@Hilary- thanks so much for your kind comment! I’m so glad you enjoyed my books. As for finding sitters, we’ve used either Care.com or a job board at a local university. Also, sometimes existing sitters have friends who are looking for gigs. But yeah, it’s all about managing the pipeline. Because people are great, and then they graduate, or get different jobs that require evening hours, etc.

And congrats on #3 on the way!

@Katherine – or when the baby crawls over and licks the stroller tires. That’s a personal favorite of mine.

@Griffin – humorously, my daughter actually put her cut off hair in the trash can. It was nice that she at least cleaned up after herself. Now she’s been saying “next time I want a hair cut, I should tell you first and you’ll take me to the barbershop.” I guess she learned!

@Catherine – oh, fun. At least my daughter’s cut could be turned into something passably normal. It could be worse!

(And glad you’re feeling well enough to be reading blogs!)

We have only had one haircut experience here but I know there will be more. It feels like a parenting rite of passage. Like when you see the marker on the sofa, or your newly-walking one year old playing in the toilet water. (Happened this morning).