I was baking gingerbread men. It was my three-year-old’s idea, but his 13-year-old brother thought it would be a great thing to have on his own birthday the next day. I had to go out and buy the cookie-cutters because, at the age of 40 and as the mother of five sons, I am ashamed...
April will be long over when you read this, but what an amazingly fecund 30 days it was this year. April was “Child Abuse Prevention Month.” The first week of April was “Read Aloud Week,” the last week was National Library Week, the 28th was “Take Our Daughters to Work Day” (which was very hard...