I forgot to add this last Friday, June 24, which was the day of the Child Month March. June is the month designated to openly celebrate and bring awareness to the children of St. Kitts. There are a lot of young kids and a lot of very young parents. It was shocking for me to hear my friend Khisma (who is the one in the picture holding her son Kimoni) tell me how when she had her son at 23, she felt old because the rest of the new mothers in the maternity ward were about 17-18yrs. old. I was thinking that if that's considered old, then I'm going to be ancient by the time I have a child!
The Child Month March started around 9 in the morning and didn't end until around mid-afternoon. There was music and dancing as we walked through the streets in the hot hot sun. It almost felt like a statutory holiday the way people left their jobs to come watch - even I got to be part of the fun! Not a bad way to end a long week.
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