The Miracle Rabbit

Newsletter 2019-05-13

This weekend, we had a family planning fail that was years in the making: We ran out of kids. For roughly six years, my wife and I had a baby every other year right around the time one of my siblings was graduating from college. With great reluctance, we had to decline sitting on uncomfortable bleachers in a hot gym for a two-hour ceremony. Instead, we stayed home and waited for a baby to karate chop her way out of Lola’s stomach. At least I think that’s what happened. Full disclosure, I didn’t really pay attention to the whole birthing process. What mattered was we had an ironclad excuse to skip graduation season, and no one could blame us. Having a kid is the best way to solve one problem by creating ten thousand new ones.

I’m the oldest of seven kids, but I only have four children myself, so eventually the math was going to catch up with me. This year, it finally happened. My sister Sasha was graduating from college, and I didn’t have an upcoming baby to protect my calendar. I asked…