Have a SleepOver at The National Museum of Natural History!
Did You know that you can actually have a sleepover at the Museum of Natural History with your kids?!
You Can! The First One is this Friday!
Go to Smithsonian Sleepovers for ALL the information!
The Smithsonian Sleepovers will be
July 9,
July 31 and
Aug. 7 beginning at 7 p.m. and ending at 8:30 a.m. the next morning. Kids will experience the museum in a whole new way, discovering museum highlights during a guided tour, participating in scavenger hunts, watching an Imax film screening of Galapagos 3D and sleeping among the dinosaurs and a giant squid.
Ticket prices for the sleepovers are $125 for general admission and $115 for Resident Associate members. For groups of 20 people or more, there is a special reduced rate of $95. The price includes an evening snack, light breakfast, Imax film screening, T-shirt, scavenger hunt, arts and crafts activities, guided tour and exclusive access and activity in a special exhibit.
Children ages 8 to 12 may participate. There must be at least one adult for every three children in any group that registers. Chaperones must be 21 years or older. No adults without children. All participants must pre-register by calling The Smithsonian Associates at (202) 633-3030.
AGAIN, For more information and a schedule of events,
Visit Smithsonian Sleepovers!
What a great idea!
Get FREE Ice Cream on the 4th in Annapolis from the Cooking Channel
It’s Officially July 4th Weekend Now!
And what better way to celebrate a weekend of eating and being outside and loving BEING FREE (God Bless America!)
than with FREE ICE CREAM ON THE 4th!!
The Cooking Channel’s ice cream truck is on a cross-country tour this summer and is scheduled to make its stop in the DC Area to serve free ice cream on Summer’s biggest holiday, the 4th of July (how appropriate 
!!!
The truck will make its stop Sunday, July 4th from
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Annapolis Farmers Market located at 2002 Annapolis Mall (Westfield Annapolis Mall), Annapolis, MD 21401.
In keeping with the spirit of Cooking Channel, they are partnering with a different local artisanal ice cream shop in each city. In the DC Area, Dolcezza Artisanal Gelato will be the ice cream crew on hand to serve up FREE scoops. Dolcezza is a favorite, making hand-made gelato every morning using fresh ingredients from local farmers, creating a gelato with a perfect texture and exquisite taste.
BY THE WAY- I TRULY LOVE THIS GELATO !!!
Go Enjoy Annapolis and Your Free Ice Cream!
Happy 4th of July Weekend!!
Quotable Friday
“The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.”
What Fallen Officer Ayala’s Triplets Need and Where to Send It or Drop It Off
Lots of GREAT PEOPLE have been contacting me about donating things to the Ayala Triplets! Three Brand New HEALTHY GIRLS!
By the Way- I’m starting the hashtag #AyalaTriplets on twitter, to keep us organized- for all you tweeters out there!
Right now she needs
1. Monetary donations (see address below)
2. Gift cards- to Target, or Buy Buy Baby or even to Pizza Hut, etc. for dinners
3. Girl clothes- newborn to 6 months. (and premie if you have it)
4. AND newborn Diapers.
All the triplets are big for triplets, about 5 pounds each, and healthy !!!!!
NOW THE IMPORTANT PART-
FOR ALL DONATIONS RIGHT NOW —
1. CALL the Fraternal Order of Police at 301-948-4286 TO ARRANGE a drop off to:
Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 35
18512 Office Park Drive
Montgomery Village, MD 20886
Melissa has baby gear right now. She needs What Is On This List.
She WILL need clothes in the future,
So if you do have clothes that her son or the girls can grow into for example, 6 months from now,
I’m asking if you have room to store them for awhile, please do. If not, everyone understands, and we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. The FOP Lodge doesn’t have a lot of room right now to store things. Perhaps that will change. Everyone is getting organized; Melissa has just arrived home from the hospital healthy!
Thank You to EVERYONE who has contacted me… and the Montgomery County Police!
Please be patient as we All work together to help this Mom
This is not a 1 time effort. The Fraternal Order of Police will keep me updated when the triplets need things from time to time, and I will post it here. And send it out to the private email list which has started. To join this list, leave a comment below!
For Out-Of-Towners: Please send your donations to the FOP LODGE above. Please call them to tell them your donation is coming.
Please, for now, keep to the list above.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!
** If ANYONE has a contact at a diaper company, please leave a comment below or leave a comment in my ‘Contact Me’ page (if you only want me to read it).
