The Importance of CPR

EVERYBODY should know CPR. I was totally oblivious to the importance of CPR until my recent trip to Florida. My daughter Susan, the VP of Nanny Poppinz, teaches free CPR classes for her Nannies as well as the community. She invited me to come to her Saturday morning class. At first I turned her down as it started at 9 A.M. but then she threw in lunch so I decided to go. It was 4 intensive but fun hours. We practiced on dummies and each other and at the end we were all CPR certified.

Well the next night I went to a spring training game, Red Sox vs. the Yankees. It doesn't get any better than that! In the 8th inning a line drive ball came our way and hit the lady directly behind us. My daughter-in-law who is CPR trained sprung into action. She did all the stuff I had just learned! If she hadn't done it I would have, honest!

My point being - You can save a life, IF you know what to do!

My other daughter Sara, who owns a Nanny Poppinz in Arizona, also teaches CPR classes. I can't think of a better public service.

What Really is a Blog?

A couple of weeks ago my daughter Susan, Vice President of Nanny Poppinz asked me to blog for their website. She had been doing it but with the company growing in leaps and bounds she needed help. Fine but what exactly is blogging? This is NOT a silly question if you are in my age group which is somewhere between not remembering The Great Depression and remembering who Charlie Chan is. My dog's name was Trigger. I asked my best friend if she knew what blogging was and her answer was that it had something to do with computers. I got out my trusty dictionary and you know what, you can't look up a new word in an old dictionary. What is it with these new words? Who gets to decide to make up new words?

Then I started getting advice about what to blog about. My daughter sent articles from the Washington Post. My husband said to keep it about families, children, parents. After all it is for the Nanny Poppinz website! Does that mean I can't get rid of my angst about Brett Favre? Apparently I should be writing about topics that will cause discussion. Hopefully I will be able to do that. This should be fun.

New blogger in town

Hi,
I'm the new blogger. You can call me Oma, German for Grandma. This makes me Susan's mom, your former blogger. I am visiting her now in Florida and as soon as I get back to Wisconsin I'll be anxious to get started. Look for a new column in a couple of weeks.
All for now,
Oma