happy holidays to all from our house, with the hanukkah candles and hanukkah
fabric table runner and the christmas napkins and advent candles all nestled
up together. all day i have been trying to get my boys to breastfeed their
tamogotchi pets (the electronic pets you have to tend) in stead of feeding
them cheeseburgers, which is what they are programmed to eat. if you don't
feed them correctly (on demand), they turn into aliens. there's a message of
some sorts there!

as a maker of baby slings (cloth), and a big fan of them, i feel like the use
of those plastic baby carriers so common in america says something REALLY bad
about our society. i recently saw a woman carrying a baby in one, her arm
extended in front of her with her fist clenched and the handle of this thing
inside her elbow. it looked SO uncomfortable, it's hard to imagine that
someone would go to such lengths to not touch the baby.

i wouldn't use instant breakfast myself because of various ingredients in it,
although it is not so bad as many alternatives. and who hasn't heard of hcps
advising a mother to not breastfeed and give pediasure instead to a sick baby!
but i have known and have had several children who liked to eat butter as if
it were cheese (which it is, in a way), and drink cream or half and half (a
lighter cream). they all seem to outgrow a taste for it by age three or four,
when their need for extra calories seemed to slow down a bit.

the christmas thoughts of a baby always inspire me. i hope babies continue to
inspire us all.

carol b.