to be honest, the fact that it's gonna be a girl makes it a little easier.

I had always said that because bat mitvahs are a relatively new thing, I wouldn't feel bad if I had a daughter and she didn't have one. But to the best of my knowledge, the men in my family have become bar mitzvot for centuries. It's much more of an official rite of passage, and I'd feel some kinda way about being the one to break the family line by not having my son go through it.

But if the first one is a girl and the second is a boy, what then?

Right now, I think the plan is that she's gonna be baptised, and we'll kinda do a little bit of both as she grows up. Not sure how well that's gonna work out, but I guess we'll see.

If you were to ditch the job and pack it all up (with the family) for a simpler life, where would you go?