While I admit that I will frequently use electronic means to send some types of invitations, electronic thank you notes are vertoben.  In my mind, if someone has gone through enough trouble to help you celebrate a milestone, choose an appropriate gift, and get it to you, the least you can do is hand write and mail a thank you note that thanks the person not just for the gift but for thinking of you and helping you celebrate, in addition to showing your appreciation for the gift.

The wee ones aren’t always thrilled to write the thank you notes – who is? – but they understand its importance, and I think it teaches them a good life lesson, too.  I’ve found that if they like the design of the thank you note, they’re more likely to write them without complaining and will fill up all the room there is blank on the card.

Minted offers many different varieties of kid stationary to use as thank you notes so that the designs can fit just about any personality.  There are ones personalized with names, though I tend to like the ones that don’t include a name so that both Mister Man and Little Miss can use the same stationary as needed.  The same goes for traditionally “boy” versus “girl” designs.  There are plenty of both, though I prefer to go slightly more gender neutral, much as Little Miss would be just fine with a completely “boy” design.  Different cards have different costs, but they range from $2.33 each for 15 cards ($1.52 for 65 or more) to $2.60 each for 15 cards ($1.68 for 65 or more), before you add on options.

For the greenie in me, I love that there are options that use 100% recycled paper to make the cards.  There are also options for most cards to change the shape from square corners to rounded corners to scalloped edges and more.  These options add an expense to the cards, but there are some options on Minted to make these truly personalized to your taste.

As you go through the design process, you are able to quickly and easily choose what options work best for you, as well as see the added cost for various options.  These range from changing the color scheme of the card (free) to adding a photo or color/pattern to the back of the card.  The envelope itself even has plenty of options for color of the actual envelope to adding a return address automatically to the envelope in various formats.

For many card options, you can also choose to use the free Minted Address Assistant to address your envelopes for you, saving you time and energy.  This option is currently available only for birth announcements, save the date cards, wedding invitations, holiday cards, and party invitations, but it’s a great service for those of us (me!) who are pressed for time.  Every year when I order my holiday cards, they inevitably sit around the house for days before I manage to get my cards all addressed.  I love it!

One of the coolest parts about Minted is that designs are truly unique.  They don’t come from stock art or in-house artists.  Instead, Minted solicits submissions as part of their minted design challege.  Designers submit their creations, and the Minted community votes on them to decide which options will become a part of the store.  I think it’s a great way to support those who want to become professional designers as a way to get their foot wet in that world and show that they have what it takes.  It isn’t solely to save costs on a designer.  Those whose designs win earn 6-8% of the card revenues.  They can also win cash prizes and potentially be commissioned to create Minted originals.

There’s plenty to like about Minted.  In fact, I just discovered their journals.  For $16 per journal, you can create a journal on premium white paper that has a customized front cover design and front cover.  There are some amazing options out there.  With the wee ones getting older and so many of their friends having too much “stuff,” this is a perfect gift in my mind.  Given the amount of creative writing the wee ones are now doing, too, you can bet that these will be showing up in their stockings this year, too!  The fact that Little Miss likes regular lined paper and Mister Man prefers graph paper is perfect, since I have those two options plus unlined paper for every journal.

Now if you’ll excuse me, Little Miss is having her birthday party in a few weeks, and I have some party decorations to decide on.

Top 10 Reasons Why An iPhone Is Not A DJ

10. You want people to dance, right?  Unless your friends and relatives are all extras on So You Think You Can Dance, you’ll have  a relatively empty dance floor.  The DJ is the one who gets people out there and moving, excited about the dancing.  And, yes, he leads those ubiquitous line dances that everyone claims to hate yet still somehow get people up there moving every time.

9. Welcome first the first time!  Mr. and Mrs. X!  Wedding parties are traditionally announced to some sort of fun music as they come in at some point during the cocktail hour.  No DJ?  Well, who’s going to do that for you?  In this case, my husband was drafted.  And yes, he had a microphone, but there were other issues.

8. Venues aren’t set up for iPhones.  Venues don’t have a sound system you can simply plug your iPhone into and have it work over their speakers.  Because people don’t do that.  DJs have the whole gig, which makes it audible (sometimes too much so!), but the bride and groom never mentioned their plans to the venue, and they never tested the iPhone as DJ concept.  The only solution – figured out during the reception – was to plug in a microphone that the venue had and place the mic as close to the iPhone as possible.  Needless to say, barely anyone could hear the music.

