Author Archives: Andrea Middleton

Currently at Reddit, I spent 10 years as a community organizer on the WordPress open source project. I'm also an avid reader, wine enthusiast, and parent of two.

From the other room I heard a bump:

Bax: “OWWW!”

Me: “What happened?”

Bax, rubbing his behind: “I was carrying dees inst-er-ments and I slipped!”

Me: “You were carrying those instruments, and you slipped and fell on your bottom?”

Bax: “No, on the floor!” 

 

Glazed rainbow carrots

  

Amelia helped me make these by peeling them, picking the fresh thyme off its stems, and pouring the orange juice into the pan for the glaze. She really enjoyed them until the end of the meal, but it’s a dessert day so she finished them despite not enjoying them for the whole meal. 

Conversation in the car on the way to dinner:

Baxter: “When’s Amelia going to be three?”

Me: “Amelia’s already been 3; she’s 6 now and she’ll be 7 next.”

Baxter: “Are girls be three?”

Me: “Yes, girls and boys both turn three.”

Amelia: “Baxter, everyone in the whole world has been three. (pause) Well, unless they died when they were one or two.”