Winter's Finally Here!

Happy Monday Friends!

It's the day before spring starts and winter just got here - looks like Mother Nature is running late. Yesterday Dave, Mason and I ran up the hill to The Monte Vista in Dutch Flat, it was a winter wonderland! We stayed just long enough to have a hot chocolate, make and throw a few snow balls and then headed home to have hot soup and fresh bread for dinner.


It is looking like we won't get to see my WalMart commercial. The "Take the Challenge" campaign is based on real time so they shoot a commercial on Monday, quick edit and it airs on Wednesday. On Sunday I came across a full page add in the Sacramento Bee showing copies of the grocery receipts for Safeway and WalMart with the exact same items on them and then a photo of the "real mom" shopper in the upper corner. My spot being shot on 2/27 had aged and all the prices had changed so even though I had the biggest percentage of savings ($262 at Safeway to $154 at WalMart - exact same items), it didn't run. It was used however to roll the campaign out to all the WalMart management at their national conference in Orlando, FL the week of 3/5. I have asked for a copy of the piece and to this point, I have one no and one no-answer. Que-Sera-Sera, that's the way it goes sometimes, but it was disappointing for sure.


Mason got a great report card - academically he is excelling. He is reading at a 4th grade level (almost 5th), and his math is on par with that accellerated level as well. His teacher has suggested we will be approached about putting him in the GATE program but we'll have to see what that entails when the time comes. On the flip side of the coin, he is still not following rules at school and pushing the boundaries at every turn (I know, you all are saying, "I wonder who he gets that from?!"). He may indeed get that from me and sadly, he is going to get in more trouble and miss more field trips. Dang hard heads (his and mine)! Other than that bit of news, just school and life as we know it.



What about you, anything new?