Insults hurled at you by those you love, or kids.
Insults hurled at you by those you love, or kids.
This is so funny! The comments on Youtube are even funnier. People be all “How could you let your kid talk to you like that?” Um it was edited that way. Obviously she doesn’t let her 4 year old barrage her with insults. Momhead. Brilliant.
Very funny stuff.
The other day my six year old said to me, in the middle of dinner “Mama, your belly looks like it has a baby in it.” Thank you darling. “No I mean it!” As if I thought you didn’t.
So much for home being your safe zone right?
Happy Everything 2014
I have been saying NO to my kids for so long about getting a video game that they have stopped asking. So I figured it was a good time to get it for them. They would never see it coming!
You know how much I love surprising them, it’s my favorite thing!
Wait till you see. They really never saw. it. coming. They still weren’t sure after they reacted and were looking right at it. SO funny!
Then they danced :-)
Happy Everything to you and yours!
We wish you all kinds of great surprises and awesome dance breaks all year long.
Happy 2015!
Annie at the Citi Wang Theatre in Boston – Giveaway!
The first broadway show I ever went to was Annie. First and only until I was an adult.
It was a big deal. We didn’t have tons of money growing up and I think this was a bit of a stretch for my parents. But my mom got the tickets and off we went to Boston. We dressed up pretty, showed up early, and went to the theater.
Next week, because of this little ole blog that I have, I get to take not only my daughter but my mom to see Annie at the Citi Wang Theater. Squeee!
The show opens next Wednesday, November 5th at 7 pm.
That night, Annie and Daddy Warbucks will arrive at 6 pm in a 1937 Packard to walk the Red Carpet into the Citi Wang Theatre. The Red Carpet arrival kicks off the 2-week engagement of the show. Fun right?
The show at the Wang is directed by original lyricist and director Martin Charnin and choreographed by Liza Gennaro, this production of ANNIE is a brand new incarnation of the iconic original. It also features book and score by Tony Award®-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, ANNIE includes such unforgettable songs as “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” “I Don’t Need Anything But You,” plus the eternal anthem of optimism, “Tomorrow.”
Use this link to save 20% per ticket for select performances, and buy tickets now using the code MOMS!
I can’t wait!
And that’s not all!
Would you like to win some tickets? Yeah baby!
Win 4 tickets to OPENING NIGHT on Wednesday, November 5 at 7:00 pm
Want more chances to win? Of course you do!
But remember you can only win once! We all talk to each other so we’ll know if you try to be a Greedy McHoggerson.
Here are some other awesome local blogs giving away tickets:
Alexandra Elizabeth
Christy at Quirky Fusion
Christine & Bonnie at Mom’s Lifesavers
Stowed Stuff
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I have been given tickets to attend Annie for this post. Image used with permission. All opinions expressed in this post (and my sharing on social media) are my own.
read moreRed Jacket Mountain View Resort Review and Giveaway
Last weekend the Red Jacket Inn Mountain View Resort hosted the ViolaCay family! The kids were um, excited to say the least.
And natch, we made a video…
The Red Jacket Mountain View Resort is in North Conway, New Hampshire. The White Mountains are beautiful, there is outlet shopping , and of course Storyland is there.
For the last couple of years we’ve gone to Storyland and looked up the hill longingly at the pretty hotel that sat way up there. The kids knew there was a water park up there too. But alas they had been too little to go. Fans of the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort, and there are many, will tell you it’s quaint. Critics will tell you it’s a little dated. It’s both really. It’s quaintness shined through and it’s datedness fell to the background for me. Yes it’s true, there are lots of stairs and there are LONG hallways with lots of doors. But, that didn’t phase me much. I just loved it. What, or who rather, really shines at the Red Jacket Resort is the people.
From the general manager checking in on us all the way through to the cleaning staff. Just good people.
- As soon as we got to our room we could see that we needed a rollaway or another mattress or something for child #3 up in the loft. The kids wanted to go to the water park like, RIGHT NOW. My husband called down and they said they’d take care of it. When we returned there was a mattress in between the beds, all made, with his blankie and stuffed Nemo perched on the pillow.
- The front desk gal Teresa who assured my daughter that “Of course the tooth fairy comes to the Red Jacket, honey” after her brother knocked her tooth out in the water park (Daddy saved the tooth)!
- The poor boy at the water park desk who couldn’t find a bandaid right away for me. He was clearly the maintenance guy that I had caught off guard while the regular desk person had stepped away. I made him blush when I said I could just a hold one of those tampons on the boy’s skinned knee as I pointed to the other supplies on the shelf. :-) He rushed away quickly to the supply closet to get more band aids.
- The very patient staffer who lead a group of kids in a craft on a rainy day as they waited anxiously for the water park to open!
- The waitstaff at breakfast who took care of us, and took our boy’s allergies seriously. Getting a chef to come out and take Theo’s breakfast order personally and then went to make it herself. Toast and sliced apples made to order :-)
We loved our stay and hope that you do too! Yes, that’s right one of you lucky ducks is going to win a 2 night stay at the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort! Woooo hooooo!
Red Jacket Mountain View Resort & Kahuna Laguna Viola Cay Family Vacation Giveaway!
Includes: Two-night stay for a family of four at Red Jacket Mountain View Resort in North Conway, New Hampshire and passes to Kahuna Laguna Indoor Water Park. Restrictions: Not available on holidays, holiday weekends or school vacation weeks. Valid through October 2015. Other terms may apply.
Please visit my lovely cohosts at
Diane at Dollops of Diane
Kim at Family Friendly Boston
Jodi at Family Travel Magazine
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Disclosure: This post (and my sharing on social media) was inspired by my participation in a program with Red Jacket Resorts. I was given a complimentary stay at Red Jacket Mountain View Resort. All opinions are my own.
Red Jacket Kahuna Laguna Freak Out
Yep he’s at it again. This time the other two get their freak on too!
I love surprising these kids!
Stay tuned for some awesome giveaway news!
read moreMy messy house.
My messy house happened fast and it’s going to take a long time to pick up this I know for sure.
School starts on Tuesday that that stuff needs to be done before the picking up of the mess.
OR maybe I need to pick up first so I’m more organized. I don’t know.
All I know is I need help and I’m clearly not going to get any!
I recorded this on Wednesday which in my post vacation stupor I thought was Monday. So now it’s Friday and the house is not clean “by the end of the week” like I said it would be because DUH my brain thinks it’s now Wednesday.
Follow? No?
It’s okay I’ll have it clean soon :-) Just keepin’ it real for the internet y’all.
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