7. iPhone run on batteries.  And when the battery gives out, there goes your DJ.  Because yay you found a mic to set near the iPhone, but the mic isn’t near an outlet, and your cord isn’t long enough so you can’t plug it in.  Oops.

6. You aren’t a playlist expert.  So great, you created a playlist of your favorite songs.  But what order do you put them in?  How do you mix up the fast and the slow?  What if everyone is loving the slow songs and when the fast music comes on, they abandon the dance floor?  It’s not easy to adjust your play list on the fly to play what people are responding to the way a good DJ can and will do.

5. Speaking of playlists, what about those Father/Daughter and other special dances?  You are still going to do the first dance and the other special dances during the reception at  some point, right?  Who did you pick for the awkward task of stopping the music at some point during the reception, finding the right song, and starting it up when you want those dances to happen?  Trust me, something will go wrong here.  Plus, the DJ transitions one song into the next so that there’s no pause or break or silence that gives people a chance to think about leaving the dance floor.

4. That song just isn’t one you dance to.  So you love that song.  It’s one of your favorites.  But oops, it doesn’t really work with those awkward pauses and beat changes.  And the rhythm is weird.  But you put it on your playlist because you don’t think of these things and didn’t know.  That’s another thing a good DJ does.  He knows what songs do and don’t work for dancing and weddings and will help you craft a good playlist.

3. Hey, can you play…. Your playlist is set.  And it’s limited to the songs you own, which aren’t cheap to buy anyway.  Half the fun at weddings is the songs people request (and yes, you set a blacklist of songs or artists that the DJ will not play) and seeing the reaction of people to them.  It gets people talking and having fun and more involved in the wedding and dancing.  And isn’t that what you want?

2. What was that noise?  Yes, I heard that repeatedly that night.  Generally, it was in reference to clapping.  Because the bride and groom had several songs during the meal, and some even during the dancing portion, that were acoustic versions of songs.  You know, where there’s mostly singing and it’s quieter than normal and then it trails off into clapping at the end.  Sometimes for 10-20 seconds.  It made me giggle, but it really confused a lot of people.

And the number one reason why an iPhone isn’t a DJ for a wedding?

Bring!  Bring!  Bring!  When you get a phone call – or a text an email notification – your phone lets the whole reception know.  It stops the music for a few seconds, makes the noise, then restarts the music.  I’m pretty sure that isn’t the mood you’re going for at your fancy wedding.

And no.  I couldn’t make any of this up if I tried.  So please… don’t save your money here.  I saved a ton of money on my wedding but went for it in places the guests wouldn’t notice.  I made my own centerpieces that were simple but elegant.  I didn’t buy many flowers because who remembers the decorations anyway.  We made a CD for our favor that was all our special dances and the first 10 songs we played at the reception for each person.  I have friends who still listen to that CD today, and it was far cheaper and easier to make those than other favors that people throw away or forget quickly.  I spent as little as possible to get a dress I really liked.

But the food and the venue and the DJ?  Those I didn’t skimp on, though it’s fine if the food is mediocre – just don’t let it be bad.  Oh, and definitely not the open bar (in fact, we spent $3 extra per person to get the premium liquors in our open bar). Besides, you know you can negotiate prices with your vendors, right?  Never take the first offer, especially if it’s for an iPhone as your DJ.

Thanks to Alissa from Clever Compass who asks  this week’s #VlogMom question:

Just because I have a “few” years to go doesn’t mean I’m not thinking about graduation and what it means.  For me, the biggest idea in my head around graduation is that the kids have accomplished something huge.  They made it on to the next stage in life.  And that next stage in life can be hard and brutal.

I was lucky in that I got a job as a management consultant out of college.  I had a signing bonus.  And my first paycheck was larger than what my mom had ever received in her life.  But even so, when I created my first budget to figure out how much I could spend on thing, I was shocked.  Life outside the bubble of my parents’ protection was not pretty.

But it’s doable.  I did it, and there are so many others who have and did and can and will, too.  

