2006_10_01_archive

No cupcakes. No CUPCAKES?

...Ah, the class birthday treat. Your Mom is bringing something from

you for the whole class. You're proud.

...Remember the white cupcakes with the rainbow sprinkles, the

slathered faces, the giggling?

..."They can bring carrots," snaps an assistant to the superintendent

of one Orange Country school district. "A birthday does not have to be

associated with food."

...May HA say something here? YES, IT DOES, YOU BIDDY.

...The busy little obesity nannies have zeroed in on the birthday

cupcake. And parents are fighting back.

...Texas passed a state law called The Safe Cupcake amendment giving

parents the right to deliver treats to the classroom on certain

occasions. Candy corn on Halloween was mentioned.

...Let's see Bill O. take on that one.

...Disclaimer. Kids should not live on high frustose corn sugar alone,

please give them a green bean once in awhile, blah, blah. But it's

their birthday!

...No cupcakes now, serial killers later?

...Think about it.

posted by Star Lawrence @ 7:09 AM 3 comments

Friend trying to have a baby? Zip it

...Isis Waichler, author of Riding the Infertility Rollercoaster: A

Guide to Educate and Inspire, had a child one month before her 46th

birthday.

...When asked what the least helpful things are that you can say if

people are not conceiving, she says: "You just aren't trying hard

enough." WRONG: They are probably doing every thing they can think of.

..."You just need to relax." How do you relax when you don't have what

want most and are willing to risk anything to get? That's not

relaxing.

..."When are you two going to have a baby?" Ooops--they have been

trying for a year.

..."You must come to my baby shower." Sometimes this is not where the

woman wants to be at this moment of her quest.

..."You already have one child." Having the second child, which at

first seems so easy, is a whole area of infertility.

...HA underwent some fertility approaches before having her daughter.

She can report that it is an overwhelming preoccupation and you really

don't want to hear about how So-and-so went to Cabo and it just

happened.

...If someone has a miscarriage, there are other things they don't

want to hear, such as "This probably meant it was deformed anyway."

...Or: "It's God's will."

...Or: "Cheer up, when can you try again?"