Fascinating Parents at The Little Gym

Each semester, we welcome families back and welcome new members to The Little Gym.  In our announcements we ask (challenge!) parents to get to know each other.  You'll be sitting next to each other for 19 weeks, and we have fascinating parents who come to the gym.   We've had Trailblazer families, local TV personalities and producers,  parents in all sorts of professions and into all sorts of hobbies.  By saying hello, you never know who you'll meet.

In January of this year, we a Dad came in to try a class with his 2 year old.  He said that grandmother (his mother) would be coming to class too. She was visiting from out of town.  When she arrived, I asked where she was from.  She said Massachusetts. (I am too.)  I asked where.  She said Natick. (I am too.)  It turns out that her son who was in The Little Gym class, graduated from my high school 2 years ahead of me.  We enjoyed trying to find connections from the past.

Just this past Monday, at my son's very first Cub Scout pack meeting, I was standing next to another Dad as the new Tiger Cubs were doing some running races.  We got to talking and I found out that he had moved out to West Linn over the summer and was from Massachusetts...  yes... Natick too.  He graduated the year before me.  He also went to the same college as me (Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts) with the same major.

That's quite a coincidence that I ran into two others from Natick, Massachusetts, a fairly small town in the suburbs of Boston. 

So next time, you're at The Little Gym, say hello to another parent.  Ask if they're originally from Portland.  Find out what they do, or what hobbies they have.  You just might meet a *really* fascinating person, or perhaps an old (or new) friend!