Will You Sublet our Placenta?

Packing up house is no joke. The tough thing for us seems to be that the majority of stuff can only be dealt with at the last minute. We are storing a lot of stuff in our basement, some things staying in the closets, and many things being thrown away. Please do not tell the girls that I dumped many of their toys. One of the main drags- emptying the kitchen....I am furiously trying to cook all of our beans and grains - I hate to waste food.

Itay called me today and suggested that maybe our subletters want us to leave us some of the food we have in the freezer. I think he was joking. Then one of us remembered The Placenta. OH NO! The bloody placenta (literally). Why do I even have placenta in my freezer? As a vegetarian, each time I see it - I need to remind myself that it is not meat that someone snuck into our house and forgot. It is there because having babies does crazy shit to you. When Amit was born at home 4 years ago, we agreed to keep the placenta and plant it in the garden under a new plant or tree. After all- there is a whole movement of placenta-saving-cooking-drying out-pulverizing-stuffing into capsules and eating movement out there. People pay others to come to their house post birth and make these pills for them. It is a profession. Planting ours seemed totally benign.  Did we? Of course not. We are dreamers and planners and rarely do we actually accomplish what we envisioned. We just wrapped it up and stuck it in the freezer to be planted at a later date. Then comes Avigail - born at home- placenta saved again to be planted. Regardless that we had done nothing with Amit's placenta, we decided that throwing Avigail's away would be sacrilege. 

Now these really nice and straight laced lawyers are moving in. I think they would be really freaked out if I ask them to babysit our placenta. It might foil our plans and we are thisclose to leaving for India.  

My options:

1. Do an internet search for "Placenta storage facilities" - they must exist in Park Slope. Maybe even at the Food Coop. 

2. Throw it away. No chance - I am not ready to part with the placenta yet. Did you know that it is the ONLY organ a vegetarian can eat. Any takers?

3. Ask my mom and dad to babysit the placenta (they might accidentally eat it. Or pretend that it was "misplaced" during passover cleaning)

4. Leave it in the freezer and say nothing (might get eaten, or worse thrown away)

5. Take it to India. Just kidding. 

6. Ask a friend to babysit it (hint hint)
7. Plant it in the garden finally. No- that would require actually being proactive and getting bitten by mosquitos. Two of my least favorite activities.
8. Put it on Craigslist. Free placenta anyone? I might have half of Brooklyn interested. 

I know! I got it - we will eat it for dinner tonight. Anyone want to come over for dinner?