Would you believe I never had a baby shower?  My friend who was “going” to throw it just… never quite got around to it but had spread the word that she was going to, so no one else did.  Let’s just say I’m making sure that doesn’t happen to anyone else I know.  I love baby showers, but the last time I threw one, I hand made every invitation and shower favor.  Never again.  There’s a much easier way that looks so elegant and personal that I’ll never go back.  Thank you, Tiny Prints.

I’ve used Tiny Prints before, and I love their quality and breadth of selection.  They are always unique, and the fact that they tend to have designs in collections of items so I can keep my theme going is a huge plus for me.  So this summer, I have two babies coming into my life. My sister-in-law is due with her first, and my best friend is also due.

You know that means I’m going to have to help them do some shopping for Tiny Prints birth announcements, right?  They didn’t have these kinds of things so easily available when the wee ones were born, and I have to admit that I’m jealous.  So I live vicariously through my friends and relatives and “help” them find what they love with Tiny Prints, a premium online stationary brand.

Because that whole ease of use thing for the birth announcements?  It’s possible in my post partum haze, I simply decided I didn’t have enough mental or physical energy to send them out.  The thought of actually trying to make something and then stuff the envelopes and address them and get them into the mail system with a baby who would not let me set him down for a second or he’d scream bloody murder pretty much did me in.  And I wish now that I did have birth announcements, though I don’t know how I would have gotten them out.

Good news?  Tiny Prints makes it easy to get your cards and invitations and announcements mailed.  They have their own mailing service where you don’t even have to touch the cards before they’re sent.  It’s brilliant, right?  You can either import contacts from your address book or an Excel sheet – and I have all my addresses in an Excel sheet to make for an easy mail merge.  Then you choose to have the cards mailed, pay for postage and printing, and you’re done.  That is a service I definitely would have taken advantage of, and one I have recommended to several new mom friends who are as harried as I once was.

Tiny Prints has it covered.  They has beautiful trend-forward designs that really allow you to show your personality and uniqueness, as well as that of your baby – or babies!  You can choose different sizes and colors and paper types with everything from classic, simple designs to those with a more contemporary feel and everything in between.

And in addition to the unique baby shower invitations and unique baby announcements, Tiny Prints has matching address labels, thank you cards, and gift cards so that you can tie it all together.  You can easily see what matching items are available for each card design by clicking into it and seeing what is listed on that screen.  How perfect and fun would it be to have the shower invitations match the baby announcements that match the address labels and thank you cards?  That’s enough to make any new mom look like she’s got it together, right?

So no, it isn’t a surprise to me that Tiny Prints is the place where I’m turning when I start planning my baby showers.  Because this is what I’m sending out next time.  So.  Cute.

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I remembered this on Monday.  And on Tuesday.  By Wednesday, I’d forgotten and gone to be early.  Thursday morning,  I woke up with an email reminder.  Tell me I’m not the only one who’s been in this situation.

That’s ok though.  We have flowers in our yard that we can snip.  I headed outside with the wee ones and scissors.

Unfortunately the deer had eaten our tulips.  I headed over to the lilac bushes, because it’s possible that I may have needed to cut some before.  This year, the weather in Chicago has not cooperated.  There were no lilacs blooming.  It’s the week of Mother’s Day, and the lilacs still haven’t bloomed.  Uh-oh.

I took a deep breath and kept walking.  No roses.  But then I spotted them.  There were some really cool looking yellow flowers growing under the deck.  I smiled and headed towards them.

I walked over and snipped off a branch with several of the yellow flowers and handed one to Little Miss and another branch to Mister Man.  We walked around to the front of the house and headed inside.  And suddenly, I took a closer look at those flowers.  And more importantly, at the leaves.

Oh.  My.  Word.  Suddenly my sleep-addled brain noticed that there were mitten shaped leaves in groups of three.  Did I just cut poison ivy growing rampant under my deck?  My fingers began to itch in sympathy.  See, I’ve never actually had poison ivy before.  So I don’t truly, fully recognize it.  And I was convinced that I had accidentally cut off poison ivy and was going to give it to the teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week.  I had the wee ones run and wash their hands and arms with soap really well while I turned to Dr. Google to see if poison ivy flowered.

