So, it’s more than a little disconcerting to have other bloggers say, upon meeting me, that they miss the purple flower I used to have in my header! Here I thought I was keeping it fresh, and instead it turns out I’ve just been confusing the hell out of people who no longer can tell right away that they are visiting Table for Five. I’m so sorry!

Which means I am now attempting to get the purple flower back in my header, as well as a photo of myself, because I also found out that not everyone who reads this blog follows me on Twitter, so they don’t know what I look like! Again, so sorry!

My brain is still a bit discombobulated, so if you’ll bear with me, I’m going to work a bit on emails and some other things for a while, then I’ll be back with a BlogHer recap of some of the finer moments of the trip. It will probably take me the rest of the week just to remember everything that happened!

And then on Monday and Tuesday of next week, I’ll be in Cincinnati at another blogging event-a PR firm that represents Pampers is sending me and some other fine bloggers to Proctor & Gamble headquarters! I can’t wait to tell the Pampers people how their diapers and wipes are the only ones we use, plus I hope I can talk to P&G about their new “Aquaporins” line of products. Should be fun!

So my dears, I’ll be back soon with all the BlogHer talk you can stand. Leave me a comment, tell me what’s going on with you!

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From the beloved best-selling series of books comes an extraordinary fantasy adventure revealing the unseen world that exists all around us. From the moment the Grace family moves into a secluded old house peculiar things start to happen. Unable to explain the accidents and strange disappearances, the Grace children Jared, Simon and Mallory start to investigate and find the unbelievable truth of the Spiderwick Estate and the amazing creatures that inhabit it.

Starring Sarah Bolger (”Tara Road”) and Freddie Highmore (”August Rush”), Andrew McCarthy (”Lipstick Jungle”), Izabella Miko (”Coyote Ugly”), Mary-Louise Parker (”Weeds”), Joan Plowright (”Bringing Down The House”) and David Strathairn (”The Bourne Ultimatum”), as well as voice work by Nick Nolte, Seth Rogan, and Martin Short, The Spiderwick Chronicles movie uses pieces of books 1, 2, and 5 to weave together the plot. The 2-Disc Special Edition has Special Features on both Discs, including “It’s a Spiderwick World”, “Making Spiderwick”, Deleted Scenes and more.

A word of caution-very young children might find this movie frightening. Mulgarath has a big mouth full of sharp pointy teeth, and there are several scenes where the children see the creatures and scream loudly. It’s rated PG for “Scary creature action and violence, peril and some thematic elements”. So please use judgement when showing this movie to youngsters. Older kids will enjoy it even if they haven’t read the books! But hey, it’s summer, and the books are probably at the library and are definitely at the bookstore, so why not have your kids read them!

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I’ve just been a busy little bee this morning! I had an 8:00 AM conference at Nathan’s school to go over his I.E.P. for next year, so I woke up extra-early to get both Kaitlyn and him fed and dressed, bundled them into the MomVan and turned the key. CLICK. CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK. Huh? FRAK!

Got them both out of the car, Kaitlyn wailing “Nooo! I wanna go to Nathan’s school and PWAY in the CWASSWOOM!” Called the school, profuse apologies. Now, technically, we could have walked to the school from my house, it’s just down the sidewalk and around the corner, takes about 7 minutes to walk it, but it was already 8:00 and we were going to be late, I knew there wouldn’t be enough time to go over everything before school starts at 8:40. Called Allstate Motor Club, who sent out a very nice young man in a big shiny red truck to jumpstart my car. He saw Kaitlyn watching us from the living room window and told me about the two year old foster child he and his wife are adopting, aww.

Then, I decided to write a post about David Cook winning American Idol, and next thing I knew I was searching for a photo of him and decorating it in Photobucket and making the image in the post before this one, titled David Cook Wins American Idol. If you want to leave your thoughts about that, please click the link and leave a comment! I LOVES me some David Cook, people.

After THAT, I wrote a review for Parent Bloggers Network about a really cool photo sharing site called Kinzin. It’s free to sign up, and what you do is upload photos of your kids and then they send ten prints a month to three different addresses, at $2.99 a month each but the third one is free, so you get all three for $5.98 a month. It’s such a DEAL. Plus you can invite friends and family to view a page for each of your kids where you can post updates of what they are doing, there’s a Facebook application as well as a Flickr group. So whether your friends and family are online or not, you can show them the latest photos of your little darlings! Please click here to read my whole review on MomReviews.

AND, I finally finished watching The Muppet Show-The Complete Third Season, which I received for review. The third season has got some of the best guest stars of the whole show, including including Roy Clark, Pearl Bailey, Jean Stapleton, Harry Belefonte, Danny Kaye, Cheryl Ladd, Raquel Welch, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Sylvester Stallone. And, of course, all of the Muppets, including Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, Scooter, Rowlf, Crazy Harry, Beaker, and Animal.

It also has a great Bonus Features, including a rare look at the puppeteers, and the dog food commercials that first introduced the character of Rowlf the dog. Just remember, The Muppet Show was a musical variety show, so the episodes are mostly musical numbers, something that is pretty much unheard of these days. There are plenty of hilarious skits though, like the classic “Pigs in Space” and “Swedish Chef”, plus plenty of one-liners that will probably go right over your kids’ heads while you are cracking up. It’s a trip down memory lane, watching The Muppet Show again, I think you’ll like it!

So that’s been my day so far, and it’s not even noon. Whew!

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