January. Digging out and throwing away. That stack of mail arrived yesterday after being held for a week … luckily amid the junk and catalogs there were about 20 fabulous Christmas cards! And the folks at our nursery school have finally put their foot down and insisted that I bring home the pile of art that has accumulated over the last couple of months. The eternal dilemma of parenthood: what to keep (10%) and what to throw away (90%?)? The early chicken scratch writing definitely has a special place in my heart (check out her fabulous R’s) … but we would drown if it kept it all. So, back to one of my favorite tasks in life: throwing things away!