Our Summer: Fernbank Museum of Natural History

Our Summer o’ Fun continues with Fernbank Museum of Natural History! We took one of Lydia’s friends (who goes to our school and church!) with us and had an absolute blast. The best part by far was NatureQuest which at first glance is just a giant play area. But once you got inside it was [...]

Theatre for the Very Young at the Woodruff Arts Center

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{my blog is being wonky, if you the pictures aren’t showing up for you, just click HOME and then you should be able to see them. weird.} Remember my horrible puppet-show-at-the-library experience? In short, it was the most age-inappropriate, completely un-thought through children’s show I’ve ever seen. (Well, Staci and I saw one with a [...]

I Got My Hair Cut

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Over the years I’ve talked about my favorite hair styling product and how my hair looks like David Cook from American Idol. I thought it was about time to share the devastation that has happened in my hair-style-life: My stylist moved away. She has been cutting my hair for like 3 years!! She is the [...]

Toy Story on Ice 3

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Last October I went to Disneyland, Disney on Ice and made the 2nd round of the Disney Mom’s Panel in less than 2 weeks. How crazy is that? (I went to California just last year?! Really?!!) And here I am just weeks after my big fat Disney World trip going to Disney on Ice again [...]

The Four Seasons Atlanta {Or Bloggers & Honeybees}

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I get emails almost every day from PR companies. Sometimes they are just telling me about a new product, a contest or offering to send me something for my readers. The other day I got an invite to the Four Seasons. To spend the night. By myself. AND get a spa treatment. Me: {wildly dialing [...]

Orange Juice and Puppet Shows

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Last week I took the kids to The Center for Puppetry Arts. Yeah, we just went in January, but I can’t help it. It’s fun! This time we saw a really amazing show. It was all shadow puppetry and was performed by only one puppeteer, Hobey Ford. I don’t know if you’ve seen shadow puppets [...]

Alliance Theatre: Disney’s Mulan (Reason #842 Why I Love Atlanta)

photo by Greg Mooney We went to the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta to see the theatrical version of Disney’s Mulan. And can I just say that it was like every single thing I loved all wrapped up into one? Family time? CHECK. Theatre? CHECK. Musical Theatre? CHECK. Puppetry? CHECK! Cool Kids’ Activities? CHECK. Disney? CHECK. [...]