Treat Time!

Free card alert! Just a quick post - normally I just post these codes on Facebook but I figure if you see it here you might actually remember to go make yourself one. I personally have a bad habit of immediately forgetting what I just saw on FB.

You know how much I love cards... and you know how much a love free... so this offer sends me to my happy place. 

Use the code TREATBLOGR for a completely free card from Treat.com (Offer expires 11/20) Great way to send a card to family you won't get to see this year without having to go to the store! *nudge nudge Mom* 

I've seen Treat have offers like this before. (I've actually redeemed one before and loved the quality of the card.) So keep your eyes open in the future. 

A belated Halloween

I never knew how extensive a toddler's Halloween calendar could be!

There was the Stroller Strides annual Halloween Shindig which I think the mom's may look forward to even more than the kiddos (Who doesn't love a reason to dress their toddlers up all adorable like and let them loose in someone else's back yard with more than 2 dozen sets of mothering eyes to help keep an eye on things while you get a chance to catch up with friends?)

A quick and BUSY but fun evening at the Wake Forest Factory Spooktacular.

Then there was the Halloween Hoot at our local library which she loved.

A quick costume change for Stroller trickertreatin after a chilly workout.

(Supergirl isn't the best costume for a sandy playground.)

Followed up by Halloween itself.

Guess what. I made that Supergirl costume. Yup. All by myself. It was a white shirt, a roll of red tulle, and yellow headband when I started!

Veteran's Day

Mark and I didn't realize when we got married that we'd be sharing out anniversary weekend with Veteran's Day, but over the years we've seen a lot of really wonderful events. One of our first anniversary trips away to York we stumbled across a veteran's parade and watched it go by as we stood in awe. Our getaways were always peppered by poppy flowers, the symbol they use in Britain to remember their fallen.

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We've been back in America for a few years now and while we don't see the poppies here we still remember. My family is a military family. My great grandfather, my grandfather, my father, my brother, my sister-in-law... it continues. It's important we remember the scarifies our military and their families make.

Shutterfly has impressed me again with their Thank the Troops campaign. With over 1.5 million troops serving and many of them overseas they have a simple mission—to send a thank you card to every American hero. They need your help and it doesn't take long. Just select a card from four different designs, add a personal message (or photo -  just think you could have your kiddo draw a picture snap it on your phone and upload!) and click send. Shutterfly will print and ship your card to the troops at no cost to you.

A simple way to say thank you. There is absolutely no reason not to.