Friday Bunny Blogging

This is my fifteen-month-old niece making a break for it! She is clever! She is wily! She wears the Bunnysuit of Supreme Adorability! I don't even like children all that much (except in a white wine/butter sauce, but that's not important right now). Yet I couldn't quit squealing with glee and resume my surly ways for half an hour after I saw the photo. No one's sure but I might've even briefly quit complaining. It's all a blur!

Flee! Flee!

Miss Sasha is in her charming twenties so I have no school-age children to fuss over, except secondhand. And I'm selfish enough to want decent care when I get to the Old Punks Home, where we'll all wear torn-up black nightgowns, compare tats and shout, "ANARCHY!" until suppertime and Matlock. A few years ago, when friends who taught grade school mentioned it in passing, I stumbled on two programs. Box Tops for Education lets you choose a participating school anywhere and support it financially. Labels for Education has a similar program, more focused on supplies and equipment. The thing is: you can participate in both programs for the same school or different schools. All you have to do is give the sites a look-see, decide what you'd like to do and what level of involvement you'd like. I collect labels for a teacher I adore in a not-wealthy school system. The box tops are a different story. I collect them for a public school in New Brunswick you just know is underfunded.

Collecting these labels and box tops is an absolute cinch, since you buy some of these products anyway. Just put a shiny little gift bag in one corner of your kitchen counter and toss them in. When you have a bunch, put them in an envelope. Hand them to your favorite teacher! Mail them to your school's coordinator. This might cost you $.37, but if we all do it, it could make a big difference to the kids who will someday wipe our butts.

Plus, I now realize that I want a bunnysuit. With a fiery passion, I want that.