Wackyloonies

Through one of the mothers in my wonderful parenting class at LA County’s Emerson School (we will miss this over the summer!) we got tickets to see Sesame Street Live! SO Zelda will experience live theater for the first time tonight, I don’t know about her, but I am excited! I’ve seen the commercials, looks like fun, I love Grover!

My playwright friend Alan Berks emailed me and as I responded to him about the serendipity that brought us opening night tickets in Long Beach without even a day’s pre-planning and then babbled on about how lovely everything is, and I thought I’d plagiarize myself here since it summarizes how easy it is to get involved in ones’ geography, community, and city-region with children:

“[With a kid…] talk about the human experience it is this amazing razor’s edge of just like everybody else and completely unique at the same time. Some stay at home mothers complain of isolation and lack of intellectual stimulation but I have learned more about language, the human mind, child development, psychology and patiIence since she was born, not bored at all and reading a lot whenever I can. As far as isolation we’re spoiled with lots of family and friends nearby but also in seeking out fun places to go and things to see and do, I’ve gone to more museums, parks, zoos, aquariums, outdoor festivals, farmer’s markets etc. in the last 19 months ( really mostly in the last 9) than I had in teh previous 8 years combined. Of course the not working in an office job helps the excursion count.”

So that’s it for me, the luckiest girl in the world. Apparantly I say it a lot because 2 days ago in the car Zelda kept repeating to her Dad and I “Maman - lucky!” “Lucky! Maman!”

I love it, I love her, life is great

Off to get Z’s moveable feast ready to prepare for the show tonight.

Shana

Found this link through a webgroup: Living With Two Year Olds.

We’re actually not tired of things to do at home yet by a long shot, but it’s a cool resource nevertheless.

Now I usually find this whole mercury/autism thing to be ridiculous when from what I’d seen all we know is mercury is not good for you and yes there is a rise in autism, but this article gave me pause. In terms of vaccinations it still is mostly a moot point since there is no mercury in California vaccines, but it makes you think about the flu shots they recommend to all small children…hmmm
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The more i learn about this issue, the more I wish I could see the Chinatown movie about it…

From: Science Daily

By DAN OLMSTED

Representatives of 22 medical organizations have written to all members of Congress opposing efforts to ban the mercury-based preservative thimerosal from vaccines.

“Our organizations respectfully wish to state our opposition to all legislative efforts at the federal and state levels to restrict access to vaccines containing thimerosal, an ethylmercury-based preservative,” said the letter dated April 3 from “Multiple National Organizations that Support Safe and Effective Vaccines.”

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Lien que je pique de Geraldine une maman a L.A. de lesmamans, mon yahoo group preferee. Interessant, ici je pense qu’on demande beaucoup des parents mais ils n’ont pas de statut???

Original Article

PARIS (AFP) - 23/05/2006 10h24 - Les parents d’élèves auront bientôt un vrai statut au sein du monde scolaire, un rôle “institutionnel” qu’ils réclament depuis longtemps et qui leur permettra de mieux dialoguer avec les professeurs et de s’impliquer davantage dans la vie éducative des établissements.

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So comically, having decided it was WAY too difficult to get Zcare for tonight’s SCPC meeting www.socalplanning.org on Glendale redevelopment 2 days ago I decided not to go so Zelda and I could have a calm day at home, to recoup, to clean up, to enjoy the yard, the toys etc.

Then we got an invitation to the zoo from Dabu & Monica and ended up going to the zoo, having a late lunch IN Glendale, which I left only about 2 hours before the dinner meeting was starting. Sigh.

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Dying to start vbuilding this up and using it! So recently had the chance to read an entire book, but only because it was short and Z was sick so I held her and read…Susan Sontag’s book. More later. Also starting a fascinating parenting book I’ll bug y’all about and you may find random thoughts on planning, nonprofits, parenting, cute babies (ok probvably a lot), French stuff, and who knows what else in the TIME to come (I won’t commit to a category). Off to wake up the “Waki” half…

Welcome to wackyloonies. Name concept thanks to Matt & Monica who have been apparantly referring to us this way for some time. Too funny to pass up. This being from the “lony” Loonie half (third) of the equation. OK, so caveat #1 is that I know nothing about websites, so I’ll learn as I go. next when i figure out how to post an image, link or comment I’ll do so!