As you know, we recently had a baby. As you may also know, when you are expecting a baby, people throw you baby showers. With baby showers come gifts. And, if you are my wife, or like her, with gifts comes the task of writing out Thank You Cards.

If you are a parent you know that the first few months of parentdom is a trying time. If you are anything like Kim and I, that time is filled with a lot of guesswork and it is more like a day-by-day experiment than anything else. The baby cries. We feed the baby. We change the baby. We hold the baby. If none of those three things work, we just start making it up. Hold the baby this way. Lay him in the bed and let him cry for this long. Rock him. Bounce him. Swing him. It is all just a big experiment.

So, while we are working our way through the scientific method, there are certain things that we have to sacifice to be able to spend enough time doing "research" to get the proper results.

In my opinion, one of the first things that should be sacrificed is Thank You Cards. There should be some sort of reprieve for Baby Shower/Baby Gift Thank You Cards that do not get sent before the baby arrives. There should be a special section in the BGTYC, "Baby Gift Thank You Card", Code that grants a longer repreive for those parents whose children come a month or more in advance of their due date.

If you are a parent you understand. We are grateful. However, free time is spen on more important things, like sleeping. If you are not yet a parent and you are upset that you have not gotten a Thank You card yet, let us know what you got us and we will send it back to you. There's a good chance he's already grown out of it.

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