The girls and I love our raw honey. We take honey daily, combining it with bee pollen for seasonal allergy relief. Local, raw honey is best but we actually use whatever honey we can get our hands on. I’ve even used honey as a face mask. I combine honey with baking soda, but here’s a [...]

Don’t watch! LOL! This is only my first or 2nd vlog for my blog. I’ve done 3 others, but they were done on another site and are about 2 1/2 years old. Here goes. My Shaklee video update. And please forgive the videographer, it’s my 9 year old daughter. We’re on vacation and I didn’t [...]

Me! Cause winners keep score! I’ve been following the Shaklee 180™ Plan where I have a meal replacement shake for breakfast, another one for lunch (or a meal replacement bar), a snack or two, and a sensible dinner. I’ve been walking on the treadmill for about 60 minutes 2 or 3 days each week, too. [...]

Easter Subway Art Free Printable

When I was younger, my parents had a vacation home in Sea Pines Plantation, SC. We would drive or fly several times each year. With 5 kids, we drove more than we flew, but my first plane trip was probably for a trip to HH. I haven’t been there in over 20 years, so last [...]

Book: Say Daddy Author: Michael Shoulders Illustrator: Teri Weidner Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press ISBN: 978-1-58536-863-1 Price/Pages: $8.99 Boardbook; $15.95 Hardcover; 26/32 Category: Boardbook About Say Daddy Mother shares a book about love while Brother shares a book about friendship. Next Aunt Grace shares a book about adventure. Everyone in this family is eager to share [...]

Reusables products do more than save the environment. They help you save money too! I don’t know about you, but saving the environment for future generations, combined with saving money for my family makes reusables a great choice around here. Here are some products which will help you get going on your quest to go [...]

Vacationers looking for an off-the-beaten-path Colorado getaway with all the frills of a major resort should head to Crested Butte, an historic town tucked away in the Colorado Rockies Elk Mountain Range. With its affordable accommodations, gourmet restaurants, cozy pubs, and eclectic shops, Crested Butte attracts a devoted legion of repeat visitors year-round! Crested Butte [...]

I did, and I do this every year! My daughters LOVE glass straws. And I do mean love. We’ve got about a 1/2 dozen glass straws and they get so excited when company comes over, so they can show their friends how much better glass straws are. It actually cracks me up how serious they [...]

  About My Pretty Playhouse We’d like to introduce you to My Pretty Playhouse: an eco-conscious 100% recycled cardboard product available online on Boutique Cascades for $38 free shipping. But that’s not it, My Pretty Playhouse will also help build real homes! Cascades will donate two dollars to Habitat for Humanity for each playhouse sold. [...]

The girls and I – we love it! We’ve been drinking it since I was pregnant with Coco, and she just turned 7. I don’t know how or where I first heard about it, but I’m glad I was introduced to it. In the next few weeks, we’ll start back up with milk and water [...]

About Sweet Andy’s Cookies Sweet Andy’s Cookies are made with all natural ingredients and baked to perfection. Unlike traditional home-style cookies, these are thick and chewy, mouthwatering delights. They come in an array of flavors including mint chocolate chip, chocolate chip, peanut chip, triple chip, oatmeal raisin, chocolate, chocolate peanut butter, cinnamon sugar, sugar and [...]

Monkey see, monkey do right? With the gourmet cooking craze in full swing, it’s no surprise that today’s kids want to mimic their parents Top-Chef aspirations. These five apps are going to have you salivating, and your kids itching to let out their inner Gordon Ramsey. You might have to tell them that they have [...]

About Box Tops for Education® America’s schools have earned more than $525 million through the Box Tops for Education® program since the program started in 1996, including $47 million just since March 2012. More than 90,000 schools use that cash to purchase items such as computers, library books, art supplies and playground equipment. Schools can [...]

and it really got me excited. I’ve been chasing the Fairy Hobmother all over the internet – for at least a year. It’s been fun doing the chasing and finding new blogs to visit, but I’ll tell you it’s much more fun being visited by the Fairy Hobmother. You see, the Fairy Hobmother is a [...]

For today, Wednesday, February 13, 2013 (my mom’s birthday, by the way) The Handbook of Vintage Remedies is free on Kindle. If you don’t have a Kindle reading device, that’s okay – because you can read this and other Kindle books on your computer and on your smartphone. About The Handbook of Vintage Remedies (From [...]

It can be a challenge to raise a happy, healthy child in today’s world, and parents need to seek the best advice and guidance possible in order to do so. Following a parenting website that promotes ethical values and principles while also educating you on the various parenting issues that you may face over the [...]

Overweight Mom I’m right at 50 pounds overweight and my youngest daughter still takes every opportunity to let me know it. I started at the gym a few weeks ago, and I’ve only missed 2 days, but it seems like my weight hasn’t changed although I walk about 2.3 or 2.4 miles each day, walk [...]

About Get Happy This app is currently available at iTunes for $.99. My Thoughts on Get Happy This is a nice little app. There are relationship, personal growth, leisure, and work/education tips. You can search for a specific tip or you can select a random one from any of the categories. If you select a [...]

Snow is great when you have kids – at first! It’s great when they’re not at school and you can make snowmen and igloos and have all kinds of free fun! Then reality sets in. Although the snow is still pretty and fun to play in, it can turn to ice or slush and you [...]

About Abel’s Field Abel’s Field AFFIRM Films/Provident Films Releases January 22, 2013 Synopsis Left motherless by tragedy and abandoned by his father, high school senior Seth McArdle (Samuel Davis) faces enormous pressure as he strives to support his little sisters. At school, he endures the daily bullying of the football team. But fighting back only [...]

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I know that I won’t influence millions, thousands, or even hundreds of people in my time on this earth. But I do try every single day to influence one or two – even if I’m only influencing my daughters. Especially if I’m only influencing my daughters. Every day each of us has the chance to [...]

Starting in November I start looking for deals on batteries. I’m ashamed to say that  I have several sets of reusable batteries and chargers and I’ve never used any of them more than once. I always seems to forget that I have them. I need to get better at that. In the meantime I start [...]

Sometimes I do. About 20 years ago I was dating this guy, and went over to his house on Christmas. He and his family had breakfast at home then went visiting relatives, and we were meeting up in the late afternoon. While there was snow on the ground and it was freezing cold, it wasn’t [...]