Taking Anna to an STS-132 launch party tonight. Yes, I am the best mommy ever. She concurs. :) As long as there are cookies there.
We leave for the launch on May 12! Look out Cocoa Beach, we’re coming back! This time Anna’s 2 years older, almost exactly. I wonder what she’ll think of beach sand this time (last time it was expressly for throwing into the air). I rented a convertible. Then I canceled because I doubted the car seat would adequately fit in the back of those small things.
This time around we will also meet someone new: Liz Soutter-Schwarzer, the blogger of the hilariously cool www.damomma.com. I have been following her blog since I saw an article she wrote on Baby Center. She blogs her entire life with kids, the good and bad, in a way most of us can relate. She in fact did some time here at JSC in the Public Affairs Office years and years ago, before her kids were born. She also did some interesting congressional work. Now she’s a stay-at-home mom of 3.
Anyway, I started following her on Twitter and one day I replied to one of her Tweets. She replied back, and I guess because I’m a NASA reader, she started following me as well. Since then she’s asked a special favor of me, which I am supposed to keep hush until it comes out. In the meantime I encouraged her to sign up for the NASA Tweetup. NASA randomly pulled 150 Twitter registrants to watch the STS-132 launch and get behind the scenes tours and stuff. She signed up and was shocked she was selected. Now she’s going and she’s excited and I’m excited to meet her!
You can read her post on what happened when she found out, here. It’s quite wonderful and hilarious (in a weird way):
I can’t wait to read about her launch adventure on her blog.
In the meantime, I just got press approval to go and watch the ISS Science Press Conference the day before the launch in person while at KSC. I’ll have to dump Paul and Anna at the swimming pool and go J But I’m excited! One day that will be me giving that press conference. Maybe sooner than later. If I can pull my confidence together.
No comments:
Post a Comment