For Sarina: May I Suggest

We're all delighted at every member's new baby, but since Jenna started this community where so many of us thrive, I hope we can do something special for Sarina, who was born March 2. (Like, if you've just emerged from under a rock, or perhaps solitary.)

I suggest that we all find something dated March 2, 2007 and find a way to get it to Jenna at our own expense. (Do we have a volunteer collection point staffed by someone who might then box it all up and send it on to Jenna?) Possibilities include

• The front page or section of your local paper, wherever in the world 'local' happens to be
• Movie listings for March 2
• The comics page
• TV Guide's daily listings, or the local paper's
• Shiny coins dated 2007, from any nation
• Advice column(s) for the day
• Horoscope for the day
• Your local want ads/classified ads
• Any current magazine, from Time or Newsweek to Star to Glamour to Variety to Weekly World News, so long as it's not 'adult' in nature. It needn't be in English, BTW
• Any silly fad item the kids (or grown-ups) are playing with where you are, so long as it's inexpensive
• A sampling of postage stamps available where you live
• Any other small thing that's tied to the day of Sarina's birth.

By the time she's nearing middle school, these things will seem interesting. When she's finishing high school, they'll be fascinating, almost like her own personal time capsule. And by the time she has her own family, I'm sure she'll see it as both her own treasure and evidence of how much so many people thought of her mom.

Maryn

I'm not at ease giving out someone else's address, so for the time being, how about if you just hang onto it?

Maryn, who hasn't yet attacked the stack of newspapers

I'm glad to see other people like this idea. My parents hung onto several old papers and magazines from around the time of our kids' births, and they love looking through them every so often.

Thanks, ChunkyC, for volunteering as collector.

So far, I think we have only US and Canadians. I'd hoped Sarina would receive a smattering of foreign-language papers or magazines, plus some coins. Anybody?

Maryn