From the latter weeks of October to Christmas-eve… is the period during which happiness is in season, which, in my judgment, enters the room with the tea-tray… – Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your childs name and how old he or she is. – Erma Bombeck
