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Drowning is a Silent Killer

2011
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You can also find this post on my other blogs, Sensible Cents and Kitchen Conundrum, but because I feel that it is so incredibly important, I am posting it everywhere.

Summer is here and it’s time to head to the pool and to the beach. It’s common that before you go, you check to make sure you have enough liquids, and enough sunscreen. But are you prepared for an emergency?  Sure, you have band-aids, and bug repellant, but are you prepared for a drowning, or a near-drowning incident?

I actually learned this a few years ago, and it really has stuck with me and I remind myself of it every year. Drowning doesn’t look like drowning. If you think that drowning involves wildly flailing arms and loud screams for help, you should think again. Because you are dead wrong. Drowning doesn’t look like you think it would look. It doesn’t look at all like it does in the movies or on TV. There are very few warning signs. In fact, most drownings occur when people are no further away than 20 feet.

According to the CDC, the statistics are staggering. More than one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger and for every child who dies from drowning, another four received emergency department care for nonfatal submersion injuries. Drowning is the second leading cause of death among children in this age range.  And, worse still, drownings are the leading cause of injury death for young children ages 1 to 4, and three children die every day as a result of drowning! The sad part? Drowning is preventable.

I’m going to share here part of an excellent article entitled “It Doesn’t Look Like They’re Drowning” featured in the Coast Guard’s On Scene Magazine (Fall 06, Page 14) written by Aviation Survival Technician First Class Mario Vittone and Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D. There is a lot of bold here, because it’s really that important to pay attention to.

In the article, they describe the typical Instinctive Drowning Response as follows:

(The “Instinctive Drowning Response” are actions that represent a person’s attempts to avoid the actual or perceived suffocation in the water. The suffocation in water triggers a constellation of autonomic nervous system responses that result in external, unlearned, instinctive drowning movements. Commit these to memory!)

1. Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.

2. Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouth of a drowning person is not above the surface of the water long enough to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning person’s mouth is above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouth starts to sink below the surface of the water.

3. Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

4. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.

5. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

Here are some Signs of Drowning to watch for the next time you’re swimming with your kids or others:

  • Head low in the water, mouth at water level
  • Head tilted back with open mouth
  • Hair over forehead or eyes
  • Eyes glassy, empty and unable to focus
  • Eyes closed
  • Hyperventilating or gasping
  • Not using legs or not kicking
  • Body is vertical and upright
  • Trying to swim in a certain direction but not making any progress
  • Trying to roll over on the back

Here are some Prevent Drowning Measures you can take:

Be Aware

Keep your eyes open and watch your children! Do not leave them for a second unattended around water. This is the most important thing you can do to save your child’s life. Even when things seem ok, they may not be. A good way to make sure is to ask your kid or the person you’re swimming with if he or she is all right. If they are rather still, do not answer or have a blank stare, then you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them! As any parent knows, kids make noise in the water. If they are not making noise, find out why and get them out of the water ASAP. One thing I do with my girls, that I actually learned as a SCUBA Rescue Diver is to make a “BIG OKAY” sign with my hand on my head and my arm outstretched like the letter “O”.  They can see me and my “BIG OKAY” from wherever they are in a pool and do it back to me. When they do that, I know that they are okay. If they don’t do it, I then hop in the water and go get them. Every time we go to the pool or the beach, I remind them to make the sign, so I don’t have to drag them out of the water.

Learn CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)

Are you up to date with your CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) accreditation? If you aren’t, go and learn and get recertified every two years. CPR can help a child stay alive with little or no brain damage.

Life Jackets are a “MUST!”

You wouldn’t let your child go un-seatbelted  (hopefully!) in the car so don’t let them go unprotected in the water either. Make sure kids wear life jackets every single time they are in and around natural bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers or the ocean, even if they know how to swim.

Fence the Pool and Cover It

If you have a home pool or are at another person’s home that has a pool, be sure that it is fenced in. Every pool should have a four–sided fence, with self–closing and self–latching gates around the entire pool.  And make sure the pool is covered when not in use. If it’s an above ground pool, make sure the ladder/steps are inaccessible to children.

Teach Your Children How To Swim!

The American Red Cross gives very cost efficient swimming lessons at a pool near you. Take advantage of their classes.

