Contrasts
Today was fairly nuts - not scary or health-threatending or anything truly nuts like that - but it rendered me mostly exhausted and bewildered and out of any “parenting - yay!” juice I might otherwise have. The morning brought a grocery trip for a week for a bunch of people with three kids in tow. Usually I have the luxury of only taking one kid (the eager one) on my weekly grocery trip. Today I had the “luxury” of making it more of a family affair. So much so that a man, who had been eyeing up our cacophonous procession from the other end of the aisle as we approached each other, uttered mostly under his breath as we finally passed: “Oh…you’ve got your hands full. Jeezus.” Then later that day, vaccinations for Anna. She has decided she does not like needles since the last nurse who gave her a needle told her to hold very still because we didn’t want the needle breaking off in her arm because of any squirming. Evidence of this dislike: near wall-shaking howling and screaming for a ...