Tage’s been invited to a birthday party tomorrow afternoon, which means that I’m on the hook to tag along and hang around drinking coffee and making small talk while my boy partakes of the festivities.  I know most kids his age are fine to be dropped off at events like this and picked up later, but Tage’s pretty shy, and he’s having none of it.  I’m sure that at least some of his reserve comes from me, because I’d just as soon stay away from these sorts of things myself, but I don’t think there’s any way I can weasel out of it.  I suppose it would be unforgivably rude to take a book, huh?