Come for the coffee, stay for the bloggers

Whenever people start to complain about this fair city… the cost of living… the traffic… the impossibility that is buying a house… I find myself taking Seattle’s side.

Well, of course it’s expensive to live here, I tell them, it’s a great place to live!

There’s the islands! The mountains! The parks! The coffee! The culture! The fine-dining opportunities! The ferries! Pike Place Market! Seattle Grace! (it’s not real and yet I claim it)…

And now I have one more thing to add to my list of Reasons Why Seattle is the BEST PLACE to Live…

The mom bloggers.

Last night I had the pleasure of hanging out with twenty-some Seattle mom bloggers at a Seattle Mom Blogs party sponsored by Method. (Thanks Method! Love the Lavender all-purpose cleaner!) Kathryn, Eve, and I took most of the credit even though the Method people did most of the work. (party planning at its finest!)

Yesterday as the evening loomed closer I felt a little tinge of nervousness that rapidly grew into major gas pains. (Didn’t know nervousness could give you gas, did you? Well, it CAN.)

What if the party is boring? I worried, What if we can’t think of anything to talk about? What if people don’t LIKE me?!? WHAT IF NO ONE COMES???

It’s one thing to get all cozy and comfortable with people online where you have the security of the Delete key and Photoshop to hide your many flaws. But meeting face-to-face? That’s more than a little daunting.

And of course there were the gas pains.

I needn’t have worried.

I popped a Gas-X or three (those chewy tablets are my FRIENDS!) and hopped in my car. Before I knew it, I was having FUN! The kind of fun that you can only have when surrounded by people who inspire, entertain and delight you. When there’s great food and yummy drinks and NO KIDS to wipe their syrupy hands on your shirt and knock over the vase.

I met so many truly great women. Funny, interesting, easy-to-talk-to, down-to-earth, fun, stylish, amazing, fabulous women. Women who are writing books and making amazing career changes, with upcoming weddings and even one I knew from my past life…

We laughed, we talked, we ate, we drank, we snorted (ok, I snorted. But it was Mrs. Flinger’s fault. She’s a RIOT, that one).

And being around all the greatness, I couldn’t help but feel all warm and fuzzy. These are my PEEPS!

I’d post pictures, but I didn’t have the camera. And while that scares me (How will I photoshop my head onto the appropriate body before the pictures are posted? HOW?!), I’ve made my peace with it.

Forget the Space Needle, Seattle’s mom bloggers are the true attraction here!

(now if I can just convince the rest of my mom blogger cohorts to pick up and move to the Pacific Northwest…)

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