Life is full of little moments. Once in awhile, you get a best moment. A moment you will always remember. A moment you will treasure forever.

Last week, we had what had a best moments in Ellie’s life. She got to play soccer with World Cup Champion Brandi Chastain.

Ellie has played soccer for years. Its her favorite sport – and when she found out she was going to get to meet a real, professional soccer player. A real, professional, GIRL soccer player. She asked me every single day how much longer it would be. She was jumping around the car on the way there. We got there, she put on her uniform and pretty much charged onto the field.

(Oh, yeah, Kelly Ripa was there, too.  Ellie was like, “LOOK! Its BRANDI!! Hey, isn’t that the lady in the bank commercials?)

It was amazing. AMAZING. I was in heaven watching my girls have the experience of a lifetime. They were running around, running ‘laundry drills’ with the Electrolux Perfect Steam Washer and Dryer, and finally, playing a game.

I love how Grace is fixing her hair and Ellie is shoving Julie‘s son – who was
on her own team – out of the way to get the ball.
Those are my girls, all right!

After the event, the girls got their photo with Brandi. This was so very important to Ellie. She kept saying, “Mom, make sure I get my picture with her, okay? I really, really want my picture with her.”
Then Ellie really blew me away. Ellie is a little shy around new adults. She almost never says much to them (except when we give her the evil eye to make her make polite conversation). But she stopped Brandi and started talking to her, telling her how much she loved soccer and how she had 4 soccer trophies and she is so proud to meet her.
And Brandi was amazing. She was encouraging Ellie to keep playing and was so excited about her 4 trophies. Brandi Chastain was excited that Ellie had four soccer trophies.

It was amazing. I was tearing up watching them. You don’t have moments like this everyday!!

Electrolux understands how important these little moments are. They make so many appliances that save moms time so that we can spend less time in the laundry room and more time having special moments – everyday and best moments – with our families.  We’re researching washers and dryers now, since our dryer is no longer a dryer, merely a “thing that we put clothes in for several hours at a time” and our washer now slowly moves across the laundry room when the spin cycle is on. We’ve looked at so many brands and Electrolux is clearly the top of the top! They are the stars of my dream laundry room!!

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disclosure: we received transportation to this event and a gift bag. we were not compensated for this post and, as always, all opinions are my own.