I hope that you and your family and your friends have an awesome, safe Summer filled with laughter and joy and good food!

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Missing the Sweetness Of the ’70′s

2011
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My oldest needed to memorize the Preamble tonight for a test tomorrow. I sang the Preamble as I remembered learning it from Schoolhouse Rock. Then we watched the original version on You Tube about 50 times and by the end, she had it down pat. She was happy and went off to bed humming the tune.

Then I sat down and watched about two hours worth of various School House Rocks. They were great! I was instantly transported back to 1975 (or thereabouts) and to an era of time when life was simpler. Maybe it wasn’t so simple in reality. But it sure seemed that way.

In those days, we had only three channels, and maybe 2 more that came in variations of  fuzzy or less fuzzy, depending on the tin foil balls you put on the antennas and their respective directions. There weren’t any music videos that showed every part of everyone’s bodies and there certainly wasn’t Hannah Montana and her parent-less friends teaching bad attitudes and smart alec retorts. We actually had to sing the songs and make up our own dances and scenes to go with them. We used our imaginations. And we never would have dreamed rolling our eyes or flipping our hair to our parents for fear of a smack or being grounded “for life”.

We used to play outside, for hours, unattended, only to be called in at dinner time. Now, I would never dream of letting my kids out of my sight because of who might steal them or hurt them. Or maybe they might get hurt all on their own. And you can forget riding your big wheel up and down the street with all the cars around or playing kickball under the street lights glow. It’s not going to happen. That carefree era has long been gone.

But I wish it weren’t. Because it would be good for them. Those days, it gave us strength, and confidence. And we learned so much.

I wish they could have the same kind of carefree days I had as a child. But they can’t. The world is so different now. So we’ll keep watching Schoolhouse Rock and that will have to be as close to the 70′s that they will get. Until I crochet them a multicolored hat.

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Resolutions

2010
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Each year I have a few resolutions that I make, but you know how that goes. You make them and you break them. They really just don’t work. So this year, I thought rather than have the strict New Year’s resolutions, that I would just try to do a few things differently next year. Just try to be more conscious of the things I want to do and the goals I want to achieve. And if I stop and think about them, like maybe not having that extra bite of chocolate cake rather than no cake at all or maybe supporting one cause that’s dear to my  heart rather than trying to support them all or trying to be more present and focused while playing with my children in small time increments rather than being only half there and half with the millions of other things that “need” to be done,  then maybe, just maybe, the resolutions I made in the past, may actually come true this year afterall.

Wishing you all a wonderful, happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!

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So Much Has happened! What a Month!

2010
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My goodness it has been quite a while! We have a lot to catch up on.

First, I am excited to tell you about my upcoming trip to Mexico. Rivera Maya just south of Cancun to be exact. To join some of my favorite food bloggers for an extended weekend at Food Blogger Camp!  Both me an my dh will be travelling from Wednesday, January 5 through Sunday, January 9th. And let me tell you, it will be a much deserved vacation/learning experience! I really, really can not wait.

And I will tell you why-

This month has totally sucked! From Thanksgiving- where my sister in law went all psycho to the our ReThanksgiving at home on the Friday after where I spent the day in excruciating pain- until now. It turns out, that pain I had that ruined our ReThanksgiving (I couldn’t even eat!) was KIDNEY STONES! I suffered through the weekend, and finally Monday night I texted a friend who is an EMT to ask which hospital was cleanest and would get me in and out the fastest. He gathered his troops and took me via ambulance to the ER, totally bypassing the waiting room and the seven hour wait.

In the emergency room, they did a CT and other tests confirming that I did indeed have two kidney stones, but worse than that, they told me that I may have Multiple Myeloma. They found lytic lesions on my spine when they did the CT. I needed to go ASAP to have an MRI and more testing. I was also told to not dare google it. (Are you kidding me?) So I asked several friends to do that for me and doom and gloom abounded. By the third day, I finally had to know for myself and was thrust into all kinds of panic, terror, and holy crap’s, not to mention the huge list of all the things I still needed to do- like  finish the children’s scrapbooks and write them letters for the future. It was really torment.  Caught in the early stages, people generally only live for a year-three at best. I could not have been more devastated. I ran to my GP the very next day.

