The Big News
The last few weeks have been nothing short of a blur. I haven't had a whiplash of feelings like this for a long time. I was ecstatic after Burt told me, wanting to yell it from the rooftops so that everyone at the fair could share in my excitement. I had to stop myself from calling everyone on my contact list. The next few days were spent looking up school districts to find the best school for our little bundle of joy who wasn't even here yet! It's like I had planned out their entire life--a Spanish immersion elementary school, followed by the only IB school in over 30 miles, Chinese in high school followed by music, and science and anything else that would help them succeed. But then, terror: school shootings are an unfortunate reality of today's educational landscape, and I'm helpless to help them. I wish with my being that it was possible to breastfeed because breast is best, but also formula is obscenely expensive. Since then, thoughts have trickled through ...