Things We Love
All New Printable Grocery Coupons
We have partnered with Coupons.com to bring you all new printable grocery coupons. With these coupons, you’ll save time and money because you’ll only print the coupons you’ll need. You’ll also find coupons specific to your zip code.
Things We Love – Unique Valentine’s Day Cards for Kids
Both of our favorite websites for photo cards (Minted.com and TinyPrints.com) are featuring a fun and unique spin on the classroom valentines for your kids to hand out at school. Prices start at just $15 for 16. Here are some of our favorites…
This Week’s Printable Grocery Coupons {1/17}
We are proud to bring you this week’s printable grocery coupons from Coupons.com, Coupon Network, Target, Walmart, and Redplum, plus coupons you can save directly to your loyalty card from Cellfire and SavingStar.
This Week’s Printable Grocery Coupons {1/11}
We are proud to bring you this week’s printable grocery coupons from Coupons.com, Coupon Network, Target, Walmart, and Redplum, plus coupons you can save directly to your loyalty card from Cellfire and SavingStar.
Things We Love – Stress Less, Weigh Less
Stress Less, Weigh Less: Follow Holly to Increase Energy, Eat the Food You Love, and Enjoy an Ageless Body Practical, smart, thoroughly-researched and full of no-nonsense tips that fit easily into our busy lives, Stress Less, Weigh Less is a groundbreaking weight loss book. Healthy lifestyle expert Holly Mosier shows us we do not need… [Continue Reading]
Lifestyle
Family Thai Dinner – Recipes and Ideas
Food courses in Thai meals are eaten “in harmony”, or all at the same time. This method is perfect for families – it provides variety and everyone can sit at the table to enjoy the meal together. Here are recipes and ideas for an authentic, family-friendly Thai dinner.
Make This Your Healthiest Holiday Season Yet
Guest Post by Jocelyn Although it seems that summer was just here and that the holiday season is altogether too far away to start thinking about holiday eating, the truth is that it’s never too early! How and when we start thinking about how we’re going to prepare ourselves for the arrival of holidays and… [Continue Reading]
How to Roast a Pumpkin + Classic Pumpkin Recipes
Peter Piper Picked a Profoundly Plump Pumpkin. Now what does he do with it? How to Roast a Pumpkin You can only do this with a freshly carved pumpkin! Do not use on a pumpkin that has been carved and sitting out for several days. To bake a fresh 6 to 7 pound pumpkin, halve… [Continue Reading]
Halloween Recipes – Fun Fall Apple Cider Ideas
The folks at Tree Top just sent me some apple cider and gummy worms along with a couple of fun fall drink recipes, and I want to share them with you, too. Tree Top’s Magic Cauldron Apple Punch Ingredients Tree Top Apple Cider (at least one gallon) Red and green food coloring 10 to 15… [Continue Reading]
Breast Cancer Products – What to Buy to Support Breast Cancer Awareness
One of the ways you can help in the fight against breast cancer is to shop products and retailers that donate a portion of proceeds to breast cancer research and awareness organizations. Here are a few companies (as well as a few of our favorite products) that allow you to shop for yourself – or for a loved one – while also helping the cause.
Parenting Tips & Family Fun
More Halloween Freebies and Fun
More Halloween freebies, coupons, and craft ideas. Plus creative (and cheap) last-minute costume ideas…
Homemade Halloween Makeup – Recipes
The average American family spends over $100 per year on Halloween goodies. As your kids drag you through aisles full of ghosts and goblins, the scariest thing about Halloween is threatening to leave bite marks in your pocketbook. No wonder so many moms flee screaming from the store… It can be much less expensive and a lot more fun to devise your own chilling creations. Here are a few tips that you can use to stave off the greenback gremlins and exercise your creative muscle.
Halloween Freebies and Fun
Halloween is a blast. With each age and stage the kids go through, Halloween changes – but it never gets less fun. Here’s a roundup of a few Halloween Freebies and Fun to add more ghoulish delight to your family’s celebration…
Have You Hugged Your Kids Today?
