(Visit Sitting Around for more info: www.sittingaround.com) The price of babysitting is staggering. When I babysat as a teen (barely a decade ago), I remember earning $4 per hour – sometimes $5 if the family was feeling generous. When I first started searching for a sitter for my son just a few years ago, I…
Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Has rapidly risen to the top of the “Books that improve my quality of life” list. Recently, Gavin read the Eric Carle classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, at school. Upon finishing it, his 3-year old brain made the causal connection between eating lots of food and turning into, as he so eloquently puts it, “a…
My Parents Joined Facebook
In stumbling around the Internet, I came across a funny site entitled “Oh, Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.” I joined facebook in 2004, as a senior at Harvard (the school where the site originated). My member number (the order in which you joined the site, relative to everyone else) was in the hundreds. Facebook now…