It’s never good when Google finishes your search before you’ve typed it all in.  I sighed, certain that I’d cut poison ivy.  I began to scan the images for flowers that looked like what I’d cut then scanning the articles that accompanied them.  Every poison ivy “yellow flower” looked more like a berry to me.  And the bus was coming, so I had to make a decision.

I finally took a photo of the flowers and texted it to a friend who is good with plants, begging her to reassure me that I was not trying to infect our teachers with poison ivy.  And I waited for her to respond.  And waited.  And I kept searching, finally convincing myself that I think this is jewel wood, not poison ivy.

The wee ones hopped on the bus, with the flowers.  And I still hadn’t gotten a text back from my friend confirming that my… shall we call it research? had been accurate.

So teachers, if you felt a little itchy last Thursday, I deeply apologize.  I’m about 95% sure that wasn’t poison ivy I sent in for your bouquet.  I promise I’m signing up for a gardening class soon.

And thus, my mango Greek frozen yogurt was born.

It is super quick, just a few ingredients, and oh so tasty.  To me, this is what summer tastes like.  If only summer would actually arrive in Chicago and stick around.

Mango Greek Frozen Yogurt

Ingredients:
1 1/2 c plain Greek yogurt (yes, you can use regular if you want, but it had this incredible tang to it because of the Greek yogurt)
2 mangoes, peeled and lightly chopped
1/2 c sugar
1 T lemon juice

Directions:
Prepare your ice cream maker, which for me means putting my churning tub into the freezer the day before.

Peel your mangoes, and cut them away from the seed.  Chop them into large chunks, just enough that they’ll fit in your blender.

Add the mango, yogurt, sugar, and lemon juice to your blender.  Start low then turn up the speed until it’s completely purified and lightened in color.

Place the frozen yogurt base into the fridge to let it chill for a few hours.

Pour the base through a sieve and into your ice cream maker once it has chilled to around 40 degrees.  This ensures that any of the pulp from the mango doesn’t make it into your frozen yogurt and give you a funky texture later.

Turn on your ice cream maker.  Watch for it to start to set up, which should take less than 10 minutes.  Turn off your ice cream maker and scrape the frozen yogurt into a storage container.

Enjoy it soft serve fresh from the ice cream maker, or go ahead and freeze it and enjoy it later.  If you freeze it, let it soften at room temperature for 10 to 15 minutes so it’s easier to scoop.  This will also help bring out the flavors, as you can’t taste as much when it’s frozen solid.

So you know that I’ve been following the Shaklee program since the beginning of March.  And I’ve been “good” for 95% of the time, eating my two Shaklee meals a day, a snack, and a healthy dinner.  I’ve pretty much stayed within my calorie allowances, and I’ve shared with you the workouts that I’m doing regularly.  Now that the weather is warmer, I’m adding in nightly walks around my neighborhood with the wee ones where they bike and I walk, which adds another 2-3 miles to my daily activity.

Awesome, right?

Well, mostly.  I’ve lost 11 pounds since I started, but I’ve been mostly stuck for awhile.  And I feel like my measurements aren’t changing that much either, an inch here and an inch there.  I’ve gotten frustrated at myself and somewhat depressed that things aren’t moving as fast as I’d like.

I’ve gotten trapped into the perspective that either I’m bikini body ready or I’m not where I want to be.  There’s no in between for me, and that’s not right.  I’ve made progress, but my perception just isn’t there to match.  I still see what I expect to see and focus on all the negative instead of on what I’ve accomplished.

So when my mom says it looks like I’ve lost weight, I shrug her off.  When my friends exclaim that I’m tiny, I look at them and shake my head.  No, I reply.  I have barely lost anything.  Even my measurements aren’t really changing.  And they think I’m nuts.  I’ve gotten compliments from friends but can’t take them.

And that is flat out wrong.

There’s a middle ground, and I’m smack dab in the center of it.  I’ve made progress.  I’m much more fit than I was two months ago, and I’ve lost eleven pounds.  Little Miss was seven months old before she weighed eleven pounds.  And I haven’t ever gained eleven pounds in a year.  So that’s pretty awesome, right?  Right.

So no, I’m not at my goal weight yet, but I’m eight pounds away.  And that’s totally doable.  I may not be tiny in my mind, but my friends can see and tell.  And if I focus on it, I can, too.  And that’s what I need to do – focus on what I’ve done not on the tummy that isn’t flat or the arms that have a wiggle or my inner thighs that jiggle.

