It took a lot of pressure off. We came in from dinner and it was dark. Let D watch a cartoon while I fed baby. When he took D up to bed, I just turned off the tv and left the other lights off too. I sat on floor, he kneeled/sprawled on a foot stool. I think it was a conversation saver - made it a lot less intense and my face is an open book, so it helped me keep things very calm


Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
--Stanislaw Lem