Month: August 2015

Preserve Your Summer Memories [Giveaway!]

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. All opinions are 100% my own, I love Pictli!

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Make sure to enter below to win TWO Pictli framed photo gifts to preserve your summer memories –
ONE for you and ONE to send as a gift!

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Framed Photo Gifts

Every summer my girls go to San Diego to stay with their grandparents for four fun filled days of non-stop activities. My sister-in-law lives  in San Diego as well, and this year, in addition to all the fun stuff the grandparents planned, she took my girls stand up paddle boarding for the first time along with treating them to an entire day at the Aquatica Water Park by SeaWorld.

Anyone who can brave a water park with two kids for the day deserves a big thank you, so I went online to Pictli and created a framed photo gift of the girls paddle boarding to send her as a thank you gift.  And, it took me all of about 5 minutes. I LOVE IT! 

What We Can Learn from the Maddy Middleton Tragedy

  Last month 8-year-old girl Maddy Middleton was abducted, raped and murdered in her Santa Cruz apartment complex. The perpetrator was not a stranger and this was not a random abduction.  The killer was a 15-year-old boy who lived in her building who lured her to his apartment. Her tragic story shook me to the core.… Continue reading What We Can Learn from the Maddy Middleton Tragedy

10 Favorite Memories of High School Summers

High School Summer Memories

I had a mini reunion with 5 high school girlfriends last week and it brought back so many memories of high school summers circa ’88-’92.

It was a life without the internet, laptops or cell phones. Which made me wonder, what did we do!?  Worked on our tans, of course. Oh Lord.

Looking back here are 10 of my favorite memories from my high school summers, I would love to hear some of yours…

Summer Mom Fail

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How did it get to be August already?

Going into summer I had all sorts of scholastic plans for my girls to ensure their little brains would not turn to mush over the summer.

They were going to read at least 30 minutes every day.

I was going to print out worksheets from Teachers Pay Teachers for my going-into-1st-grader to do.

I put a summer incentive plan in place to reward good behavior, including reading.

You get the idea.

But this summer so far has gone down more like this.

Both girls have played so much Subway Surfer I am afraid they have killed brain cells.