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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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Faking it.

Technically speaking, I’ve been a mom for more than six years now. Theoretically. I mean, Kate is six years old… and she is my kid. So I guess all the evidence points to that statement being true.

But I’ve got to say – I don’t feel like I’ve got this mom thing down yet.

I don’t know why, exactly, but I just don’t feel like the “mom” part of my brain – supposing, of course, that it is there at all – has been switched on yet.

I rarely think to remind the kids to potty before we leave the house. Which is a problem, because I also never have a spare pull-up (let alone wipes) with me. I’ve had to stop and buy a new pack of diapers because I needed one, on more than one occasion.

I don’t carry hand sanitizer around in my purse, which, again, is unfortunate because I rarely remember the hand-washing part of daily activities either. And tissues? I don’t even have them in my house, let alone my purse.

I’m not the mom with the fully-stocked cooler and picnic blankets and fresh-squeezed lemonade at t-ball games or at the pool. I’m the one with the zip-loc bag of cheerios who’s digging around for quarters to buy crap at the concession stand.

This is something that really bothers me, but I’m not sure what to do about it. Other than, you know, get my shit together. But I don’t know how to start thinking this way automatically. I don’t know how to do any of it, really.

Maybe someday I’ll figure it out and be a real mom. Probably right about the time my kids graduate from college.

Until then, humor me – what are some of the “mom” things you forget to do?

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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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