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[rivka]

When they tell you that your life changes after you have children, and you have to give up all your old habits and expectations...

...they never tell you that you might find yourself in an intimate little downtown trattoria, eating bruschetta and grilled vegetables and prosciutto-and-mushroom-stuffed chicken in wine sauce, sharing a bottle of pinot grigio, and having an uninterrupted adult conversation, while your one-year-old sits peacefully next to you, alternately absorbed in people-watching and demolishing the heel of some of the best Italian bread you've ever had.

This is just to say thank you, Alex, for being such a pleasure to travel with.

Comments

[ckd]

Should we point you at this post next time you express your perceived failure as a parent?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Nah, I think that parenting skill only accounts for a teeny-tiny percentage of the variance in restaurant behavior in one-year-olds. Check back with me when she's four, and then I will take some credit, or blame, for how she behaves.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I expect that her calm temperment is luck of the draw, but you still get credit for giving her a low-stress happy environment so that she keeps that temperment.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

The other thing I will happily take credit for is that we actually take her to restaurants, instead of assuming that we can't or shouldn't.