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Barilla- Microwavable Meals For On-The-Go (And Giveaway)

I eat lunch on-the-go five days a week.  Every working day means grabbing something super quick in time to be ready for my next group of students.  Most days I eat cafeteria food, which is sometimes ok, and other times I grab a bag of chips and call View Post

Win A Pair Of Christian Louboutin’s From Top Floor

I love shoes.  If my shoes are all wrong, my whole outfit just feels all wrong.  I’ve been slowly updating my “shoe wardrobe” to reflect a look that’s more on trend.  I get lazy and always seem to fall back on my old standbys. ( Case View Post

Shaping Up Our Finances With Adaptu

  We’re ending the first month of the Adaptu Financial Shape Up Contest and as far as saving for that summer vacation next year goes, it has been a very slow process.  We’ve had a couple of financial hurdles to make this month and it has View Post

Laminating Made Easy- Fellowes Saturn2 95 Laminator

I love laminators.  I have years of experience using the big models at school and often wished I had one at home.  Besides coming in really handy for my work in the library, a laminator would allow me to save my son’s artwork from school View Post

Back-To-School With Wet Ones

  When my son starts back to school, I immediately start hoping we can keep the sick germs at bay and stay healthy.  I worry about it in my own classroom, too. Of course, I always stress the importance of hand washing to my son and my View Post

Green Mountain Coffee Wild Mountain Blueberry Coffee

I am so excited to share with my readers that I am now a K-Cup Ambassador.  I love, love, love my Keurig and how simple it is to use, and I’m also super excited about trying out new flavors of Green Mountain Coffee each month AND getting to View Post

Kleenex Back To School Giveaway

  By the time you read this I will be back to work in my library, starting my first day of school.  It seems like the summer just flew by!  One thing that is always on my list of classroom supplies is Kleenex.  I can’t tell you how many boxes View Post

Dependability Matters To Me- #MaytagMoms

  It’s been a couple of weeks since I received my new Maytag Bravos XL washer and dryer. As you can imagine, it was awful hard for me to say goodbye to these:   And hello to THIS:   Ok, so it wasn’t really that View Post

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