For the past few weeks, it has been very hot and sticky and really dry so we thought it would be a perfect idea to welcome visitors to Washington DC with water, snacks and $1 bills for Do Good Day. We woke up today and it was 73 (cold by DC summer standards) and rainy. But we forged ahead despite the lack of parking places at two Metro stations and horrible traffic and no parking spaces in DC.

We finally arrived at 14th and Constitution and set up shop to hand out water and snacks to visitors. 77kids.com and The Motherhood sent each of us 77 $1 bills with notes attached to pass out. The notes listed great ideas to use the $1 to “pay it forward” and Do Good! We handed out a total of $539 in $1 bills today.

Do Good Day, DC Video

It turns out my 7 year old son is quite the salesman. He was NOT taking “No Thank You” for an answer. He sold those $1 bills (as he put it) to everyone whether they wanted it or not. He couldn’t fathom why anyone would NOT want the $1 bill. He explained it was for “Do Good Day,” so they HAD to take it.

Now, you would think that people would be running over to get the $1 bills, but that wasn’t the case. The kids were more likely to accept the $1 bill without questioning but most adults looked at us like we were nuts. Why on earth would we be giving out $1 and not want anything in return?? We had to reassure them that we were not affiliated with a religious or political organization and we didn’t want them to buy anything. Then they graciously accepted the $1 Do Good Day token. The water and snacks were appreciated by the hungry and hot visitors of our nation’s capital.

In the end it was a lot of fun watching our kids Do Good and knowing that we were giving a few people some smiles today. Our local NBC station did come down to film us and they interviewed a few of us.

Here we are in the rain on Do Good Day!

And here is my daughter in the t-shirt that 77Kids sent for the kids.

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Blogalicious held a meet up in February in the DC area and the turnout was fantastic, so they are doing it again.

You can get the full details at the Blogalicious Weekend website and to RSVP please click HERE.

Blogalicious D.C. Meet Up

Washington, DC Economic Partnership

1495 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004

April 27, 2010 @5:30 pm

And don’t forget about Blogalicious in Miami in October. I’m definitely going.

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Our back deck.

Snowmageddon 2010 in DC, Scrappinmichele's Tree

This tree used to be double the size.

The front yard.

Wordless Wednesday: snOMG, Snowmageddon in DC originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

20 – 30 inches of snow! Yes, that is what they are predicting for us. It’s been dubbed Snowmageddon 2010. This is the 2nd big snowstorm this winter. You may remember on December 19, when we got hit with 19 inches of snow. Well Mother Nature has decided that storm wasn’t enough so she’s showing going to top that storm.

I went out yesterday and bought all the groceries we’ll need especially since tomorrow night Sunday night (thought it was Saturday since my kids are home) is the SuperBowl. (I’m not a big football fan, but I love watching the commercials and eating the food.) We are all set.

Bring it on Mother Nature….we can handle it. I’ll keep updating with pictures and video. It’ll give me a purpose this weekend so hopefully I won’t go nuts with 4 kids and I stuck…

10:00 pm ET - We have about 6+ inches on the ground. It’s blowing sideways and blowing all over so it’s kind of hard to tell. I’m not sure if I’ll be up for the Midnight picture, but I plan to get up at least once or twice during the night to add some pictures. I am taking video also and I’ll put that together once it’s all done.

8:00 pm ET – Now the snow is really starting to pile up. They are talking about thunder snow too. Have you ever seen anything like that? I haven’t, but they said we don’t want to because then the snow is really heavy.

6:00 pm ET – We are now hitting dark so the pics are a little harder to see cuz it’s all so bright from the flash. We have about 4 inches and it’s coming down heavier. We went out to clear the driveway and just as we finished we realized the top part had about 1/2 inch already on it in about 15 min. We are not going to be able to keep up with it over night. And now I smell like a gas station. YUCK! Now I know why I got married. So I can smell pretty and not like a gas can.

4:00 pm ET – It’s still steadily snowing, however I think we have about 3 inches total now. But this is still the light snow. The heavy snow is supposed to come in the middle of the night. I will probably get up during the night and take some pictures just because the snowstorm of the century doesn’t come around too often. The kids are playing with friends, I’m watching the weather channel and reading blogs.

2:00 pm ET – It’s been steadily snowing, but it’s a really wet heavy snow so it seems to be compacting down. It looks like we have about 2.5 – 3 inches now. They are now saying it looks like we will have closer to 30 inches and probably the WORST winter storm weather that we have EVER seen in the DC area.

Noon ET – 2 hours into the snow now. The temps are still around 34, so it’s not sticking to the roads much, but the temps are going to drop this afternoon. My 13 yr old asked if we could go out and shovel now so we don’t have to do it later??? Ah, not something we can do in advance, but I wish we could. I give him credit for trying to plan ahead though. So far the kids have done Martian Matters and Piczos, now they are making lunch. The fighting isn’t too bad yet, but then it’s only been 2 hours.

10:00 am ET – When the snow started to fall. There is some snow on the ground, but that is leftover from the snowstorms we had last weekend and last Tuesday.

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This was definitely all Miley…No Hannah Montana! She has grown up and her songs and concert show that. I’m not afraid to admit that I really like Miley’s songs. Yes, I’m a 42 yr old who listens to Miley Cyrus because I enjoy her songs.

Last night she told us she wasn’t feeling well and as a Mom, I think she had that “sick” look on her face, but my girls couldn’t tell the difference. If that is her show when she’s sick? Then her well show must be over the top.

The show opened with Metro Station. The lead singer from the band is Trace Cyrus who is Miley’s older brother (and guitarist is Mason Musso, Mitchell Musso’s older brother). I completely understand why he got this gig. The band isn’t bad and heck, we all help family. BUT, he does not need to tell us about 20 times that he is Miley’s older brother. We get that. Please WOW us with your music, not your family relationships.

The concert started right on time at 7pm. Metro Station came out and played for about 30 min. We missed the Shake It song which is the one song I know from them because we decided to hit the bathrooms before the break and Miley came out. She came out around 8:30 and played til 9:30 including one encore. It was a short concert. I don’t know if I’m used to longer concerts or if it was because she wasn’t feeling well, but it did feel like there should have been a few more songs.

I’m not going to go through all the songs one by one, but rather just say that she has a beautiful voice, she knows how to put on a show and it was one of the most entertaining concerts I’ve ever seen. Heck, she flew over the audience on a motorcycle!

I put together a short Animoto show of the pictures I took. I couldn’t use one of Miley’s songs since I don’t have permission, so I found one that fit my mood.

And I guess if it was good enough for the First Lady and First Daughters, then it was good enough for this Tech Goddess and her Tech Princesses.

Here are some of the songs we enjoyed from the concert last night with videos (not my videos, but I grabbed from youtube via Apture and they are all from her Wonder World Tour 2009) Party in the USA

Girls Night Out

The Climb

7 Things

Hoedown Throwdown

Fly on the Wall

Bottom of the Ocean

When I Look At You, a new song from her movie coming out in 2010, The Last Song.

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Hoedown Throwdown song & dance

GNO set (this came on just as GNO was starting on Twitter)

Miley with her dancers

Miley singing The Climb, one of my favorite songs

This was the last scene as they lowered her down.

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