Happy Monday, mamas, and guess what? The sun’ll come out TODAY because we’re giving away Annie tickets!
One lucky mama will win FOUR tickets to see Annie on stage on opening night, Tuesday, Nov. 24th.
FYI, there will be 8 opportunities to see the Annie show at WAC, November 24-29.
ABOUT THE SHOW: Add a bit of theatrical flair to your family’s holiday plans! This Thanksgiving, the world’s best-loved musical returns to Walton Arts Center for the first time since 2007.
This production of Annie is a brand new incarnation of the iconic original. Featuring book and score by Tony Award®-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie includes such unforgettable songs as “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” “I Don’t Need Anything But You,” plus the eternal anthem of optimism, “Tomorrow.”
HOW TO ENTER: To throw your name in the online hat to win these tickets, just click on the words “post a comment” below and tell us which household chore makes you want to sing “It’s the hard knock life!” Is it doing the dishes? Mopping the floors? Folding fitted sheets? 🙂
You can also email your answer to us at giveaways@nwaMotherlode.com.
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We’ll choose the two winners on Friday afternoon, mamas! Good luck!
Cleaning bathrooms!
Dusting is the one thing i hate hate hate to do
Putting the laundry away!
All aspects of laundry, gathering, sorting, washing, drying, folding and putting away!
Cleaning the showers! UGH. And washing textured tile floors. Whoever thought textured tile would be a super-great option for flooring obviously did not clean his/her own floors.
Hard Knock Life: Laundry!! It never ends! No one in the family likes doing it.
I hate matching socks and picking up thrown food from the babies in their high chairs only to have them pelt me with more food while in doing it.
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All the dust that settles under the living room furniture!! I have wood floors 🙂 I normally stretch before I take on this chore!!
Cleaning the bathrooms!!! uuugggghhh
Laundry! Yuck.
Laundry!!! It’s endless!!!!
Cleaning toilets!
With a family of 7, Including 3 adopted kids, I would have to say laundry is our least favorite chore. It seems to never end. Annie is our favorite movie and I would love to take my girls.
Without a doubt the dusting. YUCK
Mopping…ugh!
Laundry! It’s never ending!!
Mopping floors
Cleaning the floors!
I hate vacuuming, and I have a hairy beast of a dog that gets dog hair all over the carpet, which makes me need to vacuum even more! I hope I win because Nov. 24th is also my birthday! 🙂
Cleaning out the 75 gallon fish tank!!! Yikes!!!!!
Keeping up with laundry for a family of 6 is a NEVER ENDING task! Just when I thought I’m caught up, it’s like a new load appears from thin air!
Seriously dislike doing dishes! I watched Annie over and over as a kid and now my daughter loves it just as much! We’d love to go!!
Oh my I would love to win this!
My least favorite chore would be picking up random pieces of papers that get laid all over the house by all my family members! 😉
Also commented on Facebook, but forgot to mention in my earlier comment. 🙂
Always bathrooms!!!
Laundry! I told my husband when I met him that I hate doing laundry. It’s the one thing I wish I had someone to do for me.
DISHES!!!! The chore itself I don’t mind so much, I just feel like it is never ending. There is always a dirty dish in the sink!!!
Laundry and Dishes! UGH! Not enough time!
cleaning tubs/showers
Laundry….I can wash & dry all day long…. but folding and putting away makes me want to scream!
Mopping floors…with kids and dogs it is required daily in my house.
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Laundry for sure!
Right now all of them (I’m pregnant lol)…. But mostly bathrooms…. I hate to clean the bathrooms!!!
LAUNDRY, but mopping is a close second!! My girls love Annie and my little red head can really belt out “its a hard knock life”
I just followed your page on pinterest, and I liked post on facebook!!!
Washing a sink full of dishes.
The dishes and folding /putting away laundry! ! My kids love Annie and would be so excited to see it! I follow on Facebook and receive the newsletter. Thanks
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I loathe laundry!!!!
Scrubbing the shower and cleaning the blinds!! UGH!
