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 [...]

People tell me I’m unique…I try to be normal, but apparently I fail dramatically at that.  So being unique, I like to give gifts that no one else gives.  I remember one year giving my niece a bucket of dirt and some flower seeds for her birthday.  I remember her mother looking at me oddly and saying, “You gave my daughter dirt for her birthday?”.  All I could say was that it seemed like a good idea at time. Now [...]

Anyone who knows me, knows that I take a lot of pictures.  What exactly do you do with thousands of pictures of your kids?  You turn them into scrapbooks of course!  Digital Scrapbooking has become a favourite pastime for me, but the cost of printing the pages sometimes stops me from getting hard copies of my creations. I was thrilled at the opportunity to review MailPix and their softcovered photobooks.  I had been in the process of creating a scrapbook [...]

Recently I had the opportunity to review the nuNAAT NAAT Brazilian Keratin Collection. I thought these products were fantastic  and now I want to let you know about the nuNAAT Give One, Get One Giveaway! Enter for your chance to win TWO sets of the products, one for you and one for a friend! When entering, be sure to select my blog name “Penny Minding Mom” from the drop-down menu so they know who sent you. The nuNAAT NAAT Brazilian [...]

When I was asked to review Once A Week Cooking from OnceAWeekCooking.com I thought that it would be a wonderful opportunity to get suppertime at my house under control.  I’m not a great cook, and some nights the thought of cooking 2 and 3 meals for supper just is to much and we end up eating chicken fingers and french fries…not the home cooking I would love to feed my family. My family is picky. A typical meat and potato [...]

Living in the country means that we spend a lot of time in our car driving from place to place.  We spend a lot of time singing silly songs on the way to dance class, and I for one can not hold a tune in a bucket but it doesn’t stop me from belting out my favourite songs! Since we love singing in the car, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to review the Friends in France French Sing-a-longs.  [...]

It’s winter…oh, how I wish it was spring, but no amount of wishing will change the fact that it is still winter.  With the winter weather comes hat hair, flat hair, static electricity  and a bad hair day that tends to last the entire season. Normally in the winter I pull my hair into a ponytail and run out the door.  One reason is the convenience of it, but the second is that my hair is flat, full of static [...]

The fastest and easiest way to learn any language is to use it!  I’ve studied Japanese in the past. I’ve taken classes, used audio tapes, and read the books.  The only way any of it stuck in my head was when we made a month long trip to Okinawa, Japan and had the opportunity it to use it regularly.  The problem I was having is that I would learn terms and phrases in class but never had the opportunity to [...]

In true hero fashion  Tip Hero fashion is offering one lucky person a chance to start the new year $100 richer! I can think of at least 10 different ways that I would spend it, and I’m sure you can think of just as many! The giveaway will run for 2 weeks and end on January 2, 2013 at 11:59pm US Eastern time. Open to United States & Canada, aged 18 and over. Enter for your chance to win by [...]