I'm a DC-area mother with an over-developed sense of irreverence, ADD, socialist tendencies and a blog. All my opinions are entirely my own and not representative of anything officially sanctioned by any political party, my mother, or arbiters of common sense and good taste.
This weekend, we were hitting the kids music scene and rockin’ out! Saturday morning, I made a solo trip to Jammin’ Java in Vienna, VA to check out the Science You Can Sing To Swamp Stomp Boogie event presented by the Curiosity Zone. The Curiosity Zone, according to a lovely woman named Leslie who works there and invited me to the concert, is a science learning center that provides hands-on curriculum to enhance what kids…
Click here to enter the Modern Bird Studios custom art giveaway! *** I have been to Mommyland. And I will never be the same. As you might recall, the ever-so-fabulous Kate and Lydia of Rants from Mommyland invited me to participate in their t-box taste test n Friday night, which set me all a-flutter. I mean Kate and Lydia are amazing. They write the funniest stuff ever and make me feel like I’m not the…
I apologize in advance for having no photos for this post. I was busy participating and opted not to take pictures. Let me tell you something about C. He. Loves. Sports. LOVES them. Has since he first laid eye on a ball. We didn’t tell him that football is the coolest thing ever (though we would have eventually and we are teaching him to chant O-H-I-O). He just figured out all on his own that…
This weekend wasn’t particularly adventurous. There was a lot of running to and fro but within the ordinary there were some highs and lows. Being the generous soul that I am, I am going to share some highlights and lowlights from my weekend with you now. High: C. slept until 7:45 Saturday morning. He never sleeps that late unless it’s a weekday and at least one of us needs to be in to work early…
Every spring, DC boasts of one the most beautiful natural phenomena on the eastern seaboard: The National Cherry Blossom Festival. Cherry trees, many of them gifts from the government of Japan, rim the Tidal Basin near the National Mall and each spring they burst forth in a kind of pink glory unrivaled by any Disney Princess. It is a wonder to behold and I highly recommend finding pictures of the event and looking at them. …
If you had stopped by my house on Friday night you would have found me, limp and spent, swilling cheap Australian Pinto Noir and trying to work the aches out of my neck. Why? Because we went to the circus. It was not my idea. It was the daycare field trip. The Toddler and Two Year Old rooms were gonna go to the circus and damned if I was going to let my kid be…
This weekend C. was my date to a tiny tots puppet show at the Puppet Co. Playhouse at Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, MD. The Great Guy I Married sacrificed his Saturday morning the worthy cause of cleaning out our storage unit so he missed a stellar performance of The Teddy Bear’s Picnic by puppeteer Bob Brown. The Puppet Co. Playhouse is a cute little space in one of the art-deco buildings in Glen…
“Oooooo!” you’re thinking. “The National Aquarium! I’ve heard of that! It’s supposed to be fabulous, all nestled in the Inner Harbor in Baltimore near restaurants and shops and Camden Yards and it has dolphin shows and…” Yeah. No. We didn’t go to that one. We went to the DC location which is in the bottom floor of – I can’t make this up – the US Department of Commerce. Apparently, even the fish in DC…
I’m not totally sure how today is going to shape up. The cause of my unease? I’m only 80% certain I remembered to put deodorant on this morning. Sure, I have a travel size deodorant in my desk for just such occasions but it’s the principle of the thing. If I’m forgetting to sanitize my pits, what could be next? It’s tempting, on mornings like this to declare immediate defeat and discard all the trappings…
