A few thoughts

Dear Loyal Readers (all 2 of you),
Thank you for sticking by The Cherry Tree in our dark days and our experiences with rant-writing and hulahooping. I promise more cute kid pics and uplifting writing will carry us smoothly into Fall.

Here are a few of my ideas...in no particular orders. Just a stream of my own thoughts. Read-on and please enjoy.

-Whole Foods brand lime popcicles are the most delicious popcicles you can buy. Do yourself a favor and pick up a box or two.

-Someone should make a cinnamon toast flavored ice cream. Or how about oatmeal cookie? If you have connections at Ben and Jerry's, please give me due credit. Thank you.

-Eliza is almost 1! She can climb up and down the stairs - well enough that I almost trust her to do it w/o supervision. She makes an amazing snoot face. She still loves the mama milk. She likes fruit as much as her bro. She is thinking about talking, but hasn't yet figured out what to say.

-Washington state is a WONDERFUL place for people to relocate.

-Chapel Hill & Carrboro are great places to stay.

-Sawyer got in the car from preschool the other day eating a chunk of bread. I said, "whatcha eating?" He said "Challah" Nice. He also said that they say "Shabbat Shalom" at preschool. With all the languages he is exposed to in my family, I think Hebrew or Yiddish might be his first 2nd language!

-Neighbors are important. Yesterday our neighbor Jonah fell in our pond! He was a good sport and it was very exciting. Then he and Sawyer were playing in Jonah's camper and Sawyer got his first shiner! We have a path between our houses so there will definitely be more excitement (and injuries) to come.

-Arrested Development is (was) an amazingly funny show. If you have not seen it you should rent the first season and start from the beginning. It really is pee-in-your-pants funny and the Chicken Dance takes it to a whole other level.

-A good haircut will make you feel renewed. A bad haircut will make you want to wear a hat.

-"A boy of quality should not be threatened by a girl for equality" That's what my kelly green shirt says in a picture taken of me at an ERA march in about 1982.

Stream over. Thanks for reading.

-hallie

"You know...for kids!"

Maybe it was our fault for venturing out to Weaver St. Lawn on a Thursday evening...

It started out fine. We got some yummy food. Sawyer picked an Orangina. Eliza tried baked tofu. We ate and then made our way to the part of the lawn where barefooted kids frolic, fairly good music is audible and yuppies-who-want-to-be-hippies sip their organic pino noir. And yes, where the hulahoops roll by like tumbleweeds in the desert.

One of said hulahoops caught the eye of my sometimes standoffish 3 year old. Rainbow striped and spinny. Being chased by another smallish child. I noticed and suggested to Sawyer that we go check them out. We walked over to the (you know who I'm talking about) hulahoop lady. As we approached her and the pile of spheres propped against a tree, Sawyer said something to the effect of "can I try?" Her response was that NO, he could not try and that the hulahoops were "very expensive" and not for children. Not even an effort to, at the very least, show him hers. Instead she suggested that the nearby children might share with him.

It's a #&%@ing hulahoop!!

Sawyer actually started to cry a little, bless his heart. I picked him up and explained that the lady had not learned to share. He was a bit upset, but quickly recovered and we made our own fun climbing the tree and watching the train go by.

Ok, before I get too pissed off I will end with this...If there is to be an ordinance placed on how to spend one's free time on Weaver St. lawn, couldn't it be placed on the hoolahoop fanatics?!

(In your comments please include your most creative option for jetisoning a hulahoop on a crowded lawn.)