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The Odd Life of Timothy Green Family Friendly Activities in Atlanta

This evening I will be taking my babies to an advanced screening of The Odd Life of Timothy Green. While down at Atlantic Station we will be stopping by the Wishing Wall at Atlantic Station where I will have my son write a wish that will be included on a wishing wall and later planted much like the wish for Timothy Green was in the movie trailer.

The wishing wall will be available from August 9 through August 15. Please see flyer below for additional information. Need something to do with the family this weekend? Here you go. Thank me later!! Stay tuned for pictures of our experience at the wishing wall.

In addition if gardening is one of your past times Hastings Garden Center is hosting a family friendly gardening day at their Peachtree Corners location. Fun to be had for the entire family. See flyer below for additional details for this event.

Beauty Children Family Hair Random Summer

She So Random

The past few weeks around here have been extra chill. For a New York minute I was starting to feel bad about not really being productive then I got over it.  We’ve been going to bed late at night and sleeping late in the morning. We have the next 9 months to be on a schedule. I think we’ll enjoy these last two weeks going with the flow.

Speaking of New York I am ramping up my preparations to head to the Big Apple for BlogHer in a couple of weeks. I have childcare lined up and the majority of my outfits have been planned out via Evernote in this manner.

I do need to pick up a few things and I plan on grabbing those sometime this weekend. My sense of urgency is real because my son goes back to school on Monday the 6th and I get back on the 5th so everything needs to be in order.

I can’t wait to meet some of my bloggy friends and just have a good time. I have been invited to a few private parties and I do plan to attend. For the amount of money that has been dished out I need to get the most of the weekend.

I am thankful for BlogHer this year because it is keeping my mind off the impending anniversary of my mother’s death which is on July 27, and her birthday is on August 4th. With so much to do I won’t really have time to sit and mope. I suppose this is a good thing.

Lil Mama is now fully potty trained. No diapers or wipes to be found around these parts. She is even starting to go on her own…but if the light is out in the bathroom no haps. I “stared” she says, and “stared” means scared.

I have been on a mission to take better care of Lil Mama’s hair. Y’all know how much of a hair person I am not. I can cornrow really well and I’ve been known to sew in a weave or three. Yes, me. That’s how I made money in college.  I tried out a coconut oil and honey prepoo on her hair and I am a believer. I was putting ponytails in it and her edges were starting to be affected so I have been two strand twisting or cornrowing it. I have seen an improvement over the past few weeks. Now to be consistent.

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My son took his first flight alone from Las Vegas to here on July 5th. I was a nervous wreck. He did fine. He was such a big boy. My dad bribed him with an iPod. I really didn’t want him to have one then my dad had to remind me that he bought me a Gameboy when I was his age…Wellllllllllllll…..moving on. Could I be a hater?

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My son is taking up soccer for the fall. I am looking forward to seeing how he enjoys it. Truth be told I never really thought he liked football much. He requested soccer and luckily we didn’t miss registration so I guess I’m now a soccer mom.

I’ll start doing house updates sometime next week.

Enough about our goings on. How are you? What’s been going on in your world?

 

 

Family

Jump for Diapers

Trina and I are hosting a Diaper Drive for Atlanta Diaper Relief the organization that I sang awful karaoke for the other week…Remember

If you are in Atlanta, please join us if you can on Sunday the 22nd for an afternoon of bounce house fun at Mighty Jumps in downtown Atlanta. Children gain free entry to jump with a new unopened pack of diapers per child. The organization accepts cloth diapers as well. Space is limited.

Hope to see you there. Everybody knows somebody, that knows somebody that lives in Atlanta if you don’t live here. Please help spread the word so we can be a blessing to this wonderful organization and the babies. RSVP through Eventbrite here

 

Family Weekend

Weekend Wrap Up

Hey!

How was your weekend?

The weather here minus the pollen was just beautiful. We were in the lower to mid 80’s the entire weekend. At times it was just down right hot.

This weekend was spent hanging with the family. Friday evening my little cousin who plays on a traveling baseball team was playing a tournament at a field not far from our house so we packed up the children and headed out to the game. It was a family affair, my brother and sister inlaw along with my nieces and nephew joined in the fun as well.

Saturday morning I got up early and headed down to Tifton, GA which is about 3 hours away to pick up my stepdaughter. The Mr. usually takes the trip but he was under the weather so I took one for the team and drove with a friend of mine and turned around and came right back. Tired.com when I got back but my son had a birthday party so I used the restroom and headed right back out the door.

Saturday evening between the drive and the pollen I had the most awful headache. AWFUL. Mr. took over and I went to sleep around 7.

Sunday, we headed back out to the baseball field to support my cousin and I ate the most delicious funnel cake #youcare and took some pictures. They even had fried Snicker bars and Oreos. I’ve never had one and couldn’t bring myself to buy any. Have you had any of the above. Are they good?

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This weekend gave me a good idea of what our summer will be like. Busy and laid back…and yes that is possible.

What did you get into this weekend? How was the weather in your neck of the woods?