this just in

OK, so this is the Christmas list of my kind of step granddaughter (put another way, my daughter's niece) (put another way, my ex-husband's granddaughter) (put another way, my granddaughter's first cousin) (put another way, an old friend's granddaughter) (it's complicated). And all I have to say about this particular list is that Montessori school must work!

And a historical footnote from before my niece Madison was a teenager.