Thankfully, the blood tests and the MRI all came back normal. I love my GP. He said from the day 1 that it that it didn’t make sense. My blood tests are always normal. The MRI radiologist determined the tumors to be hemangiomas. Benign tumors that people are born with. WHEW! So it seems that I will live a full life until I die by being hit by a bus or some other terrible thing- like KIDNEY STONES. And these kidney stones, turned out to be much larger than first thought. They were not going to pass on their own. Another thing the first radiologist got wrong.

So a week of my life spent dealing with that craziness and not dealing with the pain in my right kidney. Oh right, pain in the kidney. Back to that. And back to the hospital in pain yet again. This time, I was in and out in just a few hours because I had an actual appointment with a Urologist. This was on Friday, December 3. He said that I would need a stent put in the following week, but if the pain became too much I should just go to the ER and they would do it as an emergency. Well, the pain, the fever and the vomiting that ensued forced me to the ER the very next day and the stent was put in on Sunday, December 5.

I was also glowing! I had 2 CTs, 8 X-Rays and and MRI by this point.

The major pain seemed to be over with the insertion of the stent. As uncomfortable as it was, it was far better than how I had been feeling. That lasted for ten days and yesterday I finally had a procedure called a lithotripsy which blows up the stone in my kidney and I had a laser break up the other stone and then a new stent was put into place. This will be in for two weeks to give all the stone fragments time to pass.

It will come out just in time for our trip to Mexico. Which I really can not wait for!

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A good, yet crappy week!

2010
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So, good news, my dh has a new job already. He starts Monday! Yipee! I hope this one goes well and even though the pay is less than he was making, his commute will be about a half hour shorter, so that’s a plus! I myself took on two projects that I am actually really excited about but I have not been able to work too much on them with the focus and devotion they need, because I have the FLU!  All week, I have been laid up. (I did drag myself to a few events though, but right back to bed afterwards!)  My attention span and awake hours are few and far between. And please don’t ask me to add any numbers! It’s just not happening right now.

Also, my little guy turned 3 yesterday! He had a little party in preschool and we sent cupcakes and treat bags filled with chocolates for all his little friends. He had a great day! This weekend we are planning on a small (very small!) family party with cake and balloons. Mostly because I want cake! LOL! (and the pictures of course!)

I have to say, I am having a bit of trouble this week keeping up with three blogs, four facebook pages, three twitter accounts and six email addresses. I really need a magical dashboard that handles it all on one screen. Anyone know of a product out there that can do that????  Does Hoot Suite make a desktop version? I wonder. Well, it would be helpful if I can intergate everything in one big pile. I have actually created a check list form for each review and post so I am making sure that I am following through with everything I need to be doing. AND, I have been lax about reading other blogs, which I love to do too!

I have three more posts to publish today and I will be all caught up! I tend to over write when doing a review or event wrap up. I like to be thorough though. What do you think?

So, I am running out of steam and have to crawl back into bed soon with a box of tissues and some more cold medicine.

In the meantime, check out my other blogs, Sensible Cents and Kitchen Conundrum… there seems to be a lot going on over there!

P.S. I am having Theme design  issues with Sensible Cents and am really looking to spice it up. And I am thinking about changing Kitchen’s theme as well but I like it a lot better than Sensible’s. What do you think? Ideas, thoughts and opinions are gladly welcome!

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The Big Apple Circus! A Fun Family Day!

2010
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I am not usually a fan of the circus. But with just 1,619 seats, and none farther away than 50’ from the single ring, The Big Apple Circus, is an intimate and captivating affair.  Unlike the large circus’ with their overwhelming glitz and sensory overload from all the commotion imbued with multiple rings and simultaneous acts, The Big Apple Circus is wholesome and uncomplicated.  It is truly my favorite circus and I am thrilled to have been able to share it with my children this past weekend.

This year marks The Big Apple Circus’ 33rd year, its presentation aptly named Dance On!  The talented, and delightful comic Mark Gindick who stars as the Man Who Dances along with Barry Lubin,  who portrays the infamous Grandma The Clown, made the show complete withtheir lively and lovable antics, hysterical for both young and old alike.

Under the artistic direction of Guillaume Dufresnoy, this event featured performers from all around the world.

