No, never running. And I'd NEVER do it in the summer. EVER.

NYC keeps having children DIE and ACS is getting all sorts of grief but from what I saw today its the police who are the weak link.

Granted, not exactly a scientific sampling.

I was just so stunned. And addled on cold medicine. Now I don't know why I wasn't calling 911 right away.

aimee, within sight of the baby seems reasonable to me

NYC keeps having children DIE and ACS is getting all sorts of grief but from what I saw today its the police who are the weak link.

Tangentially, we still, regularly, multiple times a year, get people leaving newborns to die in trash cans here in LA, despite the fact that we have a very well publicized law in this city (or possibly state, I forget what level it came from) that the parent can drop the baby off at any police station, fire station or hospital, no questions asked, and be free from harassment or prosecution.

And they throw the baby out to die anyway.

People suck.

We have that problem too.

Of course, today I wonder if the NYPD has babies piled up in their damn IN BOXES and are going "oh, we can't do anything about this"

I'll leave the kids in the car to do something quickly if Emaryn is there and I'm going to stay within sight of the car. Not when it's hot out and never with the car running.

Sean, it's a state law and really? Not at all well advertised in the places that the people who "need" it are.

(Not sniping at you, mind. Just sayin', is all. I think it's a great law, but really there's very little behind it, other than when a baby is left to die, the news reports remind people. )

There is, of course, an age when leaving kids in the car makes sense. I spent a lot of my mom's grocery store runs in the car with a library book.

I always used to think I would be a terrible parent. These days, I think that at my worst, most impatient, broke and crankiest, I would still be a far better parent than a frightening percentage of people who have kids. Too bad it's unlikely that Hansel and Gretel will show up at my door so I could treat them better than their family did.

My heritage is all central European: there's mostly Czech, then Russian, and a lot of Polish. Interesting factoid: DH's father's family came from Budapest, and my mother's family hailed from Bratislava, which are not all that far apart. It's kinda cool that our old country roots are from the same neighborhood.

so I am going to make shepard's pie in potato boats for the potato party a neighborhood friend has every year. I am guessing I am going to have a lot more filling than I need... I am guessing the filling will freeze well.

because for dinner tonight I am making Lemon butt chicken and for sunday a tofu spinach pie.