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BlogHer 12…Who I Met

Please note at BlogHer there is so much walking and carrying of bags of swag to do that wrangling my camera became quite a feat so you will deal with my shortage of DSLR photos and my plethora of iPhone Instagram photos. Unfortunately I still failed to get a lot of photos. There was a lot going on and everything was moving fast and keeping up with a camera wasn’t first on my priority list.

I arrived in New York late Wednesday evening after an awful flight. I’ll spare you the details but just make note that we sat on the runway for nearly an hour after my flight was already delayed by 2 hours.

Trina and I prior to take off

I digress.

After arriving in NYC Trina and I met up with Tamara of Blitz and Glam at the airport. this was my first time meeting Tamara IRL and she was also my roommate so I was hoping she was just as fab as she looks…and she was.

Shortly after getting settled in I bumped into Brandy of Mama Knows it All in the lobby before heading over to Times Square to find something to eat and snap a pic or two. Here’s one. I’ll show you the rest later in the series.

Thursday evening before the conference “officially” began Trina threw a pretty awesome social mixer at Pranna Lounge where I met a lot of my blogger buddies and a few new faces to include NY State of Mom, Brooklyn Active Mama, Our Delightful Home, Houseful of Nicholes, A Chic Mommy, Army Wife 101, Sister Save a lot, Loom Lids Layers, Justice Fergie, OK Dani, and Harlem Lovebirds

Phew.

(l to r.)  Roses Daughter, Yours Truly, Our Delightful Home, NY State of Mom

Looms, Lids and Layers

Diary of a Chic Mommy

Houseful of Nicholes

Justice Fergie…She is also a curator of Be Blogalicious

Here are a few professional pictures of the event. It was awesome. Beautiful women just getting together for networking.

Forever Young and Fab  and her guest, Roses Daughter

Blitz and Glam

Brooklyn Active Mama with one of her delicious Red Velvet cupcakes

The evening’s winners

Trina. The hostess with the absolute Mostess

So Friday when the conference actually started we had kind of formed one of those “cliques” people hate but I think that is just normal when you are in an environment with nearly 5K people that you don’t know *shrugs*

During the course of the weekend i met so many amazing people to include these lovely ladies Justice Jonesie, Think Feminist, Dr. Goddess, Momma Expat, Just Breathe Mama, and Veronica Armstrong.

I also got to meet Luvvie. She is just as hilarious in real life as she is on Twitter.

Have you met any of your favorite bloggers/twitter buddies IRL? Who would you like to meet if given the opportunity…and no you don’t have to include me on that list!!!!

 

 

 

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Obligatory Post #BlogHer12 Post

Unless you’ve been under a rock, and haven’t been by here, or on Twitter, or on Instagram, or on Facebook I am returning from my inaugural trip to the holy Grail of all blogger conferences better known as BlogHer. I spent the last 4 days in NYC meeting blogger friends in real life and I was very fortunate to connect with some new bloggy BFFs.

To be completely honest I don’t really know where to start to offer a recap of my experience, so please charge it to the game if I seem a bit all over the place with this and forthcoming posts.

So to start somewhere seeing that I measure most things by the value received based on my dollars spent I will say the trip was well worth the money invested. When I spend my money I want to feel that the organizers value my dollar as much as I do. From the Obama and Martha Stewart appearances to the quality of food that was served I almost feel bad for paying as little as I did for my early bird rate.

Then there are some values that we receive that just can’t be quantified and that my friends would be the social aspect. Just meeting so many new faces and being able to connect faces with blogs, and spend time talking to people who “get blogging” it was inspiring and just downright fun…and you know your girl is ALWAYS down for a good time.

To keep these posts to a minimum length and keep y’all from zoning out on me I’ll take the whole week to recap my experience with a series of posts

  • Who I met
  • What I learned
  • Where I partied
  • When I stepped away from BlogHer to explore the city
  • Why I would attend BlogHer again..The Good.The Bad.The Ugly
  • How I plan to implement what I learned

I’m glad to be home and ready to head into the fall. My son went back to school today so my summer has unofficially come to an end, but at least it went out with a bang.

Since I’ve been out of the loop, what have you guys been up to?

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Building the House…Episode 1

This will be the first post of many showing the progress of our home building process.

At this point we have had a few minor hiccups. The lot we originally chose for some reason will no longer be a basement lot. This presented a major problem because there aren’t many basement lots available and at this time we will either end up on lot 45 which is toward the front of the development or on lot 29 which is in a cul de sac and right across from the original lot we selected.

The minor issue with lot 29 is someone currently has a contract on it but they are going back and forth regarding whether or not they they would like a basement. We are hoping they don’t so we can move to it.

Me standing and looking back on the lot. The fact that is slopes bothers me a bit *shrugs*

Turned around and this is the distance to the front of the lot.

Next issue we were having but that has been resolved is we I wasn’t sure about the floor plan. There is one particular floor plan that is very open and has a craftsman feel but the family room is very small but it has an extra bedroom. Compared to that is the larger home with only 4 bedrooms and a study. We I decided to go with the larger home because there is a possibility that we may be having another baby and I am thinking of 3 growing children, 4 including my stepdaughter and my husband has a large family that comes to visit often. I want to make sure that we have enough space to entertain. To solve that issue we will furnish the study so that it can easily be converted to guest bedroom/bedroom for my stepdaughter in the event we add to the roster before the basement gets finished 😉

We are currently in the process of putting our current home up for short sale. We are $100K in the hole!!! The process is long and grueling from my understanding but God is able and we are leaning on that!

 

 

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Super Why Live Tour Review

Friday evening Addison and I along with one of my very good friends and her daughter stepped out to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for the ultimate Friday girls night out to see Super Why Live.

Upon arriving she was on diva ‘tude mode because she wasn’t able to get her nap out.

Her attitude was short lived. The show started off with a bang. Captivated her attention the entire time. The show was full of fun special effects that at times had me wondering how they were done. From flying space ships that descended from the top of the stage to an acrobat twirling on two long pieces of fabric suspended in mid air. There was not a dull moment to be had. Full on interactive fun for everyone.

The show did an awesome job of blending the cartoon with real life characters that  encouraged the children’s participation throughout the entire show. I was very impressed. I love when shows are just as entertaining to the parents as they are to the children. I’ll admit I was singing right along.

I wasn’t able to get any really good shots with my phone. I didn’t want to bring my camera because I know they have become strict about that when it comes to seeing shows so sorry I don’t have better photos but that just means you need to go and see it for yourself!

The second leg of the show will be kicking off this fall. Please make sure to visit Super Why Live  for more information as new dates and locations are added. You will not be sorry. The kids will love it.

What live shows have you taken your babies to see? Do you plan on checking out Super Why if it makes it to a location near you?

 

*I was provided complimentary tickets to view Super Why Live. All opinions as always and forever more until the end of time mine*