Brain Dump

"Green" Mom Moment:
I was reading the Treeswing website when I came across www.laptoplunches.com. It's a great example of what smart mommies can do when they put their creative minds together. It is also a great resource if you are interested in reducing all the icky waste created by school lunches. I encourage you to check it out if you are packing a lunch everyday. (They address the "plastic" concerns in FAQs).

Disaster Plan
One item on our "to do" list is to create an Earthquake kit. Apparently when you live on a fault line, you need to be prepared for such possibilities. You can get them pre-packaged from the Red Cross but we need the kids to get used to their new home without mentioning its tectonic plate could easily shift. In Illinois our "disaster kit" consisted of a tombstone pizza, a 12-pack of Sierra Nevada and a guitar down in the basement. On vacation, we kept seeing Tsunami Evacuation Route signs. Of course the kids had a million questions about that. "Are we having a Tsunami?" "What is a Tsunami?""When is Tsunami season?" After you say "tsunami" ten or twelve times it becomes kind of entertaining. Then you can try substituting it for other words....use it as a verb or noun. "Is that a tsunami your wearing?" "What the tsunami?" Anyway, based on our easily distracted and amused group, if a disaster hits we're probably toast.