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A good friend of mine (a mama of a 2 y/o) just launched her professional organizing business. She is specializing in nurseries and baby rooms. She has a beautiful web-site, www.respacedpdx.com. I always get great tips and events from this web-site so I thought I'd share one.
A couple of us mamas are starting a play group in NE Portland and we're looking for a few more kids to participate. The group is for toddlers aged 18-24 months (with a little wiggle room on either side). The group will be supervised by a play group teacher, who has a great deal of previous experience working with young children. The group will consist of a lot of free play, with some story-reading, singing, outdoor play, art, music and other semi-structured activities.
The group will:
Please email me soon at palight_2000@yahoo.com if you'd like to learn more, or if you know this interests your family. Thanks!
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TriMet will be closing the Steel Bridge for trackway improvements from August 2 - August 23. To encourage riders to utilize other modes of transportation to cross the river during that time, we will hold a media event on Sunday, August 3rd at 11 am. Called an "Options Parade," we will have various modes of transportation crossing the lower deck of the Steel Bridge. Would pdxMamas like to participate with a stroller or two?
Please email Leslie Mylius at myliusl@trimet.org at TriMet to discuss further. We would love to see you on August 3rd! (open to the first four respondents)
Hi Urban Mamas!
I am writing from Northern Light Productions, we are working on a documentary about land-use in Portland- for a series called "Making Sense of Place."
We are looking to profile a "happy urban family" that city planning works for- a family that rides the MAX everywhere- to work, to take children to the park and daycare, etc. If you know of anyone, please send them this email. Feel free to write with any questions. I know it is short notice, but we are in town filming this weekend, if anyone is available this weekend.
Thank you,
Jenny Alexander
activevistamedia@gmail.com
Northern LIght Productions
http://www.nlprod.com
(Boston-based documentaries and museum pieces)
Be a part of the successful SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) early literacy program. Volunteer position, starting September 2, 2008 through May 30, 2009. Volunteer one to four days a week with most programs requiring 3-6 hours a day. Positions available in public elementary schools in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties. Site coordinator is responsible for implementing the SMART program at assigned school, including scheduling, managing and retaining volunteer readers. Works in cooperation with the school community. We will continue interviewing throughout the program year until all positions are filled.
For job description see: http://www.getsmartoregon.org
Email, fax, or mail cover letter and resume to:
Metro SMART
700 NE Multnomah, Ste 330, Portland, OR 97232
Fax 503 230 2966
Phone 503 230 2944 x 22
email brozell@getsmartoregon.org
Attn: Barbara Rozell
Raising a family can be one the of greatest joys in life. It can also bring challenges to the relationship with your partner. It can be quite a change to go from "we to three." Whether you're first time parents or expanding your family, it can be tough to adjust to a new person in the house. I can help you communicate, understand and cope.
Raising a child, as we all know, takes a village. Turns out writing
and supporting a blog does, too. More and more all the time, in fact.
So, while we here at Activistas are really passionate on the issues,
try hard to stay up on them (not always successfully), and like to
think we're terrific writers, web wizards we are not.
That's where you come in. If. You're a Supah-Dupah Web Wizard. RU? Or do you know someone who is? Someone who either already or just might think we're da bomb (strangely enough not everyone does!), and want to help with some blog support... unpaid??? It's summer and all, so maybe someone out there somewhere in blogville needs an unpaid internship, a way to show off her design and web building prowess. We're here, waiting (not so) patiently for your email. Sure, we can keep doing this for awhile, but it would all be better and we'd lose the bags under our eyes if you would just save us from our own fabulous, multitudinous ideas and aspirations.
We are Activistas. And we thank you. As do our beyond-patient families.
Angie Wynne, founder of the popular frugal parenting website, Baby Cheapskate, recently announced the Portland arrival of Freepeats.org, an online forum which allows parents to pick up gently-used baby, kid, and maternity items for free from nearby parents who have finished with them.
"Preparing for a baby's arrival is expensive," says Wynne, "and so is raising one. Common estimates put the cost at $10,000 in the first year alone. And this is at a time when many families are trying to get by on one parent's income. At the same time, many of the expensive baby items parents spend their money on get used only for a very short time. There's still plenty of life left in them. If parents can find good-condition second-hand clothing, toys, and gear, they'll shave hundreds of dollars or more off that $10,000 total. Besides that, we'll keep usable items out of the landfills."
Freepeats opened in the Portland area on July 16. Freepeats groups are also up and running in 24 other major U.S. cities. Wynne plans to open a dozen more Freepeats forums in metro areas throughout the U.S. during 2008. "I want parents all across the country to have access to the savings that Freepeats offers," Wynne says. "We're opening the forums just as fast as we can."
Portland-area residents who join Freepeats before August 1 will receive a free lifetime membership. After that, there's be a $4.95 one-time membership fee. Meanwhile, it is Wynne's hope that residents will get hundreds of dollars' worth of gently-used baby items for the price of the cost of the gas it takes to go pick them up locally.
Freepeats has now registered more than 5000 members. Offerings have included bouncers, swings, cribs, infant formula, baby and toddler clothing, zoo tickets, diapers, strollers, high chairs, baby gyms, parenting books, toys, and more. The site has been featured at Discovery.com's Planet Green website, Apartment Therapy.com, Nickelodeon's Parents Connect website, Green Deals Daily, and more.
I host in home wine tasting parties. What a great way to relax, take some time for yourself, and enjoy the company of your family and friends. We provide exclusive, limited production wines in the comfort of your own home. This is a fun addition to any gathering (book club, girls night out, dinner party, business social, etc.) Choose from whites, reds, or mixed. As the host you receive special discounts and gifts, plus 6 bottles of wine to sample at your tasting for $59 (a $120 value). Please check out my website at http://www.wineshopathome.com/amberferschweiler for more information or email me at amber.fer@verizon.net to book your date! My summer calendar is filling up fast.
Also, the first person to email me with a confirmed date will receive your tasting sampler for FREE!
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