Most of my friends no longer have little ones at home, so I'm not often exposed to the life of young parents. This past Saturday we tried to set up a time to pick up our Girl Scout cookie order (!!!) from the East Marlborough home of a two-career couple with two grade-school kids.
To say the family is busy is an understatement. In the morning there were karate lessons for the son, dance lessons for the daughter. In the afternoon the daughter was attending a friend's birthday party, and these days birthday parties are not the simple, in-home events they were when I was growing up.
Anyhow, via a series of texts, we managed to find a mutually agreeable time. When we got there, the son was immersed in the latest "Dog Man" book, and the dad offered to show us around the family's massive new house. We were amazed to see that each kid has his or her own full en-suite bath. There's an unfinished basement that's the size of the entire house. I've never lived in a 21st-century house, so the modern plumbing system, called a PEX manifold system, was new to me. The manifold in the basement, the dad explained, acts as a central distribution point, with the hot water (red pipes) and cold water (blue pipes) branching off it and running through the house.
If you don't know a Scout and have a hankering for Thin Mints, Trefoil shortbreads, peanut butter sandwich cookies, or the newer treats, I've seen girls selling cookies outside the Kennett Walmart on weekends. They'd be happy to take your money.
Our friend said her favorites this year are the lemon cookies, which come in a package of 12. She ate 10 and, not wanting to acknowledge that she ate an entire box, left the remaining two for her husband.
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