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Poll of the Week

This week’s poll is up in the right sidebar- be sure and cast your vote. Last week’s poll results can be found by clicking the polls tab above. Surprisingly, a good portion of voters are not sending out holiday cards this year. Every year I am tempted to just skip the holiday card process as [...]

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A Mom’s Letter to Santa

Photo by Sophiea No, I didn’t write this letter to Santa. Rather, this letter to Santa is one of those emails that gets passed around. I usually read, chuckle, and delete. But this one could actually be a letter from any one of us. Despite all the stress, remember to enjoy the holidays! Dear Santa, [...]

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Thanksgiving Fun for Kids

It is Thanksgiving week and things are getting festive around here. Last week I posted some links to fun Thanksgiving coloring pages for kids. Well, there is more where that came from. Char, at Printables4Kids.com has created some entertaining Thanksgiving coloring pages and activity pages that will be sure to keep the kids busy while [...]

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Make Time for Company

Is it just me, or do the weekends fly by faster than the weekdays? Here it is Saturday night and I have exactly 52 minutes left to publish this post and keep my NaBloPoMo commitment. Today we had guests over for dinner. Why I love it: the company good conversation the fringe benefit of having [...]

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The Great Plastic Challenge

A fellow mommy blogger, Boogiemum, has taken on a Great Plastic challenge. Here are the details of her week 1 and week 2 efforts to use less plastic in her home and life. And that is exactly what the Great Plastic Challenge is – an effort to improve our world by wasting less and using [...]

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2008 Chrysler Town & Country Minivan

First, let me admit that I am a Honda girl. I LOVE my 6 year old Honda Odyssey and will not part with it until it can go no more. But the 2008 Chrysler Town & Country minivan is quite tempting. Take a second look at that picture. Do you see what I see? I [...]

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20 Easy Chores for Kids

Now that the school year is in full swing, our days are busier than ever. Between school itself, homework, after school activities, and instrument practice, little time is left for anything else – and certainly not chores! But I need the kids to make home a priority as well. The whole family benefits when the [...]

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How Much Candy do your Kids Eat on Halloween?

I must admit that I don’t set many candy limits on Halloween night. Maybe I’m just a kid at heart – but I remember the excitement of bringing home buckets of candy. We would spread our treasure out on the floor and sort it into piles. This is what we like, what we don’t like, [...]

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Days Ago Introduces: The Band

I previously reviewed a nifty little product called Days Ago. It is basically a little digital counter that counts days. You attach this gadget to stuff in your fridge – like leftovers, open jars of sauce or salsa, baby food, formula, you name it. Days Ago has always come in two varieties – one that [...]

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Holiday Gift Ideas for Kids

What are your kids getting for the holidays? If you are stumped for ideas, a recent press release by Toys R Us has identified the top 5 toy trends of 2007 holiday season. There is sure to be something here that your kids will want: Trend #1: Hey! You’re A Rock Star! Taking their roots [...]

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Tips for Juggling a Busy Life

Heather (at Home With Heather) has an excellent blog with tons of useful information for work at home moms. (WAHM’s). She also happens to be one of the first bloggers that I networked with, and she probably doesn’t know it, but has given me a lot of guidance – via her blog – on my [...]