The Mean Onion

I got some restless sleep last night now that we are a day away from delivering our second child into the world. There are only a handful of experiences like this in a lifetime, and I can count the minutes until the one tomorrow. Syd has been going to bed later and later because she has been staying home during the days. If I wasn’t back to work I’d be doing the same thing. She called me upstairs three times after I had put her to bed because she was just not tired! The third time she was less upset and was able to explain that she wasn’t “tired anymore” and wanted to get out of bed. I was able to sit with her by the nightlight and talk with her for a while. I got a little stuffed cricket that chirps from her toy box and we played with that for a little while and then went through a picture book. She was ready for bed then and I rubbed her back and that was it for the night. It meant a lot to me to have that time with her and to be able to make her feel better and get her to sleep. I know that having two children will be twice as good, but having just one was pretty nice, too!

My aunt and uncle in New York have gotten Sydney some lovely clothes from a place in Carroll Gardens called “The Green Onion.” Last night Dennise went online to check them out and discovered the most hellacious customer reviews I’ve ever read. Not even Bush and Cheney have a 100% disapproval rating. We got a really good laugh over this:

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/urr/urr.pl?rm=all_reviews&listing_id=8004&listing_type=nyml_venue_business_shopping

In searching for this page again this morning I also found a similar site where a woman decries the undisclosed “no returns for any reason” policy (only store credit, so they are keeping your money) and a mothering website where a woman complains she couldn’t breastfeed her child in the store. I am trying to find out from Mike and Amy what the deal is with this place.