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baby sling

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2008.01.03

As part of our meager preparations for the arrival of Ken 4*, we've picked up a sling suitable for infants. It's to use while running the errands. Ah, middle age.

me wearing a baby sling

Also, we bought our first diapers, and looked at baby carriages, too. The latter of all space age and overdesigned. And priced accordingly.

*My mum's cousin, the second Ken in our family (after my grandfather, who as far as I know was the first), referred to my forthcoming son as "Ken 4" and himself as "Ken 2". This makes my brother "Ken 3", and our family wholly unoriginal.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl