It’s the first “real snow” of the year in the DC area, and thankfully, it’s not enough to disrupt our lives and weekend plans. (Hallelujah.) How are YOU spending your snowy day?
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January 21, 2012 | in: random
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Sorry my posting has been light these last two weeks, but I have been on a vacation with my family. After a hectic year, it has been heavenly to enjoy some periods of unplugged time with my children, husband and baby.
I’ve been playing Beach Blanket Bingo…
And fancying myself a mid-thirties Gidget as I boogie board with the kids.
I have used my downtime to research kid-friendly rap music offerings…
But find myself returning to good ol’ pop and ’80s nostalgia…
Sadly, and too soon, we’ll be coming home.
(Regular A Parent in Silver Spring daily posting will resume on Monday.)
Thanks to Jessica Shyba of Momma’s Gone City for the Bert & Ernie rap link, my sister Sarah for making me watch The New Gidget every day after school and my father Tom for buying me that Cinderella tape for my 1987 Christmas Walkman.
“This is my mama. Her name is Jessica. She’s wearing that giant hat and sunglasses so she can be saved from being put in a ditch or a box.”
— How my daughter Eve introduced me today to another mother on the beach, misquoting my earlier joke to her daddy that my over-sized sunglasses and sunhat were a last-ditch effort to stave off Botox.
These photos were taken with the incredible Nikon D3000 with AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens that I randomly, luckily won at the #NikonNightOut party at BlogHer last week! I love hosting giveaways, but NEVER win anything myself. Now THAT’S what I call blog conference swag! Thanks to my bloggy BFF TechSavvyMama‘s generous taking of me to this party as her guest, I will now be able to provide even clearer pictures of activities for families in my posts for A Parent in Silver Spring. Thanks Nikon!
It’s official:
Hitting the spray park with your kids, rocking the Dockers and Blackberry holster, tearing up during Toy Story 3 and tending the hydrangeas are totally gangsta.
Aw yeah.
Dad Life from Church on the Move on Vimeo.
Was your first thought, “Where’s a ‘splishy-splashy’ I can hit with the kids today?” You’re a mom or dad after my own heart.
Here are the places I checked out a while back in “A Hot Time to Get Soaked” in the Post. A ** indicates places we have re-hit this year and I still give two thumbs up.
Good Hope Sprayground in Silver Spring **
South Germantown Splash Playground
Friendship (aka “Turtle”) Park in NW DC **
Riggs-LaSalle Sprayground in NE DC
Hayes Park Sprayground in Arlington
Lyon Village Sprayground in Arlington
Fairfax Corner Water Fountain Feature
And the Downtown Silver Spring fountain, of course.**
Here are our favorite local public pools:
MLK, Jr. Outdoor Pool & Lazy River in Silver Spring
Germantown Indoor Swim Center – nirvana on high heat index days
Arlington County’s Outdoor Upton Hill Pool
Poolesville Public Pool (yup, it’s a hike, but on the drive here little ones can take their morning nap)
And you KNOW I’d love to take the time to post the deets and link to a ton of more fun stuff going off in the area this weekend, but I got shiz to do. I gotta put a cap in those dust bunnies and shopvac the Goldfish from the Odyssey. Then I be rolling to the G to pick up Capri Suns, hot dogs (nitrate-free, natch) and extra Goodnites for my homies. Because being a mom is pretty sick too.
Peace out.
I recently turned 35. It was my harshest b-day to date. I know there’s nothing you can do about it besides work to be healthy and happy but dude, it threw me into an official NOT YOUNG demographic. But rather than waste precious time worrying about something I cannot change, on my birthday I instead wasted precious time reading all of the awesome wall posts I received on Facebook. The return for having everyone from your past, present and online worlds wish you well and give you compliments was almost worth being that much closer to the Denny’s senior citizen special.
If you're not yet on Facebook, I recommend joining for the self-esteem boost. Way cheaper than therapy.
If you’re on Facebook, please add me as a friend so I can wish you a happy birthday and compliment you on the bounce of your hair, the pertness of your booty or whatever floats your boat.
And then there’s Twitter. It’s a place for online entities to communicate, brands and entrepreneurs to promo and shill, and for writers to drop those good one-liners they couldn’t work into a piece. It’s also the place where I save for posterity those funny moments from my mom life that no one thinks are as hilarious as me, but it’s Twitter. That’s kind of the point.
100% true. And for the first time, there was no happy face on this assignment when it was handed back.
I usually don’t write about my kids’ personal lives on this website very often because you come here for info. And I’m sure your own kids are even funnier. But if you’d like more mom blogger moments, come follow me on Twitter. And I’ll follow you. And we’ll either quip out into the ether or connect and be BFFs, who knows?
Just don’t be ticked if I don’t @ or RT very much or even log on for a few weeks because I have laundry or waxing or company coming for dinner or work. Or actual parenting of my kids. Crazy. And I don’t live Tweet blogger events because I just have too much fun talking to the people there in real life. But then I’m the type of person who turns off my cell if I both my kids are with me and I think texting at the table is uber rude, so what do I know?
What do you guys think? Waste of time? Great way to connect? Fun entertainment? Way to keep up with events? Because you guys, my fellow parental units, are the ones I want to follow and friend. You’re way cuter than Ashton.
