Month: November 2010

We had our first Parent/Teacher\’s meeting this week at Quinn\’s preschool, Sundance School.  Don had planned to work from home that day so we all got to go 🙂  As you might imagine, it was very short and very sweet.   Quinn\’s teacher, Miss Bunny, thinks that Quinn is a very good boy (of course!) and loves having him in her class.   He is mostly quiet but likes to laugh and giggle in class.  He especially likes the stage where the class performs stories and has a fun time moving around.    We were also very pleased to find out that Miss Bunny has been a vegetarian for 20 years.  The school director, Miss Janet, calls herself a pesca-vegan because she doesn\’t eat meat or dairy but some fish for protein.   We are loving this hippy school 🙂

Whenever the school is closed, the Sundance Parent Association (SPA) plans an activity for the kids and/or families.  This week we went to one of our favorite places, Trailside Nature Center.  The weather was a little bit wet, but we dressed for the elements and had fun hiking in the rain.  I bet  you can\’t pick out our boy…

On Saturday Don and I went in to DC to participate in Jon Stewart\’s Rally to Restore Sanity.  We knew it was going to be crowded when we got on the Metro at the first stop and it was standing room only.  We had about 10 more stops until we got our stop in DC.  Just when we thought not another person could possibly fit in to the metro car, a couple of people hopped on and we all got a little closer.  But there was a great energy in the air and everyone was talking to each other and having a great time.  In fact, Saturday broke the record for the most number of metro trip taken in a single day — over 800,000.  The last record was 780,000 for the Dessert Storm rally in 1991.

When we hit the streets in DC we were immediately hit by the large number of people who turned out for the rally.  I think the final estimate was around 250,000!  We weren\’t able to get very close to the stage and had a hard time hearing (other than Ozzy 🙂  but we were happy to be part of the movement.   There were so many clever and funny signs.  Our favorite was definitely \”Every time Sarah Palin tweets, God kills a kitten\”.  
Election day has come and gone and now it\’s time to move on.  Hopefully the Rally encouraged more people to get out and vote.