Porch Sitting

I found out about the Professional Porch Sitters Union, and I am impressed. Well, it is just not worth going into how I found out about this fine organization- the Porch Sitters' Union- and I am not even sure that I could retrace my path through the mass of debt reduction and body part enlarging information that is the Internet. When a baby who was crying is not crying, and it is 2:00am, you do just about anything to keep up the not crying, including sitting very still, holding said baby until he finally decides that it is in fact night time, and he might dane to nap a bit. About a month ago, Son and I were doing this 2:00am thing, and I was poking around and reading all sorts of stuff (I can now make both an origami Christmas tree and a Perfect Manhattan Cocktail, should I ever need either), when I came across the NPR piece about the PPSU. (this part I can retrace- I was thinking about taking a class in Louisville and was wondering what there is to do there, other than study). I must confess, we do not have a porch as such. We have a sort of concrete slab type thing with a couple of stairs leading to a sidewalk. As we are now renting, I have no intention of building a porch onto this sort-of-ugly house. But, should our house EVER sell, we will get a nice big porch, with a swing or a little settee and some chairs. Until then, we have declared our slab to be a porch surrogate, and have have created PPSU chapter 712. My daughter is the Chair of the Committee for the Selection of Acceptable Snacks, my son is the secretary, which works out well, as I have no interest in keeping and reading minutes, and he cannot yet hold a crayon. My husband sits on the snack committee, and I am in charge of everything, as it should and always will be. Today our chapter is on a bit of hiatus- it is brutally cold, and the snack Chair noted that the porch makes her fanny cold. But, the weather here changes like, well, the weather, and we will be back outside this week. This really is a fine idea. It's funny how we all need a reminder to sit a bit, chat with neighbors- even now that I not working, and just raising kids (JUST raising kids, so funny, oh my I may have to sit down it is so funny).