It’s a process, and I’m going through it.  I’ve got the tools via Shaklee and my workouts to get me to where I want to go.  The next time someone says something nice about me, I promise to simply smile and say thank you.  Because their perception?  It’s probably a little less skewed than my own.

I’m all about having a cheap wireless plan, preferably also a carrier that offers unlimited plans.  The last time I changed my mobile provider, I waited until my contract ended – impatiently.  I counted down the months and days starting at almost a year out.  For months, I could have told you exactly how many days I had left because I was so done with that plan for a number of reasons.

While I had great reception pretty much everywhere, my phone had died and I was using an old borrowed phone that didn’t work as well as my previous one – but I couldn’t get a new one or I had to sign a new two year contract.  I couldn’t text – and to add texting to my plan – for $30 a month for my husband and I, ouch! – I would have extended my contract another two years.  My husband had no data, and we couldn’t add that or… yep, we’d extend the contract another two years.  And we were paying – with significant employer discounts – almost $130 per month for a limited number of minutes, data for me and that was it.

There has to be a better solution, right?

So yes, when #cbias offered me the chance to test drive Walmart’s new Family Mobile Plan, I was all over it.  Right now, the cost is $40 per month for the first phone (after May, it goes back up to $45 per month – so sign up quick so you can get and keep the cheaper rate!) and $5 less per month for each additional line.  That includes unlimited talk, text, and web surfing.  For $75 for two phones in our house.  If you miss a payment, however, the cost will revert back to $45 per month for the first line.

So yes, there are caveats.  The service is 3G, not the nearly ubiquitous 4G, and there is only 1GB of 3G service per month for the account before it gets throttled back further, though that is plenty for the two of us, since we primarily hook our phones up to our wifi, which doesn’t count against our data allowance.

You also have the option to purchase additional “speed boost” packages that range from an additional 1GB for $10 per month to 8GB for $40 per month if you are a hard core data user.  The plan runs using the T-Mobile network, which works just fine in my area, though like any cell provider, you have to check your coverage before you sign up.

The best part is that there are no contracts.  It’s a pay as you go service where you receive a monthly bill each month for the plan and extras you’ve selected.  You can cancel at any time and without penalties, so if you want to change or you move or you want a different phone, it isn’t locking you into a long term contract, something I especially appreciate.  I use my phone all the time for all sorts of things, and they wear out before those contracts are up!

I love the flexibility to purchase the extra data – or not – as fits our needs.  We can easily add the data one month if we need it and then remove it later, something we couldn’t do with any part of previous cell plans we’ve used.  For right now, we typically don’t use more than 1GB per month, but when I’m at a conference and constantly on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook and the like and can’t connect to the conference wifi, it’s nice to know I can up my allotment for the month at 3G and keep right on speeding by.

I don’t often look forward to receiving a bill, but I have to admit that I’m looking forward to this first Walmart Family Mobile bill so I can see that tiny amount and remember that yes, I do in fact have an unlimited plan.

Walmart offers a huge variety of phones that you can use with their cheap wireless plan.  They range from a basic Samsung T139 flip phone that is great for those who just want to talk and text (I’m thinking my wee ones when they one day get their own phones – no web access for them!) to the Samsung Galaxy SIII, a high end phone that pretty much does everything other than make your coffee in the morning.  There’s a phone for everyone at just about every price point.  And if you already have an unlocked phone you want to keep using, you can activate it on the Walmart Family Mobile plan, with just a few exceptions (the iPhone 4 doesn’t work, for example, though the 4S and the 5 do).

I received the Samsung Concord, a $99.97 phone at Walmart.  It’s a “starter” smart phone, which mean that it does all the basic functions, but there are definitely programs that I regularly use that are not compatible with this phone – from Google Plus to Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner t0 Cam Scanner (my favorite app ever).  None of them are mission critical for me, where this my only phone, with the exception of Cam Scanner.  That goes into making sure that when you purchase a phone, you research what it can and can’t do before you buy it.

