New Stuff
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Hmmmmmmm. What’s new?
Well, I have that new newsletter, that I mentioned in the last blog, and bus. is picking up since I started offering a 2 for one deal.
If you haven’t had one of my massages, yet, feel free to take me up on this 2 for one deal. You pay for one hr. of massage, and get a 2nd one free.
Other new stuff…….My hubby has created a Chess puzzle program for the NY Times. If you haven’t seen it yet, you really should, and if you like Chess or know anyone who does, you may want to have a look at or pass in the following site info: Chessmagnetschool.com. He has just done a major update on that site.
Americans everywhere are getting ready for Halloween, and Petaluma is no different. I hope to see my fellow Petalumans all out and about on Halloween Eve. and I hope that if you see a short Superman and a Tall Spiderman going round w/ a gypsy, that you’ll stop us and say hello. We’ll be somewhere in E. Petaluma.
My fellow PMCers are also often looking for good babysitters, so if you know of one, that you don’t mind sharing, I would love to have that info. to pass on.
One of the most vital of all community resources is the information that we share. I have used my site to share links to healthcare resources, and gaming sites, etc, and will continuing to use it so, and expanding on it in my newsletter, because as a Massage Therapist, I am constantly learning new things about alternative healthcare, among other things.
I’ve recently learned, for example that massage can help you to lose weight. I learned that as I was looking at Sparkpeople.com. You should really check that out, as well as EclecticHealth.com, for other healthcare concerns. Tell Josh Holcomb that I put you onto his site.
And, believe it or not, fun is an important factor in staying healthy, so I’m going to take this opportunity to tout John Crowley’s site: PubCrawler.com. His site will put you onto a lot of happenings around Petaluma that are both fun and educational, and that’s only the half of it.
As a parent of 4yrs. I’ve also learned how important it is to the community as a whole to support parents. Everyone knows that parents have the toughest job in the world. But do we take the time to think about what happens when that job doesn’t get done conscientiously? Maybe we only think about it in the face of gang violence, or when we see children suffering.
The children who are raised in love, are a different story, altogether. By stark contrast to the ones who are neglected or who’s parents neglect to teach them manners, the ones that are properly raised, grow up to politely help out in the community and to pull for legislation that protects the surrounding eco-system, and to generally just be a lot more fun to be around.
Parents can only do a really good and loving job of raising their children to be contributing members of our society, when their own needs are met. Parents need time w/ other grown-ups. They need time to vent, play, chat, relax, and especially to sleep! Here I have to give Kudos to the Petaluma Mothers Club. The mothers of the club have come thru for me, almost every time I needed more sleep or grown-up time, or advice on how to potty train. It seems like petty stuff, but if they hadn’t been there for me, my son would have had a much crabbier Mommy on many occassions.
So I guess that my main message is that helping us poor parents out is as easy as opening a door for a parent trying to maneuver a stroller thru, or stopping a run-away toddler, and that one tiny act of good sumaritanism can turn our entire day around. It may look like a Mom or Dad is breezing thru some child related project, and he or she doesn’t seem to need any help, but I guarantee you, that what seems is not always what is, and that parent may have already been doing that same duty for an 11hr. shift, if the other parent works outside the home, or is sick.
We’re not inherrantly feeble, or needier than people who don’t have children. I think it’s just that we appreciate help more than others, because we start to realize how little we can really take for granted, in comparison to our days B.C. (Before Children). I’ve also had women quite deliberately NOT stop my run-away toddler, when he scooted under a stall door, and ran away from me, into the mall proper, in Terra Linda 101. It was scarey, and the handful of ladies in the restroom just stood and watch him take off, as I tried to get my pants up.
Luckily my husband was just coming out of the mens room and caught him, but what could those other women have been thinking?!
Just another reason that I choose to live here in Petaluma, where I’ve found that people in my community are more likely to help me, in a pinch like that, and not just stand and stare stupidly while my son is at risk of becoming another statistic.
Kudos to you, Petaluma, and well deserved, so please enjoy my 2 for one offer while you can, because you deserve it.
Your’s Truely
Sue Hirsch, CMT thankfully of Petaluma.