Friday night our plans to get local philly mommybloggers together in the flesh came to fruition!
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend (see below!) I’ll be following you all on Twitter and your blogs! Mommies With Style, girlymama, Situationally Single Mom, Gunning It , Total Mom Haircut, Genesis Moments, Occupation Mommy, Graco Blog, Crazy, but the cool kind., Freeform Katia , Mommy Needs Therapy, A Box of Chocolates,Water water everywhere . . .
We all hooked up for a dinner at Buca di Peppo. Graco, who coincidentally happens to be headquartered a few miles away, offered to pick up the tab and join us for the fun! Us lucky ladies scored some swag too which was an unexpected bonus! Mom Central offered gorgeous flowers and tickets to the Ringling Brothers Circus .Aprons from the Handy Guy’s Podcast, free Orville Redenbacher Popcorn, and crafts and goodies from NewBaby.com too. You can see all our photos here at Flickr.
And my friend Karma was good to me Friday evening as I was 1 of 2 Mommies to win their versatile, affordable, and long lasting brand new Graco Nautilus car seat. Hooray!
We desperately need this as when he graduates from his current seat we don’t have anything to move him into as Kenzie is still not in a booster. Kyle will be able to pop into this forward facing seat once he hits 20 lbs and 1 year – and the best part is that this seat totally converts into a Booster style seat so with Graco’s NAUTILUS, I’ll NEVER need to buy a carseat again. This all feels like Karma to me since Graco stepped up to help my efforts with the “classy mommy big give” and now here I am lucky enough to win a seat for my family. So thank you forces of the universe for aligning to solve my car seat needs!
Always kind of weird wondering what it will be like to meet email buddies and fellow bloggers in person but trust me now that I’ve done this a few times – it is sooooo worth it! Even Mel, from Life is Like a Box of Chocolates who suffered 4 hours of traffic driving up from the beach in Delaware sounds like she had a grand enough time. And don’t be worried about having nothing to talk about…. we only had a room for 3 hours and I’m sure we could have hung out for 5 hours and still had more to say! I felt like we barely touched the surface.
Loved everyone I met and we hope to organize another gathering in September if everyone is game! Jo-Lynne from Musings of a Housewife posted a bunch of pics on her site and after meeting her – I can see why she runs Chic Critique too as this Mama who lives only a few miles from me is totally styling and fab. Mel also agrees that Musings is quite the fashionista in this funny post chronicling her adventures to the Philly Mommy Blogger event! And for the record, Beth from the Total Mom Haircut does indeed have fine locks.
We all had a super time getting to know each other and Lindsay from Graco kept up with the outside world twittering away as any savvy Social Media Exec would do…. And we were all quite impressed and intriqued with Mommy Needs Therapy’s woeful tale of needing to change her blogs name and address after a workplace security breach impacted her Blog. Beth thought this was quite “Dooce of her”- however it was actually Twitter that got her in trouble! So really this was indeed “Dooce times 2 of her” according to Lindsay at Graco!
Thanks again for coming!I’ll be following you on Twitter and your blogs! Let’s do it again soon!
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