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Lid labels are removable, personalized messages that go on the adjustable portion of your hat.
Change your message without changing your hat. 

Attract new customers, increase sales, or expand your product or service audience
Use Lid Labels to achieve goals in your advertising campaign.
Promote awareness for causes with Lid Labels

Are you one of those individuals that follows 3-4 different sports and they are all going on during the same season? Lid Labels provides the fan support you need. Wear any adjustable hat displaying your favorite sport, team or player and add a Lid Label to expand or diversify your support.

Represent one sport or team on the front and another on the back! Change of season, change your message with Lid Labels.

Identification: if wearing a hat is standard dress code in a specific sports or occupations use a lid label to identify by name or team. This can be achieved by customizing the text as well as color of the label.

We can put just about anything on your Lid Label. If you want more than what is available on the site please email sales@lidlabels.com for your custom order or wholesale order

a simple inexpensive child Birthday Theme

A simple inexpensive way to celebrate your Children s Birthday.

Some parents will have catered events, rent a room and others will simply have the party at their home. Have a party at your home and give it a theme. Its easy and inexpensive, especially when the party follows a huge blizzard and some people may not be able to make it. This year for our sons first birthday we created a "nautical theme". See all the Photos for this theme here

ALL PHOTOS FROM PARTY THEME

Total Cost: included Cost of Paper Goods and Cake, which came to about $87
You can do much of the work yourself and it doesn't take a very creative person. Get ideas online or from friends. We purchased some of the paper goods from Oriental Trading

The Nautical Theme cake cost $37 and very tasty and easy to order from our local Stop and Shop. You can visit The Bake Shop

Ideas for Birthday Parties

Going More Natural at the Supermarket – The Next Step: Do Your Best to Avoid GMOs!

Going More Natural at the Supermarket – The Next Step: Do Your Best to Avoid GMOs!

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Raising Kids Naturally

Raising Natural Kids provides parents with the resources that they need to make informed decisions regarding their children, specifically focusing on raising children in healthy environments that will benefit their overall well-being.

Really, Happy New Year? or Maybe not

Happy New Year!? People seem to get very excited about the "New Years”. I really don’t quite get it because to me everyday is a “new” opportunity to achieve greatness. I understand it is an opportunity to spend time with family and friends. I spent many New Years up in the mountains of Maine snowboarding with my husband and friends. Since having children (2.5 yrs old and 1 year) we stay local, order in and watch a children’s movie and well write blogs once the kids go to bed. I suppose I could use this time to reflect on the past year but reflecting is something I practice daily. I don’t require a change in the year to make me go back and think about how my year went. It is important to constantly be reflecting and learning from previous actions. So yes, “Happy New Year”!

Losing Special Education Services when its your child..

Losing Special Education Services

My son Caden has/had torticollis and wound up needing to wear a helmet for 3 months due to a flat spot on the back of his skull. This helmet was just for cosmetic issues but we felt it was necessary. Caden also needed physical therapy to help with the torticollis. He was not symmetrical in his gross motor skills. He entered physical therapy in June 2013 and continues therapy. Wearing the helmet set him back physically because of the weight of the helmet. Caden rolled over late, and struggled with weight baring on each side equally. He still isn’t crawling yet (10 months old), but he’s working on it!

It is important to note that I am a special education administrator (Team Chairperson). I run IEP's (Individual Education Programs) meetings and our Team determines if a student has a disability and whether or not the student qualifies for special education.  One would think that the hard conversations are surrounded by telling parents that there child has a disability. This is rarely the case. The more difficult conversation is telling the parents that there child no longer has a disability and as a result does not qualify for special education services.

You may ask WHY? Well special education is not what it used to be. IEPs are highly prevalent in classrooms and parents feel confident that their children are supported when they are on an IEP.  So when the Team tells a parent there child will no longer be in IEP many parents begin to get nervous that their child may not do as well in school. 

I bring up my job because at my son’s last PT session the Physical Therapist told me that she probably only needs to see him one more time. There was a part of me that freaked out a bit because although it is difficult getting him there late at night after a full day, I am always reassured that Caden is getting services and that an expert is watching over his development.  It was then that I finally could relate to the parents who worry when their child doesn't qualify for special education services.  My son will have another PT session in three weeks and may possibly be discharged. As I always tell my parents, “An IEP is not a prison sentence; the goal is to come off the IEP and be able to implement the learned strategies independently”.  I am an empathetic person and have always tried to put my feet in other people’s shoes. However, everything changes when you have a child. You really do understand where other people are coming from.

I know plenty of very successful people today who were on an IEP growing up as children. Anything is possible!

Mommy attacks bucket list training for marathon

February 23, 2014 I will begin to cross items off my bucketlist! I am registered for the Hyannis Full Marathon which is 26.2 miles around the town of Hyannis in Cape Cod, MA. I was registered one other time for this race, before marriage, two kids and a doctorate degree. I was having severe issues with my feet (that can be a blog all by itself) and wasn’t able to run for a long time. I am healthier than ever thanks to Nutritional Cleansing and am eager to conquer this challenging task. I began my training this week. I started it off with a very “Happy” race called the color run in Providence, RI. I ran this very colorful 5K race with family and friends. I’ve never seen people more happy to run a race before.    This was my friend Kevin’s first race ever so it was excellent to be part of this exciting event. Two days later I ran 6 mile around Falmouth, MA. I felt tired after a long day of getting kids off to daycare and running IEP meetings all day but I did it running about 9.5 minute miles. This use to be a good pace for me back in the day. However, since getting into shape and getting control of my nutrition this is now a slower pace for me. I’m not worried; I’m excited to improve and move forward. 17.5 weeks to go!