Game of Crones

My daughter was 10 days old the first time I was asked if I were her grandmother. But in the years since my daughter was born, I have discovered that people who ask rude questions feel terribly affronted if you say anything that implies they have just asked a rude question. And, yes, this schedule requires money and help: a fulltime babysitter for the first four years of my daughter’s life, then Montessori School and a part-time babysitter, now an aftercare program and an assistant who is my childcare fallback.

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