Ah ha! According to the League, talks are scheduled to resume tomorrow morning.

Oh they'd better resume. Or the head of the union is going to have to call my kid personally to explain why he ruined her birthday.

She can STILL have a special day in the city without the Lion King.... there's a mythical creatures exhibit at the Museum of Natural History for an extra fee and I think the living butterflies are included in the price of the regular ticket. The Children's Museum is also nearby---though personally, I think Dora the Explorer is poorly animated.

I haven't been back since that one time (and have no idea what the food is like now), but the balloon placed at my seat at Tavern on the Green was so gorgeous that I saved the scrap when it deflated.

If she likes the American Girls, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum has a living history guided tour suitable for 5 and up which tells the story of a real one.


When do you come into the city?

Oh I know there's lots to do, brujita. It's just that seeing the show is her actual birthday present. It's the point of the trip. We haven't made any actual plans yet. I'm waiting to see how the strike plays out. Hopefully early January.

I checked ticketmaster and the national tour is in Detroit between January 2-6. The choice might have to be presented to her whether she would rather see the play or come to NY.

I am quietly laughing to myself about "Tess" the American Tenement Girl. Since daughter had both Molly and Josefina, my mind is busy filling out Tess's backstory.

Up to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, at least.

AMERICAN GIRL STORE AMERICAN GIRL STORE! I dragged Stynx there last Friday night. Showed him all the stuff I wanted as a kid, lol. It's so beaaaaautiful.

There was an article in Lilith some years back about Jewish girls and their AG dolls partly discussing why {there still hasn't been}one which reflects them. At the time the publishers said they "were considering it"; the titles of the latest set featuring a young blonde girl which don't follow the model of the past (no Christmas book in this series) seem to indicate this.One young woman accomodated by making hers a tinfoil Star of David necklace. There was also a sidebar with suggestions for a Jewish girl series: Conversa in New Spain, Holocaust survivor whose family had been assimilated, North African, Eastern European immigrant---although Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family already did this.


I like the books, but I agree that selling overpriced merchandise for a character making ends meet during the Depression is a contradiction.


Starting about sixty years ago, Lois Lenski went all over the country researching information which became her books about American kids; one of which won the Newbery.

I like the books, but I agree that selling overpriced merchandise for a character making ends meet during the Depression is a contradiction.

Yea, it is pretty ridiculous.