Be My Valentine

Do your kids send Valentines to friends?

My kids love to write out a bunch of Valentine's Day cards  and hand them out to their friends BUT this year I discovered something a bit more fun.

PercyVites.com offers an online version of the Valentine. Actually, the site offers more than just a Valentine card, you can create online video invitations and greeting cards.

BUT... right now Percyvites.com is offering you an opportunity to try it out for free. You can create a Caillou Valentine's Day online card for FREE!'

 Here is a look at my first attempt. It was actually very easy.

Here is the cool thing... right now you can actually create this Caillou video Valentines Day card for FREE! Yup, you read that right. It is FREE!  And you know what that means....I am going to create a few more of these. To be more clear, I am going to get the kids to create a few. It is that EASY!



I was asked by PercyVites to review the site. I was not paid for my post. The opinions in this post are my own.

Travelling.... to Spain

In December my husband and I were given a once in a life time opportunity to travel to Madrid, Spain.... FREE. My husband is a comic book illustrator and was invited to a Comic Book Convention in Spain. They offered flight, hotel, food for TWO.  My husband graciously agreed to bring me along for the trip ( just kidding he didn't really have a choice now did he). We were in Spain for six days.

The people were so friendly and generous. The architecture is frankly beautiful.  The food was a bit of a challenge for me given that I don't really like seafood but what I can say is it was an adventure.

I has only taken me two months to post photos of our amazing trip....but I have finally done it.

Here is part one of many....SPAIN AT NIGHT.

During the day we were at the show but at night we had the opportunity to walk around and it was beautiful. The people hosting the Comic Con took us to dinner every night, we got a chance to sample the local cuisine and see downtown.

The streets and lane ways were so beautiful. The Christmas decorations lite up the night. It was just gorgeous out. It was so hard to believe the city was just as pretty at night ... as it was during the day

The buildings were just magnificent and made even more beautiful at night. The lights were fantastic accents to the lines of the buildings.

Block after block was lined with the most amazing architecture. Just unbelievable. These buildings have such history. I would love to hear the stories the walls of these buildings would tell... if walls could talk!

Every night hundreds, if not thousands, of people walked the streets shopping. At one point the downtown streets were closed off and so we took the opportunity to take a selfie!

The food..... WOW ... the food. This was just one of the beautiful meals we had the opportunity to sample. I will admit the amount of seafood and pork for this non-seafood-pork-eater was a challenge.




The deserts were must fantastic. 

Who could turn down desert!

What would you like to do....If money were no object

This is a great question. Ask yourself... what would you like to do with your life, if money were no object?

You know what I would like to do? I would LOVE to write! I would love to write books. So what is stopping me????

I think I would Forget My Head....

OK... maybe that is an exaggeration BUT I do tend to forget a lot of things these days. When my kids were very little I would blame it on Mommy Brain... but now I can't use that excuse. My kids are 10 and 8 years old now. I blame the forgetfulness on a busy life. There are just so many things to distract me. OF course there is the reason my husband says I forget things and am so easily distracted... he says I have Attention Deficient Disorder. There might actually be some truth in that... but I digress. 

I have actually decided that I need to mark things down in my Google Calendar. Shocking... actually marking things down in a calendar. I have never been very good at marking things down. I often prefer to make hand written notes or just store it in my mind. Those options worked when I didn't have so much on my plate. Those options don't work so well for me these days. 

Here is hoping my Google Calendar can keep me organized.

What do you do to stay organized and keep track of events, deadlines, appointments, task and coffee dates?

Sneak Peek - Disney's Maleficent

Thanks to Disney for this great sneak peek! 

A  never-before-heard Lana Del Rey rendition of “Once Upon a Dream” was unveiled as part of a 90-second sneak peek of Disney’s “Maleficent” during the 56^th Annual Grammy Awards® on Sunday, January 26.

Take a look!





 “Maleficent” releases in theatres on May 30, 2014.


Very beautiful and very eerie.

What do you think? 

Weekends... Should Be For Relaxing

Woo Hoo... the weekend has finally arrived. Something to celebrate for sure... no work for two days.

STOP.... HOLD ON... Let's be honest. Weekends are far from two days off from work. I have to admit I actually work harder on the weekends than I do all week. Weekends are so far from relaxing for me these days.  

Before I go any farther I should just say that Saturday mornings are good for one thing... one thing that is a major big deal. SLEEPING IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(YES.... I am yelling.. and yes I am super duper excited about sleeping in Saturday mornings.) And I mean sleeping in. I don't get out of bed until about 11 o'clock.  Extravagant? Yes. It is the one time of the entire week that I get to sleep in really. I got to bed late but Saturday mornings allow me to catch up on my sleep and get ready for the next to days.

You see, weekends are about catching up on house works from the week, like laundry, dishes, cleaning, grocery shopping, cooking AND running the kids to dance, play dates, birthday parties, sleep overs. Saturday and Sunday are the only two days of the week that I actually get full days to work on stuff around the house....but to be honest when Monday morning rolls around I am more tired than I was on Friday night. 

Sigh.... well, time to get moving. No time to rest... it is Saturday after all!

What are you weekends like? As busy as mine?

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

OK, so it is January 6th.  Maybe Happy New Year is a little late BUT it is my first blog post of 2014.