Author: Melissa

I’ve had an epiphany: airlines stink. 

Forget the whole “miracle of flight” thing, it is a miracle that airlines have survived as a business at all. While I do not have an MBA, but even I can see how completely RIDICULOUS the airline ticket pricing is.
We spent last night researching airline tickets for my husband to get to my sister’s wedding the summer and we were ready to tear our hair out. Can someone please explain why it cost $80 to fly from Philly to Columbus, but it costs over $200 to fly to Cleveland? And you have to make THREE stops to get there? Really?
And last week when my husband was booking flights for a business trip, look what he found:
 


Yes. That is the EXACT SAME FLIGHT. With a $952 price difference.

Honestly, Airline People. Get it together.

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I’m very disappointed with the gymnastics class that we signed Gracie up for. She has had a different teacher each week, yesterday the teacher was late, and she appears to be sitting for the majority of the class. We will be looking elsewhere!!
Gracie, of course, loves it and now wants to be in the Olympics. At least we found a sport she enjoys! Anything involving a ball was out – she spent last soccer season staying as far away from the ball as possible and if, by chance, she did make contact with the ball, it was entirely accidental!
Clearly, she got this from me!!

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This Saturday, I’m heading up to NYC again! Last year Philly mom bloggers hosted one of Hebrew National’s Picnic with a Purpose. 
They were such a great success that they’re doing them again this year!   I was
asked to be a co-host of the NYC Better-Than-A-Picnic Picnic kickoff
party, and I’m so excited!  They’re sending a bus to King of Prussia to take us to the event and there we’ll get to meet up
with a bunch of bloggity friend.  

Take a look at the list of co-hosts.

• Isabelle, Alpha Mom
• Jen, Next Kid Thing
• Suzanne , Mom Confessionals
• Amy, Selfish Mom
• Anna, Mommy Poppins
• Carol, NY City Mama
• Amy, Long Island Parent Source
• Kimberly, Mom in the City
• Kelsey, Naptime Chef
• Cecily, Uppercase Woman
• Whitney, Mommies with Style
• Jo-Lynne, Musings of a Housewife
• Emily, The Motherhood

It should be so much fun.  If you’re in or near NYC, you are welcome to
join us.  Visit theMotherhood’s Picnic with a Purpose page for more details or email me to RSVP.  (If you’re in Philly, you are welcome to join us on the bus as well.  There are 25 seats
left!!)

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We've started being more aggressive in helping Gracie stop sucking her thumb.

And it sucks.

(SUCKS! Get it?)

Somehow as she is getting older, she is sucking her thumb more. She used to just do it when she was sleeping, but now it seems like she does it all the time. While watching tv, while reading books, while in the car… We're constantly reminding her to stop.
She has a thumb guard on her thumb, but all she does is whine and whine and WHINE that she doesn't like it. And how hard it is. And how she can't do it.

Then yesterday… I caught her sucking her OTHER thumb! 

UGH! I don't know what to do. Should we just ignore it and let this solve itself? I'm wary of entering into a power struggle that I can't win.

Operation TACKLEMYDISGUSTINGHOUSE is underway.  Today I started with the  grossest room:  my kitchen.

I cleaned out the fridge – which was super disgusting. I finally fully cleaned up the wine that leaked all over when the wine box didn't seal properly. I found a few  jars waaaaay in the back that had mold growing in them. Classy!

Then I cleaned out all the cabinets, finding all sorts of nearly empty boxes and – of course – actual empty boxes. Does anyone else's cabinets have tons of empty boxes in it? What the heck??

I also cleaned out the spice cabinet, throwing out spices that I've had since college. COLLEGE! Yum! Bet those tasted amazing.

Tomorrow I'm tackling the mud room. Which still has snow pants hanging up and snow boots on the floor.

Yeah. Its been awhile.