Leave car accidentally unlocked when running kids into preschool

Have credit and check cards and $500 digital camera stolen from car

Spend precious preschool time, reserved for work, on the phone with bank

Take $100 out of savings until fraud forms are filed and money reimbursed

Dude, I’m never writing a smug “oh look at me, learn from me, I’m such a saver” post ever again

I just received a very spirited email that cracked me up:

have you looked outside lady? we cant go to the park it is all wet n muddy. why dont you think of something better to do and look out your window so we know where we can go to. where can i take a kid to play inside or do something when it is wet. i bet you dont go to the park on a rainy day do you

Dear reader, I assure you that there are many other fun things to do this weekend that do not involve mud or soggy clothes. Just check the calendar for lots of kids exhibits, activities and children’s theater performances today and tomorrow – all indoors!

Happy weekending! And remember, I can see your IP address….

Apparently, there is another blog written by parents in Silver Spring sponsored by the Takoma/Silver Spring Voice online. This blog is called ApParently.

The Silver Bee in her great wisdom and kindness gently let me know this.

And I thought I was so original! I feel like that 17 year old who found out the perfect name she had for her band was already taken. (Or the 30-something one.)

ApParently has in its right sidebar the community calendar that is produced by the Voice and keeps the community thriving. The Voice’s calendar is awesome, I have been mining it for events since I moved to Silver Spring, and I was logging many of the events that they list onto this this blog’s humble calendar this weekend. I hope that is still OK and there are no hard feelings.

My blog is in no way an answer to or a criticism of main contributor Chris, the parent collective, their good work or their writing. I should have researched the title for my own blog a little better. I also believe the Voice is a super community publication and I so look forward to its hard copy presence on my lawn. I will add all of the Voice’s other good blogs to my reading as well. I hope you do too! Although I feel sheepish, I am also very excited to read these writers’ postings and archives.

I hope you feel that the more people in Silver Spring that are talking about the wonderful resources this area has to offer for our children, the better.

Mea culpa.