For someone who is a moderate smart phone user – my husband, for instance, since Yahoo! Sporstacular works just fine on this phone – this is a great phone.  It has Swype, which has to be the best invention for quickly entering words ever.  The voice search works great, as does the navigation.  My absolute favorite part about my new phone, however, is the battery life.  With my Samsung Galaxy SII, I can run down the battery partway through the day with even moderate use.  The Concord has a much better battery life and stays charged for so much longer, something that I really appreciate!

Getting my new phone set up was a breeze.  Each new phone needs a starter kit that you can get from Walmart either online or at a store that is a Family Mobile store.  It costs $25 and contains the SIM card you’ll need – both the regular size and a mini SIM – and the activation code to get your phone set up.  I purchased my starter kit at my local Walmart and then decided to head home to get my phone activated.  There is the option to set it up in store with a Walmart employee’s help, to do it online, or to do it over the phone with Walmart customer service.

Online was easy.  I simply started at the activation page, then simply followed the instructions to get my phone activated.  The whole process took under 10 minutes.  Once I popped the SIM card into my phone and added the battery, I was ready to go.  Fortunately, the battery comes partially charged, as I was too impatient to get started to wait for a battery to charge!

Even for a cell phone novice, getting the phone up and running is easy.  Once I turned it on, there were step by step instructions on exactly what I needed to do next to get my phone running and then to set up my online account management and information.

Once I had it configured, I went into the Google Play Store, and I was thrilled to see that I no longer needed to remember exactly which programs I wanted to download.  There is now a tab under “my apps” that lists all the apps I’ve ever purchased or downloaded.  That saved me a ton of time and effort!

And using my phone has been a breeze.  It’s smaller than what I’m used to, so I’ve fat fingered a lot of my typing and Swyping, but I’m getting used to it.  I’ve had no coverage issues whatsoever, and the 3G speeds are working just fine for me.  I can’t wait to check in after another month and share all about what I’ve learned about my phone and my experience with the lowest price rate plan out there!

After getting a little help on the translations, I giggled my way through it.  And hopefully you will, too.  I won’t go through all the pages, but there were some that were worth sharing.

My mom likes it when I do the things I’m supposed to do.

My mom likes to do fun things.

My mom always forgets nothing. (Ok, smart kid – I gotta give her kudos there.)

The thing I like the most about my mom is she’s really good, and if it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t exist.  (Apparently she’s taking a page from Mister Man.

My favorite thing to do with my mom is (WAIT she left this blank?  Does this mean she doesn’t have a favorite thing to do with me?  And she’s only 7.  Tell me the teen years aren’t starting already!)

I love when my mom makes funny noises. (Ok, so I had to ask her about this.  I make funny noises?  What funny noises?  And when?  And why does she like them?  Apparently she really meant when I blow raspberries on her tummy.  Whew!)

She is so tall like a lamp that’s in my homework room. (Now there’s a romantic image if I ever heard one.  Thanks, Kid.)

She weighs about 265 pounds.  (Really?  REALLY?  What teacher with a sick sense of humor added that to this project?  Further proof, however, that her estimation skills need a little more work.)

My mom looks best when she’s happy.  (Interesting.  I’m not quite sure where this was supposed to go, but happy is an interesting choice, don’t you think?)

Here are the things you’ll find in my mom’s purse.  And she drew…

• lipstick (ok, that’s fair)
• a book (yep, apparently my love of reading is visible to the wee ones and she’s noticed that I carry books with me all the time)
• pens (because I always have one when she needs one?)
• a receipt (ok, so I need to clean my purse)
• and apparently a large empty cube (I’m shrugging  on that one)

Happy Mother’s Day!

We don’t typically go hugely over the top.  The wee ones will make cards sometimes.  I usually get breakfast in bed.  And there are presents, but it isn’t huge.  We’ll do brunch – this year at my mom’s house.  And that’s pretty much it.  This year, I’m actually headed to the Chicago Food Swap in the afternoon, something I’m looking forward to – as is the rest of my family who can’t wait to see what I bring home.

So when the #VlogMom group collectively came up with this week’s question, I wasn’t waxing poetic as so many others are.  Instead, I interviewed the wee ones.   And yes, they show their personalities to a T.  Mister Man is honest, as always.  And Little Miss?  Well, she’s a kiss up and never misses an opportunity to gain some points.  Goofy child.

So what are you up to for Mother’s Day this year?