But Whatever Happened to Penny Knocknutter?

That little baby is four years old today. I went to my archives to hunt up an appropriately melty photo (how'd I do?), and I found this post that made me laugh—because it is such a perfect snapshot of then, when I was wrapping my head around having five kids eleven-and-under, and because it pretty accurately depicts our now, too. I mean, sure, now there's a teenager at one end and a fifteen-month-old force of destruction at the other, and sure, we're living clear on the other side of the...