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Holiday Cards Made Easy!

Oh My Goodness!  I don’t know about you, but Thanksgiving has really snuck up on us!  What a joy to get together with family and see how much the cousins have grown and to fellowship with family that we only see once a year.

It’s also that time of year that we ponder our year and put together a Christmas letter and family photo to send out to family and friends.  I truly love this time of year to also ponder our Lord and Saviour as our True gift for the season!

Do you send out Christmas Cards?  Is it easy and fun to do or is it a daunting task ?

This is what our Christmas Letter/Card Sending process use to look like:

  • Take a family photo or use one that turned out good that year
  • Order Christmas Photo cards from Costco
  • Write a Christmas Letter
  • Buy Holiday stationary and print out Christmas Letters
  • Buy Christmas stamps (this includes a trip to the post office…with 4 kids in tow, unless I can get Kevin to do it!)
  • Stuff, Stamp and Address envelopes (something that would take me a couple of evenings to do!)  OH-YA!  I’d also put stickers on the outside of the envelopes.
  • Drive to post office with 4 kids in tow and mail Christmas Cards.

Whew….  that just seems like a lot of work!  And it WAS… (and time and money)  But we did it anyhow, because we thought it was important.

This is what our Christmas Letter/Card Sending process looks like now:

  • Take a family photo or use one that turned out good that year
  • Log into SendOutCards and Create a Card:

Upload family photo, write Christmas letter, upload another photo of the kids

  • Choose who to send the card to and Click Send.

Done! I can go back to my holiday cookie baking and spending time with my husband in the evenings!  AND they turn out Beautifully!  I am always impressed!

Is something that you would be interested in too?

SendOutCards (SOC) has been a part of our lives for over 2 years now.  I LOVE THIS SYSTEM!  Why?  You might ask.  It has made this area of my life Simple and Easy by providing a way to send a card in minutes without having to address an envelope, find a stamp and run to the mailbox.   See examples HERE.

Holiday Card Sending is just one of the convenient features of SendOutCards.  A few of my other favorite features include:

  1. The Reminder System >> I get an email reminder about 7 days prior to a Birthday, Anniversary etc… with a quick link to go create and send a card!
  2. The ability to fill up a card with photos of the kids and send it to long distance family! (Grandparents)  No more sending digital photos to Fred Meyers to pick up and then send!  I love this!
  3. Creating Memoirs of family vacations and events!  The easy way to “scrapbook”!  I just create a card with photos of our adventure and send the card to myself.  All for less than $2.50!
  4. The ability to follow a prompting that might be telling me to send a Thank You or Thinking Of You card to someone special in my life.  Without SOC, this wouldn’t be a simple and easy thing to do.  With SOC, I can get a card send in just a few minutes.  That’s powerful!
  5. OH-Ya… and I have my own Handwriting Font and Signature that I can use!  You can’t get more personal than that!

And my most FAVORITE feature ~

SOC stuffs, stamps and sends my cards for me!! And all for less than what I would pay for a Hallmark greeting card at the store…much less.  This equals Simplicity and Ease as a full-time Wife and Homeschooling Mom!

Are you listening yet?  he,he

If you would like to learn more about the SendOutCards system, watch this short video:

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You can easily get started with SendOutCards today!  It’s super easy and affordable too!

Just give me a quick email or call me.  I’d be happy to show you the system!  OR click one of the photo cards below:




From My Family To Yours,

Amy Jo

(541) 479-7775

naturalhealthmom@gmail.com

Taking The Time

Ya know, sometimes life just gets overwhelming…  Laundry is piling up, the never-ending dishes to wash, meals to prepare, home schooling to teach, diapers to change, bathrooms to clean… the list could go on and on!  Sometimes, I am blessed to get an afternoon to myself (or the baby is taking an extra long nap) and I get into this Mad Dash to get things done!  I’m such a person of completion, that I LOVE IT!

The downside to this is that I have a tendency to just do things myself and not let the kids help out or get involved.  I know…that taking the time and energy to train and do a task together with your children is rewarding and pays off in the end…  These past few years, as the children are getting older, I have retrained myself to slow down and let them help.  It’s been so rewarding to share in the simple chores of daily life and is pretty darn EXCITING when the dishwasher gets unloaded or the bathroom is cleaned by someone else!

Yesterday, I had on my list of things to do:  Wash The Horses! After a summer of playing, their white tails are not so white anymore and it was 90 degrees out!  So, NO excuses to get this task done…

Here is a glimpse of our afternoon together taking care of the horses >>

We had such a BLAST!  We talked about our responsibility of taking care of our pets and how much fun we had this summer playing with the horses!  It’s a time that they will remember…  and I will too, when they are all grown up and on their own.  hmmm…this time will go by so fast…  Let’s make the MOST of every opportunity!

Do YOU ever feel like just doing your “list” yourself?  I’d love to hear from you!

From Our Family To Yours,

Amy Jo

A Merry Heart Brings Healing

Do you have a Merry heart? Is it tough to be Joyful these days? Did you know that a merry heart can bring healing to the bones?  It’s TRUE!  So…how do we get that merry heart when it’s been “one of those days”?

This is taken from Dr. Don Colbert’s book, “What You Don’t Know May Be Killing You” and it’s been fascinating to see what he says about Emotional Health.  Our mindset is a major key towards physical health!   So how do we obtain that happy heart?  Read on…

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