Momsday: The Great Escape

Hello, moms! I hope that you had a great Easter. After a long week, it'll be time for more fun this coming weekend.

This Saturday, April 30, the Baldwin Kiwanis Club is holding its 37th Annual Monte Carlo Night. This is an event that you won't want to miss: an annual Baldwin-Whitehall night out for the parents. And it's being held at Community Center, located at the intersection of Knoedler Road and Wolfe Drive.

Tickets are only $12 each, and they include a buffet dinner, pop, beer and mixed-drink setups like ginger ale, tonic water and ice. (Other than beer, it is a BYOB event.) The doors open at 6 p.m., and dinner starts at 6:30.

Proceeds from the night's festivities go to the Kiwanis Club's administration and community needs. Tickets are required to be purchased in advance, and you'll want to get them before they sell out! Call "Whitney" at 412-881-6417, "Ron" at 724-745-2585 or "Tim" at 412-653-2947 and get you reservations now. This is a great night out with all of your friends and neighbors in Baldwin-Whitehall.

Are you and your girlfriends looking for a great way to get some exercise in to shape up for swimsuit season? Or maybe you just need to work off some of your daily stress while doing something good for your body at the same time. It's hard to get outside and do some power-walking with all of this rain lately.

Why not try out one of the great local gyms in our area? 's in Caste Village, has great membership rates. The gym even offers a free one-day pass to check out all of its amenities and see if it's a good fit for you. Fitness 19 offers cardio-, free-weight- and strength-training to fit your needs.

For those of you closer to , try out  at 4500 Clairton Blvd. (Route 51). Champion Fitness offers a Ladies Only Fitness Center–away from the men–for you and your friends, as well as many other programs such as group fitness, yoga and kickboxing.

Both Fitness 19 and Champion Fitness also offer child-care service if you have little ones with you and really need some time for yourself or with your friends while working out. And it is always better to actually get out to the gym to exercise. You never get the time that you need at home with all of the distractions of a mom's daily life. So go do something good for your body (and mind) this week!

If you are looking for something a little more low-key and relaxing to do this week, the is featuring the movie You Again this Friday, the 29th, from 1:15 to 4 p.m. during its weekly . One of the actresses in You Again is Betty White, and she is one of my all-time favorites. The movie is one of those great romantic comedies that we all need once in a while to get away from it all!

So have a great week, moms, and get out and do something good for your body and mind!

There is always something to do in Baldwin-Whitehall even if it is raining all of the time!