I feel good, da na-na na-na na-nah!

I just donated to KFA (www.kidswithfoodallergies.org), the organization that supports parents of kids with food allergies. Its a great site - there is lots of support, knowledge, recipes that the members share.

If you use and like KFA, would you think about donating?

Public school lotterys .. argh!!

Our local school hasn't proved particularly good for J, so we knew we could apply to the S school district (the thing that is annoying is we live in S, but are in the R school district, whose schools are unfortunately not so good).

The S schools are charter schools; if you live in the school district you apply by lottery in March. Any spare spaces are then filled by a public lottery. Isn't that totally weird? A lottery to get a school placement? My hubby and me can't understand it. But the school districts are apparently so full, they allocate children to schools via a lottery system - no FIFO queue.

So I tried to drop off the lottery applications today, and the schools we requested transfer to are so full they aren't holding a public lottery this year. Argh!

This is all so BS. The amount of tax we pay should guarantee a reasonable school - not first rate, just reasonable. Not one with way below average test scores (only 40% of the students in grade 3 pass the English test).

I want my tax money back!

Am I nuts?

to worry about the new Nut counter/stand that Safeway is installing as a part of their store upgrade? It is big. Apparently people will be able to make their own nut butters.. and some of the nuts will be heated. It's right next to the fruit/vegetable section at the front of the store.. in fact you have to walk around it to get to the fruit&veg!

Do they have any idea what kind of horror that counter inspires in us Mums of kids with allergies?? I hope they don't have nuts in a bag for eating in the store, otherwise it will be truly horrific.. imagine contaminated fruit/veg, or a shopping cart with nut proteins all over it.

Luckily I don't take L grocery shopping, but I do feel worried for those parents that do have to take their allergic kids with them.

Would you be worried? Enough to no longer shop there?

Whats in a name?

Well, I seem to be saying 'not at the moment' alot to my kids. That and the fact I'm almost going mad (read nuts) over my child's life threatening food allergy to peanuts and tree nuts led to the name.

So what will I write about that others will find so interesting? I know food allergies consume a lot of my life.. so there will be FA stuff. What else? Not sure really. Stay tuned.. (god I feel so old! what are all the hip stuff to say these days?)

I never thought

I'd blog. Blogs seem to be a way to voyeristically give others a window into who you are and what you think. I didn't understand why people would want to publish their thoughts on the web. And to be honest, I still don't know why I'm doing this! Maybe I'm hoping for a cathartic experience. I also don't get why people would want to read the ravings of some lunatic they don't know and shouldn't really trust. But I'm finding myself reading others Blogs. Can it be so hard to do? Can I sound as interesting as some of the bloggers I follow?

Nah. Probably not, but why not blog anyway?