9/9/2003 08:16:02 AM|||Amy|||Over the past couple of weeks, all three of my children have been to the doctor at least once. On Winston's first introduction, the receptionist referred to her as the latest member of our "tribe". Yesterday, the HR benefits person where I work assured me that Winston's benefits would match those of "all my other children." At one time in the very recent past three was not an obscene number of children for one family. Two seems to be fairly standard, four is unusual, and five or more is just brave - but three has always seemed to me to be a fairly ordinary comittment to child bearing. I wonder if there is something about me which, to relative strangers, reads that my procreational activities are unbridled and that, if left unchecked, I might actually try to form my own little town. Or is there something about three which upsets whatever balance remains in our tilted economy? |||106311336270932320|||My "Tribe"