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Parenting Disney Style
Top 10 Uses of B-List Halloween Candy Striving to be My Best Possible Self God Bless America and Other Expletives I Won't Be Denied a Fashion Trend Name That Inappropriate Tune (Not So) Proud Parenting Moment The Blogger Formerly Known as Most Smartest Mommy ITW (In The World) The Circus, State Fair and Flu are in Town I Survived Summer Vacation April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 
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This week on Momservations™:
Parenting Disney Style
Just got back from Disney World, an it's official - I think Disney should rule the world. Check out my Tips For Better Parenting Disney Style! Have a magical day! Zippity do da, zippity ay, my oh my what a wonderful day... Toilet Bowl Cleaner, Egg Die and Other Uses for Halloween Candy: http://blog.momservations.c... Chocolate related products not included Momservation: The most significant gift I can give my children is to be an example of a life well lived while being my best possible self.
Visit www.blog.momservations.com to read about The Women's Conference hosted by First Lady Maria Shriver and possibly become inspired to be your best possible self! Here's this week's Momservations™ blog:
 God Bless America and Other Expletives:
You have not earned your stripes as a mother until you utter the ridiculous, over-used, eye-rolling phrases your mother used to say. Here's this week's Momservations™ blog:
 I Won't Be Denied a Fashion Trend:
If you haven't heard about my Famolares, here's your chance. Anyone got any Dittos they want to sell me to go with them?
Momservation: Preparing for the moment when my kids realize the true meaning behind Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Kid Rock’s lyrics to “All Summer Long.” ☺ ☺ ☺ I can't be the only one who has had to explain why Katie Perry kissed a girl and she liked it. Check out the entire entry for this week's Momservations™ at http://blog.momservations.c... Check out my not so Proud Parenting Moment (PPM): Momservation: Change is inevitable. Just make sure you brought your camera, your battery’s charged and your SIM card is empty. ☺ ☺ ☺ Elvis has left the building - and I'm chasing after him. I'm also making like The Artist Formerly Known as Prince and changing my name. Hopefully, unlike Prince, I won't have to go back to my old name because it made me obsolete. So, if you'd like to continue to follow my blogs, you can now reach me at my new name and electronic address - www.Momservations.com! (For now it'll forward you to my website www.Kellimwheeler.com where you can click on Momservations™) It's been a great ride here at SacMomsClub and I'd like to thank them for providing a forum for my very first baby blogging steps. I'd also like to thank all my SacMomsClub friends and fans who took the time to find me, read me, make a comment, and generally make me feel like I had something interesting say. You guys are the best! Now, get on out of here and over to Momservations.com and read my first post: The Blogger Formerly Known as Most Smartest Mommy ITW (In the World) Enjoy the journey! xo Kelli
Momservation: Why is the arrival of a much anticipated fun family event a virtual guarantee your kids will come down with the flu? ☺ ☺ ☺ I want to know what I did to upset the universe so that my kids come down with some sort of ick the first week of school. I’ve been a good mommy. I played with them all summer and executed fun family trips and events from June to August. I kept a smile plastered on my face and didn’t let on when I’d had about enough of togetherness even when the long days of summer began to drag on. I deserved that first week of school and the glorious empty, silent, puke and diarrhea-free house that I should’ve had. Alas, it was not to be. On top of that, we had two much anticipated fun family events to coincide with Back to School. We were going to celebrate the end of summer with our annual trip to the California State Fair and Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus. Both happened to be in town the first week of school. We go every year to the fair and circus (though not usually in the same week) and had bought our discount passes well in advance. The kids had been talking up what rides they wanted to ride first at the fair (the Giant Slide and the roller coasters) and what their favorite part of the circus would be (interacting with the clowns before the show and the human cannonball). Then Whitney, 8, comes home barfing the first day of school. With fingers crossed, rest, chicken soup, and manic hand washing we tried to nurse her back to health and keep the rest of us well for the fair on Wed. and the circus on Thurs. We got Whitney back on her feet Wed. and though not ready for a deep fried Twinkie, we headed with much anticipation to the fair. After the first three rides, she was done. Too much, too soon, and we were just grateful she didn’t puke in the car on the way home. Ah, but then the barf baton was passed to brother and early Thurs. morning Logan, 9, was now in charge of holding the toilet down. Though he hoped he’d make a miraculous recovery and be ready for the circus that evening, it ended up just being me and Whitney while Hubby took over doctor duty. As usual it was a great show. Ringling Bros. and B & B do something every year to keep it fresh, and this year it was magic. Literally! Made elephants disappear and tigers appear. There were amazing horse tricks, dog tricks, elephant tricks, and tiger tricks. We saw more people flying through the air than at an airport. It was equal opportunity ooh and ahh for adults and kids. But it was sad to have my son miss it. So I brought back pictures, a clown nose, a stuffed tiger and a keepsake program. I know it was overkill, but I felt bad that he’d have to wait a whole ‘nother year to see someone shot from a cannon and a tiger poop a pile as big as his head (if you have boys, you get this). So, I just bought plane tickets to go to ●●● Tickets for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Zing Zang Zoom circus are still available. The show is in town through Sunday at Arco Arena. Get discount tickets at the box office or through Ticketmaster.com with Promo Code: MOM. Four tickets for $44 – not a bad seat in the house. Momservation: It is a beautiful sight to behold watching your kids head back into the halls of knowledge after summer vacation. ☺ ☺ ☺ My kids started school today and I’m really feeling the need to get a T-shirt made that says, “I survived summer vacation.” Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast with the kids this summer – a bonus of being a work-at-home mom and being able set it aside long enough to play with my kids while they still want me to. But I am a firm believer in too much of a good thing. It’s also not that I was looking forward to resuming homework battles, realizing too late there’s no bread for lunches, fending off a PTA relentless for my volunteer blood, frenetic mornings, and overbooked schedules. I just couldn’t keep up anymore. Wiped out and tapped out. Sucked all the fun right out of me making me wish for deadlines and writer’s block. So, if I’m going to get this T-shirt made I might as well put on the back a checklist of all the things I did this summer that either qualifies me for the coveted Mother of the Year Award or as legally insane (a fine line distinction).
I, of course, saved the best event for last. My friend Becky’s Redneck Wedding - a kid free party of epic proportions in tasteless and out-of-control fun. You’ve never seen such a group of responsible and respectable parents, in desperate need for school to start, cutting loose before they lost it. Thus, I leave you with two pictures as evidence of how I survived my summer vacation – getting to have fun with my kids and getting to act like a kid having fun. Enjoy the journey. |