The versatile and charming ringmaster Kevin Venardos, led us through a little more than two hours of laughs, hilarious routines, and dazzling feats.

My kid’s faces lit up with excitement and awe for all the acrobatic acts, such as The Hebei Wuqiao Acrobatic Troupe from China who performed a tantalizing lasso act and an acrobatic ensemble all while riding monocycles! 

 

The African Acrobats/ Acrobats Internationale pumped up the fun with a high-energy dance to the rhythms of world beat music and then climbed a single pole with feats of incredible strength and agility that makes climbing trees seem like something for amateurs. The beautiful Regina Dobrovitskaya, who hails from Russia, entranced the audience with her flying trapeze way above our heads. From Bulgaria, performer Andrey Mantchev gave us a stunning hand–balancing performance and stood literally on his head on top of a balance pole no larger than a palm.

 The five young women from Mongolia, X Bud Roses Troupe, wowed and amazed us with contortion acts of strength and flexibility leaving us spellbound! (Although I am not so sure their dentist is pleased! Look closely at the ladies on the bottom! OH MY!)

They were astonished with, Girma Tshehai a charming performer from Ethiopia who excited us with an act of juggling that was simply delightful!

My personal favorite was Rob Torres who played the sweet and playful International Man of Mirth. With simple props he pantomimes and engages the audience in his witty and uproarious behavior. I loved one of his sketches that just used a suitcase, two wooden jewelry boxes and an oversized alarm clock. It was so entertaining!

The pinnacle of the show was when Jenny Vidbel filled the ring with a playful chorus line of 12 white mini-horses and showcased the talents of many adorable pooches and a few endearing goats! I had no idea that goats could be trained so well!

The Big Apple Circus, in the words of my children, was “the best day ever!” I would have to agree.

 “The Big Apple Circus is YOUR circus, Big Apple is back in town!”  And it should not be missed!

Ticket Information

Performances of Dance On! began on Thursday, October 21st and will run for 123 shows through Sunday, January 9th under the Big Top at Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center (62nd Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues).

Tickets for Dance On! start at $15 and are available by calling (888) 541-3750 or at www.bigapplecircus.org. The Circus Box Office, located in front of the Big Top, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 AM to 8 PM, and Sunday and Monday from 10 AM to 6 PM.

For groups of 15 people or more, for inquiries about wheelchair-accessible seating or for any additional information please call the Ticket Info Line at (800) 922-3772.

Disclosure:  I was not compensated to write this post, however, I recieved tickets to see The Big Apple Circus to provide you with this review.

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Fall is Officially Here

2010
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With Falls arrival, I yearn for the crisp outdoors and all the activites you can do now that the summer heat has been banished from the land. The vibrant colors of  trees and the nip in the air reminds me to pull out my favorite sweaters and some warm fleeces. The open toed shoes get tucked away and the hiking boots come out.

One of my most favorite Fall activities is going apple picking. I love taking a bite of that first apple freshly plucked from the tree, the crunch and the tart juice on your hands as you wander the orchards in search of the perfect apples to pick. It is wonderful that they let you eat as many apples as you want while you pick.  But don’t eat too many- you should save room for the Cider donughts.

 This year, we headed up to Warwick, NY, about a two hour drive from our home.  There were several places to choose from, but we found ourselves arriving at Maskers Orchards. We had heard that going early was best as every orchard gets packed with the NYers escaping the city. They were right! We arrived at 10am and there was plenty of parking and it was rather empty. But not for long! By 1pm when we were finished, it was a mob scene and we were happy to leave.

We picked from a variety of Jonagolds, Red Delicious and Empire apples. For just $24.95 per 1/2 bushel bag you can pick anywhere from 20-25lbs of apples in just one bag. Which, by the way, is a TON of apples. Certainly enough to make several pies, crisps and tarte tartins with enough left over for apple butter or apple sauce. You may still have enough to give away to family and friends after all of that. Yes, it’s that many apples!

Maskers has many activites for families such as pony rides, a haunted house, a small petting zoo, face painting, a small corn maze, live music and pumpkin picking (not in a field). They also have a quaint country store where you can purchase containers of jellies, salsa, honey, and maple syrup.

