Exploring the World and loving it!

The world is a wonderful place to explore!  There are so many fun things to see and do with friends and family.  I recently had a wonderful experience of going with 7 friends to Kauai, Hawaii and spending a week at the beach, in the jungle hiking to hidden waterfalls and tasting new foods.  Thanks  goes to my husband for holding down the fort while I played.  I tell everyone about this experience for 2 reasons.  

1. I think that best way to help your children be a "whole" person is to be a "whole" person yourself.  Although I am a mom and wife-which I love and wouldn't trade, it was wonderful to just be Michelle for a week.  It was so fun to practice a lipsync until 2 in the morning.  It was fun to laugh and giggle over wrong turns and a lot of inside jokes!

2. As I stated before, this world is a great big place with wonderful places to explore.  Even if you can't go to Hawaii, you can help your children explore the world around them.  It is spring and the flowers are starting to bloom-unless you are in Utah and then Mother Nature played an awful April fool's joke and create a huge snow storm.  

But I do know that Spring is starting soon and we just need be excited for our children and help them notice that life is fun and worth enjoying.

My seasonal kits are awesome to help you enjoy every minute you can with your children.  Take time to show that 

"In all of living have much fun and laughter. 

 Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."

by Gordon B. Hinckley

Thinking outside the box with Valentines

I love to create and think outside the box.  Usually my ideas are simple yet also original. For example:

 Let me tell you about a recent outing with my daughter Cassandra.  

In the beginning of February, my daughter Cassandra wanted to make a special Valentine box for her school party.  The kit that we were going to buy was sold out.  As a result, we decided to walk around Michael's craft store and find another craft to keep her busy and a cute box for valentine cards.  

We came up with the perfect solution.  We bought a simple wood bucket to paint and decorate.  Cassandra also loves turtles.  We painted the bucket a bright pink and glued turtles and hearts on the side.  We also bought matching ribbon and attached a sign that said

"My Heart Belongs to Turtles"

Like I said before, a simple solution, but a cute one.  The bucket has a great handle and classmates can drop the Valentine in the bucket instead of trying to put it into a small opening of a box.  

Good luck coming up with your own creative project!

We are up and running

Hi Friends- I feel that this is finally starting to come together!!
My great friend Lisa and I spent all day Saturday at the Successful Mothering Convention.

It was great to see the enthusiasm of the young mothers for my new product-

Minutes With Me-Winter Edition

I think what people liked the most was that it was simple, creative and organized.

If you are interested in a party and want to earn free product-just contact me.

I also had people interested in coming in on the ground floor and being educational consultants.Just let me know how I can help you, your friends or your place of employment become success parents.

I loved meeting the moms at the convention. It is wonderful to know that there are so many moms that want the best for their children.

Good luck with the program for those that bought it.

A start for the new year

The reason you are probably reading this is because my website isn't up and running yet.  Hopefully soon is will be.  Although my website isn't running yet, still know that I have an awesome new product.

5 years ago, I self-published a book on lesson plans for mothers.  The Utah Commission for Women and Families printed 500 copies, but because of the funding, they all had to be given away for free. 

 I was also asked to speak at the University of Utah at the Belle Spafford Birthday Celebration.  It was highlight for me to study about this remarkable woman and be associated with her Endowment at the University of Utah. 

 Because of this positive feedback and 

 a little bit of "market research", I decided that my book needed to be designed into a full product line.  I have designed the product line to be set up in seasons.  Currently I am offering the winter kit.  It covers December, January and February.  

Although the winter kit is almost done for this year, you will still want to have access to it.  To make the most of this product line, you will want to have all 4 seasons.

The Minutes with Me seasonal kit is a great 1 time purchase 

that your family will enjoy forever. 

It not only gives you lasting memories, educational ideas and quality time together, 

it also helps you organize all of your files for easy use with your family.

Please contact me if you would like to purchase the kits. 

 Also know that I give group discounts and 

work/life balance Corporate discounts. 

 I am also looking for presenters to help educate parents 

on this new line of products designed just for them.  

Good commission is available for this new start-up.    

This weekend I will be at the Successful Mothering Convention in  Sandy, Utah.  

I look foward to meeting all of you and sharing my vision of motherhood with you.

A New Blog-2009

As you can tell, I am very new to blogging.  I am a entrepreneur with a great new product.  I was trying to combine my love of motherhood and creative aspirations together.  But, I have decided to do 2 blogs.  This blog-ShelliCheri.blogspot.com  will be more creative ideas for the readers and the other blog-MBKendallfamily.blogspot.com will be more personal for my family.  

I can tell that 2009 is going to be an awesome year!!

Merry Christmas to me

For Christmas, I asked for a Panini Maker and to set up a blog. It is amazing how easy it is to set up a blog. I should have asked for something else!! Well, our family had a wonderful Christmas. It was a white Christmas with a little bit too much snow for my liking, but I had a relaxing day enjoying my family. I am excited to start this blog and to keep a history of my family and share my ideas for my new business- ShelliCheri-The art of Motherhood.
For starters I would like to discuss a few things about my business.
1st- The name is Shelli Cheri. Shelli is short for Michelle and Cheri is my middle name. Cheri is french and pronounced-sheree, not cherry.
2nd- I don't have all the answers and I am far from a perfect mom, but I do enjoy being a mom and I think it is one of the most important jobs a woman will ever do in her life. For this purpose I have researched motherhood, the statistics and ideas to make it more enjoyable.
I think that this is enough information to share right now. Since this is a Christmas gift, I am sure I will be updating this information frequently at the beginning.