SugarHouse Casino Great Night Out

Sugarhouse Casino Great Night Out

Last week I was host for a super fun event at Sugarhouse Casino in Philly. 

It was a great time with my mom blog friends!  I love spending time with them.  Yeah...blogging can be very isolating.  Especially when you have your face in your computer all the time.  So to get together in real life with the people that you know from your online life is always a treat!

Fab Philly Mom Bloggers! (Nice Tebow in front row! lol)Ben FM & SugarHouse Casino also had some great guests!

I know they surely didn't come out just to see me.  Ahem. hahaha.  They came to enjoy the island food, drink & steel drum fun!

SugarHouse Casino is a great spot for a little night out fun!  Their food is outstanding as is their impeccable service.

There are great places to dine: The Refinery, Jacks Sandwich and Sweets and Lucky Red.

Some great entertainment for Girls' Night Out too!  Of course their daily happy hour, but also enjoy the Dance Party with Jerry Blavat, Eddie Bruce and SO much more!

Here is a great video recap of the event.  Let me know if you want to come out for one!  We're gonna do many more with Ben FM!

Chipmunk Cheeks

I love my kid.  He does some of the funniest stuff.  

And I get the honor of being able to capture it for life!  Wahoo!

Here he is....cooling off his mac-n-cheese.

The Vow

I know.  

It's 3am and I'm up late AGAIN?!?!?!

I don't know what's going on with my body.

Maybe it's because I have this little person in my bed.

Ugh.

The kid starts out in his bed-then ends up in ours.  

I mean, it's all good intentions.  Really.

I even fall asleep next to him thinking he would STAY there.

Nope.  Not happening.

I mean we even have a game out of it.  

Me:  "Boston, if you sleep in your bed the ENTIRE night-you get a prize!"

Boston: "But Mama, I did for most of the night?"

Me:  "But no buddy...you have to the ENTIRE night."

Boston walks away doing the 'head drooped Woody from Toy Story walk'.

Then last night when I got home from seeing the movie The Vow with mom blogger friends...

My husband tells me that 'he got a prize because he slept in his bed for most of the night.'

Ahem.  Sucka.

Yes.  That we both are.

Suckas.

Stamped to our foreheads.

Taking notes and lessons from anyone who wants to offer them....

How to keep child IN THEIR OWN BED ALLLLLL NIGHT.

((PS, Isn't that pic the COOLEST bed ever? You can get it for nearly $50,000!))

Tiny Prints Valentine Cards

Tiny Prints Valentine Cards

I can't even begin to tell you how much I LOVED our holiday cards!!  I got so much feedback from family on how they loved them too.  So you bet your booty when Tiny Prints asked me to share their Valentines Day Greeting Cards I was TOTALLY on it!!

Valentine Cards are a great way to say I love you.  Or like you.  Or hey-you're cool, right? lol

There are so many to choose from.  I remember for Boston's 1st Valentine's Day I went to a local studio and got pics done of him in..ahem...cupid.  He was ADORABLE.  And I got cards made of him....So-this year I gotta top that, right?  ha.  (I had a lot more time on my hands then.... lol)

Maybe make him a rockstar.  Or this cute Roses are Red card with him holiding red roses?

Anyway-Tinyprints are the best.  Order some great holiday cards that give your family and friends a big smile!  (And you become the envy.  Cause your cards are the COOLEST! lol)

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Snow Days

A Snow Day

Snow Days

I'm not really sure what it is about Saturday...but I seem to find the most philosophical side of myself that day of the week.

Today really was no exception.

Although, by the time I hit publish it will be Sunday.

I've kind of been in a holding pattern in life lately.

All good things.  

But all in a way of just not sure what to think.

What decisions to make.

Or even what to feel.

Today was a special day with my little dude.

We woke up with the goal of not leaving our jammies.

In reality....underneath that little dude and his handsome hat and coat is a superhero.

No kidding.  

A really good one at that.  

I think today he might have just been Superman. 

Or at least that was his jammies of choice.

My Little Snow AngelI'm not sure what it is with that little guy.  And I know I'm not playing favorites just because he's mine. =)

But there sure is something special about him.

I see it everywhere I go.  People stop and stare.  They smile.  He flashes a charming smile back at them.  Many times strikes up a conversation.  Just the other day he was with me at the grocery store and 4 little girls were giggling and ga-ga at him.

That's my boy.

I'm rounding up to a pretty big anniversary in my life.

Kind of a timestamp, if you will.

I'm almost officially in Philadelphia as long as I was in Chicago.  And March 3rd will be my 5 year wedding anniversary.  

It absolutely amazes me that we've been in Philly for nearly as long as I lived in Chicago.  And the two lives are so different!  I use to think about Chicago with a heavy heart and yearn for that person.  I'm happy to say that I don't feel that way anymore.  

Finally.

This past year has been one of awakening for me.  On so many levels.

This Philly life has been struggle after struggle.  Tear after tear.  Just constant one step forward-12 steps back.

But once I got out of the darkness and walked toward the light.....(knock on wood lol) I can finally see the 12 steps forward.

Yeah.  There are those dark days once in awhile.  But in reality, who doesn't have them?  

They aren't exactly dark days anymore though.

They are just simple, snow days.  But thank God I have my little Snow Angel by my side.