September 2008

My sister Jordan has come up with the most wonderful idea. Sign up for a subscription to her Pretty Little Things club and she’ll mail you a pretty little something once a month. What will the little somethings be? I have no idea. But if you’ve ever peeked at Oh Happy Day for even 30 seconds, you’ll be as confident as I that these packages will bring nothing but delight.

Can’t wait to sign up!

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Cleaning out the medicine cupboard today. Went to a mind-blowing event called Not in My House, where I learned that 1 in 5 teenagers (that’s 20%! of all teens) are getting high with legal, prescription drugs. The drugs that teens are playing around with are extremely serious, but at the same time completely common — things like Vicodin, OxyContin, Ritalin, Xanax. More than 50% of these teens obtained the prescription meds from their very own home. And when the teens combine different drugs (drugs they consider “safe” because they’re legal) the combination can be deadly.

Easiest way to keep this epidemic in check? Talk to your kids. Keep track of your prescription drugs while you’re taking them. And get rid of your unused pills. Period. Want to learn more? Go here to see what the experts say. And go here to see what to do about it.

A part of me wants to ignore this and believe my kids are too little to have to worry about it, but then I thought about how many teenagers I invite into our home for babysitting or other gatherings. Best to make sure the medicine cupboard is empty of anything tempting.

A great (and sobering) event — sponsored by Abbot and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. I learned much and got a kick in the pants to clean out my cupboards and talk to my kids about this. Bonus. I got to hang out with Jennifer of Snapshot & 5MFM (see her great write ups of the event here and here), as well as Amy of LIParentSource and One Mom’s Memos (see her excellent write up here) — and get a tour of the gorgeous penthouse apartment that hosted the important and informative gathering.

The good-looking (and lockable!) wall mount medicine cabinets featured above are available from Heal’s.

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Like parents all over the world, we just checked on the kids before heading to bed. And discovered Oscar fast asleep, clasping his cheeks in a way that can only be described as angelic. Aren’t sleeping kids so easy to love?

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Our best Saturdays are half work, half play. The morning was spent doing laundry, grocery shopping and cleaning our bedrooms. The afternoon was spent at the NY Botanical Gardens. And as luck would have it, the Gardens were celebrating Harvest Days during our visit (happy surprise!). The kids made apple sauce. Put together field notebooks. Made apple prints with stamp pads. Decorated gourds. Put together corn husk dolls. Pressed apples and sampled the cider. And the whole family worked together to make a scarecrow for the Family Garden.

And then, just for me, we paid a visit to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden — the roses bloom in June and September — and they were spectacular. I was especially drawn to the peachy orange ones.

When we were tired, we rode the shuttle around the grounds and argued over which Moore sculpture we liked best.

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