I'm too old for this

I think I give up to easily. No, not YOU. YOU are an unbelievably together person, firm in your convictions yet gentle in their application. Your opinions are the result of careful thought, and, while they are mature and balanced, you do not shrink from revising them in the light of an unexpected perspective.

But enough about you.

J and I girded ourselves for the usual scream-fest accompanying every holiday, when we announce a visit to the barber. The weeping, the wailing, the gnashing of teeth, yada yada yada. Same old same old. (They actually walk around with their hands over their hair, holding it on. I ask you. What I want is 'OK', what I get is I Pagliacci.) Kit announced VERY FIRMLY was he was NOT going to get his hair cut.

'OK', we said.

No backbone. None.

We just got back from IKEA, where we got rugs'n'magazine holders'n'glasses'n' paper napkins. We went there to get boxes with lids. There were piles of boxes. Not a lid to be found. Not even for ready money. And fascinating though every small detail of our visit to the Swedish Inferno is, it is the ideal opportunity to share this with you .




And finally, don't you just LOVE how BRILLIANT middle children are? So intelligent, so good-looking, so versatile, so talented. You meet one and you just know you are in for a good time. Some of my VERY BEST FRIENDS are middle children.