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Nordic Naturals What’s Essential School Supplies Giveaway Starts Today

September 20, 2013 By Maryann

Nordic Naturals® “What’s Essential™ School Supplies Giveaway” Opens 9/20/13 —

One Lucky School To Win $3,000 to Spend on School Supplies

Watsonville, CA (September 20, 2013) Committed to giving each generation what it needs to grow healthy, Nordic Naturals® announces the “What’s Essential™ School Supplies Giveaway” where one school will win $3,000 to spend on school supplies. Plus, the first 500 schools entered and verified will receive a copy of Pat Wyman’s Amazing Grades!, 101 Best Ways to Improve Your Grades Faster for their school library.

Starting September 20, 2013 and ending October 31, 2013, anyone can nominate a school in the What’s Essential School Supplies Giveaway. Grade schools, middle schools, and high schools are eligible to win. In November, one school will be randomly chosen via Rafflecopter and receive a check for $3,000.

HOW TO ENTER A SCHOOL: Entrants will be asked to provide the following information on the School Supplies Giveaway app on Nordic Naturals’ Facebook. See https://www.facebook.com/nordicnaturals/app_523808254368413.

¡ Name, address and phone number of their favorite school within the 50 states or Washington DC

¡ School level (grade school, middle, or high school)

¡ Name of person submitting the entry

¡ Relationship to the school (faculty, parent, employee, friend, etc.)

¡ Contact information

Each person may enter their favorite school only once, but more than one person can nominate a school. Families and faculty are encouraged to get the word out to their communities. The more nominations a school receives, the greater its chances of winning.

Amazing Grades! 101 Best Ways to Improve Your Grades Faster by Pat Wyman from HowtoLearn.com is a one-of-a-kind multimedia book that offers the latest strategies to achieve academic goals in three learning styles—visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. It includes videos, audio mp3 files of each chapter, and tactile/kinesthetic learning style methods from 101 of the world’s best-selling authors and learning experts in 13 countries. Amazing Grades! contains information for students, teachers and parents.

Based in Watsonville, CA, Nordic Naturals is committed to delivering the world’s safest, most effective omega oils to help provide the essentials of an extraordinary life. Distributing to more than 35 countries, Nordic Naturals offers more than 150 products in a variety of flavors and formulations, all in line with leading standards for safety, efficacy, and sustainability. By providing omega oil supplements for adults, kids, athletes, and pets, Nordic Naturals helps everyone do more of what they love. Further information is available at www.nordicnaturals.com. Nordic Naturals is on Facebook at www.facebook.com/nordicnaturals and people can follow the company on Twitter at @NordicNaturals.

How My Boys Devoured Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers

September 13, 2013 By Maryann

Disclosure: “The Del Monte products, information and two gift packs have been provided by Del Monte.”

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The other day I was given two boxes of Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers to try out. I suspected my boys would like them because they love all those applesauce based squeeze pouches. Each Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers box contained 4 pouches, and of course I have 3 boys. Do the math, that is 8 pouches total and 8 is NOT divisible by 3!

I wanted to save a few of the Fruit Burst Squeezers for my older sons’ lunches, so I opened one each of the apple cinnamon and the blueberry squeezers. I have to say I LOVED the blueberry one. Wow, that one tasted just like fresh blueberries. Interestingly that one also contains carrot puree. I thought it was just delicious. And apparently so did my boys.

They also like the apple cinnamon but I felt the cinnamon was too strong for me. But overall these were very well received since the boys absolutely decimated both boxes within 2 days! I was trying to save the boxes to show you pictures of the pouches but fuhgeddaboudit! It was not to be.

Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers come in 5 flavors.

About Fruit Burst™ Squeezers

Made in the U.S.A., Del MonteFruit Burst™ Squeezers contain 1 ½ servings of fruit or fruit and veggies and are an excellent source of vitamins A and C. In addition, Del Monte Fruit Burst™ Squeezers contain no artificial flavors or high fructose corn syrup.

Fruit + Veggie Varieties:

–          Peach-Mango: Pear puree concentrate, water, pumpkin juice concentrate, peach puree concentrate, pear juice concentrate, carrot juice concentrate, carrot puree, mango puree concentrate, natural flavors, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), citric acid.

–          Blueberry: Pear puree concentrate, water, pumpkin juice concentrate, pear juice concentrate, natural flavors, carrot puree, blueberry puree concentrate, fruit and vegetable extracts for color, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), citric acid.

Simply Fruit Varieties:

–          Apple Cinnamon: Pear puree concentrate, water, apple puree concentrate, pear juice concentrate, natural flavors, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), cinnamon, malic acid.

–          Mixed Berry: Pear puree concentrate, water, pear juice concentrate, natural flavors, strawberry puree, red raspberry puree concentrate, blueberry puree concentrate, fruit and vegetable extracts for color, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), malic acid.

–          Strawberry: Pear puree concentrate, water, pear juice concentrate, strawberry puree concentrate, natural flavors, carmine, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), malic acid.

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“The Del Monte products, information and two gift packs have been provided by Del Monte.”

My latest watercolor

September 5, 2013 By Maryann

I have really gotten into painting watercolors. Here are a few I wanted to share. The Orchids are not finished yet.

The Bane of My Existence Or The PTA Budget

August 29, 2013 By Maryann

For some unknown reason I have decided to be the new PTA President for our elementary school. “Why would you do such as thing”, you may ask. Well, you see, I have very new neighbors and the mother had expressed an interest in joining the PTA Board. I had already joined said board as the Secretary. New neighbor had wanted to be the Secretary, so I said “Take the Secretary position and I will take one of the others.” Well, the only “other” position left was the presidency. So I took it. I’m not bright.

Now, as the new PTA President (with as it so happens, a 100% new board) I have to help come up with the new budget. Since none of us have done this before we don’t really know what all the line items mean. And I don’t really know how much to expect to make. Or how much we will spend. Anyway, I have worked that budget over several times and have submitted it to my board for them to review. Each time they come back with more questions. Questions I can’t answer. At least not easily.

Dear Lord, I just want to get a decent budget put together and voted upon so I can move on to my next set of duties. Back to School Night and Back to School Bingo!I pray next year will be easier since I’m gonna know a lot more.

If you see a headline in the newspaper about the PTA President abdicating her “throne” you will know it was me!