Summer seems to have arrived in Virginia. It may just now be June 1, but it’s been feeling like summer in the south for a week or so now. Weekly recaps with Tara and Erin will now include lots of pictures of a very sweaty me LOL. Just in case you are feeling hot too, I’m…
Category: boys
Fueling your teen athlete, Gatorade style
A few weeks ago, Gatorade flew me down to Florida to visit the IMG Academy and learn more about their product. (How has it been a few weeks already and why haven’t I written my recap of the event??? Oy.) The theme of the event was fueling your teen athlete and they had flown 9…
5 things you may not know about me
I’ve been blogging for a long time (6 years!) so I’m not sure how much there is left to tell about me, but I decided to accept the challenge that Mar, Cynthia, and Courtney have thrown out. 1. We moved out of Wisconsin when I was two years old. From then until Beer Geek and…
Warning: crazy ahead
It seemed like a good idea at the time. We had a busy October schedule. We could get it all over at once. What am I talking about? This weekend, we are hosting 4 of Jones’ friends for a Saturday night sleep over. Five boys taking over the man cave for a late night of…
Three Things Thursday
1. I finally found a way to read blogs again that makes me happy: The Old Reader. Yes, it’s pretty much a knock off on Google reader. And that works for me. I was able to download all of my feeds from google reader and upload them (complete with folders) to The Old Reader in…
School’s out for the summer!
Or it will be at 1pm today. It’s hard to believe that my first baby is done with elementary school. It was an amazing 6 years and I’m so proud of all he’s accomplished and of the person he’s becoming! We have a fun summer planned. The boys chose not to go to camp this…
Three Things Thursday
1. I could never be a food blogger. Beer Geek and I went to an amazing beer and food pairing dinner at Mad Fox last night. The beers, as I expected, were amazing. But the food. Oh, the food. The chef went with a BBQ theme – we had jerk chicken wings and lamb and…
White House Easter Egg Roll
Sometimes I get really lucky and get some pretty cool stuff as a result of social media. Once, my kids got to be in a filming for a commercial for Wild Kratts, thanks to someone at PBS reading my blog. Yesterday? We got to go to the White House Easter Egg Roll thanks to a…
Reason #8,344,000 why I workout
Yesterday we took the boys to an indoor waterpark. You know, one of those ones with multi-story slides, lazy rivers, and a huge hot tub. (Thank goodness for the hot tub – one of the reasons I don’t like swimming is I get cold easily.) Two of the slides had the option of riding a…
Wild Kratts!
This past weekend, while I was running my heart out at the Army 10 Miler, the boys (and my mom and Beer Geek) were out at the Reston Zoo. They’d been invited by PBS to participate in the taping of the promo materials for the new “Wild Kratts” show that will begin airing in January….