Category: Travels

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Blogging about Blogging and a question

Being part of NaComLeaMo is a little like trying to enter all of the giveaways when it’s Bloggy Giveaways carnival time. All waking computer time is spent working off a master list, trying to get to as many blogs as possible. Add to that the fact that people are coming over to comment on my blog, and then I feel like I should post something interesting. Or at least something better than a post about blogging.

Do you want to hear more about the dance contest?? Turns out, we will be getting to stay in NYC for two nights, near Times Square. We’re near Times Square because it’s only 1.5 miles from where the Regis and Kelly studio is!! I feel like we will be walking onto the set of Sex and the City. But as much as I want to see the movie, I don’t want to waste two hours in Manhattan watching a movie. I’m thinking more along the lines of a Broadway show. I’m assuming we’ll have from afternoon Friday until sometime on Saturday to do things.

What would you do if you were in Manhattan for a 48 hour vacation??

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A Quiet Weekend

This was a weekend for catching up on everything from sleep to cleaning. Friday night I was in bed by 8:45pm. I cleaned crazy things like my microwave (gross, I know, but I hardly ever bother-it just gets dirty again). MAM got a hair cut, and for a few hours the laundry hamper was actually empty. I even busted out the iron.

Things are in as good of order as they are going to get for awhile…on Friday I leave for a conference in Atlanta. I’ll be there for four days, then a week later we all leave for the Sunshine state. I’ll be flying more this month than I have since before MAM was born.

The other thing I worked on this weekend was the Etsy store–check the widget to the right. New stuff! We’ve had two online sales so far, but the soaps have been going like hot cakes with the elementary kids at my school. Check it out!

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Nightmares and Travel Plans

So far, these are two separate topics, only joined because I’m choosing to blog about them both today. So far, the title isn’t “Nightmarish Travel Plans”, because, well, in the travel plan department, things are dreamy.

But first onto the Nightmare. Or Night Scare. Or whatever-the-heck-that-was that tore me away from the first new Grey’s in ages. Last night, MAM went down per usual, I made myself some chai and sat down for the first time all day at 9pm, ready to watch me some new and juicy Grey’s. And watch I did, til about 9:20pm. That’s when BgK muted the TV and we heard crying–scary, intense crying. BgK leapt from the sofa and up the stairs, to find a distraught MAM on her bed.

I followed close behind, and in 2 seconds flat, she was a crying mess in my arms. After a while, she started to say, “It’s scary!!”

Me: “What’s scary?”

MAM: “Da dinosaur”

Me: “What dinosaur?”

MAM: “Dat dinosaur!!” as she points one little finger to an issue of National Geographic, face down on her bed. She’s taken to reading “her” magazines in bed…..and apparently the dinosaur issue made it’s way into her bed. Either she had visions of the T-rex dancing in her head before sleep, or she was slightly awake at some point and caught an eyeful…

Either way, we banished Mr. Dinosaur from her room, and by 10pm she was sound asleep.

TRAVEL PLANS
Now onto the dreamy part of the post. We’ve been looking at joining my parents on vacation this spring for awhile, but hadn’t been finding any flights that “spoke” to us (i.e, were practically free). Given what we were finding, I wasn’t even sure I had enough time banked to go to Florida for a few days during the school year. As a teacher, it’s always a little weird to go on “vacation” when school is in session, but it’s always so nice to get away when the rest of the world isn’t on Spring Break. After consulting my boss today, it turns out I have plenty of time to use. So…we just booked a flight to ORLANDO and we will be staying at a lovely resort for FIVE nights.

Dreamy, no?