You try to make summer fun. Camps, beach visits, playdates, the park… All of this only makes you more overwhelmed.

Why should your kid have all the fun?

If you don’t focus on your own fun starting NOW, you’ll end up ripping your hair out while day drinking far too often, yelling at your children, and looking back at the season as another check on the list of disappointingly crappy summers since you became a mom.

>> Spending lots of time and effort planning a vacation that only lasts a week {and requires a vacation just to plan and a vacation to get over.} <<<

>> Overscheduling playdates that make everyone exhausted, brain dead and sunburned by the end of each day {at least your kids are sleeping through the night though, right?}<<<

>> Buying a bunch of self-help books that inspire you {but stay in the bottom of your beach bag collecting sand while you stay stressed out.} <<<

>>> Going on a girls’ weekend {that leaves you wanting to never come home and makes you more resentful of your kids when you realize you have to return.}<<<

This is me.

I used to try to read all the blogs, do all the crafts, go to all the playdates, enroll my kids in enriching activities…All in a effort to be more fun.

It didn’t make me more fun. It didn’t make me a better mom. Instead, it was making me disappear.

As a Lamaze instructor and life coach, I’ve been supporting by women who find themselves disappearing in motherhood since 2009.

The biggest compliment that I get from the moms I support is, “Your honesty, approachability, and ability to help me take action helped me make my life less heavy, more lighthearted and more fulfilling.”

This motherhood thing is hard. And what sucks even more is that you’re not having any fun doing it. You’re afraid that you don’t even know what fun is anymore. There. I said it.

I’m pretty fantastic at being the kick in the butt you need to take action instead of just dreaming about having fun.

Join The MYP Virtual Summer Camp.

3 months of virtual summer camp {in your PJs!}.

It’s all online through the simple Make Your Perfect membership site, with a support group on Facebook.

{You can do this in your bathing suit in the backyard with an iced coffee while watching the kids frolic in the sprinkler.}

The Format: 3 months, 3 “sessions”

The Schedule: Do a “camp” task for 10 minutes a day

• Member website to access resources – Go online with a purpose instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media.
• Coloring sheets that double as journal pages to help you find your fun – Instantly transform your mindset and get more creative without even thinking about it.
• A private FB support group: it’s like your own summer camp bunk! – Build connections that feed your inner woman instead of sucking your energy with faux fun.
• Monthly live calls to talk about real-life challenges and successes – Tap into the giddy feeling you had at childhood sleepovers–happiness, lightheartedness and fulfillment. Only this time you find it within yourself so that the external circumstances of your busy life no longer make you feel like you’re drowning.
• Surprises along the way to make camp even more fun – guided meditations, cocktail recipes, reading lists, contests and challenges. Plus, a talent show to kick things off! {I’m not even kidding. This is CAMP, ladies. We’re making it fun!}

1. A FREE printable copy of Make Your Perfect: A Coloring Journal {which is available on Amazon for $12.99}
2. Excerpts from my romance novel for moms {Yep, that’s right… because you need something FUN on your summer reading list}

=> What if I literally have NO time to myself during the day?

That’s ok. This program is designed for moms by a busy mom–I know what it’s like to try to fit more things into your already crowded day, and to do it while you’re feeding little ones, dealing with tantrums and changing diapers.

=> I don’t have time to take a course or class.

Everything you do during this summer camp can be done in less than 10 minutes a day.

=> I am drowning just trying to keep my kids alive. I can’t even bring myself to take time to go to the bathroom or make myself food. How will I have time to do this course?

The orientation session is all about making space in your life. Everyone has it; most of us are just so entrenched in the stress and overwhelm that we have no idea how to access it. The Virtual Summer Camp will teach you how to access this.

=> Having more fun this summer just sounds like something else to put on my to-do list.

That’s one of the perspectives that keeps you from having fun. In Virtual Summer Camp, you’ll learn how to find fun within the life you already have–not put big commitments or more tasks on your already full calendar.

=> I don’t have a printer. How can I print all of the fun resources that you include in the program?

You have 3 options:

1. Go to Kinko’s and print it out.
2. Simply use a journal, notebook paper, or whatever instead of the journal sheets I provide you.
3. Email me. I will print it out and send it to you myself. Seriously. I don’t want you to miss out on this!!

=> Having fun all the time sounds unrealistic. I don’t think it’s possible to run around with a smile on myself all the time.

Remember when you were a teenager and you broke up with a boyfriend? You would spend hours in your room listening to sad mix tapes and crying. Fun isn’t necessarily about smiles and laughter. Fun isn’t necessarily about playing with your kids. Fun isn’t what you might think it is. Fun is about feeling fulfilled and truly living.

Struggles can revitalize you. Solving problems can be fun. Living involves lots of emotions, not just joy. Feeling all of those emotions can be fun in its own way.

The Virtual Summer Camp will help you be ok with all of the emotions that come with motherhood.

=> Life is just a struggle right now. I can’t imagine that trying to have fun is going to be possible.

Believe it or not, there are moms out there who do have fun even with their kids at home all day, who work full-time, who were at a point once where fun just wasn’t possible. Imagine if all of us mothers were walking around miserable all of the time. Every single one of us? No way. The world wouldn’t survive.

It is possible to have fun as a mother. And it’s not just the moms whose kids are out of the house or who have money for a nanny and a personal chef or who don’t have any other problems or to-dos in their lives who find this fun. It’s possible for ALL OF US.

Life is a series of struggles. Without them, it would be boring. We work to help you pay attention to the meaningful struggles and overcome them so that you feel consistently successful and fulfilled and don’t spend time spinning your wheels on the struggles that aren’t really important anyway.

=> I can’t afford to spend money on myself right now.

I get it. I just spent $1,350 fixing a car I bought in December. I understand being tapped out financially.

But ask yourself this: Can you afford NOT to do this for yourself right now? Can you afford to muddle through another summer feeling overwhelmed, heavy-hearted and kind of hating yourself and your kids?

=> Can I do this if I’m a working mom, or is it just for stay-at-home moms?

This program is designed for ALL moms. You know how busy you are, whether you work or not. You need space. In your brain and in your life. Everything we do can be done in 10 minutes a day, so it’s ideal for a working mom.