The lovely Désirée Fawn of So Fawned is doing her Second Annual 30 Days Hath November. It sounds like so much fun that I’m playing along. For Day 1 we are doing a self-portrait.
I quit wearing makeup on a daily basis once I quit working outside the house, so here I am in my natural glory.
Last night when we got home from trick-or-treating Lily played with her candy haul, but never really showed any interest in eating any. This didn’t surprise us since she has probably only had candy once or twice and that was just a small bite of some candy Waldo or I were eating. She loves ice cream and we share one every time we go to the zoo, but candy just isn’t a part of her life and I like it like that. We did tell her that we’d let her have a small bit of candy for a snack today and wouldn’t you know it, she remembered and asked for it first thing this morning. I told her she had to have a good healthy breakfast before she could eat any candy so we headed to the kitchen and she fueled up.
I had planned to give away most of her candy to our trick-or-theaters but wouldn’t you know it, we didn’t have very many, so her basket had a good bit of candy in it. While we had breakfast Waldo took most of the candy out and hid it. When breakfast was over I handed her her basket and let her pick one. She choose a long tootsie roll. I broke off about a third of it and handed it to her and ate the rest. You know I have to do my part for her health.
After she was done and I was washing the sticky off of her hands I reminded her that candy is tasty, but isn’t not healthy for our bodies or our teeth. “But my tongue likes it.” she replies. Kids!
The pictures are pre-trick-or-treating and she was pretending to eat CARROTS.
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.
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.
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!
