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July 17, 2009 by Jennifer 10 Comments

So we are into July now of Summer vacation! The first couple of weeks was fun, games, and just all excited about being on summer vacation right? Then comes the “Mommy, I’m bored”, “Mommy, I need something to do”, or “Mommy, I don’t want to play that again.

We were contacted about the Summer Bridge Activities books.

My oldest M, has had a very busy summer, but she is really missing school. She definitely takes after her mom as being a book worm. She was very sad school was letting out for so long over the summer. When I showed her this book, she immediately jumped up and down. She said “Mommy, this is my very own homework for summer?” Yes, my dear! There is a page for everyday or you can even do two or more pages a day. M and I have had a really great time working on this book together. It is preparing her for the first grade with reading, writing, math, and language skills. When she completes a day all on her own, she gets the biggest smile on her face. I really think this is going to push her confidence and self-esteem levels even higher for this next school year.

Also, there are awards in the book you can give your child for their accomplishments. Any child loves awards and I have been pairing them up with my own. We have been doing TCBY days on Wednesday for her very own special reward for doing a great job.

I really love how this workbook let’s them still have a great summer vacation from all the school work, but it is just enough to keep their wheels turning in their mind so they don’t completely forget about all the skills they have learned.

I am going to give away a Summer Bridge Activities Book to one of my fellow readers. Just let me know in the comments below of what Summer Activity you all have been doing to keep the “I am bored” comments away. I will run this giveaway till Sunday night July 19, 11:59pm EST. So you can get your book next week to get started. You will be able to pick any grade.

Jen Saying Good Bye to 50 Pounds

July 14, 2009 by Jennifer 18 Comments

Farewell goodbye… never come back again. You hear that ;). HA! No, I’m not saying that to any specific person. I am saying that to the fat that has loved visiting me for the last almost 5 years!!

Listen in to an update on my weight loss journey.

Befores:

After:

Thanks to you all for riding along this journey with me. I have 18 more pounds to my ultimate goal. I know I can do it before our big family vacation to Disney World in October with my BFF. I love how we have did this journey together and its going to be great to be hot mamas together at Disney :).

Thomas and Friends Live on Stage

July 6, 2009 by Jennifer 16 Comments

We have had an extremely busy summer and I am going to write a post each week of our busy time. First up.. thanks to Mom Central, we were given the chance to go see Thomas and Friends Live on Stage when they were near our town recently.

The girls had a total blast along with my BFF’s adorable cutie baby boy. The show was really interactive and captivated the children’s attention throughout the whole show. They did divide the show up into two 45 minute increments just to allow the kids a time to take a break and get up and get all the jiggles out :).

It was a really cute show and showed when one person (Thomas) makes a mistake, how everyone can work together to create the best possible outcome. It really focused on friendships and cooperation with others. A great moral lesson for all the children. Here are some picts of our morning out with Thomas:

To sum up our great trip… I would like to offer one of my readers a Thomas the Train T-Shirt. The size is 4t!

If you or you know of someone that would love this, leave me a comment below. Twitter this giveaway and subscribe to our feed to get extra entries. Leave a new comment for each entry!!

Just Call Me Mom Taxi and Giveaway

June 23, 2009 by Jennifer 34 Comments

I’m not even kidding when I say this last week has been a whirlwind of keeping up with my daughters’ schedules. I have tried to keep the girls active this summer so they are not just sitting around letting the TV or video games entertain them. I really try to limit the intake of electronics with them. So in return, that makes for a busy schedule for dear ole mom here.

About two weeks ago, I received an email about The Busy Body Book. I was so excited to get this in the mail to review as I knew, I would need something to keep my head on straight. For everyone that knows Jen, I am very forgetful and honestly if I my head was not attached, I would loose it ;).

What I like best about the Busy Body Book, is that it lets me keep up with schedules for our entire family.

I put each of our names at the top of the pages and write down where and when we need to be each and everyday. Let me just tell you about our schedule last week for Big Sis.

3:00 to 3:45 – Summer Reading Program at the Library
4:00 to 5:00 – Swim Lessons
5:00 to 5:50 – Clogging Lessons
6:00 to 8:30 – Vacation Bible School

My head was just spinning of trying to get from one destination to the next in a timely manner. I would open the busy body book, see where I am suppose to be going and then floor it to our next stop ;).

Also since I work at home, it keeps me so organized of what client work I have to do for that day. I call this my own little personal diary because it keeps me so much more sane and actually organized. You have to face it moms, as our kids get older, our schedules are getting busier. If we do not begin to write things down more, we are going to drive ourselves crazy and get even more gray hair ;).

The Busy Body Book is so versatile too. You can use the columns to meal plan, track blogging projects, make personal goals, household chores, volunteer schedule and family holiday planning. The uses are endless.

The Busy Body Book comes in Weekly GRID of 5 column and the undated 7 column GRID. I want to give one of you moms an opportunity to get more organized in your life too. Busy Body Book has agreed to giveaway one item of your choice from their site. Here is what you do:

1) Go to their site Busy Body Book – pick out what item you would like
2) Leave a comment below to enter
3) Subscribe to our feed, twitter this contest, facebook this contest all for extra entries. Leave a separate comment below for each extra entry!

Good Luck… Let’s get organized together!

Tuesday Tiny Talk Edition One

June 16, 2009 by Jennifer 6 Comments

Does your kid leave you laughing so hard during the week, you think “Oh yea, I need to write that down in their baby book”. What about the next best thing, blogging about it :).

Each week, I am going to do a post here and feel free to add your own post in comments so we all can go visit to get in some great laughs to make the doctor stay away ;).

This week’s post is brought to you by little sis L.

She always has us laughing so hard, I have tears in my eyes sometimes. We were having a casual walk at the park and we are having to go up this little hill. We get up to the top of the hill and she goes into:

L: Mommy, you know what?

Mom: No, what is it?

L: Well, mommy I had to trade in my feet yesterday and get some new feet because my other feet wouldn’t let me walk up this hill.

Mom: Just how did you trade in your feet?

L: Mommy I just cut them off and went and got some more feet (totally in a tone like duh mom), and now I can walk up all the hills I want to.

I was just smiling at her but laughing so hard on the inside. She comes up with the craziest things and I have no idea where she gets some of this stuff. She definitely has a huge imagination.

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