We’ve all heard the words, “If you keep watching TV, you’ll turn into a couch potato!”  I say it to my daughter more often that I’d like on lazy rainy days.  It doesn’t mean a lot to her.  In her mind a couch potato is that french fry she lost under the couch cushion. The author, Adam Tritt has taken a humorous approach to a very serious matter of childhood obesity. He pulls no punches when he describes the dangers [...]

Week 2 was tough.  It was filled with 2 Birthday’s (one being mine) and Mother’s day…which meant Birthday Cake and Special Meals!   A lesson I learned in Week 1 was that preparation was the key to my success. So I made sure I thought about what I was going to do on each birthday and mother’s day. Once I had my plan I was ready for Monday! I decided to start fresh with the detox diet since I didn’t follow [...]

I love to watch home improvement shows, especially the ones where they up-cycle old furniture into something utterly fantastic.  I have always wanted to try to do something myself and with the help of iStencils I did just that.  I purchased an old chair and started my up-cycle. The most difficult part of the whole process was choosing which stencil I wanted. The iStencils collection of stencils includes over 2,600 designs.  The stencils come in a variety of sizes ranging [...]

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Summer is coming and I dread the thought of having to wear a bathing suit in public.  I knew that I was steadily gaining weight, but it didn’t really hit home with me until I went looking for a bathing suit and bought something that I can only describe as a “Mom Suit”.  You know the kind.  The ones that completely hides your belly with the skirt that goes down to your knees…At that point I knew I needed to [...]

My daughter loves to be on the computer.  While mommy blogs, she does her “work” to.  More often than not, I am opening up my email account so that she can send emails to her favourite people in the world…Grannie, Nannie and Aunt Doughnut. She was so thrilled to discover that she could have her own email account through Kids Email. Kids Email is a subscription based email system that allows parents to monitor their children’s correspondence.  A full fledged [...]

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In celebration of the launch of their new book,  “The Christian Parenting Handbook: 50 Heart-Based Strategies for All the Stages of Your Child’s Life” by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller RN, BSN! the The National Center for Biblical Parenting is having giveaway of 5 awesome prizes. 1) iPad Mini ($400) 2) $200 Amazon Gift Card 3) Wii with Sports Game ($200) 4) $100 Amazon Gift Card 5) Kodak Digital Picture Frame ($90) To learn more about the book, that [...]

The National Center for Biblical Parenting is launching their new book this week “The Christian Parenting Handbook: 50 Heart-Based Strategies for All the Stages of Your Child’s Life” by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller RN, BSN! I was blessed to have the opportunity to read it before it’s official launch. As my children continue to grow and change my parenting techniques will need to evolve too. I recently had the opportunity to read their previous book “Say Goodby to [...]

Pirates, Vampires and ghouls…Oh my!  What more can a person as for in a book?  Terra Vonnel and the Skulls of Aries is a fast moving, action packed novella. Terra Vonnel is a pirate and master thief.  At the age of seventeen she is already a feared pirate.  She has a burning desire to right the wrongs of the past and will stop at nothing to get what she wants… She has already secured the first skull of Aries and [...]