I love Pinterest, I really do. Usually I waste way too many hours there combing over things that I want to make but never will. I can rock the recipes pretty hard, but the crafts? Yeah, no. With 3 girls, I’m forced invited to tackle crafty making things on occasion and I give it the old (insert alma mater here) try.

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We got a babysitter for the WHOLE night, a spa suite at a nice hotel and we had some plans. Good plans. Adult stuff plans.
We were going to enjoy the jacuzzi, see a movie, hit a local bar, enjoy the jacuzzi again and then tear the blankets off the huge mega king plus size bed and get down to the fun stuff. That’s right, we brought board games, cards, and dice games to have a night long game-a-thon with no interruptions!
What we ended up doing was barely making it through the movie and passed out in an exhausted slumber that lasted until check out time the next day. Never even got to turn that fantastic tub on! Sigh. Well, our goal was to spend time together doing something we couldn’t do with our monsters children around.
Mission Accomplished.

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5 kids, 1 dog, 2 crazy parents for 6 hours straight….. It went a little like this:

Hour 1: This is easy!! Are we almost there yet?

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So, there’s this thing called skepticon.. Dave & I tried to go. We are skeptics. GASP. There is so much that science can explain that religion cannot. Saying that, we didn’t get to see any speakers. We arrived Friday night, hung out with Rebecca Watson from Skepchick     and saw Aron Ra and Matt Dillahunty but the main person PZ Meyers, didn’t show until the next day. And wouldn’t you know it, our babysitter called and Vivi was sick. We left ASAP and missed the talks. This upset me, because this was supposed to be Dave’s weekend. The people he reads are important to him… Damn it! Well, he drove the 4 hours home like a bat out of hell like Vivi was drawing her last breath. (it turns out she was simply slightly congested.) There’s always next year, I guess. Before we got there, we did go through the Exotic Animal Park. (My favorite) SO I got 50 pictures of zebras and camels and 1 of Dave and a hero of his, the friendly atheist Hemant. PZ Meyers: Dave missed you. It was important. please contact him here: david.m.atchley@gmail.com. It would mean a lot.

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On one of our rare dates Dave & I attended a murder mystery dinner. 20′s style! It was so fantastic to get to dress up and actually converse with other adults, instead of herding shorties to their next candy fix!

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Halloween night was a nightmare of epic proportions. Let me tell you the horrific tale. A mom, Dr. Who, a medieval princess, and Iceland were 30 minutes from home and stuck in a moving vehicle while a tiny pirate projectile vomited a weeks worth of groceries all over everything. There was much crying from the pirate, screaming from the princess, and whining from Iceland. Luckily Dr. Who changed into his super dad outfit and pulled her out of the car so she could throw up in her halloween bucket as he took off her outfit & pitched it. Soon we were back home where dad was scrubbing out the van, I had Vivi in the bath, and eventually the others got to go trick or treating. The End.

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It’s time! How excited are we for this special Friday evening edition of Washington Cash Mob?

Now, who’s ready for Cash Mob fun? Show up any time between 5-6pm and say the phrase “Smelly Cat” or wear your fun hat to show you’re a cash mob member and enjoy some special surprises!

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