2nd Annual Baby Day LuxePosted: February 16, 2009 at 11:35 am | byFiled under: Nice things happen Lots to Say Baby was excited to participate once again at the Providence Regina House’s Baby Day Luxe in Seattle! This Food and Clothing Bank serves their community every week by providing them much needed food and clothing. Carol over at Baby Chaleco came up with the great idea of getting boutique children’s companies to donate their products and give this community some fantastic products! I was not able to attend the Baby Day itself this year and so I loved reading Carol’s description of the day - it sounded memorable. I have posted an excerpt from her story below the pic. I also want to give a shout out to the Snoqualmie Ridge MOPS group for helping me FILL my car with donated diapers. My heart was so full of your generosity and carrying as I drove away - and continued to recieve boxes of diapers on my front porch. You made a difference in a lot of lives on Saturday. The entire press release is below and I encourage you to read all about the other fantastic companies that got the chance to participate!
Hi everyone, First, big HUGE thank you for your unbelievably generous donations to Baby Day Luxe 2009. We literally could not have done it without you. Thanks to your generous donations we served an amazing 349 families! This broke all records not only for Baby Day Luxe – which is, after all, only in its second year — but for Providence Regina House – in all its history! Thankfully, with so many wonderful companies on board, each family with babies was able to take home at least a few special items. The day began early on a chilly Seattle morning even though clients knew doors wouldn’t open until 9:00 am. Apparently, word had spread fast that February 7th would be a special baby day, and with so many clients who had come last year to let everyone know what to expect, people started showing up at 7:30 am. Inside, the main hall was decorated with balloons and streamers, and the atmosphere was a upbeat and festive, despite tough times for so many families. Before starting Paige Collins, the Manager at Providence Regina House, lead us in a lovely prayer for the health, safety and good welfare of all. When 9:00 am arrived, one by one each client family was checked in at the front desk, Anyone with a baby (or babies) age 2 and under got a special sticker indicating that they could come and choose from the Baby Day Luxe tables. But you can be sure I snuck over with scarves and NotSox and put them right in the hands of little 3, 4, 5 and even 6 year olds who looked longingly from across the room at the tables piled with goodies. Many, many clients had questions about items they had never seen before: My Spanish stinks, but thankfully Paige had plenty of bilingual volunteers on hand to translate and explain. My eight year old daughter had a fabulous time working the baby food table and apparently did quite the job of organizing the vegetables. We kept sending her outside to check if the line was getting shorter… 10:00 am came and went, then 10:30, then 11:00… And STILL the line snaked around the block. It wasn’t until 12:30 that every last family was served. A total of 349 families in under five hours. WHEW! All in all it was a wonderful experience and I look forward to making it EVEN BIGGER AND BETTER next year. (0)commentsValentines Day - when you own your own businessPosted: February 15, 2009 at 12:57 am | byFiled under: Building a Business, About Me Today was a very romantic day for me. I didn’t wear red, get roses or even taste a bite of chocolate. Fortunately Grandma remembered to get Briggs a card and some treats (he LOVES the monkey)..because i completely forgot!..my mind was on air freight this week. My sweet hubby generously brought Briggs along with him to pick up our new merchandising displays - leaving me 2 1/2 hours to clean and prep my office for the arrive of our pacifier shipment. Later, in the afternoon, we went to the airport as a family. Pacis touched down at 12:55 and cleared customs just in time - the office closed at 3:30 and we arrived at 3:25! - phew. Thank goodness that pacis are small..we got all 7 crates in the car!
As a treat we thought a nice meal was in order and we were both in the mood for steak. Where do you take a two year old on Valentines Day without ruining the meal for all in your vicinity? - The Keg! It was perfect. Table with a kitchen view to keep B amused. A glass of sauv blanc and a yummy meal. Who cared it was 4:30 - all the ‘early birders’ thought B was cute! Sean and I laughed together about how much our lives have changed..and how great it is. Now, we will finish the night with taking photos and processing inventory. I am taking a break while we get B settled in for the night (the clack of pacis is SO distracting for a baby trying to get to sleep!). My Vday was not what the media or our society would describe as romantic or very ‘Valentiny’ but to me it was perfect. My husband with me, helping me, hanging out with Briggs and just being together. I am so lucky to be blessed with the best hubby in the world. That is all I need for Valentines Day! (1)commentMagna Doodle - the new office supplyPosted: February 11, 2009 at 6:40 pm | byFiled under: Adventures in Mommahood It always cracks me up when my life as a Mom and my life as a business woman collide. Today, I took an order with a magna doodle. We were late. I had to bring an egg dish to MOPS, run to Bellevue to drop off my new display prototype, then to Issaquah to get a gift for a friend and grab diapers at Target. As I was coaxing B into his carseat (he was fighting to get to the matchbox cars on the car floor) my phone rang. Seeing no pen in sight I grabbed B’s magna doodle and started writing This is my life and it is exactly how I want it to be. Go forth and doodle.
XOXO Chief Momma (0)commentsWOW! What a week!Posted: February 2, 2009 at 11:48 am | byFiled under: Media, Nice things happen, Adventures in Mommahood, About Me So I don’t want to go on forever about the Super Bowl since the rest of the world will be talking about it over the water cooler today. Let me just leave the subject with one sentence. WOW..what a fun last quarter. I love it when the entire room is on their feet cheering! Ok, that was 2 sentences. Sorry This week is crazy. I find out more on when my inventory will arrive (I SO hate waiting!). I am setting up the warehouse for the influx in pacis. MIL Elaine arrives Thursday. Then it is off to Baby Day Luxe - Saturday morning! I am so excited to be able to help again this year. A friend and fellow woman-owned business (mompreneur) started Baby Day Luxe to give each of the wonderful women served by local food & clothing banks items from many of the local baby/mom businesses. Items from Baby Chaleco, BooginHead, Lots to Say Baby and many others will be given out alongside the staples they need so much like clothing, diapers and formula. It is a great opportunity to get to know a new group of amazing folks. After a morning at Providence Regina House Sari and I will be heading over to the Sample Sale in Redmond. If you are local and reading this..come visit! Many local baby companies are selling their samples (Lots to Say Baby pacis and SippiGrips will be there!) & left over inventory from last year. It is an awesome bargain! The address is: 8413 154th Ave NE, Bldg I Redmond, WA 98065 Lost? call 425.785.5980 (or just google map it in the first place so you don’t have to worry!) So, now you know what Chief Momma is up to this week in between play dates and Sesame Street episodes! Have a great week yourself! XOXO Erin Chief Momma (0)comments |
