Hello there! This is Tami Morrison for Big Picture Scrapbooking. I am here to ask all you moms out there in scrapbook land, are you feeling the heat this summer, 'cause I'm feeling the heat! The heat to make the 11 or so weeks of summer vacation fun, memorable, meaningful, and somewhat educational for my kids. While I'm at it, I would also like them to be too engaged in constructive activities to bicker with each other or to watch too much TV or to spend all day playing video games or to tell me there is nothing to eat and they're bored, and I'd like them to go back to school with interesting and impressive things to write about when their teacher gives them that "what I did over the summer assignment". You know, the kind of stuff that just basically makes me look like Super Mom - no pressure right?

I really do love when my kids are out of school for the summer and our schedule is more relaxed. We get to hang out in our jammies all morning and play board games or spend the afternoon at the pool, but even though we have a ton of fun together and I wouldn't trade it, it can be a huge challenge to keep them entertained over the summer, especially in these economic times when I know our family has had to cut back on a lot of our summer activities and vacation plans. And then there is the fact that having the kids home all day and up later at night means very little "me" time which is why summer is my least productive scrapbooking season of all, and all that is why I created this new summer class for moms and kids.

In Kidding Around, A Mom and Me Scrapbooking Escapade, you get to share your love of scrapbooking with your scrappy little sidekicks and carve out a little bit of creative time for yourself while you're at it. The kids will get three fun assignments of their very own every week to keep them occupied, there will be a summer fun activity, a journaling prompt and a photography assignment, making a total of three pages each week. While they are busy doing that, you moms will get your very own weekly page prompt along with some tips for streamlining the scrapbooking process so you can make the most of what little scrapbooking time you have. You will squeeze some scrapbooking into your crazy summer schedule and get to spend some quality time sharing something you love with your kids, and the kids will make fun memories and create a really special kid's-eye-view keepsake of their summer, so it's a win-win. This class is perfect for kids of all ages, from preschool on up through elementary school, and even beyond that if you have kids beyond elementary school age who will still do what you tell them to do. I personally have never had one like that, but you might. We moms have got to stick together like glue when it comes to surviving summer vacation, right? So I hope you will join me and my kids in Kidding Around, A Mom and Me Scrapbooking Escapade, it's going to be BIG fun!