A Thank-You To Daycare
Tomorrow is Claire’s last day at daycare. We’ve been with this daycare for almost six years; Robbie started when he was nine months old, in September 2018, and he and Claire overlapped for a few months before he moved on to preK-3.
I’m not going to delve into the bowels of Reddit or conservative parenting blogs to find exact quotes from people who think that sending a child to daycare is tantamount to abuse, but one I remember seeing repeatedly over the years is “Well, I could never let someone else raise my child.”
Our Approach to Extra-Curriculars
… So there we have it: our approach to our kids’ extracurriculars. Look, who knows what we’ll do if Robbie or Claire shows a real aptitude for a sport and wants to pursue it intensely. But that’s not something we want to encourage at these ages, so we’ll not worry about it unless or until we get there.
Dining Tables for our Post-Reno Dining Room
Just before we moved from our apartment into this house, we bought a very stylish Crate and Barrel Parsons dining table with black steel legs and a glass top from a friend ready for something new. It is, it turns out, not a great table when you have young kids; while the top is easy to wipe clean, every spill seeps and every crumb dives into gap between the top of the frame and the glass.
I can’t wait to pass it on to its next owner.
Empties: Candle Edition
I’ve always wanted to be a candle person: you know, the kind who always has a flame flickering in a pretty jar on her kitchen counter and whose home smells recognizably welcoming.
But it turns out I don’t actually like most candle scents (in my own house, at least)…
So You’re Expecting Your First Child
If the women who post prolifically on the internet - Instagram and Reddit in particular - are representative of most pregnant women and mothers across the country, I have had a very unusual last seven years.