Last weekend we headed up to New Hampshire for our
cousin's annual maple sugaring party. It was like stepping back two months into the heart of winter. There was at least a foot of snow on the ground, and we spent much of the time sledding. At one point we heard my otherwise extremely cautious son say "Hey, look at me!" We turned in time to see him gleefully barrel down a steep hill, heading straight for a snow-covered ledge and some bushes below. My husband made a diving catch and grabbed him just in time.
Last week I went to a bag sewing get together, coordinated by a local effort called the Bag Share Project. Volunteers are sewing hundreds of cloth shopping bags which will be kept at the check-out counters at local businesses. People who have forgotten to bring bags will be able to take their stuff home in these cloth ones, and return the bags later. Each bag has a label stating where the bag should be returned. Even the inmates a
t the county jail have gotten in on the project.
My friend Alexis, who works in the high-end fabric business in New York, has been giving me samples of beautiful fabric, so I'm making some extras for us, like the one to the right.
Our local breastfeeding coalition still working on setting up a milk collection depot for the Mothers Milk Bank of New England, and our friend Mo recently wrote a really nice article about it for the local independent paper. It's looking like the initial milk processing will be done by the Mothers' Milk Bank of Ohio, with a gradual transition over to the New England milk bank as they get their facility set up. I agreed to manage the newsletter for the milk bank (you know that you're overcommitted when you try to hide a volunteer job from your husband!). If you want to be on the mailing list, email me. I also set up a Cafe Press store for them.
There are other projects which I'll write about soon, but that's all for now!
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