we were at the zoo recently and the volunteer gentleman manning the kangaroo zone told me all about how kangaroo babies come out super undeveloped and somehow burrow their way up from the mom’s baby hole to her pouch and live for months in there, suckling constantly on 1 of her 4 teets and how …
Month: November 2013
before there was reality TV, filming the insane life of a huge family with …what is it? 19 kids now?…there was my great-grandmother, Alda, in the early 1900’s. she had 17 children,(singleton births) and raised them in a 3 bedroom house in the city. on a pretty meager income, i understand. i believe that 16 …
most of the time, i’m worried about how my parenting will, inadvertently, forever traumatize my child. i mean, clearly, i will miss something, and he’ll end up in expensive therapy. but tonight, it was we who were traumatized. (us? we? i’m sticking with ‘we’ because wee is part of this tale). first- diarrhea at swim …
sorry, it’s been 10 years since i’ve caught up on here. things are going great! just super busy. home, work, traveling every weekend, busy, busy, busy. henry is marvelous. funny and precocious and learning and sharing new things every day. he had a crazy fun halloween and now wants to dress up in his costume …