I guess all the work we put into helping Lily get over her fear of sliding has paid off. That or she’s just a toddler and changed her mind. Either way I’m happy.
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Thinking about Holiday cards already (and a giveaway) Closed
I’m usually such a procrastinator that it seems almost unrealistic that I’m thinking about holiday cards at the end of October. I guess the fact that I had such a good experience with Shutterfly last year for my holiday cards helps, and since they offered to do a giveaway with me that really gets me to move. I love everything about the whole process of making and sending out holiday cards. I love finding Lily the perfect outfits, I love setting up a great holiday backdrop, whether it be a tree and presents or something more outdoorsy. I love getting Lily to play and have fun, especially in a way that makes for great pictures. I really love finding my favorite pictures and then finding the perfect card to show them off.
I have some criteria for a great holiday card that I use: For one, I prefer a flat card over a folded card. Flat cards are easier to put on the fridge or hang on the wall by my desk. Since that is what I like, I assume everyone likes that too. 🙂
I also like cards that have a number of pictures on them. I guess I just like being able to see a lot of Lily pictures.
I try to stay away from cards that say “Merry Christmas”. My Mom celebrates Yule, so she doesn’t really like getting Christmas cards and for me the card is more about the Holidays as a whole more than Christmas anyway.
I think those are pretty much my rules for cards, they aren’t hard and fast, but they are my guidelines. One of the things that I love and hate about Shutterfly is that they have such a huge selection of cards that it’s hard to narrow them down to “the one”. For right now I think I this is “the one”, but we’ll see how things look tomorrow.
(Photo credit: Shutterfly.com)
Now for the giveaway:
Shutterfly was very generous and offered 3 Jinxyisms.com readers a certificate for 25 free Holiday cards of your choice. To enter just leave me a comment answering the following question:
Do you have any criteria for holiday cards that you use?
Or just tell me Hi, or what you are making for breakfast. What ever floats your boat.
The giveaway ends on I will use random.org to select the winners on November 11, 2011 at Noon. I’ll use random.org to select the winner and email them. Please be sure to leave me an email address. If the winner doesn’t get back to me in 3 days I’ll choose another winner. Open to US residents only. Sorry everyone else.
Disclosure: Shutterfly compensated me for this review, but all opinions expressed are my own.
Random Mobile Shots
Lily has been scared of slides lately, we don’t know why, she loved them before. So in trying to get her to slide again, Waldo and I have been taking Lil down slides to show her how fun and totally not scary they are.
It seems to be working because the last time we went to the school playground she went down the slides a number of times. YAY!
I am obsessed
Waldo and I have started reading books on our phones and I can’t stop. I am crazy obsessed. Right now I’m reading the Southern Vampire Mysteries, its the books that True Blood is based on and I have read the first 7 in about 2 1/2 weeks. I can barely stop to work and take care of my family. Blogging and everything else is taking a backseat. I’m really sorry for that too, but I can’t help myself. I used to be an avid reader, but reading books has been impossible with Lily around. I always have my phone with me so it’s so convenient to read a page or two here and there.
When we first got our phones I tried reading something on it and gave up pretty quickly, but I think my problem with it wasn’t the size of the screen, it was that I just didn’t care about what I was reading at first.
I think I’m going to have to force myself to take a break after I finish the last 3 books in their series in order to get anything done in my life.
But just for fun, does anyone have any good book suggestions for me? I don’t care much for drama, but I’ll give just about anything else a try.
My girl loves the swings
We have to go to one of the elementary schools to find swings since our neighborhood park doesn’t have any. Lily loves going to the “sand park” (it has sand under the swings rather than bark).
The best part of swinging is that Waldo and I walk in front of her and surprise her.
