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Give the valuable gift of reading

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Hello to all you happy holiday shoppers and those reading blogs to avoid shopping!

I want to take a moment to tell you about the amazing company I work for that has been in business for over 25 years, Reading with TLC.  Reading with TLC is a wonderful company dedicated to teaching children the indispensable skills of phonics and reading.  We have an amazing program called ‘Lively Letters’ and if you are a teacher, speech language pathologist or a concerned parent with a child and/or children struggling to read, you will want to click HERE.  This program is vital for anyone with the need to teach a struggling reader of any age!

I have read all the testimonials that we receive and I have witnessed firsthand how fun and successful the program is.  It is fantabulous!  Now sound that out phonetically!  Lol.  Yes, I know it is not a word! I make up words all the time, but that is a story for another day.  I am now a proud affiliate of Lively Letters so if you want to learn all about the program click my affiliate link and let’s get acquainted!  🙂 Happy Shopping!  Happy Holidays!  Happy Reading!

 

TheBouqs.com is just awesome!

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I hate to pick favorites here but one of my favorite partnerships so far is with the fine folks at www.thebouqs.com.  When they reached out to me about their on-line floral service, I was thrilled to put it mildly.  Ecstatic was more like it.  What woman doesn’t like flowers, right?  Please tell me you don’t know any.  But this service is really unique.  The flowers come from volcanic regions in South America.  What?  South America?  That is so internationally cool.   Even my daughter who loves the eye roll and thinks almost everything is a yawn, said, “Flowers from South America?  Now that is cool.”

So a few days before I received my bouquet, I received an email from the company and it said, “Your flowers just left Quito, Ecuador and are on their way to you.”  That brings cool to a whole new level.  I even did a quick social studies mini-lesson with my kids on where Ecuador is on the map and how Quito is the capital city.  Did you know the Galapagos Islands are off the coast of Ecuador?  Now you know I am not just another pretty face.  And it’s not all fun and games down at blog headquarters.  I am still chief, cook and bottle washer.  Remember that expression?  I will make my Dad proud using that one!  Luckily, there are no bottles to wash anymore.

My flowers from TheBouqs.com - reminds me of a Gauguin painting!

My flowers from TheBouqs.com – reminds me of a Gauguin painting!

Anyway, when the Fedex man arrived, I ran down to get my package.  He delivers many of the goodies the blog receives and this time he couldn’t resist asking:  “What did you order that had to clear US customs?”  “These are flowers from Ecuador”, I replied.  “Oh, that is cool.”  Wow, the phrase is contagious.  The flowers (pictured above) were beautiful.  I ordered the Ladybug bouquet and it had ranunculus and larkspur; red and violet flowers mixed in a lovely combination.  They were gorgeous and they lasted about 12 days which was much longer than any other flowers I have purchased.  The box they came in, the brown paper wrapping, the note inside were really well thought out.  You just have to send flowers to someone special from www.thebouqs.com.  It is an amazing service and they will never forget it.  Please click the link below to see what I am talking about:




Keep calm and buy Mom a T-shirt

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Okay, dear readers, you must check this out!  If you have been following the blog and I hope you have, you know I frequently promote great products and services.  But today I am promoting a product created by me.  Yes, yours truly.  C’est moi!  The blog is branching out and selling products!   I am offering my very own T-shirt for Mother’s Day.  It is the first T shirt that I have collaborated on.  I hope there are many more products to follow.  Yes, I came up with the idea for this shirt!   And trust me, it is not as easy as you would think.  But it sure is fun.  Well, in a scary sort of way.  Like, gulp,  Will anyone like it?

So here is what you need to do:  Go to http://teespring.com/keepcalmgetmom and get out your credit card to reserve a wonderful, high quality T-shirt for the fabulous lady in your life:  Mom!  Or buy one for yourself.  It is only $20.  The shirt reads ‘Keep calm and go get Mom’ because let’s face it, in a crisis or in happy times, who do you call first?  Not ghostbusters!  You call Mom!  Right?  Mom is on the job and available 24/7.

Now, I only have to sell 15 shirts for the product to be printed.  Well, technically, 14 because you know I will buy one.  Right?  How could I not?  But I am hoping to sell many more.  Like, in the hundreds even.  In the meanwhile, I will keep calm and let the orders roll in. The campaign will only last 3 weeks so the T’s have time to ship.  Thank you for the support.  Here is the link one more time (just in case you forgot, wink, wink)  http://teespring.com/keepcalmgetmom