It would’ve been so cool if nyc didn’t design the bigger, extended buses so that only the first third of the bus will allow a stroller to pass through & if you have one sleeping child in a stroller you either bottleneck the front half of the bus or are unable to use busses at all

having a bunch of kids is cool

Take however much you value the ability to cook regularly at scale and 5x it. If you think about the next several decades of your life and the single biggest bottleneck of bringing people you love together, the single biggest bottleneck is feeding them

“popular names you are least likely to hear in Brooklyn”

“A decline in the number of babies being born and a boom in private school vouchers and home-schooling have combined to create an enrollment crisis for public education…

The proportion of babies born to college-educated women increased by nearly 40% from 2002 to 2023. Meanwhile, the proportion born to women with less than a high-school education declined nearly 50%.

Extremely good video series for train obsessed little ones

Every transplant should have to volunteer somewhere!! @macyagilliam

2.5yo has really settled into a morning routine - wake up, coo / sing / yell from bedroom - get taken out of bed and cuddle - request song from sound of music - papa makes breakfast w 2yo help - make train track “that connects”

realized that one of my childhood dance teachers - a woman who was classically trained and taught modern and contemporary and ballet, and was a bit emo and also a dear Christian - was one of my most formative Christian mentors