Laundry and dishes! Those are the chores that are never fully done. There’s always more of them to do!
Mopping the floor !!!!
Cleaning the bathroom!
Cleaning the bathrooms!!
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Absolutely hate putting dishes away!!
dishes!!!! UGH
It has to be folding and putting away laundry…laundry always makes me say Tomorrow! 🙂
I hate to vacuum. Between the kid and the dog, it’s a never-ending process.
Any and all housework! Laundry, mopping, vacuuming, cleaning toilets, dusting. You name it, I hate it! Waiting for a Daddy Warbucks to hire me a housekeeper!
I really don’t like mopping the floors! I put it off as long as possible!
I saw Annie in the movie theater on July 23, 1982 and later that afternoon my mom gave birth to my baby brother. Never forget this movie. So like Annie songs I’ll do the windows then the floors in case I drip!!!
Mopping floors
Mopping the floors make me want to sing, “It’s a hard knock life”!
LAUNDRY!!!!!! Sort, wash, dry…. All ok. But FOLD annnnnd PUT AWAY?! Just too much!!!! Ugh!!!!!
Cleaning the bathtub/shower!
I don’t like dusting…it’s tedious!!
The worst chore is cleaning baseboards and fans. Plus, it makes me sneeze!
Changing and washing sheets on all the beds! Hard knock!!
LAUNDRY!! All of it…washing, drying, putting away! YUCK! Even the kiddos agree!! 🙂
Definitely swifer-Ing the floors!!
The absolutely worse chore is changing bed sheets!!! I dread it every week!!
I can’t stand putting the laundry away! My girls literally sing, “It’s a hard knock life” when they are told to clean their room. Haha
Bathrooms or LAUNDRY…ugh!
Laundry , laundry , laundry … I am convinced that laundry multiples when it’s ejected from the washer and dryer.
I really hate mopping and dusting…those two chores get neglected the most
I try to trick myself into loving to clean by chanting how lucky I am to have a house. If that works, I prance around cleaning gleefully singing Anothe One Bites The Dust or Desperado. Toilets, though? When it is toilet time, my tune changes.
I have a hard time sweeping up the daily dose of dog hair!
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Laundry!! Ugh!
Without a doubt, picking up Legos! 🙂
laundry!!!!
Vacuuming the floors could sing it all day!
Laundry, it is a process. Sort, Wash, Dry, Fold, Hang or put away!!!!!! LAUNDRY MULTIPLIES!!!!!!
Definitely scrubbing toilets and tubs! I loathe cleaning the bathrooms!! Mopping comes in a very close second, though!
Bathrooms… Yuck!
Sloppin the hogs!
Putting away laundry!
I don’t like any housework. I would rather be sewing or reading!
MOPPING!!
Mopping!
I would have to say dusting furniture or hardwood floors. My least favorite chore of all!!
Cleaning floors whether vacuuming or mopping!
With a family of 6 it has got to be LAUNDRY!
Cleaning the bathrooms! Ugh!
I despise mopping!!
Definitely cleaning the toilets! It’s a hard knock life!!
omg me and my daughter love love annie;) I hate mopping and think of this song from time to time.
Scrubbing Toilets!!
Frickin’ Laundry!!!!! It’s never-ending!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Folding laundry!! It. Never. Ends. Ever.
Cleaning the baseboards and toilets!!
Laundry!!! With 2 girls and a husband I feel like all I do is laundry!
Mopping !!!!
I’m going to go with cleaning toilets! I’m thankful for indoor plumbing, but hate cleaning toilets! (And I break into “It’s A Hard Knock Life” anytime my kids start to complain, they love it!)
Definitely cleaning bathrooms!
Cleaning out from under my son’s bed! I never know what is growing under there and if I will make it out alive! I could change the words to “little boys..little boys”…
laundry laundry laundry
Laundry…you wash, dry, iron, fold and when you get the last load in…another has already accumulated!!
Dusting or anything underneath furniture/beds.
Doing the laundry!
Cleaning bathrooms
Dusting, especially ceiling fans!
