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Oh, What a Nite!

(Thanks for the photo, Kate!)

Thursday night’s much-anticipated Mom’s Nite Out party was everything my co-planner Tricia and I hoped it would be.  It was SO much fun – a beautiful space full of moms having a great time, relaxing, and being pampered.  Eating dinner they didn’t have to cook, having drinks made for them, and winning lots of COOL PRIZES!  Our sponsors, A Modern Eden, Good Samaritan Hospital, The Motherhood.com, Kroger and Subway really hit it out of the park!!  And our wonderful hosts, the crew at FORGE – treated us like queens, and made sure we were comfortable in their beautiful space. See?

But I am getting ahead of myself. Before we partied, there was the small matter of stuffing the swag bags. And by small I mean NOT SMALL AT ALL! We had a ton of great stuff, including bags provided be eBay and Kroger, and much, much more!
Thanks to all our great swag providers:

Mary Kay

Palmer’s Cocoa Butter (check out their new website!)

Suave

Cheryl & Co.

Crocs

Smashburger Dayton

Yoplait

Lia Sophia jewelry

Bounce Dryer Bar

Hip Fusion Designs (my fave mommy necklaces!)

Paperreka:: stationery design

I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter!

Your products made our swag bags phenomenal!

…and back to the FUN!  Here’s me talking to two of my fave local ladies, Amy in Ohio and Holly Michael of Good Samaritan Hospital (*cough* birthplace of Jenny Rapson *cough*), who as our Primary Sponsor really helped make the party amazing!  Please note the FORGE guys hard at word in the upper right corner mixing drinks for the ladies!

Oh, yes, we had drinks!

And wonderful, yummy subs and salads from Subway!

and delicious party trays from Kroger catering:

We also had some KILLER prizes!   We had so many, I swear 80% of the guests there won a prize!

But most of all, we had a FUN, carefree, friend-filled night. That’s what it’s all about!

Thanks again so much to our amazing sponsors who made this night of fun and celebration a real treat for us all!

Primary Sponsors:

Secondary Sponsors:

Product Sponsors:

And thanks to all the ladies who attended – we had an AMAZING turnout, sold-out, waiting-list, awesome, awesome, awesome time!! Can’t wait ’til next year!

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Growing Pains

So I am estimating that I am about 7 weeks pregnant (I go to the dr. next week, we’ll see what they say) and I am already having some growing pains.  But these are more of the HUNGER PAIN variety.  I am hungry all. the. time!

In a funny ironic twist, pregnancy tiredness has contributed to me sleeping better than usual (yay!!), that is, until I am awoken around 3 a.m. with HUNGER PAINS!

A middle-of-the-night bowl of cereal is quickly becoming a staple. Lucky Charms and Chocolate Cheerios are my current faves.  I find both to be magically delicious, as chocolate = marshmallows on the tasty magical scale.  But anyhoo!

I eat my snack, and then it takes me awhile to fall back to sleep, even after my belly is satiated.

It’s a vicious cycle!

I haven’t been pregnant in four years, and I’d kind of forgotten about this.  The hunger is kind of running my life right now (which is preferable to the vomiting which will surely be running it in a couple weeks. Ergh.)  Whereas I used to pretty much skip lunch every day, my lunches are now carefully planned and greedily consumed.  As is my afternoon snack, and sometimes, my second breakfast.  Don’t be too alarmed, though, I am actually eating much HEALTHIER than usual, too!  Since I fully expect to begin puking my guts out before too long, I want to get all the healthy calories into my body that I can.  (You know, in addition to the Mountain Dew I need to function.)

So, that’s where I’m at!  My little sesame-seed baby is already eating me out of house and home.  And bed!!

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May Day!!

We are less than a week into the month of May and this month is already stressin’ me the heck out!!  There is so much going on.  Much of it, well, almost all of it, I am super-excited about.  For instance, the party of the year, Dayton Mom’s Nite Out, which is happening TONIGHT!!   It is going to be soo awesome.  My car is currently loaded down with swag!!  And Tricia had TWO carloads!  And as soon as I finish this post, I am going to start getting ready for it.  Because there is still lots to do before 6:30 to make sure some deserving Dayton Moms have the best night out ever!

Then, this Saturday, Emily, Katie and I are speaking on a panel together at New Media Dayton.  Our session is called, “Blogs, Branding, and the Big Deal Moms”.  We are going to be talking about why we work with certain companies, how these relationships can be mutually beneficial, and also why we’re totally awesome!  It’s free and at the Pub at the Greene from 4-7.  Come on out and meet up!  You can register at the link above.

Next, we have Mother’s Day!  Which I am of course looking forward to, mainly because it means PRESENTS!!  And also a family gathering.  My family is really fun to be with – bonus!

After that, we have a wee break in the action before my cousin Anna’s baby shower, which Emily and I are throwing in a couple of weeks (isn’t she LUCKY!? Aren’t you JEALOUS!??)  That is also gonna be super-fun!  Even though Anna is so well-loved that she’s already had about 14 baby showers and there is almost nothing left to buy her.  Good thing there’s always cash, right Annie??

The next week is Memorial Day which is the kickoff of two major events for me every summer: 1) My husband’s sailing season starts in earnest (did ya know I married a sailor?  A sailboat sailor!)  and 2) My parents abandon me and go to Virginia for the summer.  (yes, mom, you SHOULD feel guilty!  I NEEEEEEED you!)

Also, I expect somewhere in between the New Media Dayton event and Anna’s baby shower, I’ll start puking my guts out 3-7 times a day thanks to my wee little baby in my belly.  Yippeeee!

SO, the crazy days of May are here!  What have YOU got going on?

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