I LOOK LIKE WHO?
Ummmm, okay. I went to the My Heritage website to see which celebrities I most resemble. As you can see- the results are in from scanning my face and the celebrity I MOST resemble is… RON LIVINGSTON ?! Our faces are 71% similiar…
Don’t get me wrong- I think Ron Livingston is a good-looking guy and a very good actor,
BUT HE IS A GUY. I always thought I was more feminine looking than Ron…
And how do I resemble Rosanne Barr AND Rachel Hunter?
THANKS TO STIMEYLAND, a great mom blogger for turning me on to this site 
THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO EVER!
This is an awesome video. It’s the first video I’ve ever put on my blog. It’s 4 minutes long… sometimes an eternity for a blogger, but this video is worth it. It will make you smile and may bring a joyous tear to your eye. I’m not kidding.
So click on it and watch. No one is so busy that they don’t have 4 minutes to become inspired…
and by all things- just dancing… NOW CLICK.
This is Matt Harding. Check out his website to find out where he is now and watch equally entertaining and fun outtakes.
* Special thanks to Peter Shankman, the PR Guru for sharing this!
A SHOUT-OUT TO GIANT FOOD
I have to do a Shout-Out to Giant Food. Their stores look great, employees are SO helpful and they’ve undergone BIG changes…
I went to a great lunch downtown sponsored by Giant some weeks ago, in anticipation of their new logo and all the new stuff they are adding to make mealtime simpler for moms.
I left the next week for the beach. After arriving at our rental house and dropping our stuff down, my mom and I headed to the relatively new Giant down at Bethany Beach. It was enormous and beautiful, and (GASP) had THE DELI KIOSK!!! As I wrote in my previous post about Giant, the idea of deli kiosk is cool, but it’s amazing in ‘real life’.
You swipe your Giant card, enter what you want from the deli, and they announce your order is ready over a loudspeaker system in the store. Could anything be more cool?
Okay, I’m calming down.
Then I returned home from the beach to a big stack of mail. In it I got coupons from Giant, including one for a free reusable bag! Everybody knows that everybody likes free stuff and Giant knows that MOMS like to know about good stuff we can use…
SO, I then headed over to a newly-renovated Giant down Old Georgetown Road a bit. I pulled in a parking space and was helping my little guy out of our car when a Bentley pulled into the space facing us… A little old lady was helped out and walked eagerly toward the new Giant on opening day of the renovation. I thought to myself,
“Giant is doing something right, if a woman is being driven in her Bentley to check out their new store.”
The new store is awesome- with a deli kiosk- and really, some great new prepared foods.
Thanks to Giant for making their stores more family friendly and adding products that may help moms tackle nightly mealtime! Go to their website to learn more and don’t forget about their SIMPLY ENJOY brand- I love it.
Now all I have to do is encourage my Giant on Arlington Road in Bethesda to get a deli kiosk too!
THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER VICTORY
I intended for this to be our BIG POOL SUMMER. I thought my son would be ready to swim on his own and we would actually be able to play, play, play at our neighborhood pool.
Not the baby pool, THE POOL.
Well, intentions are just that. Sometimes they don’t happen.
Sometimes I intend on reading all evening with a good book, sometimes I intend to make a lavish meal during the week- these things don’t always happen either.
During the winter we hit a possible crimp in my BIG POOL PLANS…
My son got tubes in his ears. So what did I do? I had him fitted for custom made earplugs AND got puddy-like earplugs in case he liked those better, and thought we were set.
The only problem was that my 4-year-old son couldn’t stand earplugs in his ears. And I wasn’t surprised. He takes a long time to adjust to something new, as well as being a little stubborn (um… just like his mom).
To make a long story short, we spent the whole summer going back and forth about the earplugs; to my chagrin, I gave in and just held him in the big pool while he tried to swim, keeping his head above water , while crossing my fingers and praying that no water would get into his inner ear canal.
Fast forward to the beach, the second to last week of summer: To go in the waves he absolutely needed earplugs. We sat on the beach, I was thinking good thoughts (please , please). He loves the ocean, he saw it in front of him, he reminded me of a race horse wanting to run as fast as he could into the surf…
“You have to wear your earplugs, I’ve got them right here.”
“Okay.” He replied, as he sat down, criss-cross applesauce and patiently waited for me to put in his earplugs.
DONE.
