This week one of my single friends surveyed my kids’ toy room and shook his head. “When I have kids, there’s going to be a rule: one toy at a time.  They don’t get to take a new one out until they put the last one away.”

“Brilliant!” I smiled through gritted teeth. “Why didn’t I ever think of that?”

Hopefully, police won’t chance upon the banks of the Connecticut River any time soon.