Elisha Galotti

Elisha Galotti

Parenthood: Remembering what you signed up for

“From the moment we arrived at our friends’ place, the children were off, gone, playing hard in various rooms around the house while us adults sat around a peaceful dinner table and talked. The children paused their games for dinner and then again briefly for dessert. At one point we learned that they’d been upstairs playing ‘Family’ and this involved removing stacks of folded clothes from closet shelves so that each child had a shelf to sleep on. I cringed,…