Published December 24, 2011, 12:00 AM
Merry musings from the Daily Globe news staff
About 26 years ago, I gave birth to a baby girl. She was a big baby, weighing in at 9 pounds, 5½ ounces. My aunt had given me a pretty red dress for Maggie to wear for Christmas, but by the time the holidays rolled around, my little girl was 2½ months old and the dress was too small. I tried to squeeze her into it, but she looked like a stuffed sausage about to strangle on a lacy collar.
