. this is Dashiell's vacation. He informs Mindy when she misses a swimming app't with him, that he's only here for one week and if at all possible he hopes they can swim agian like last year. She figures out how to make it work with her own kids on a later date. Lev notices that Mindy has a baby- though he's seen her before- it appears to him to be the first time as he says with some surprise, "Aunt Mindy, you have a baby?!" We catch a lot of tasty blue crabs and cook them up and eat them. We go fishing and Dashiell gets the dreaded, "boat sickness"- we hve to return to shore for his equally boat sick Dad to pick him up. Otherwise a fun and relaxing week. Boys discover the joys of water balloons.
14 weeks ago: D begins his nueropsych evaluation needed to apply for any special needs schools/ use in our case against the board of ed regarding finding a proper placement for him. All still unclear what kind of school environment he needs. he's on the cusp small mainstream/sn. Its frustrating because he has no easily classified learning disability- he's able to decode and basically read and is a math whiz-perhaps too much so, but he still doesn't cope very well unaided in a classroom. Still language issues, but much more subtle than before.
13 weeks ago: Jay paints the bathroom as we escape to another lonely friends hospitality on Fire Island this time. I find Fire Island to be very amusing- kind of like getting away from it all for Nyers who don't really want to get away from NY. There are tons of houses close together. We run into about 7 other people we know. The big thing though i there are no cars allowed anywhere and kids run free in packs. Even the 4yo set has some freedom to walk down the road 2 houses to a friend's house alone- not exactly the typical NYC kid experience.
12 weeks ago: Back in the grind- sort of- no school yet for 2 more weeks. Weather is sucky. I work Ave Q alot. Boys start to go stir crazy.
11 weeks ago: More avenue Q, more boys with nothing to do, more rain rain rain. more fetal testing. All fine. Starting to tell more people about the baby, but not that into talking about it for some reason. I don't want the boys to know yet. thats one reason anyway. Too much lead time for them = unnecessary stress.
10 weeks ago: School starts finally. Lev goes 3 days. Adjusts like a champ. D is happy as a clam to be back- I notice the added stimulation takes his mind off of obsessive number topics like how you might count by 638s.
9 weeks ago: We start touring and being interviewed in earnest at schools. All the applications etc. are like a part-time job. I'm so over it already and its barely begun. we have to put on a brave face and go forward. Local zoned public not an option. I don't want to home school. Dashiell has a fun birthday party- 6 boys build robots. Its geek central. he loves it.
8 weeks ago: jay was supposed to change the water filter under the sink. Did he do it? I'll never know. Well I could figure it out. I also travel for another wierd medical industrial thing to Annaheim, CA. I spend almost as much time on planes as at the gig itself. Its fine. I come home.
7 weeks ago: We all get flu shots. Dashiell and I go to see a show at the New Vic. "Comet in Moominland" Its pretty fun- apparently a beloved book series from the 40's I've never heard of it but older British friend knows it well. Dash liked it, but was not happy with the ending- Comet just misses the earth and they didn't provide enough explanation for him as to WHY it didn't hit the earth. Luck wasn't cutting it for him as an answer. In the end he would only be satisfied by inventing answer for himself- obviously a spaceship came along and pulled the comet out of the way.
6 weeks ago: More school tours, interviews and visits.
5 weeks ago: We head to Vermont to meet our friends for our annual camping trip. Unfortunately the forecast is very bleak- freezing rain 100% certain for 2 days and I screwed up the reservation at the cabin- now we're going to be in a lean-to- so our friend chris improvises and we decide instead to pitch our tent in the deep dark woods across the field from his house. We sleep the first night in the rain- very peacefully then retreat to their cosy house for the day, go to a pumpkin patch and pick pumpkins, carve jack-o-lanterns and end up sleeping indoors the second night. We do roast marshmallows in a little fire pit Chris set up in the back yard. Sunday the weather clears and we go for a nice brisk hike.
4 weeks ago: We find out: ITS A GIRL! Take that other team. I will not spend the next 18 years drowning in too much testosterone- well okay i will, but I won't do it alone, I'll have a little estrogen on my side. Still haven't told the boys.
3 weeks ago: School interviews for us and D. I work an event for the Sundance channel. Jay and I prepare to travel together sans children to LA for 4 days for a wedding. LA trip is very relaxing and fun. We rent a car, eat when we want what we want. Try to sleep in despite the jet lag. Wedding is nice. We go to museums ;see a movie generally remember our pre-children existence in the city where we met.
2 weeks ago: Travel to Rockford for Thanksgiving. Kids have fun fun fun with cousins. No one sleeps right. Turkey day is quite relaxed. Jay helps build his parent's deck railing- which for some reason annoys his father. Because Jay's vowed to not return at x-mas again we do a weird rushed xmas the day after Thanksgiving thing which leaves no one but the, overloaded with gifts, children entirely happy.
Last week: Back to school and schedule. Lev got sick on Saturday. Dashiell's sense of the proper course of things was rewarded by and early december snowfall- jsut as it should be in his opinion. Somehow I messed up the weeks ending up with not enough weeks to get to the present- but I 'm sure nothing happened Nov. 12-17th and I think you get the drift anyway.
So thats me. Signing off- see you in 40 more weeks.
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