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I Just Love Me a Friday

I love Fridays because I don't have to work that day. I love Fridays because I don't dress up that day.  I shower and take E.B. to school while wearing my shorts and a t shirt and no makeup.  I know!  Scandalous! I love Fridays because I can View Post

Scentsy Wickless Candles- Review & Giveaway

With the ushering in of Fall, my need for great smelling seasonal candles and tarts for the tart warmer seems to also become a priority.  A great smelling home just makes your home feel more like, well, home.  I have heard and read so many View Post

Spam. It’s Good For Your Ego.

Since moving to WordPress, one of the features I have been enjoying the most is the spam catcher for comments left here at my blog.  I wondered why I got so many spam comments since moving my blog to WordPress, but it's because I had a word View Post

Dancing With the Stars

I'm not a big television watcher, unless it's the Weather Channel or Fox News, but tonight for reasons I cannot explain, I actually sat down and watched Dancing With the Stars.  I've seen a few episodes before, but this season's contestants were such View Post

HALO Sleep Sack- Safe Sleep Information & Giveaway-CLOSED

I can remember right after having my son that I had to stress the importance of placing him on his back to sleep when my parents or grandmother kept him.  Back when they were mothers, placing an infant to sleep on their stomach or side was the norm.  View Post

A Science Magazine For Curious Kids

If you have a child ages 6-9 years old who can't get enough of science, Mad Science KNOW Magazine is the perfect way to engage their love of learning and experimenting.  Each issue of KNOW Magazine is filled with lots of fun science experiments, View Post

It’s Just a Blog, Right?

  Sometimes (and lately more often than not) I come to my "command" place on my blogging control panel, hit the "New Post" button and just sit and stare, just as I did for a good twenty minutes before beginning this post. I have a million View Post

Baby L.J.

Can you stand the cute? Pearl and Clyde (our adult cats) have totally "adopted" L.J. as their "baby".  It's been 9 years since we've had a kitten in the house (when Clyde and Bonnie were small) and I had forgotten how much fun it was. And?  How View Post

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