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Nearly Wordless Wednesday – Why Being A Mom of 3 Is My Special Occasion

August 17, 2011 By
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At BlogHer, Hallmark had a booth in the Expo Hall with these shirts to customize and then they took your picture for a virtual mosaic. I stood there for a minute, thinking about what exactly in my life is a special occasion, and the answer came pretty quickly. Chris and I were sure we didn't want kids, maybe because we were still kids ourselves when we first started dating. Neither of us had any experience at all with babies, and when we tried to imagine ourselves as parents, we just couldn't, so we agreed that kids were not in our future. And then I had an unplanned pregnancy that ended in a blighted ovum, and I realized with much shock that I had actually been excited about having a baby, and it turned out Chris knew just how I felt, and a year later, Ryan was born. From not wanting kids at all to having THREE of them, and doing a pretty okay job of raising them, makes the fact that I'm a Mom of 3 a special occasion every day! And so, the caption on the shirt :) … [Read more...]

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Hallmark Edge of Motherhood Cards Giveaway

September 27, 2009 By
Edge of Motherhood Card

This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the three winners chosen by random.org: 1. Comment #1 by Monica from 3 Crazy Monkeys 2. Comment #36 by Ginny of Mom of 2 Dancers Reviews 3. Comment #13 by Anne of Forever A Younger Congratulations! When I visited Hallmark headquarters earlier this year, we were shown a potential new line of cards that was so top-secret, we had to agree not to tell anyone.  We stood in front of racks of cards, just like the racks you see in Hallmark stores, and picked out our favorite cards from this new line, then went around the table and talked about which cards we picked and who we would give them to. Well, I guess they liked our feedback, because now the line of cards is in stores! It's called Edge of Motherhood, and it's cards for those moments in a Mom's life that only another Mom could really understand.  You know, like those days when you need to get to an appointment or to work and the baby dumps a bowl of cereal on their head, or … [Read more...]

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What I Learned At Hallmark

April 14, 2009 By
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My trip to the Kansas City, Missouri home of Hallmark was brief but packed with information. It's a beautiful city and I wish I had been able to do more exploring there.  Our day started bright and early with a trip to the Hallmark Visitor's Center.  We learned about founder Joyce C. Hall, who came to Kansas City for business college. He had been helping his older brothers run a bookstore that also sold postcards, and he continued selling postcards by mail-order.  His brother joined him in 1911 and by 1915, they began producing greeting cards in envelopes. The name "Hallmark" came from both a play on the name Hall and the word for quality. According to a google search I did, a place called Goldsmith's Hall marked gold and silver coins with a mark meaning high quality. Thus, the coins got a "Hall Mark".  A Hallmark product means high quality! A few interesting tidbits I jotted down in my notebook- in 1928, Hallmark introduced "Greetaphone" cards, which I learned … [Read more...]

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