I can’t stand doing dishes! I’d rather clean a toilet!
I hate cleaning the barthrooms. I’m not sure why it’s such a big deal but it just irks me. Ugh.
Hate mopping and cleaning bathrooms! Blahhh!!!
mopping floors!
Cleaning showers and tubs
Picking up (or ensuring the culprit picks up) dirty clothes tossed on the floor within feet of the hamper!!
all of them
Cleaning bathrooms – showers specifically!
Dealing with the cat litter box. Yuck
Bathrooms and loading the dishwasher!!!!
I despise laundry. There needs to be a magical button to wash, dry and fold it all 🙂 would make like such a not “hard knocks life”
Cleaning baseboards!
What’s a Hard Knock Life chore for me?? LAUNDRY!! ALL of it! My husband has at least 3 wardrobe changes a day–worse than any woman I know haha
Laundry! It’s a never ending cycle 😉
Sweeping and mopping…..:
LAUNDRY, LAUNDRY, AND LAUNDRY!!!
Definitely bathrooms! I don’t mind most chores, but bathrooms are awful!
Cleaning the Bathroom !!!!!!
Cleaning blinds, ceiling fans and light fixtures makes it a hard knock life!
It’s a hard knock life when cleaning the bathroom and toilet used by three boys and then some!
Toilets!
Not sure which one I dislike the most–folding and putting away laundry or hand washing dishes!
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Bathrooms and floors!
I hate to mop my kitchen floor or any floor for that matter!
Cleaning toilets!
I hate cleaning the blinds!
Doing dishes after baking a sweet treat!
Bath tubs and the carpets 🙁
I HATE it ALL!!!
Laundry. It never ends!
What is it about touching old gross food in the sink!? Yuck!!!!!
Following in Twitter and Pinterest! (@channynn)
Cleaning the bathroom is not a fun job.
Cleaning the toilet!
Cleaning the shower is probably my least favorite thing to do, but the never ending job of laundry is a pretty close second. : )
cleaning the bathtubs ouch on the knees!!!
Laundry, laundry, laundry….Always growing and never complete!
Mopping for sure.
It’s a Hard Knock Life when I have to do the dishes!
The kitchen (from dishes to floors)!! Such a hard knock life for me!!! ❤️
Mopping!
Definitely cleaning toilets and taking out the trash!
I hate all chores but especially dishes! I don’t like sticking my hands into the nasty water & scrubbing off food! Yuk!!
Cleaning Bathrooms!!!
All things CHORE is the hard knock life for me right now!! 8.5 months pregnant with baby number 5 and it takes an act of congress to wobble while I clean 🙂 Would love to bring my older 3 to see our favorite production!
cleaning the bathrooms! UGH!
Dishes
After dinner dishes make me sing, “it’s a hard knock life”! I love cooking for my family but after eating and sharing our day I feel like its back to the grind for mommy. Even with little helpers the pots and pans are the chore.
LAUNDRY!!!
Dishes!!!
Laundry!
All the stuff. I want a self cleaning house.
Cleaning the litter box, mopping, and cleaning out bathroom sink drains! Ewww!
Making the bed after the dogs and my fiancé have been rolling in them all night!!
My family would absolutely love this! They are coming from Illinois. It has been really hard living so far away, and this would be a wonderful time to reconnect.
Oh, folding laundry and putting it away, only to turn around and see my toddler beside an unfolded pile of said outfits I just put away!
Blinds! They collect every particle that enters the house and are the biggest pain to clean!
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Baseboards are the worst
Laundry’s a hard knock life for me!!!
Shampooing carpets
Cleaning the kitchen.
I hate doing dishes! There are four of us and I don’t have a dishwasher!
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Cleaning the bathtub!
Laundry
Bathrooms for sure! Yuck!
Cleaning the bathroom-yuck!!
Sticky floors!
It’s laundry FOR SURE!! With eight children we NEVER stop! lol
Cleaning three stinky boy rooms!!!!!!
TOILETS! nothing worse than cleaning toilets!!!!!!!