You can purchase their cider donuts from the food stand, but hold off, because they don’t make them fresh every morning, but rather the night before. They are more like heavy, cakey, sugar donuts than cider donuts. For real cider donuts, you should head over to Soons Orchards in New Hampton, NY. Their doughnuts are golden brown and dusted with a combination of sugar and cinnamon and are extremely light and airy. The pale, golden-apple-colored interior is incredibly moist and packed with apple flavor. Exactly what you want a cider doughnut to be! We had purchased our doughnuts at Maskers, but sadly disappointed, we went in search of a better doughnut and found Soon’s at a farmers market in downtown Warwick. How lucky we were! So we bought another half dozen and those became the grown up’s doughnuts and the Maskers became the kid’s doughnuts. I am mean like that.

After the farmers market, we ate lunch in downtown Warwick. It’s a very cute  town with lots of little shops and places to grab a bite. It’s also very close to the Sugarloaf Art & Craft Village, a crafts community with artistic items like paintings, stained glass, photography, pottery, antiques, jewelry and woodworks, candles, soap, sculpture and much much more! That’s a trip for another day. Today, we also had hiking on our minds.

Satiated from all the apples and doughnuts and a bit of real food, we headed over to Bear Mountain State Park to hike around the lake. For the month of October, the park celebrates Oktoberfest every weekend with vendor booths and a lot of food and beer. While this does seem to draw a rather young and boisterous crowd, they are pretty well behaved and once you are on the trails, you can’t even hear the music anymore.  So, you still get that outdoorsy feel in a beautiful setting (that is far better than any backyard!)

We had a lot of fun just going around the lake and the kids climbed up all the rocks and rolled down the hills. It exhausted them thouroughly! Some day soon we hope to go back and take some marked trails like we did long before children were born, but we think we have to find some milder ones without too much danger and butt sliding. We’ll save the hard trails for when the little guy is older! Of course, by then, who knows if we will be able to handle them anymore ourselves!

So, if you have a day free, head outside and enjoy the cool air and some leaves crunching beneath your shoes, before it gets too cold and the snow begins to fall. Because that’s when I head inside and under the covers to hibernate for the winter!

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Not Quite Time To Panic

2010
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Everything was going so well. Then my dh lost his job last week. Laid off. Now we are both not working, and that really is not a good thing. While I love having him home to talk to all day (he’s not getting on my nerves yet), I really feel off balance. And my space has been invaded. My days were perfectly scheduled with everything running like clock work.  I had a routine. But  now, I have to take into account what he wants to do as well. And I have not been able to keep up my routines.  Then, he picked up the kids at school on Friday and at pre-school my son ran to him, right passed me, leaving me with my arms outstreched, but empty. Since daddy is home, I no longer exist. I know the novelty will wear off for them (or maybe it won’t!), but for right now, I feel like the red-headed step child. It’s true. He is a lot more fun than me. He makes them laugh, and he rarely yells at them.  It just makes me sad. Because, when I left my job, it was MY TURN! My turn to get all the hugs and kisses first.  But I am being selfish. He really could use all the hugs and kisses right now. I am hoping that this does not last very long.  

 They did give him a nice package, but I just can not imagine what life will be like when that runs out, if he hasn’t found a job by then. He actually does work very part time too at another job, but those seven hours  are not nearly enough to cover our expenses. It’s not quite time to panic, but I am allowing myself a few minutes throughout the day to have  full fledged panic attacks.

He has been making lots of phone calls, but I am worried that the energy and urgency will wane and with each passing day, less phone calls will be made. It’s easy to get comfortable at home. I really hope that does not happen. But it is a fear I have.

I know people who have been out of work for nearly two years. I have no idea how they are paying their mortgages. It makes me ill to think about not paying mine. It’s a tough market out there.

I really hope this doesnt last long. I want my routine back. And I really want my kisses and hugs back.

P.S. Don’t forget to enter my giveaways over on Sensible Cents.

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Slumber Party, Martha Stewart Style

2010
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Yesterday, I was lucky enough to be invited to a taping of The Martha Stewart Show! This episode’s theme was a slumber party and everyone had to be dressed for the occasion in pajamas and night time gear!  You could not be admitted to the show without being in pjs!

