Baruch Shepatrani
The baby is done with diapers. Nine years of diapering kids might not seem like a long time to families with 11 kids, but for me, it is enough.
It is a strange feeling when you do things that you don't believe you will ever do again. Like taking apart the crib, changing the last diaper, and giving away the high chair.
It is strange, but it is not sad. Last night I was watching Miracle, and Hubie Brooks brought in a new player late in the movie as a possible replacement for one of the guys on the team. The guys had a meeting with the coach, and told him they did not want the new guy on the team, since he hadn't been there since the beginning, working every day.
The coach asked the guys why they shouldn't keep the new guy, and one of the players responded, Because we're a family. Coach asked if this was the family the team wanted to go to Lake Placid with. Absolutely, the players told him.
Its similar with us. We look at the family, and ask, is this the family we want move on with. And its an absolute yes. There isn't another available roster spot, at least not for another 12-15 years.
So we give away the baby clothes, and the baby toys, and the baby sheets and blankets and bibs.
And we hope that we never find ourself asking what happened to that 99.7% effective rate...
It is a strange feeling when you do things that you don't believe you will ever do again. Like taking apart the crib, changing the last diaper, and giving away the high chair.
It is strange, but it is not sad. Last night I was watching Miracle, and Hubie Brooks brought in a new player late in the movie as a possible replacement for one of the guys on the team. The guys had a meeting with the coach, and told him they did not want the new guy on the team, since he hadn't been there since the beginning, working every day.
The coach asked the guys why they shouldn't keep the new guy, and one of the players responded, Because we're a family. Coach asked if this was the family the team wanted to go to Lake Placid with. Absolutely, the players told him.
Its similar with us. We look at the family, and ask, is this the family we want move on with. And its an absolute yes. There isn't another available roster spot, at least not for another 12-15 years.
So we give away the baby clothes, and the baby toys, and the baby sheets and blankets and bibs.
And we hope that we never find ourself asking what happened to that 99.7% effective rate...
posted by Air Time at 11:35 AM
5 Comments:
99.7% - only if you remember to take it every day. My wife's boss decided she was done and scheduled an appointment for her husband to be snipped. Two days before the appointment she got a + mark on the stick. My wife asked how did that happen? What about the 99.7% number? Well . . . . I may have missed it once or twice, but I did not really think anything would happen . . . .
Those statistics they are reporting - that is the average (or possibly the medium). What you really want to know is what was the standard deviation or variation - i.e. what is the low percentage that you have to worry about, because the person who is not covered could be anyone - even your boss.
P.S. Only someone who babysat Daniel when Ephraim was born would write his doctoral thesis on such a subject.
Shall I expect to see a report blog coming in the near future?
Don't you want a Sabra?
Excellent, love it!
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