Archive for December 2009

Disney On Ice – Ticket Savings & Give-a-way

Disney On Ice presents Let’s Celebrate! It’s one colossal party on ice, with all your favorite Disney friends!  Enjoy a winter wonderland with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, a Halloween haunt with the Disney Villains, a Very Merry Unbirthday Party, a Royal Ball with the Disney Princesses and more in a magical medley of holidays, celebrations and festivals from around the globe. Come join the party when this spectacular ice show visits Cleveland in January!
You can use the code MOM when purchasing your tickets.  It is valid for four tickets for $44 for Monday-Friday matinee shows (any additional tickets are still priced at  $11), and $4 off Friday night and all weekend shows.
I am hosting a giveaway for a family 4 pack of tickets to the show on 1/9 at 7pm at The Q.  Leave one comment for your chance to win.  Tweet/Facebook this giveaway for your second entry (please leave me the url in the comments).  Giveaway ends Dec 20th, 2009.  Good luck!

Congratulations to the winner of the family 4-pack of tickets to the Jan 9, 7pm show, Julie!  You can pick up your tickets at the will-call window up to 1 hour before the show.  Enjoy!

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Disney On Ice presents Let’s Celebrate! It’s one colossal party on ice, with all your favorite Disney friends!  Enjoy a winter wonderland with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, a Halloween haunt with the Disney Villains, a Very Merry Unbirthday Party, a Royal Ball with the Disney Princesses and more in a magical medley of holidays, celebrations and festivals from around the globe. Come join the party when this spectacular ice show visits Cleveland in January!

You can use the code MOM when purchasing your tickets through Quicken Loans Arena.  It is valid for four tickets for $44 for Monday-Friday matinee shows (any additional tickets are still priced at  $11), and $4 off Friday night and all weekend shows.

Cleveland Reactivation Disney On Ice Flyer

And, thanks to MomCentral and Feld EntertainmenI am hosting a giveaway for a 4 pack of tickets to the show on 1/9 at 7pm at The Q.  Leave one comment for your chance to win.  Tweet/Facebook this giveaway for your second entry (please leave me the link in comments). Giveaway ends at 5:00 PM Dec 22th, 2009. The winner will will be able to pick up their tickets at the Q’s will call window the night of the show. Good luck!

Disclosure:  I was given 3 tickets to the show to promote this event.

By Kate on 14 December 2009 / 12 Comments

Tagged Reviews

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Thanks to lots of other CLE bloggers, I had a huge list of holiday cheer I wanted to experience.  And in the last few weeks we have been busy checking things off that list.

I finished off my shopping at local places and hit the Bazaar Bizarre where I scored a couple of things for me (90% of the shopping was done before Thanksgiving, given my general fear of shopping centers during the month of December). I got my “Hot Rod” Williams shirt from C.L.E. Clothing and will be sporting it at the game next Tuesday.  We hit a bunch of fun things and the girl is so enamored with all things Christmas that it’s been lots of fun.

There’s been lots of unbloggable things going on lately, nothing bad just not for public consumption yet so I don’t have much to say.  So, instead of rambling on anymore, here are some highlights of the last few festive weeks:

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The Night of Lights @ Legacy Village
(tip for anyone going next year – go a little early and get a spot on the balcony near Melting Pot – best view, no crowds)

holiday2Helping me get the assigned side dishes together for Thanksgiving at my parents

holiday3The annual making of graham cracker houses at grandma’s house

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holiday5Cousins M & A and M stringing popcorn and cranberries for the birds and deer at grandma’s house

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holiday7At Kringle’s Inventionasium in Tower City. Very cool for me and Mark, M was a bit freaked out by it all

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holiday10Meeting the Abominable Snowman & Rudolph at the Public Square Tree Lighting

holiday11Watching the fireworks at Public Square, with Terminal Tower dressed for Christmas in the background

holiday13Of course she helped decorate the tree.  This meant she put every single ornament on one branch. We did some rearranging.

holiday12Her favoriate ornament – Rudolph (purchased for her in 2008)

holiday141800 lights and countless ornaments from my childhood (the oldest, still in tact ornament being a 1984 breaddough angel I made in Sunday School). We get a new family ornament and M gets a new ornament every year.

Last night we started a new tradition – lighting a menorah and playing dreidel. M is learning all about Hanukkah at her Jewish preschool and was asking where our menorah was at home.  We figured why not? So after a mad scramble on Friday night (after I realized that Hanukkah started this week and not next) to get a menorah failed, we made one together using Play-Doh.  It’s a fun new twist on our holiday and assures us at least 30 minutes a night of all 3 of us around the table playing a game.

All that’s left is an early Christmas celebration with my family (my parents travel during the actual holiday), a relaxing Christmas at home and then the Cleveland Children’s Museum New Year’s at Noon party.

I hope you all are having a great holiday season and are avoiding the stress that can come with it!

By Kate on 12 December 2009 / 1 Comment

Tagged Cleveland, general musings, magpie, wedded bliss

Bloggers Rock

Last night I went to an amazing event at one of my favorite Cleveland haunts: The Greenhouse Tavern.  The occasion was a blogger/twitter happy hour in support of Anissa Mayhew, a blogger many of us had never even met (and maybe had never even read before).  But the fact is that Anissa (age 35) recently suffered a massive stroke, leaving her husband and 3 kids in limbo while she struggles to just breath on her own. She is a blogger, one of us – and she was in trouble.  People around the internet have stepped up to help the Mayhew family during this time.  And local blogging queen, Chef’s Widow decided that the CLE should gather to do something and Blog it Forward was born.

Widow had meet Anissa briefly while at BlogHer in Chicago this summer and, like many of us, couldn’t help but think “what if it was me?”.  So she announced the gathering and 10 days later was an event nothing short of perfect. Social Media addicts from around the area gathered (I counted 33 at one point) for drinks and yummy, yummy eats with all the proceeds going to the Mayhew family.  Anonymous donations of cash, a 50/50 raffle (organized by Cleveland’s A Plum), and additional cash from area businesses combined to the tune of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.  $1,000 for a family in need, whose only connection to us is that she’s part of our community – awesomesauce!

It takes a lot for someone to walk into an event where you may not know anyone. It takes a lot to venture downtown if that’s not your thing.  It takes a lot for someone to throw together an event and hope that people will show up.  But last night, people did just that to honor and support Anissa and this awesome community became a little tighter.

I didn’t take my camera, but there are all kinds of photos (and write-ups) of the night around the net.  I met several bloggers/tweeps (for the record – I HATE the word “tweeps”) for the first time, saw a handful I already knew and was introduced to several more.  My reader grew with 10 new blogs last night; my Twitter feed, too.  There were food bloggers, parent bloggers, beauty bloggers and social media addicts.  You didn’t have to lower your voice when you said you were a blogger, people understood all the lingo and tips and tricks were swapped over crispy chicken wings and glog.  To those people who think bloggers are pasty geeks who never go outside or can’t make friends in real life: you couldn’t be more wrong. This blogging thing – it rocks.

Oh, and I got to meet Iron Chef Michael Symon AND hear his trademark giggle/cackle.  He’s a pretty down-to-earth and approachable guy.  Much love to Amelia for helping me set up a photo with my two biggest chef-crushes – Symon and Sawyer – I was pretty giddy for the rest of the night!

Couldn’t make it last night? Team Anissa shirts are for sale and 100% of the profits will be going to the family.  You can also send cash money/checks/giftcards directly to the family here.

By Kate on 04 December 2009 / 9 Comments

Tagged Cleveland