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Monday, January 31, 2005

OK, so we were first-time parents once, too.

The pediatrician sent us home from the hospital with charts to keep track of the input : output ratios for each child, so we faithfully kept track of each feeding, nap, diaper change, etc. as if the kids' little lives depended on it. And, to be honest, we do have a geeky weakness for data collection.

Indeed, we kept it up for quite a while, since it was a handy way to make sure that both kids got their fair share. Parents of newborn twins are so massively sleep-deprived that a concrete written reminder that neither child has been neglected in the last few hours was mighty reassuring.

But this is just ... staggering.
8:41:00 PM

Thursday, January 27, 2005

The first lines of Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer:
Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
A wonderfully unseasonal escape from this week's daily routine of multiple hours shoveling through hip-deep drifts, and tossing snow up and over hand-built eight foot banks.

Highly recommended.
11:14:00 AM

Monday, January 03, 2005

Recently the kids successfully persuaded Kathy to give them each four pennies because they are four years old. They were delighted with their success, and the following conversation ensued:
Bryn: Mommy, when we’re 14, can you give us 14 pennies?

Kathy: Yes.

Maya: Then we can pay for college.
Would it were true!
2:49:00 PM

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