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The Great Escape: Fun at Home

No time to get out and about? Not to worry. Grab your laptop and click around these sites to clear your head for a mini-escape.

The kids are finally napping, two hours to dinner, and the exertion of gardening or scrap-booking is just not what you had in mind? Make a warm cup of tea and surf the Internet for mom blogs, local deals, or window shopping. It just might be the thing to help you clear your head, relax, and enjoy your "mom-only" time.

Check out these sites for some child-free serenity:

1. Santeemom.com: This website offers a special guide to being a mom in your community, Santee. It has listings of family friendly business, an event calendar for local going-ons, and Kids Eat Free section to guide your discount hunt. Staying local? Try out this site.

2. Womenshealthmag.com: Talk about a website just for women! Here it is. With sections specializing in fitness, relationships, weight loss, health, beauty and style, and a daily prize sweepstakes, this might be the site for you to lose the stressful thoughts and discover some fun and exciting habits. This magazine and website often feature articles on new trends for women's health including hiking, biking, surfing, paddle-boarding, and swimming. Here's to the adventurous woman.

3. Ideeli.com: Ever want to walk into one of those extremely expensive designer stores and try something on? Afraid of having a "Pretty Woman" moment like Julia Roberts on Rodeo Drive? Now, thanks to the Internet and Ideeli.com, we can all access the designer sales. Boasting the best of the best, like BCBG, Charles David, and Magaschoni, couture or designer dresses, skirts, pants, and tops are available to the public at normal prices. Usually twice the price tag in a retail store, this website offers the best of the best, mailed straight to your door, after your shop and click away. If that doesn't clear your head, we're not sure what will. Plus, who says you have to purchase? Window shopping is perfectly acceptable. Drool away at all the sales.

Have some fun at home- perhaps the best location in Santee to "escape" or relax.

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Just a short thought to get the word out quickly about anything in your neighborhood.
Share something with your neighbors. Write a new post... What's up? Make an announcement, speak your mind, or sell something
Steven Bartholow (Editor) May 16, 2013 at 03:53 pm
Thanks for posting this. I also added this to our events list. In the future I suggest posting anRead More announcement and event for maximum exposure- http://santee.patch.com/posts/event/new Good luck with the fundraiser!
RainWaterSystems May 17, 2013 at 10:58 am
That's awesome! We wish you success and recovery. We suggest two books; A Purpose Driven Life byRead More Rick Warren and Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill. I hope to be in a position to hire a salesman this fall.
Steven Bartholow (Editor) May 16, 2013 at 10:34 am
Anyone else recommend a Santee family owned business that's outside the city?
Retha Knight May 17, 2013 at 11:05 pm
Where do you type what you want to view, like "Quail Brush"?
Steven Bartholow (Editor) May 17, 2013 at 10:01 am
No drop down menus, just click the header links for more options. For story categories click newsRead More and look on the left hand column. I know the redesign will take a bit to get used to, but I really think it will be a better site for community engagement, and easier to use. Feel free to post your feedback to the redesign on the boards, I'll check it out and respond, but you might also send your feedback straight to Patch headquarters with this form- http://feedback.aol.com/rs/rs.php?sid=patch Engineers will be furiously tweeking the new site based on your suggestions.
Retha Knight May 17, 2013 at 06:40 am
The new format from my iPad is very boring. Where are the drop down menus?
Mike Walker April 23, 2013 at 01:20 pm
this is why the battlefield has changed temporarily from the political arena to the Energy Arena.Read More Co Gen Tricks and the usual suspects are making their big money bet on two inevitable facts that will force the hand of the CPUC and CEC to place a new gas power plant somewhere in the area. 1) the Electric Vehicle Mandate. 2) voltage support (power factor) needed by the industrial wind and solar farms in the desert. There is more to what meets the eye with the aggressive push by the usual suspects to cover our open spaces in the East County with these poorly sited RE projects. More wind and solar farms means more gas power plants. There is only one way to fight the destruction of our open spaces, and that is with roof top solar, conservation, energy efficiency and community owned energy districts. The fisrt thing that needs to be done is the City of Santee exempt residential scale PV installs from needing a building permit. Australia, Germany and the State of Vermont do not require a Building Permit to install PV.
Retha Knight April 23, 2013 at 03:48 am
Well said Stephen! Knowledge is TRULY power! The fight is not over! Cogentrix is just onceRead More again playing their wait, wait, wait game in the public eye and playing their lobbying game behind closed doors.
just my opinion April 22, 2013 at 01:04 am
Stephen, well said!!!!!