Fallen Officer’s Widow’s Triplets Have Arrived- How you can HELP
As many around the DC Area know, we lost an officer a few months back…
His widow, Melissa Ayala has just given birth to TRIPLETS!
The good news is that she and the triplets are healthy.
Doctors, however, were unable to determine the gender of the babies before she gave birth- so now she has 3 BABY GIRLS
And only some… girl clothes…
Donations are starting to come in but she needs more
gently used clothes and diapers!!
So, I’m asking for help!
If you have any girl ‘stuff’ to spare- newborn- 6 months,
Please leave a comment below and you’ll be added to an email list to get updates on what Mrs. Ayala needs!
She also has a 17 month old son, so keep that in mind too!
If you would like to send a monetary donation to help this family,
You can send a check directly-
Checks made out to: MCLEORF (stands for Montgomery County Law Enforcement Officer Relief Fund)
Memo line of check: Ayala Family
Sent c/o Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 35
18512 Office Park Drive
Montgomery Village, MD 20886
100% of these donations go directly to help the family
** And please leave a comment if you have any baby clothes or toys to donate to Mrs. Ayala and her children**
Thank You for your support!
The Tide at the Beach
Yes, I think that’s it.
I think you get so relaxed at the beach because the sound of the waves
is the background music of the day and night.
Hope you’re not in an office today!
Ah, The Beach!
Ah, The Beach!
We’re at the beach this week. I’m sitting here on our porch- looking at the ocean.
It’s amazing how quickly you relax at the beach; I think it’s hearing the wonderful rumble of the tides at all times.
See Ya!
Quotable Friday
“All happy people are grateful.
Ungrateful people cannot be happy.
We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.”
DC Metro Moms is Closing… Sniff
It’s with a heavy heart… and SHOCK that I write
that DC Metro Moms is closing… for now.
We’ll continue in some capacity, we’re already working on it.
I love the women I’ve met throughout my time as a contributor
to DC Metro Moms.
And I thank DC Metro Moms for teaching me about online communities and social media. I’m shocked and saddened, and I’m also taking this as a life lesson and business lesson. I realize that social media and blogging communities take A TON more work than people think…
I’m keeping my eyes and ears open… and my heart open as we, DC Metro Mom contributors, go forward to stay together and work together- to keep moms and dads connected…
In the Nation’s Capital.
Graco and DC Metro Moms Donate 3 Car Seats to Fallen Officer’s Widow Expecting Triplets
It was my pleasure, on behalf of Graco and DC Metro Moms, to give the Montgomery County Police 3 brand new Graco car seats for Melissa Ayala, widow of Officer Hector Ayala, who died in the line of duty in April.
A Police Officer, who was also a dear friend of Hector Ayala, came to my home to pick them up and he also gave me some information to tell everyone in our community and beyond.
Melissa is doing as well as can be expected, and will most likely give birth this week. She and the babies are healthy, although she is in pain and discomfort (but we all know as mothers, that being pregnant with triplets cannot be easy).
I also learned that the gender of the babies is unknown, it’s been too hard to tell…
Yeah, I know. I swallowed hard learning that. Not only is this woman giving birth to triplets IMMINENTLY- without her husband- she doesn’t know any of their genders…
The Officer added that she is receiving baby stuff right now but he worries,
“When they’re 6 months…”
“When they’re 1…”
“When they’re 2…”
Okay. So this is tough…
THIS IS WHAT WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW.
- Melissa already has a 14 month old son, so she does have some boy stuff.
SHE HAS NO GIRL STUFF OR CLOTHES. We’ll know this week if she needs any girl stuff. I’ll let you know.
- If you have any baby or toddler toys, accessories, clothes, etc. that you were planning to give away, please consider putting them away for now, and giving them to the Ayala family.
- Please leave a comment if you want to be informed and/or involved in helping with donations to Mrs. Ayala and her triplets, and her son. I will save everyone’s email and periodically ask for specific things that she needs. The Montgomery County Police are contacting me when she has a need for something.
Also, if you have any contacts or relationships with companies that may be willing to donate their products to the triplets, please leave a comment and let me know.
Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers for the triplets, they have been passed on and it is a great comfort that the brand new car seats are ready for them. They will be safe when they are taken home from the hospital.
This all came to pass basically through tweets; our online community is strong. Let’s use our community to continue to help this mother.
Thank You for your kindness.
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