By Erik Fisher, PhD, aka Dr. E…, www.DrEPresents.com Our kids bring us so much joy. Sometimes it is hard to believe that we can love someone that much. However, just as can happen with a marriage, the same can happen with our kids. We can begin to take them for granted. It is so easy… [Continue Reading]
Masters of the Airbrush
By Erik Fisher, PhD, AKA Dr E www.DrEPresents.com Your kids are inundated with images every day, and the degree to which these images are valid representations of the human form will subtly and obviously affect how they view the world and themselves as they grow up. Some of you may feel that banning ads such… [Continue Reading]
3rd Grade Games
Today, we started our regular summer routine in which I insist the kids do some reading and math before they go outside to play. While I’m not a homeschooling mom by any stretch of the imagination, I do try to keep a routine during the summer months that includes at least a bit of writing,… [Continue Reading]
Baby Food Recipe – Coconut Curry Sauce Cubes
Here’s a new baby food recipe from Fresh Baby’s Cheryl Tallman: Coconut Curry Sauce Cubes Yellow Curry Powder is often associated with Indian cooking. It’s a blend of spices, which vary by region, food, and cooking style. Most Indian curry powders contain turmeric, coriander and cumin. At the market, choose a curry powder labeled “mild”… [Continue Reading]
Summer Reading
Today is the first day of summer vacation for my kids. After school yesterday, we took part in our annual last day of school tradition, namely, going to Starbucks for Double Chocolaty Chip Frappucinos and making lists of things we want to do before the school bell rings again in the fall. I’ll tell you… [Continue Reading]
7 Tips for Raising Confident Kids
Photo Credit: superman by scottfeldstein, on Flickr We want our kids to look to the future with more excitement than apprehension; more exhilaration than nervousness. Here are few everyday tips and tools to help you raise your child’s level of confidence. 1. Be a confident mama. The best way to raise confident children is to… [Continue Reading]
Ten Ways to Tell If YOU Need a Time-Out
By Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller A time-out is something one takes or is given when one needs a break from their surroundings. A time-out is what we need when we’re sad and want to be alone. It’s useful when we are feeling hurt and don’t know what to say. A time-out is valuable when… [Continue Reading]
Simple Toys – Healthy Minds
We moms know that our kids derive more benefit from playing with some toys than others. The more simple the toy, the more I seem to relish watching my children playing with it. Seeing my son’s face as he makes something “just so” with clay or watching my daughter as she deliberates over her next… [Continue Reading]
Negative People – 7 Ways to Cope
7 Effective Strategies for Dealing with Negative People This is a guest post by Lori Radun. Have you ever been around a chronically negative person? How does he or she affect your mood in that moment? More than likely you will feel drained of energy or you’ll find yourself carrying around your own negative energy…. [Continue Reading]
Salt Dough Recipe
Salt dough is an easy craft medium to work with and is kid-friendly (though they’ll need an adult for the final cooking stage.) Here’s a simple recipe for salt dough: * 1 cup of fine salt (or, for a more ‘rustic’ feel to the dough, use a coarse salt.) * 2 cups of flour *… [Continue Reading]
Top 10 reasons kids have trouble with homework – and how to help (without helping too much)
Halting Homework Hassles By Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE Homework is a child’s responsibility, so we need to be careful how much we help. We want to be aware of what our children are doing and be involved in helpful ways, but not help too much. We can start by avoiding the word “we” when… [Continue Reading]
6 Creative Easter Egg Hunt Ideas
Kids love those Easter egg hunts. Here are a few creative ideas to help you get inspired this year: * Have a Scavenger Easter Egg Hunt. Instead of simply hiding the eggs and having the kids rip through the yard to find them, hide them in specific places throughout the house. Plant the first clue… [Continue Reading]
