The scene: Max and I are watching ‘Casper The Friendly Ghost’ on TV (with a monotonous Polish voice-over guy to boot). Some huge green ghost with red eyes and a James Earl Jones-esque kind of voice shows up and starts terrorising all the uber-nice ghosties.
Me: Wow! That green ghost is scary!
Max: Do you think so?
Me: [...]
You’d think that someone who has moved countries and continents as often as I have would just have some kind of in-built ‘editing my stuff’ system, wouldn’t you? I know I keep meaning to install such a system, because every time I have to pack up my whole damn life (again) and stack the boxes [...]
So last week, Ewa picked up Max from play school, and so naturally, Alex came along too. Turns out that Max was exhausted that day – whatever they did to him on Thursday, I hope they do it more, because he dropped like a stone that night and slept like one too – and so [...]
Ooooh, here, Mommy! Here! For you! I love sharing. Especially a delicious crispy corn puff thing that has the consistency and flavour of styrofoam at the best of times, but which I have dropped on the floor (only twice, though), and stomped on and slobbered all over and gnawed on and which now has the [...]
I must admit that for about a year, I have felt a teensy bit of anxiety about Max watching TV and DVDs. I mean, I feel on some deep level, way way down in my gut, that sitting on their butts and watching moving pictures is not the most stimulating or challenging way for kids [...]
As Max plays quietly in the background – filling a plastic boat up with sand and dumping it out again, all the while talking to ‘Boaty’ about his life – Alex looks down at the pieces of grass on his hand and thinks, “Huh. Is this stuff edible?”
You get one guess what happened to that [...]
By rights, the next two photos should be of Alex doing a dramatic roll and an eventual face-plant, but Piotr is a very good father, the kind who puts down the camera to help and comfort his kid as opposed to taking a photo of a screaming baby spitting sand.
Damn, though. I really think it [...]
It is a source of never-ending confusion for me that Poland doesn’t celebrate Halloween (I know, right?), but I feel that they more than make up for this by celebrating a little something called ‘Karnawał’ (Carnival). This is nothing less than a no-hands-barred, blow-out, lampshade-on-the-head nationally-recognised spring PAAARTAY just before Lent and Easter. I think [...]
Shucks, y’all.
I have received 6 e-mails from people, saying they’ve noticed I haven’t blogged for a couple of days and asking me if I’m OK. Thanks!
Nothing wrong over here with US at all; sadly, the same could not be said about the computer. Don’t ask me to get all technical but something froze and then [...]
The background: this is a conversation had as Max and I walked home from his playschool yesterday; the challenge was trying to avoid all the huge puddles that have formed as the massive snowbanks have started to melt.
The event that began the conversation: Max walks through another puddle, this one up to his ankles.
Me: “Maksiu! [...]
