it's official

tomorrow if the first day of school and everyone - yes, all of my kids, will be in a full day of school, utilizing the same bus schedule and in the same school! Whoppee!

I know I won't be one of those moms armed with tissues as I see my youngest one off to Kindergarten, but I promise not to embarrass him by toting a bottle of champagne down to the bus stop, but gosh darn it will be good to stop "treading water" as I have been for the whole summer. Full-time work being juggled with three kids at home has made for a long, hot summer filled with much screaming. It will be good for all of us to get the heck out of the house and concentrate on something other than getting on each other's nerves!

buy, buy, buy....

Tickets will go fast, so don't get caught waiting in the long line to get in and then find out the place is sold out...order your tickets online today.



DCmom scored great stuff last year at this event - awesome brown boots that totally rocked - as did the price - a couple of pashmina scarfs that I intended to give as gifts but kept for myself instead - and last but not least several James Perse tees that I LOVE and LIVE in for cheap!

new awesome blog

Ok ladies of DC, new blog is out there in the blogsphere which is handy to all of us in the greater metro DC area. Joyce of That Mom, Inc. has started a blog where she lets us know about locally recommended services!

You can send in your own recommendations too and maybe you'll see it in print - whee...everyone loves to see themselves in print!

best chairs ever...

Ok, so I don't get out to get a manicure as frequently as I used to...but I recently got a mani/ped in at Nails by Timothy in Rockville. Just walked in and happened to be luck out being one of the first customers to try out their brand-new pedicure massage chairs. Ladies, these are the ones!

First, these recline, second they massage you everywhere, not just that annoying lower back machine grunt the other places have, plus the headrest cradles your head, so away into la la land you go.

Awesome, awesome, awesome and no, they did not up the price for a pedicure - even better.

Nails by Timothy in the Wintergreen Plaza on Rockville Pike, Rockville. Call at 301.309.0329

kids say the sweetest things

returned from a big day out at the pool, minature golf and the mecca - Costco. Everyone collapsed when we arrived home except for my oldest daughter. always the Energizer bunny she nicely asked her younger sister "Do you want to play upstairs with me?" her sister didn't respond so my daughter walked out of the room. my son (the youngest) promptly popped up his head from the couch and yelled after her, "You can ask me!"

Ahhhhh.....

back from vacation

took a quick trip to the beach with hubby and kids...we survived little sunburn, a maniac round of minature golf, a carousel ride, a whirlwind trip on "The Tornado", four days of fever between two kids and enough chicken fingers to croak a horse (as my mother likes to say)...

ah, but I must not forget Pokey, our new pet hermit crab who joined the family for less than 24 hours and then lost most of his legs during the arduous air-conditioned trip home in the car. We googled why this was happening and it is due to stress. Needless to say, Pokey has his own memorial in the backyard now and I scratch my head as to what is so stressful about life as a hermit crab....I must be missing something...