smb happenings

Seattle Moms in Detox

We had our first Seattle Mom Blogs get-together this Friday night in West Seattle and it was a huge success. I want to say thank you to our friends at Method for sponsoring the night and for all the ladies who drove from far and wide to meet up with a bunch of complete strangers. Thank you for coming, for all the great conversation, for looking so cute and most of all for not being psycho stalkers.

Method (the green cleaning people) have rented a green house in West Seattle for a month to throw parties and teach people about green living, and hopefully get us all hooked on their biodgradeable non-toxic cleaning products. The program is called Detox Seattle. They smell delish (the Method marketing people and the products), their packaging is gorgeous and their formulas are not supposed to be harmful to the environment. I’ve already been cleaning my walls, floors and countertops with them today and I’m seriously hooked.

They invited Seattle Mom Blogs members to join them last Friday night for a cocktail party and product swap and we had a great time!

People trickled in all evening, chatting, nibbling on hors d‘oeuvres and sampling various drinks created by professional mixologist and reporter Natalie Bovis-Nelson of The Liquid Muse. I don’t even drink and I was totally swept up in her passion for the history of cocktails and her creativity in the kitchen. She seemed to look at cocktails the way I look at food, a way to be creative and bring people together. She was awesome. The drinks were gorgeous and even the virgin varieties I sampled were delicious.

Carrie, Linda and I kept eyeing her fabulous lime squeezer although I’m pretty sure none of us walked out with any new kitchen utensils stashed in our purses. Carrie? Linda? We did however walk out with several new yummy cleaning products and these super cute, if somewhat tight t-shirts. Ah well, I’ve been thinking for a while that I want to look hotter when I clean. Tight = attractive, no?

Jenny did some short speechifying to welcome everyone and talk about some of the goals we have for the SMB site. We hope that everyone will feel more and more like this is their site and that you all will give your feedback and suggestions. As much as we like listening to ourselves talk, it’s more fun hearing from you. We’re launching several regular features by Seattle-Area moms in the next couple of weeks and we’re really excited. Shortly after our columnists begin posting, we’ll be opening up the site to our members for more regular posting. We plan to have more activities coming up and begin doing outreach to help other moms get online.


The gabbing at the party was non-stop and fascinating. Several times I found myself straddling two conversations, listening to both and jumping in with comments that may or may not have made any sense. This event really has me pumped to get back into blogging again, reading and meeting new people. I don’t know how else I would have gotten the chance to meet so many diverse and amazing women all in one night.

You are a beautiful group, a talented group, a welcoming and inclusive group and I’m so glad to know so many of you now and get to know others. My only regret is that I didn’t get the chance to talk to everyone as long as I would have liked. Thanks for making my Friday night so much fun!