The Toddler’s social calendar is busier than mine. Much busier, in fact. While I’m rather pleased these days to get to the supermarket unaccompanied, the Toddler has gym membership, a wide circle of friends he sees regularly and a chauffeur to ferry him to music class, the zoo, library and children’s museum. Organizing his diary - and getting him to all these activities wearing clothes, clean and on time - is no small feat. Excellent time-management skills, the negotiating skills of a presidential candidate and the strength of an ox are required. Loading the car with all his paraphernalia - his sippy cup, snack, back-up snack, the dreaded coat, mittens and hat, diaper bag and spare, back-up snack - is my first test. Forget any one of these items and the whole outing is doomed (admittedly,
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