New to Vermont and Waldorf school

[Kalimama]

I am a single (widowed) mom here in Orange county Vermont.
I moved up from New Jersey in December so that I could place my
three year old in a Waldorf school.

Am having trouble adjusting to the slower pace and the introverted scene.

Any one out there????????


:hippie Kalimama

[henna]

Hey Kalimama,

Welcome to Vermont! There does tend to be alot more going on in the summer, or at least when it isn't 30 below!!!:eek I am getting a little sick of the weather.

Anyway, where are you? I live in Woodbury, ~4 miles from Cabot. My son turned 3 December 4th and I am ~25 weeks with #2. What Waldorf school is your daughter going to? How is your son taking the move? There is a family Contra Dance in Woodbury next friday (2/21/03) interested? http://woodburystrings.home.att.net/contradance.htm

Blessings,
Sienna:love

[Kalimama]

Woke this morning it was -28:jaw!
I love my subaru, it keeps going and going.
My daughter Kali is 3 1/2 and she loves the Wellspring Waldorf
school in Chelsea were we live. And on her off days (Monday and Friday) I found a wonderful woman who runs an at home daycare on my route to Hanover where I work.

The Wellspring school is LOVELY!!!!
And Kali has a great new sense of herself and is developing great social skills as well as teaching me new songs and such that she is learning there.
She was in the Goddard preschool program in New Jersey which was the best I could find, but it was too academic for pre-schoolers (in my opinion) and I was looking for a Waldorf school.
Princeton NJ was the only one so I started looking elsewhere.
A couple I knew in NJ moved to Vermont and were bragging about the Wellspring school so I made my way up here and absolutely LOVE IT. It was so easy to cut my ties in NJ and find a place to live. The day I drove in from NJ to look around for rentals we (Kali & I) experienced a double rainbow. WOW! Kali had never seen a rainbow before so it was extra special. By 2 o'clock that afternoon we had a rental in the village and on Thanksgiving day we moved in. My son went to live with his father when he turned 12 as we planned when he was 1 year old(when we split up) so he's still in NJ but he was up for christmas and he really likes Vermont. He'll be back up for holidays and most of his summer vacation, so it's really only Kali and me here.

Chelsea is SE of Montpelier, I guess we are 1 hour from Cabot.

I don't contra dance yet. Since it seems to be the thing here I guess I need to learn it.

How is the belly growing?

I would be pregnant right now if my husband didn't pass away (7/01) from Melanoma.

I just love pregnant stories, so feel free to bend my E-ear.

Thanks so much for responding to my posting, this makes being at work so much more enjoyable.

Stay beautiful
Be well
Blessed be
Michele:lady

[gus'smama]

Hey! I live in Corinth. I know several people w/ kiddos in the nursery program at Wellspring (I have a 6mos baby and 10 yrs foster son who goes to the public school in town.) from your post, it sounds like you are working full time, but we have a playgroup on mondays.... We should figure out a way to connect.

[Bladestar5]

I live in Pittsford. It was below 0 the other day! We are moving to Florida come May, I cannot wait!!! I will miss VT, though. I have lived in VT most of my life.

[Kalimama]

:crying My manager just told me to end this posting because it is against corporate internet policy. Sooooooooo!

Should there be any sacred souls searching for me, I've found a safe haven in Orange County, Vermont. The air is light and crisp,
the water is clean and plentiful, the trees (so many trees) stand
as guardians, it's very comforting.

As I roll around the mountainside, the rough edges (chiseled from years of harsh reality) are softening, re-shaping.

I am eager for the mornings, each new day brings me closer to a me I have been longing for. Calm, courageous, competent me.

If you run into me rolling around with a silly grin on my face, know that I am the recipient of many blessings and all is well in my world! :rotflmao

Blessings to you all!

[abranger]

My best friend lives in Washington Vermont and she has a daughter 4 and I son 6. her Husband owns the Farmer's Diner on Main Street in Barre. I sent her this post and she asked me to give you her numbers. Her name is Pam Van Deursen and I sent you a personal message with her phone numbers.

Amy Branger

[sohj]

as soon as the house gets built.

Start getting Behind the Times (published once a month in Bradford) and keep up on local gossip. READ the selectmans reports ... It'll take a while to catch on but they are a wealth of info. Get Frank Bryan's books (available at Northern Lights in St. J....great place for a sandwich, too.) they're funny and true about vermont. Also, the Journal Opinion...once a week...it irritates me but it helps me to know what some people are up to. Also, after you've been there for a while, you will, with any luck, learn that y'all gotta pull together, wellspring school or oxbow high. Please don't shut yourself off in the "alternative environment", as a couple of transplants I know have, unfortunately, done. You'll really miss out on some great people. On the other hand, people kinda keep a respectful distance (for years sometimes) but that's no insult.

And, as it is coming up soon: don't forget to go to Town Meeting, just don't make a motion until you've live there a few years. If local politics is your thing, buy a copy of Roberts Rules of Order and MEMORIZE it!

Welcome to the greatest little republic in the world!!!!:thumb

Your's suffering in NYC for my profession.

---Sarah