Archive for July, 2009
My kids have a summer camp program at their preschool. It is a really fun day camp. They spend most of the morning on the playground and they play in sprinklers and with water tables and there are a ton of crafts and activities for the all of the children.
Later in the day they go in and change into dry clothes and then they have lunch and play inside for a while.
You actually send your kid to school in a bathing suit in the morning. My kids adore it.
This morning I was helping out at school. (I don’t mean to insinuate that I was doing it out of the good of my heart, it is a cooperative preschool and I was on the schedule for today. I had no choice. I love being at their school, but not as much as I love going to the grocery store without anyone having a complete mental breakdown because I didn’t buy a bag of Doritos.) Since I was also getting ready for the day The Goon Squad got ready to go all by themselves.
It was fine. Sure, Ian was wearing his bathing suit backwards, but since I have learned to choose my battles and since he pretty much does that every day, I just let it go.
About an hour and a half later I was pushing my daughter on the swing when I noticed something odd.
She was wearing one of those bathing suits that is a one-piece but it has a huge cut out in the back. Near the top of the bottom of her swimsuit (you know what I am talking about) I saw that she appeared to be wearing a pair of panties.
“Claudia,” I said to her “Are you wearing underpants under your bathing suit?”
“Um,” she answered, as them she shoved her hand down the back of her pants “Yes.”
“Sweetie, you don’t have to wear underwear with a bathing suit. In fact, if you want to go play in the sprinklers I wish you wouldn’t.”
Since my powers of suggestion are so strong she immediately wanted to run under the sprinklers. We had to go to the restroom and remove the aforementioned underpants.
But since we had come directly from the playground I was empty handed.
And THAT is how I ended up walking around with Hello Kitty underpants in my pocket for four hours.
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5:16 pm |
July 29, 2009 | BlogHer
This happens to me every year.
I come back from BlogHer and suddenly I have nothing to say.
It is almost like I feel as if I have already told you everything.
In person.
I did forget one to tell you one thing. Claudia got her first loose tooth while I was in Chicago. I know it is completely unreasonable, but I feel like I should have been there.
Okay, I don’t want to talk about that anymore.
Look a these pretty pictures.
No, I can’t explain how I have 247 pictures and none of them are of me and my roommate.
I won’t even try to recap the week. It has been done already. Suffice it to say that I somehow avoided the swag mobs and I was so moved by my peers that I want to be a better writer. Don’t let anyone convince you that BlogHer isn’t worth it. I have been four years in a row now and I have gotten something different out of it every single year.
I mean that in a good way. These women inspire me. I don’t mean to be overdramatic about it, but I think the Community Keynote may have actually changed my life.
And unless my brother or my sister-in-law (who both got engaged this weekend – congratulations, guys) plan one of their weddings on August 7th (please don’t plan your wedding on August 7th) I’ll be in New York for my 5th BlogHer.
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8:38 pm |
Son of a…
Good Job Proofreaderson
Maybe some day these will be a collectors item. I sure hope so. I have 250 of them.
*sigh*
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2:15 pm |
I have been home with my twins for five years now.
I don’t mean to insinuate that we never leave the house. I don’t even mean to say that I haven’t gone on trips without them. I just mean that for for five years I have been the primary caregiver. I have either been a stay at home parent or a work at home parent for their entire lives.
I am fortunate enough to have a wonderful husband who doesn’t mind that I now travel for work. (Yes, I blog as a career. I know, life is tough, right?) I am also lucky enough to have parents and in-laws who are always ready and willing to help take care of our children whenever we need anything.
To be fair, sometimes they are willing to help even if we just want to do something. Yes, I am fully aware that I am one of the luckiest people in the world.
My point is that I spend a lot of time with my children. A LOT. Seriously, me and the kids are together ad nauseum. Sometimes it is nice for us to get away from each other. I need a break from them and they need a break from me.
Plus, when Grandma is with them all day long they get to do pretty much whatever they want. (I mean that in the nicest possible way. Grandparents are supposed to spoil their grandchildren. It is part of the circle of life.)
Usually when I travel for blogging business the kids don’t seem to miss me at all.
Somehow this time has been different. They are fine all day long, but at bedtime my son wants a lullaby.
The lullaby can only be sung by me.
Two nights ago it was in over in the quiet area by the restrooms at the Pittsburgh meet up. Last night it was in a corner near the front door of The Greenhouse Tavern. Tonight I stood in front of Lola singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to my son while my dining companions ate dessert.
I feel like Faith Hill in that old cell phone commercial that always made me so mad.
It is fun to go on road trips to blogging conventions. It is fun to be a grown up for a couple of days. I enjoy going for more than 24 hours without having anybody wipe their nose on my shirt and being able to go to the bathroom without having someone walk in who has an urgent need for a banana.
But even at BlogHer, where I can talk about social media and blogging platforms and streaming video I never stop being a mommy.
I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Cross posted on the MomRoadTrip site where Devra and I are currently driving to Chicago.
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12:01 am |
We’re on the road again.
I could explain this to you, but I’d rather have you explain it to me.
Because, well… look at it.
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4:48 pm |
