Scarlett’s school had a very special visitor this week. The legendary Jane Goodall came to speak to the students about realizing her childhood dreams of traveling to Africa to live among wild animals. This is seriously so cool, and among the parent group (who was not invited), the general consensus is that the girls have no idea how lucky they are to have met such an amazing woman.

Scarlett has a great book called Who is Jane Goodall? (thanks Emily G!), and she and I sat down to read it last night. Scarlett was particularly interested in a story about Jane digging up earthworms, then bringing them home and putting them under her pillow so she could sleep with them. Scarlett looked at me with wide eyes. Actually, so did Rob, who immediately interjected with something along the lines of I hope that never happens here, as if by merely reading this passage, I was encouraging Scarlett to snuggle up with live bait.

“That will never happen here,” I assured him. “Jane’s mother explained to her that the worms needed to be in their own homes, and Jane put them back in the garden because she was a good listener.”

Scarlett ignored us, which is one of her finest skills. Read More>