Only a few days left...

There are only 4 days left for the drawing at While You're Out, the babysitting referral service. Make sure to get your requests in for your babysitters, and renew your packages now to be entered into the drawing for $200 gift certificates! See our earlier post, or check out While You're Out's website!

Love this quote!

There's a difference between interest and commitment.

When you're interested in doing something,

you do it only when it's convenient.

When you're committed to something,

you accept no excuses; only results.

Roi sent me an e-mail recently, which included this quote- I love it!

Roi Solberg

Spirit of Archetypes: Cards of Spiritual Guidance

Visit her website http://www.spiritelan.com or blog http://spiritofarchetypes.blogspot.com

Valentine's Day Ideas, Continued

Coming up with new ideas for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day can be hard. Roses are nice (and jewelry is better!), but sometimes it's the small, thoughtful, inexpensive ideas that pay off big when it comes time to say "I Love You."

Here are more great Dove ideas (see post below) for Valentine's Day:

-Spend Valentine's Day with friends and throw a dessert party.

-Give a packet of daisy seeds instead of a bouquet.

-Package a favorite novel with a heart-shaped bookmark.

-Customize the cover of a journal for your Valentine.

What sweet ideas do you have for V-Day?

While You're Out Babysitting Drawing

When was the last time you had a night out without the kids? We are very excited to be working with While You're Out, LLC Babysitting Referral Service! This is a local business that we personally use and love, so it means a lot to us to be included in their client appreciation give-away.

While You're Out takes the pressure and work out of finding the perfect babysitter. You just tell them the date and time you need a sitter and they do the rest. Not having extended family in town, this has been especially important to us. Cheri, the owner of While You're Out has always been great to work with and we love how easy she makes it to find a caring and experienced sitter. If you haven't checked them out, their website has a lot of great information.

This is the special drawing they are doing for the month of February:

Celebrate the LOVE of your family with 1 of 8 $200 Gift Certificates for Appleby Photography from While You're Out Babysitting!

For every referral [babysitter request] submitted and confirmed, While You're Out will put your family's name in a drawing to win 1 of 8 $200 gift certificates from Appleby Photography.

Every confirmed referral is an entry...so if you have 5 sitters this month, that is 5 entries for one of the 8 gift certificates!

Would you like to increase your chances of winning one of these fabulous gift certificates? Purchase a new package in February and you will have additional entries for the drawing...

Package A: 5 referrals for $45 = 2 entries

Package B: 15 referrals for $130 = 5 entries

Package C: 25 referrals for $215 = 10 entries!!

Plus if you purchase Package C this month it will be discounted additionally to $205 AND you will receive 10 entries to the Appleby Photography gift certificate giveaway!

What Did You Say?

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.

Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

Winston Churchill

Over the years, we have used this blog as a way to update our clients and friends about what is happening with the studio and our family. We love when someone mentions a post in our personal conversations with them because we are thrilled to know that people are interested in our on-goings. It hadn't occurred to us that we were having a monologue, when we should be having a dialogue. That’s when we realized that blogs are typically set up to accept feedback and comments, and that all these years, that option was turned off on our blog. So, now we available for a conversation. Go ahead, we’re listening!