It’s been seven months since we’ve moved back and we are still house-hunting. By now, we’ve probably toured over thirty houses, a third of them decrepit tear-downs, a third outrageously overpriced flips, and a third that were in decent or even great shape, but location-wise, not where we wanted to plant our cosmopolitan toes.
Last week however, we found a flip that we actually liked.
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I’d just signed Artie out at pickup when his after school teacher, a young woman named Miss Bai, came up to me.
“Arthur is so cute,” she said. I relaxed a little bit. These short exchanges during pickup are often when she provides feedback – most of which is positive: “Arthur played very well today, not too rough.” Or, “Arthur spent most of his free play time coloring in. He likes cars, especially fast, expensive ones, so you could also print some coloring sheets out at home for him.” But sometimes she’ll tell me that he did, albeit unintentionally, play too rough with some unfortunate classmate or that he had a harder time than usual keeping his fingers out of his mouth.
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