My cable was out all morning so I couldn't write this before now. It wouldn't have been so bad, but it also knocked out my TV and phone (one drawback to digital phone). I still had my cell phone, though, so I wasn't completely isolated. The silence was really nice!!! Now the girls are home, one is on the phone talking LOUDLY to a friend and one is on the computer listening to a song (and I use that term loosely) that would make most parents cringe. You know the kind...they usually have parental warnings on the label and the singers (again, a term used loosely) have more gold around their necks and on their teeth than the entire US mint has locked up and they wear pants that defy the laws of gravity. Here I sit on the couch, forced to listen to my ipod so I could block the noise. Currently I'm listening to Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good. Now THAT is music!
OH, Happy Late Valentine's Day! I hope you all had a good day and got lots of chocolate. Brent did exactly as I asked: a card and chocolate. Good boy!!! Sid and Lys got chocolate from me and Alyssa got this BEAUTIFUL homemade Valentine from her BFF, Hayley (my other daughter). The biggest one ever!
Sidney has tryouts for Track next Wednesday. She is nervous and has been running almost every day to prepare. I can already see such a change in her from last year. Her muscles are so much more developed and her legs seem to be twice as long. She is also running the Peachtree Road Race this summer in Atlanta with our friend Rory (She used to babysit the girls and I work with her mom). She will be one of 55,000 runners on the 4th of July. She ran it last year with Dean's dad Steve and did really well. She would have done better, she said, but she had to stop and wait for Steve. This year she'll be running with someone MUCH closer to her own age.
ipod update: Stevie Wonder - Knocks Me Off My Feet. I love that this thing has a shuffle on it. Who knows what the next song will be???
OK, some of you have gotten wind of this and some of you haven't: Alyssa's birthday party has been changed. No longer are we going to rent out a room and wear a fancy dress. It wasn't a huge surprise to me. I didn't think they'd be able to come up with 10 chaperones, much less the $350 it was going to cost. The clincher? I flat-out refused to use my credit card for the deposit. Even more funny/horrifying? She asked ANOTHER mom to use hers!!!! Thank God it was Hayley's mom (Jennifer, you are so cool). After the shock and disbelief wore off, Jennifer calmly explained to Alyssa that she loved her and she would do anything for her, even give up her house for a Halloween party, but (basically) it would be a cold day in you-know-where before credit card numbers were given out. When I found this out I took Alyssa into my room, sat her down and asked her if she knew how much damage 60 5th graders could do to a rented banquet hall overlooking a lake. I think she gets it now.
ipod update: Bobby Darrin - Mack the Knife.
On to Plan B. Somehow, and I'm not sure how or even when it happened, but it seems that it is ALL the rage to have sleepovers at .... are you sitting down?... the Embassy Suites hotel! http://www.embassysuites.com/en/es/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=GSOGBES I wouldn't have believed it myself, but Sid and Lys have been there at least 2 or 3 times each. At first I wondered if those parents had been lucky enough to purchase the winning lottery ticket, but it was explained to me last week when Sidney went for Elise's sleepover there. The hotel is less than 10 minutes from here, the guests get dropped off at 7, we order pizza at 7:30, they swim in the indoor pool until their eyes are the color of a bullfighter's cape, they relocate to the TV in our room watching movies until they crash and in the morning there's a free breakfast for all and more swimming. It is a suite with a separate bedroom with 2 double beds and a living room with a pull-out couch. Two TV's, a kichen and a bathroom with two doors. Parents pick up at 10:30 and we go home to a clean house. Hmm....a clean house. That, alone, made it worth looking into. I totalled up in my little head what it would cost to take 10 little girls skating or even to the paintball place. This might work.
ipod. Def Leppard - Photograph. As if you care. Ha!!!
Long story short, I called them and they had an impressive airline employee discount. I told Alyssa the good news and after she squealed and hugged me she immediately rattled off her guest list: Hayley (of course), Shayna (from NY Eve - we had renamed her Sasha), 2 different Taylors (you know one of them), Lauren (from the mall trip with the Christmas gift cards burning holes in their pockets) and Amanda (Alyssa went to her ice skating party a week or so ago). I might be crazy, but it will make for some great pictures and, I'm sure, a lengthy POW. Ha! I'll let you know how exhausted I am after Sid and I spend the night on the pull-out couch. I think I'll need my ipod for that trip, too.
