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Dayton-Area: Win Tickets to & Meet & Greet with Yanni Voices!

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At BlissDom ’09, the attendees were surprised by an appearance by Nathan and Ender from Yanni Voices. Let’s just say they had the mostly-married audience of 250 ladies swooning! Some of my other bloggy friends have seen the Yanni Voices tour already this year and it is getting rave reviews. So Emily & I are pleased to be giving away two tickets to the Concert at Dayton’s Nutter Center on June 2 at 7:30 pm. Dayton-area readers this is YOUR chance to win! This also includes a meet & greet with the cast after the show so you can meet & get your picture taken with the starts of Yanni Voices!

To enter, just leave a comment on this post. This is a short contest so enter soon! We’ll choose the winner by Random.org on Wednesday, May 21st. Thanks to One2One Network for this great giveaway! Good luck!

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Decisions, decisions.

I’m not the greatest decision maker in the world. I’m the one in the group who is NO help in deciding where to go to lunch, I stare at my closet forever each morning trying to decide what to wear, and just yesterday I took a good five minutes deciding what I wanted at Starbucks (grande white chocolate mocha, skim).

I think it’s safe to say that I over-analyze everything. Everything.

So, clearly when it comes to my kids, I’m even worse. And when it comes to important decisions about my kids… well, I’m up nights.

Because basically? I don’t know what the heck I’m doing in the parenting arena, so I research, research, research, look for guidance and the experience of others, and try to make sure I’m making the exact right move before I do anything.

Except when I can’t.

I’m finding that now we’re starting to come across decisions that Google and blogs and messageboards don’t have the answers to. Decisions that will impact our kids daily. Decisions that only Andy and I can make, and ones that we have to make and then and only then we will see if we’ve made the right ones.

Trial and error where my kids are involved? Makes me nervous as hell.

So tell me how you do it. Please. Because if I can’t research an exact answer to my question, leave it to me to research how to come to a conclusion.

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Keep it Simple for the Old Folks

Here’s an email I got the other day from my dad, after he had spent the day with Sam and Kate. It cracked me up and so I had to post it here!
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When I watched the kids, Kate suggested we play Chutes and Ladders. I said, “OK, I’ll be the chutes, and you be the ladders.” She gave me the funny look I was after and she said, “No, that’s not how you play”. I asked her to tell me how to play, and she started to try, but it was all nonsense. So after every sentence or two, I repeated the instructions verbatim just to make sure I got it. Each time, she knew that what I was saying didn’t make sense, but I think it was clear to her when she had said it. So she said, “I’ll get the game.” She came back a couple minutes later holding a deck of cards and said, “I think we better play Old Maid”.

I don’t think she had much confidence that I could grasp the subtleties of Chutes and Ladders.

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