Duty free shopping? Check. EIGHTEEN suitcases? Check. FiveFour kids? Check.

My parents forgot infant me at my aunt's when they were leaving to move to Cape Breton. They did remember about 10 minutes on the road.

Also, be careful with the rest of the books in what became a series.

I tend to be wary of any books in a series that are not written by the original author. Unless I hear that they are actually good, I don't tend to read them. I lack the urge I get with movies.

I think I am still sleepy from being awake all Saturday night. I can barely keep my eyes open.

I have forgotten my purse on the top of the car a number of times, so I fear that I might do the same with a baby. Which is part of the reason I do not have one.

Baby's First Internet

Your friends won’t like it, on the real,
but you must Flickr every meal.

I currently have eight first cousins (of which Sox is one).

Four kids? Check.

Speaking of cousins, while none of them has ever been left behind in an airport, one of them was left at a farm stand in NH at age 7 when his parents failed to notice he didn't get back into the car and managed to drive to Ogunquit, ME before they noticed he wasn't there. (He was the only kid they had with them at the time - they just didn't turn around to look in the backseat.)

There is a story of my Grandparents leaving their youngest behind after visiting my Gramma's sister.

In their defense, they thought she was hiding under a blanket in the back of the station wagon (a favorite game of hers) and the family had a couple of lively rounds of "Gee, where is Dona?" until someobody poked the lump and discovered it was a pillow.

Ah the good old days before cell phones when your niece got left at your house for a couple of hours and you just had to trust that her parents would notice eventually.

Only 3 first cousins here, and one (my deceased father's deceased sister's daughter) is MIA and 25 years older than me. And I only have four first cousins once removed.

I guess in my family we go for quality, not quantity?

Huh, I'm in a totally different time zone now. Board time is my time.

Welcome to Board Time, Dana!!

Huh, I'm in a totally different time zone now. Board time is my time.

Wow, yeah, I hadn't thought about how cellphones have changed THAT, too! I mean, if it's not a case of "kid left in strange place", and more "kid left with people we know" (somehow, these stories seem to always be "left at diner" or "left at supermarket" rather than "accidentally left at Aunt Mary's house with Cousin Bob")

I guess in my family we go for quality, not quantity?

That wouldn't explain my family.

A family once left a little girl at a garage sale we had. They were actually two families going to garage sales together that day, with the kids kind of piling into whichever car they felt like after each sale, and each driver thought this girl was with the other one. She was about three years old and only spoke Spanish, so we flagged down a cop to tell them what had happened and found a Spanish-speaking neighbor to talk to her until her parents realized and came back (which was about half an hour later.)