Mel's Box of Chocolates

Just discovered my Droid has a Blogger app! Now I'm trying to see if it's worth using. So how does this look? Wonder how the pix will come out? Shall we see?

As I lay here in bed listening to the thunder boom, watching the lightening flash, and listening to the rain pour down, I think it's the perfect setting for how I'm feeling lately...like I'm drowning! It seems like things keep raining down on me and I'm just trying to tread water in hopes of staying on the surface. Honestly, there isn't anything too serious happening and thankfully everybody is in good health, well unless you count my tooth that is getting a root canal tomorrow {which I'm trying not to think about that cause you know how I feel about the darn dentist}, it's just things...stuff...meetings...responsibilities.  Yuck. I know sooner or later though it will stop raining. The water will begin recede. I will be able to stop treading. But until then, if you happen to have any extra energy or maybe even a good pair of flippers, send it my way, please!

OMgosh, just realized that this never posted last Monday!!  Here I was so busy planning the darn event and then enjoying it this weekend that I never even looked at my blog.  Well the post was written so it's gonna be published by golly.  By the way, I think the event turned out great and I'll have lots to share...right after I sleep for the next week!!   Last week, or maybe even the week before, I forget, I was talking about how I'm spinning in circles with lots of things on the horizon. Well one of those things is happening this week!! I have FINALLY had my hope of creating a Delaware blogging event happen.  Through the power of Twitter I was able to connect with @VisitSouthDel who saw my tweet begging for local businesses to allow me to use my social media connections to promote them. As you may, or maybe not, know last spring I started a hyper-local blog, Delaware Beach Families .  I have enjoyed blogging there and sharing tips and tricks to "...

I consider myself a relatively confident person. I tackle my fears head on, plowing through them in order to put them behind me. But, there is one thing that makes me crumble every time. The DENTIST. Ugh. A few weeks,{okay months, but who's counting} I noticed when I was chewing gum it kept getting stuck on one tooth. Weird.  Then I decided that it felt funny on my tongue, sharp-like.  Somehow I think I had chipped my tooth without ever realizing it.  Anyways, I figured oh well and moved on, avoiding the gum.  Then about a month later I had a horrible toothache.  I now have great respect for those little babes who are teething.  Toothaches are horrific!  I loaded up on ibuprofen and after a couple days it went away.  Sure I considered going to the dentist, but I was just avoiding it with all my heart way to busy to get there. Skip forward a month, or two, or three, and my tooth still feels funny and lately I've had a really weird taste...

Remember how I told you Zoe is obsessed with her straight, blonde hair . Well as much as she likes her hair, she thinks I shouldn't like mine. Curly. Brown. Perish the thought! At least according to her. Then the other day she started comparing a couple of our parts. Wondering why mine pointed to the ground and hers didn't.  Oh, daughter of mine...just you wait! This post will come back to haunt you.  I promise! But, nothing beats the other day when she came running into my room and jumped on my bed with excitement oozing from her, "Guess what mommy?" Know she was about to burst, I said, "What, Zoe?"  preparing myself to hear about the latest tv show, barbie adventures, or Justin Bieber sighting in a magazine.  Oh how I wish that was what she was going to share. "I just saw something on tv that I know you will want.  You know how you have all those lines on your belly from having babies and everything?  Well now there is this special creme ...

Basically I'm standing here watching all these things circling above my head and I'm carefully trying to keep them all spinning so they stay up there rather than crashing down around me.  First this weekend is spinning up there. The kids and I are heading to Philly tomorrow to stay with my aunt. I'm attending GLO and CANNOT wait to hang out with some of my most favorite bloggers ever and be able to meet some new friends too.  The best thing about social media is connecting with people and I'm one of those who think "the more, the merrier" so ever since I bought my ticket, which was over a month ago, I've been counting down the days till tomorrow. My aunt is taking the kids to the Delaware History Museum, which Dyl visited on a field trip and has been begging to go back to since then. Then we have sushi and movie plans at night.   Sunday, we are hoping {cross your fingers the weather permits} to visit the Philadelphia Zoo since it's been a few y...

When Dylan came home with an assignment that required him to complete a timeline of his life he insisted we dig out his baby book.  So being the good mommy I am, after racking my brain about where it was, I found it and we started flipping pages recalling dates and memories from his 10 years...well really from his first year or two! His book is mostly complete with background stories of me and Dave and even of his grandparents.  There is his birth story, then footprints, hospital bracelets, birth announcements, hair locks, and of course pictures, lots of pictures.  The dates were neatly filled in when he first ate solids, drank from a cup, got his first tooth, crawled, walked, and those famous first words.  It was all there. Dyl enjoyed browsing the baby book and jotted down some dates on his timeline homework. Of course, Zoe wanted to walk down memory lane too so she asked for her baby book.  I found her book too and reluctantly gave it to her.  She ...

I can't believe we are three months into 2011 already. Yesterday I pulled out the jean jacket and that was the only coat I wore. Sure sign that spring is right around the corner. Only 20 more days till it's official, and only 13 days till our clocks spring forward so the sun will shine longer! This past weekend the family took a bike ride to the beach and we found this... Yep, spring is surely right around the corner! Happy March 1st! What's your favorite part of spring???