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Chuck E. Cheese Tickets

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Aug 142011

Last week at BlogHer11 (yes, I am still talking about my trip!) I got to do the coolest thing. Well, I got to do a lot of cool things, but one of the best was getting to go in the Chuck E. Cheese Ticket Blaster! It is a lot harder than it looks and I only got about 15 tickets during my time in the blaster.

Very classy I know!

Now I must fill you in that I LOVE CHUCK E. CHEESE. Always have, most likely always will. I don’t know why really, but I do love taking the girls and watching them grow up through the games. Watching Elle having to be held on the helicopter while I pedal to make it fly to seeing her do it on her own just makes me burst with love and pride (cheesy, but true…the illustration and the pun.) So getting to go in the Ticket Blaster when it was not even my birthday was awesome!

I also got to try out the new picture machine. Gone are the black and white paper pictures of child and Chuck E. There are suave and sophisticated cards that identify me as a Hip Hop Dancer. They must have seen me bust-a-move at Sparklecorn.

An hour or so after my amazing blasting experience we were walking back to our room I glanced down. There was a Chuck E. Cheese ticket in between my bosoms. I had never thought to use them as a storage space! Okay, I have thrown my cell in a few times when I need two hands, but never had I used them for tickets. A great idea I must remember the next time I go play me some Skee-Ball.

Then later Julia found one by the toilet…I guess those tickets can hide just about anywhere!

Gotta love the Chuck man and his tickets.

Not actual ticket mentioned in the story.

: I like the B&W grainy look here.

Getting Ready For BlogHer11

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Jul 212011

Last year I piled in a car and drove with three other bloggers to NYC for BlogHer10. It was an amazing time. I got to meet lots of people, see a great city and learn some things about blogging as well as new products to share with you. I got a lot of free stuff. Free stuff for me is like Disney World! I also danced for the first time in a long time. It was all good.

I was teased a bit for going to a blogging conference as most folks don’t quite understand what it is all about. The BlogHer conference is about people. Meeting other people, learning about other people. It is about experiencing something new. It is about having a lot of fun with a lot of other women, some who identify strongly with me, others who teach me a different way to see things.

It is also a getaway from the daily normal, sometimes monotonous life that I cherish so much. I do love my life. I do get a bit bored at times. I think that most moms of young children would agree to that statement.

So off I go in a couple of weeks to San Diego. I will try sea kayaking for the first time (in a bay, so don’t worry too much about me), go to a fancy-party at the Museum of Art, attend sessions on improving my writing (grammar stinks people) and I will listen to other people’s words and see where they are coming from.

I’m also going to a party where it is required to wear a cheeseburger bag on your head…they will be having a bar so I think this is doable! Rest assured, I’ll let you know all about it when I get back home!

It’s gonna be a great time with @FireMom and @OutNumberedMom!

Feeling Young

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Apr 192011

I don’t feel old. I’m not old. My body, however, is slowly telling me that I am in fact aging as the aches and pains appear faster and stay longer. Though I’ve never complained about age, I do know that it is obviously happening.

What this post is about though is feeling young. Really young. Like being a ten year old. I felt this yesterday for a few fleeting moments and they were wonderful. We went to an indoor water park and I hit the big water slides with Meg and Enu. I only rode them three times and they lasted a total of probably three minutes, but WOW.

There is nothing like being totally out of control speeding down a tunnel, in the dark. It is good stuff I tell you. The prickles of fear you start to feel at the beginning of the fall pulling you down into oblivion are out of this world. The same goes with roller coasters (another age disclaimer: As I have gotten older my equilibrium has gone to pot and I can no longer ride the latest and greatest mind-blowing roller coasters without being nauseous for hours). I just love the feeling.

My kids hate this about me and love it. They love that I will ride with them, they hate that I scream and laugh the entire time. I start laughing before I even sit down on the slide or buckle into a roller coaster. Laughing annoyingly. Screaming loud. It’s just me, I will not apologize and I will not stop laughing. My youthful feeling only lasts a few seconds and I will scream as long as it lasts.

What do you do to feel like a kid again?

Photo Credit

You Capture: Fun

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Jun 112010

This week Elle was out riding bikes with a neighbor. This is the first summer the kids have had neighborhood friends. It is so nice to hear them running back and forth from each others houses. We lived in the country with no close neighbors, save the grandparents, for the first four years of Elle’s life. Now she is a big five and a half year old running with the gang!

Still she has her sense of style as noted in this picture. Notice how the camo pants set off the purple and pink just so, with her summer dress blowing in the wind. At least she is wearing shoes now, even if they are rain boots!

Check out more You Capture at I Should Be Folding Laundry. Next weeks theme is Water. I should get some good shots at King’s Island this weekend.

Photo Credit: Mandy W. 2010

A Fun Thanksgiving Activity

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Nov 242009

I have to send the love over to FireMom at StopDropandBlog.com for this contest. It kept my kids busy when I needed them to be busy and we also are entered to win something and those who know me know that I love to win! Check out this coloring contest for a Christmas DVD. This DVD would be great for the kiddos to watch while I wrap gifts….or take a bath!

While your cooking the turkey (or watching mom cook the turkey) the kids can be coloring up a storm and get in t the mood for the upcoming Holiday Season.

*This picture was colored by the famous Mita who made her first snowman just last year and cannot ever recall watching Frosty the Snow Man (did we really miss it last year? Was I that busy?)