I know y’all are aware of my big love for K’nex, right? Any toy that can hold my boy’s interest for more than 15 minutes has my undying love and affection.

That is why I wanted to let you in on a little something… a chance for kiddo to win a $10,000 savings bond for college in the 2011 K’NEXpert Search. Woot!

Here are the deets: K’NEX is inviting kids to design a creative, original model made entirely from K’NEX parts. Three children – one from each of the three age groups: 5 to 6-year-olds; 7 to 8-year-olds; and, 9 to 12-year-olds – will each win a $10,000 savings bond for college. Submissions are judged on creativity, uniqueness and detail.

Not only that but three grand prize winners will also receive a trip for three to K’NEX headquarters near Philadelphia, PA for the K’NEXpert Award Ceremony, where they will get an opportunity to meet each other and learn how K’NEX are made. Seven finalists will each receive $1,000 savings bonds and all ten winners will receive $250 worth of free K’NEX Building Sets, and their very own photo gallery page at www.knex.com.  Wow, right?

The 2011 K’NEXpert Search will run through September 10, 2010. If you little on wants to enter, have them print out the entry form here http://www.knex.com/club/images/becoming/2011-KNEXpert-Search-Details-Rules.pdf and mail it in.

Good luck!

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I spent last week at the beach reading.  And by reading I mean devouring.  The book?  Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from the book, especially with it being so wildly popular and all.

I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed the read.  Not that I could relate. (Make no mistake.) But still, I enjoyed it.

Most of all I was happy to find a couple of nuggets of wisdom that I took away with me.  So I’ll share:

“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”

AND THE MOST POWERFUL:

“Why must everything always have a practical application?”

AMEN, SISTER!

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Here I go again.  RE-FOCUSING.

I blame BlogHer.

It clarified my vision. It changed my bloggy opinion. And most of all it gave me a new direction.

While I am working behind the scenes to get my new vision in focus, I’ll still be blogging it up like normal.  But hopefully the near  future will bring topics more streamlined and less “all over the place.”

This site will still keep the same sense of humor and the same values… it’ll just be a little bit more of a resource for busy working (and by working not just the kind that drive to the office) moms.

And of course I’ll still ramble on about whatever I want.  Because that is what I do best.  And that is also what drives my hubby crazy. Heh.

Luv,

J

I find this picture of me hilarious.  My pal Amy took it some time during BlogHer.  Notice my expression.  Am I happy to see her or annoyed?  And what about my other friend Beth sitting beside me?  I think I am boring her. A lot. She looks like she wants to bolt for the door.

I am a great conversationalist. Obviously.

Hello lovelies!

I’m so not here today.  I am on va-ca-shun!  As in “shun.”  Which according to the dictionary means: To avoid deliberately; keep away from.

So clearly I am keeping away from you.  I’m a jerk like that.

My family will be happy, though.  What they don’t realize is that I am only on the vay-cay so that I can get more blogging fodder.  It is like a recon mission.  So technically I am not “shunning” you.  Instead think of it as an intense retreat for my blogging muscles.

Yeah.  Exactly.  I’m doing this FOR MY READERS.

I am a sacrificer like that.  You’re welcome.

See you after my vacation, err… I mean retreat!  (Enjoy my guest posts in the meantime!)

Swimming, my friends.

Take it from my little men… summer is all about swimming.

Pictures courtesy of Edward Winter Photography, aka, my baby brother.