Winners!
I’m totally off my ‘game’ today because we were at the beach all weekend for Mother’s Day, got home late, and now my son has strep throat; we’ve been to the doctors’ and we’re home sick… great.
Anyway, I got 3 comments, 1 which I just accidentally deleted, but I know who it was- so I’m giving all the ladies who commented-
Stuffed Arties 
Enjoy! I’ll send them to you and drop them by your ‘blog bases’- but don’t worry- not for a few days-
I know you don’t want strep throat.
National Train Day At Union Station… It’s Free! And A Giveaway!
All Aboard Everyone! This Saturday at Union Station,
Amtrak is celebrating National Train Day!
It’s FREE and goes from 10am til 3pm!
American Idol Judge Randy Jackson is the National Train Day Spokesperson and will kick off the festivities!
There will be Train Equipment Displays for the kiddies to see trains up close and personal all day,
including the Georgia 300 (President Obama’s historic inaugural private train car)
National Train Day is a celebration for all trainiacs, especially the little engineers. Bring your kids and enjoy appearances by The Radio Disney Road Crew where kids – and former kids – can enjoy music, a dance party, interactive games, and receive giveaways. Magicians, face painters and educational hands-on activities will also be onsite, including interaction with real Amtrak employees such as train engineers and conductors.
NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY: Just leave a comment and you are entered to win a an ‘Artie’
I have 2 to give-away! “Artie” is a plushtoy leaf, wearing an Amtrak hat. Why a leaf you might be asking? It’s to help signify and spread the word of the environmental efficiency of train travel. The Department of Energy’s 2008 report says that Amtrak’s trains are 18% more efficient than commercial airlines & 24% more efficient than cars!
ALSO-
Here are some more all day events going on:
Trains Move our Economy Exhibit, the Go-Green Express, Honor the Bright Land: Trains and the Preservation of America’s Great Places, Amtrak – Enjoy the Journey, Snapshot Station and the Train Day Trading Post.
So, leave a comment and be entered to win an ‘ARTIE’ !
**This giveaway runs through Sunday at 6pm**
**Only open to DC Metro Area residents**
**Winners will be chosen by Random.org**
Take the Metro Train down to National Train Day!
My Presidential Sighting !!!
I’ve been so busy this week I haven’t had time to share my exciting Presidential news!
This past Friday evening, we decided at the last minute to have dinner at La Panetteria, it is a great little family-owned Italian restaurant in downtown Bethesda. We love this place- it is fantastic food and always welcoming!
So we are sitting there, facing the bay window out to the little Bethesda side-street, Cordell Ave, when-
a big motorcade comes passing by!
My husband commented, “That almost looks big enough to be the President’s.” We are both natives to the DC area, so we don’t get excited about motorcades and like to think we can guess what degree of dignitary it’s for, based on the amount of cars, SUVs and security.
“Yeah, but why would the President be in Bethesda… for dinner?” We laughed… and went back to eating.
We had a great time and headed to the next block to a parking garage where our car was parked.
AND THEN we saw a large group of people gathering… around Imagination Stage.
I went up to a guy standing there to ask what was going on, then a saw that the entire road was blocked,
“The President’s in there, with the girls.”
All of a sudden, This DC native got really excited! I mean, I CAN WALK to Imagination Stage.
Then the guy told me we wouldn’t be able to get out of the parking garage- UGH.
But I went up to the Secret Service and they told me ‘no problem’, the agents in the garage would just let us out on the other side of the garage. The Secret Service was so nice, (I think they’re especially nice when you are holding hands with a 5-year-old)…
But I totally appreciated it because most were decked out with guns and stuff and for them to be nice and polite in front of my little guy was cool…
It was also cool that the President and First Lady were at Imagination Stage for officially an ‘extracurricular event’ for Sasha…
and Imagination Stage is down the street!!!
Okay, so I didn’t actually SEE the President- but really close!
So, ‘Bethesda is the new Georgetown’… without the drunk college students- YEY!
DC Metro Moms Party with ‘Top Chef’ Spike at his ‘Good Stuff Eatery’
What do you get when you cross-
Good Food,
Beer,
MILKSHAKES,
A Bravo Top Chef,
and those wild and crazy DC Metro Mom Contributors?
Well, a FANTASTIC time, of course!
The place? Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill! Good Stuff? Are you kidding me?
I love this place- look up at my blog title… I love ‘good stuff’ !!
‘Bravo Top Chef’ contestant Spike Mendelsohn showed off his culinary skills last night for DC Metro Mom contributors. This is his new restaurant, specializing in burgers and fries and salads and other comfort food. I love that there are delicious milkshakes on the menu and
I especially love that I got carded when I ordered a beer!!
There’s Spike with some of our lovely DC Metro Mom Contributors…
He’s super nice, and talented- I loved my salad!
Everyone had fun; we always do when we get together…
Most of the seating is upstairs, I like this layout…
And there’s the infamous famous Jessica (A Parent In Silver Spring) holding her beer…
What a fabulous time: good food, good friends.
Spike’s new restaurant serves really good food and is reasonably priced…
AND he is working right now on opening a ‘pizza joint’ next door- SUPER COOL!
Thank you to Quaker Oats for appreciating Moms!
The Birds and The Bees and 5-Year-Olds
It was a normal day, matchbox cars everywhere, a nice afternoon, and then my 5-year-old son got up to go to the bathroom.
While he was going to the bathroom, he asked me, completely out-of-the-blue,
“Mom, why do girls sit down to go pee-pee?”
By the way, my son closes the bathroom door at friends’ houses, and out in public, but sometimes he ‘forgets’ at home… and I don’t make a big deal about this because I don’t want him to ‘feel embarrassed’ about his body, blah, blah, blah, psycho-babble, blah, blah, blah…
So I very matter-of-factly told him,
“Because girls have vaginas.”
I’ve told him this before, but he forgot, probably because he just doesn’t care that much.
“Faginas?” He asked with a funny look on his face.
“V-aginas.” I answered.
He started laughing,
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