I picked out my most fun pair of flannel pjs, bright purple ones with different color polka dots all over them. Since I actually wear them, they were a bit wrinkled, as flannel often gets, so I had to make sure they were all pressed and neat. After all, I may be seen on TV.

 The debate was how to get into the city while wearing them since you had to arrive in them. I really did not want to take the train in my pjs, so I opted for just wearing the top over a tee shirt and wearing jeans with the bottom’s folded nicely in a bag that I carried.  My dh made the comment that I wouldn’t be the first person in NYC to be wearing my pjs on the street, to which I replied, “True, but I am still sane”.

So I took the train in my pj top and got quite a few looks. Finally one lady said that my top was cute. I think she was being cautious or coy, not sure which. I laughed and told her where I was going and an instant look of relief came over her face. I wasn’t just a crazy lady who apparently forgot to get all the way dressed!

I arrived at Penn Station but still had to head downtown. Should I change now, and walk out on the streets in my entire pj ensemble? No, let’s get a bit closer to our destination and pray there is a Starbucks nearby with a clean bathroom. Lo, and behold, just a block before the studio was a Starbucks. Thank you, overpriced coffeehouse!  I quickly disrobed and slipped on my pj bottoms, and continued to the show’s studio. (No, I did not buy coffee!)

We had to arrive at 8:30am sharp for the live show at 10am. There were releases to be signed and all the “pumping up” of the audience that needed to occur. I was happy to see that they had a coat check so I checked my bag (holding my real clothes) and my coat.

Joey, the man in charge of giving us the directions on how and when to clap, also gave us the scoop on how much swag we were going home with. It seemed like quite a bit! Yipee! Good stuff!

 Soon it was time to head up to the studio itself. It was so Martha! Beautiful and huge! There was a stunning kitchen (wish I had that in my house), a crafting area, a living room and other small areas that could be used on the set.

 The first guest was Darcy Miller, the editorial director of Martha Stewart Weddings. The idea for the episode came from her own slumber party experience with her daughter Emma just a few months ago.  She began by showing the audience the cute invitations she made which contained little illustrated pictures of Emma that she tucked into “sleeping bag” style envelopes. Apparently there was also moon, stars, sheep and teddy bears confetti inside the envelopes that Martha has still been finding all over her desk and rug. She went on to show the personalized pillowcases and flashlights they made at the party. In addition they created goodnight journals and bookmarks.  There were giant versions of all the classic bedtime books, including “Goodnight Moon”, scattered around so the children could read. The best activity was a “Pin the Bear on the Ella” game, where the girls were blindfolded with sleep masks, and had to tape a cut out bear onto a blown up illustration of Ella.  Here’s what the poster looked like:


You can actually download this image to use at your own slumber party and get all of the details for the crafts and activities at MarthaStewart.com. 

Darcy then showcased the party food, brownies, cupcakes and a cake die cut moons, stars and teddy bears on them.  Martha seemed quite excited by a bowl of Teddy Grahams.  I think she really had never seen them before.  Darcy assured her that anyone can get them and they weren’t custom made!

The next segment featured Bobbi Brown who came out to talk about beauty tips for teenagers and who showed us her new book (which we all got to take home). She made over a few teens from the audience and the transformation was really amazing and quite appropriate for the young ladies.  I really enjoyed this segment since my girls love to experiment with makeup and what they can get away with wearing outside of the house.  Lip gloss yes, eye shadow no. Maybe in a few years.

The last guest was Dylan Lauren from Dylan’s Candy Bar, a place of true decadence in NYC.  She and two little girls from the audience created Candy Wrapper & Bubblegum Houses with Martha.  She also showed us her new book (which we also took home) and there was a bubble gum blowing contest amongst the audience members that Joey was running around with ruler measuring for the biggest bubble.  That was really funny.

Martha ended the show by creating some cute Halloween crafts with a young lady from the audience and shared some slumber party photo props ideas.

It was such a fun morning and I am glad I braved the streets of NYC in my pajamas.

If you missed The Martha Stewart Show yesterday, the slumber party episode re-airs on the Hallmark Channel today at 1pm and can be found online at MarthaStewart.com.

 

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I’m Blogging Over At Sears Today

2010
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I’m talking about my most important appliance over at Sears today! Please visit me here and say hello!

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