6th Annual "Peanut Butter and Jealous"

The 6th Annual "Peanut Butter and Jealous" was a hit! (Like the new the logo from this year's event? My personal graphic designer, who works at the Met, designed it. No, the knife does NOT look like a pregnancy test with peanut butter on it!) The committee all wore new T-shirts this year with this logo and we gave them to our caterer’s staff to wear too. Although, for some reason, most of the catering staff refused.

PAUSE: I got a few emails yesterday from some confused readers. They wanted to know why we were buying a lot of the supplies if we were having a caterer. Good question! In the past, vendors have donated to our cause (see previous posts about that). We only use the caterer to actually make the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on-site. The committee doesn’t do any of the manual labor. We make ourselves available for the press, live social media updates and on-site counseling for kids who might be confused why we’re trying to help.

After all that pop-up tent stress yesterday and it didn't even rain. Hallelujah! We used the 50 pop-up tents anyway. We shielded most of the 1,000 public school kids (not sure of the exact number, but it felt like that) from 4:00 p.m. destructive UV ray exposure. Someday, their aging, but wrinkle-free skin will thank us.

I have soooo many pics from this event, but the parents of these Ladera Ranch kids never let me post them on our nonprofit's website. I don't get it. First, those parents already make their kids attend public school (which is exactly why we do this event in the first place) and second, some of the parents' plastic surgeries actually look pretty good. If they're going to be at the event, why wouldn't they want to show off their doctors’ work and help refer more patients?

As usual, we had a fabulous turnout. No, Terri did NOT get her wish granted for organic peanut butter this year. (My budget was generous, but not that generous.) As I was standing by the sandwich tables and observing my surroundings (the houses in the low 700s, cars, lawns, outfits, shoes and backpacks), I thought to myself, “Why do people live like this?” Then I looked at the parents standing on their driveways or working in their garages and thought to myself (this time in even more disbelief), “If you don't have it all together, at least make it LOOK like you do to give your kids a fighting chance in this world." Seriously. I can't keep doing these events forever to make-up for what these parents in lower tax brackets haven't done for their kids.

If you’re one of the parents who watched from your driveway today and want to FEEL BETTER about your current economic status, here’s a tip: If you don't have it in the bank right now, it's called a LOAN (or take out a second mortgage, people).