Family can roughly be defined as the people you are together with when you're having a miserable time. So yesterday was a wonderful day for family. Who goes to Macy's on a Wednesday? Better yet, who are all these children who aren't in school? The fun started even before that, however, with getting to listen in on a phone call from a woman on the L to her doctor...apparently she needed extra anxiety medication to get her by until her appointment. She'd found her dead father in the basement and it's a stressful situation. Really, that's the call you make from the train? The elevators were clogged. The aisles were clogged. We went straight up to the 5th floor Santa Land only to be met with a snaking line through the displays of moving bears, buttons to push, and whirling Christmas displays. Last Christmas we waited in line less than 10 minutes, I think. This Christmas, it was over an hour. Bless his heart, Cole made it through about 45 minutes on bunny gra...
A view for the modern parent.