Are you kidding me? It was that easy?? Then he ‘decided’ that he loves his earplugs…
And finally, on Labor Day, at the pool, he wore his safety vest, his earplugs and swam (for a few feet),
IN THE BIG POOL.
That was our last day of summer vacation.
UGH! I’m filing this away for future debates/compromises/deals/motivations/bribes .
Well, we’re definitely ready for next summer.
BACK TO SCHOOL AND BACK TO BUSINESS
We’re back;
back to school, back to business, back to basics.
I’m psyched, it’s the start of another season and another excuse to de-clutter and reorganize.
My son likes his teacher, We love the school and he has a lot of old and new friends in his class.
Life is good;
Of course, this was the first day of his last year of preschool… And he only went today from
10:00 – 10:55am.
GOOD STUFF, BUT I KNOW I’LL MISS MY ‘LUNCH DATE’
Even though it is a rainy Friday afternoon, I’m excited.
We’ve had a great and busy summer and school starts on Tuesday.
I’ve been savoring every lunch with my son this week
because this has been the last week that I will be able to eat lunch with him… he goes to preschool EVERY day this fall for the first time, not just Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
I’m going to miss my ‘lunch date’,
but I’m happy he’s growing up to be a little man and that he is excited for school.
I’m also happy that the start of school means that Autumn is not far away;
Autumn is my FAVORITE SEASON!
My opinion (of course, it’s my blog): Autumn is the most beautiful season and has the best smells…
and the best holidays!
MY LAST VACATION WEEK
I know a lot of people are back to school… My son is not.
His preschool starts next week, the day after Labor Day.
So I am keeping away from the computer as much as possible until September 2nd…
Until then I will share with you musings or insights or observations…
“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.” ~Rajneesh
WHY AM I TIRED?
We’re home from the beach. We had a great week with PERFECT WEATHER!
This morning my son and I went on a brisk walk(with the jogging stroller),
got school shoes (note to self: NEVER wait til the week before school to go to the area’s best and most popular kid shoe store; you will end up going next door to the toy store and buying your son a toy to play with while you wait),
had lunch, did a little grocery shopping and went to Cabin John Park.
Right now I’m on my 4th load of laundry.
I spent all last week lounging on the beach…
so why am I so tired?
GONE TO THE BEACH!
I am at the beach this week… in a big beach house
with my parents,
my brother and his wife, their 1 1/2 year-old son
and my husband and 4 1/2 year-old son.
I’ll try to post when I can although I cannot promise because we are all going to be fighting over the dial-up- no wi-fi.
On a cheery note- I have not been to the beach FOR A WEEK in 2 years…
I’m looking forward to making sandcastles,
sitting in my beach chair… and that’s about it
GIANT FOOD RECOGNIZES MOMS
I had the absolute pleasure of attending a luncheon sponsored by
Giant Food down at Chef Geoff’s downtown on Tuesday.
Giant Food wants us to know that they love moms.
Frankly, they should; Moms spend the most money in the household and let’s face it-
moms just about always do the grocery shopping.
Everyone should love moms, but that’s a post for another day…
Getting back to Tuesday: Yey- Giant!
We learned lots of incredibly good stuff that is going on at Giant right now,
Got a fabulous and relatively easy lesson from Chef Geoff about making risotto (above),
While having a fabulous lunch.
A few highlights before I head off to the beach:
Prepared foods: Giant will be introducing about 100 new prepared foods in the coming month to help Moms out… including New Rotisserie Chickens!
Simply Enjoy IS A GIANT BRAND! This rocks. This is the only brand brand of spaghetti sauce I use, it’s delicious.
Deli kiosk: this is up there for me with the dawn of baby monitors.
I literally gasped during lunch and had to lay my hands on my chest to regulate my breathing I was so excited. Someday very soon you will be able to go to your local Giant, go to the deli counter, type in what you want… and leave.
When your lunchmeat and cheeses are ready you will hear your name announced on the loud speaker and then all you do is go back to the deli and pick it up! Can you imagine the fabulosity of this? It makes the world a better place… in a little way.
Much more about great things happening at Giant after I get back;
…And I’m trying Peapod- more on that too.
Post Script: Moms out there and especially DC Metro Moms –
give a big SHOUT-OUT of congratulations to Chef Geoff Tracy and his great wife for the birth of their little girl, born just 6 weeks ago… and just 12 months after her twin brother and sister.
Sending lots of wishes for lots and lots of sleep ☺
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