Speaking of.... Creed - With Arms Wide Open.
I found this picture from 5 years ago, the first year I did the POW's. Aren't they cute? Alyssa is begging me not to publish it again. Too bad! Have a great week....
OH, Happy Late Valentine's Day! I hope you all had a good day and got lots of chocolate. Brent did exactly as I asked: a card and chocolate. Good boy!!! Sid and Lys got chocolate from me and Alyssa got this BEAUTIFUL homemade Valentine from her BFF, Hayley (my other daughter). The biggest one ever!Sidney has tryouts for Track next Wednesday. She is nervous and has been running almost every day to prepare. I can already see such a change in her from last year. Her muscles are so much more developed and her legs seem to be twice as long. She is also running the Peachtree Road Race this summer in Atlanta with our friend Rory (She used to babysit the girls and I work with her mom). She will be one of 55,000 runners on the 4th of July. She ran it last year with Dean's dad Steve and did really well. She would have done better, she said, but she had to stop and wait for Steve. This year she'll be running with someone MUCH closer to her own age.
ipod update: Stevie Wonder - Knocks Me Off My Feet. I love that this thing has a shuffle on it. Who knows what the next song will be???
OK, some of you have gotten wind of this and some of you haven't: Alyssa's birthday party has been changed. No longer are we going to rent out a room and wear a fancy dress. It wasn't a huge surprise to me. I didn't think they'd be able to come up with 10 chaperones, much less the $350 it was going to cost. The clincher? I flat-out refused to use my credit card for the deposit. Even more funny/horrifying? She asked ANOTHER mom to use hers!!!! Thank God it was Hayley's mom (Jennifer, you are so cool). After the shock and disbelief wore off, Jennifer calmly explained to Alyssa that she loved her and she would do anything for her, even give up her house for a Halloween party, but (basically) it would be a cold day in you-know-where before credit card numbers were given out. When I found this out I took Alyssa into my room, sat her down and asked her if she knew how much damage 60 5th graders could do to a rented banquet hall overlooking a lake. I think she gets it now.
ipod update: Bobby Darrin - Mack the Knife.
On to Plan B. Somehow, and I'm not sure how or even when it happened, but it seems that it is ALL the rage to have sleepovers at .... are you sitting down?... the Embassy Suites hotel! http://www.embassysuites.com/en/es/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=GSOGBES I wouldn't have believed it myself, but Sid and Lys have been there at least 2 or 3 times each. At first I wondered if those parents had been lucky enough to purchase the winning lottery ticket, but it was explained to me last week when Sidney went for Elise's sleepover there. The hotel is less than 10 minutes from here, the guests get dropped off at 7, we order pizza at 7:30, they swim in the indoor pool until their eyes are the color of a bullfighter's cape, they relocate to the TV in our room watching movies until they crash and in the morning there's a free breakfast for all and more swimming. It is a suite with a separate bedroom with 2 double beds and a living room with a pull-out couch. Two TV's, a kichen and a bathroom with two doors. Parents pick up at 10:30 and we go home to a clean house. Hmm....a clean house. That, alone, made it worth looking into. I totalled up in my little head what it would cost to take 10 little girls skating or even to the paintball place. This might work.
ipod. Def Leppard - Photograph. As if you care. Ha!!!
Long story short, I called them and they had an impressive airline employee discount. I told Alyssa the good news and after she squealed and hugged me she immediately rattled off her guest list: Hayley (of course), Shayna (from NY Eve - we had renamed her Sasha), 2 different Taylors (you know one of them), Lauren (from the mall trip with the Christmas gift cards burning holes in their pockets) and Amanda (Alyssa went to her ice skating party a week or so ago). I might be crazy, but it will make for some great pictures and, I'm sure, a lengthy POW. Ha! I'll let you know how exhausted I am after Sid and I spend the night on the pull-out couch. I think I'll need my ipod for that trip, too.
Speaking of.... Creed - With Arms Wide Open.
I found this picture from 5 years ago, the first year I did the POW's. Aren't they cute? Alyssa is begging me not to publish it again. Too bad! Have a great week....
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