Burning Dry Eyes Find Relief with Optics Lab Products Review/Giveaway

dry burning eyes

This Burning Dry Eyes Find Relief with Optics Lab Products post is a sponsored by Optics Lab. All opinions are 100% my own. If you have ever experienced burning dry eyes, you probably know that it is a miserable kind of pain. For years I wore contact lens but my last year of wearing them [...]

Preparing for a Medical Emergency – Use AFLAC

prepare for a medical emergency

I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Aflac. I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating. You never know when some major accident will happen that will take you or your spouse out of work. Are you prepared financially if that happens? Several years ago, just a couple of weeks [...]

Meditation Techniques for Stress That You Can Do Anywhere

meditation techniques for stress

Stressing? Here are some meditation techniques for stress. I do not know about you, but life is very stressful. Between work, family and and financial obligations there just seems to be enough time or money. They say meditation is good for the body, mind, and soul. It does truly help to try to slow down, [...]

Chemical Free Baby Wipes by Seventh Generation

chemical free baby wipes

This Chemical Free Baby Wipes post is sponsored by Seventh Generation. When my twins were infants, I realized quickly how careful I needed to be with what I put on their skin. Both Anna and Ethan were very sensitive to products with chemicals in them. Plus they had really bad psoriasis, which made treating them [...]

Disney’s Spoonful Partners with Lilly Diabetes

disney interactive

I think one of the best organizations around (and the happiest) is Disney. Have you ever been to Disney World? It has to be the happiest place on earth! As in grand Disney style, they have just launched an online destination dedicated to help families affected by type 1 diabetes. Disney Interactive, in partnership with [...]

Safe Storage of Medicines From Kids

safe storage of medicines

This Safe Storage of Medicines post is brought to you by Mom Central Consulting and Safe Kids Worldwide. All opinions stated are my own. I remember when I was very young I used to go into the medicine cabinet and eat the children’s chewable aspirin. I am quite sure I knew I was not supposed [...]

Modern Pilates with Lisa Johnson Interview

Lisa Johnson

Modern Pilates with Lisa Johnson Recently I had the pleasure of being able to review some great Pilates DVD’s that were created by Lisa Johnson. She has been a certified Pilate’s trainer since 1998 and has owned own Pilates studio, Modern Pilates, in Massachusetts since 1999. Doing modern Pilates with Lisa Johnson is such a great [...]

Laryngitis with Kids is Not for the Weak of Heart

coping with laryngitis

My yearly stint of laryngitis started to return Monday night with a vengeance. It began with a cold Friday night and, sure enough, progressed to no voice. Trying to tell three children not to argue, or be so demanding when you have no voice is inconsequential to them! So here we are, me with no voice [...]

Get Clean Teeth Naturally With OraMD – Review/Giveaway (Ends 2/25)

get teeth clean naturally

The one thing I have always been a stickler on is my teeth. In fact, when I was young and single having good teeth was one of my “must haves” in a potential boyfriend. This obsession with teeth has followed me into motherhood, since it is a priority for me with my children.  When Megan was very [...]

Tips on Keeping Your Baby Healthy During RSV Season RSVProtection

premature babies most at rist for RSV

Just like having a flu season, we also have a Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) season. RSV is present year-round but it starts to go up in the fall and peaks in the winter. It then starts to go down in early spring. RSV typically causes mild to moderate cold-like symptoms, although in some babies it can result [...]

Bare Fruit Review and Giveaway

Bare Fruit

Believe it or not there are a few things going on in our home health wise, other than my husbands broken elbow! I am determined to stay back on my weekly meal planning for dinners, feed my children healthier snacks, and lose at least 20 pounds! So far, I’m doing great with the meal planning [...]

Healthy Snacks for Kids

DelMonte Fruit Salad

Do your children seem to want to snack all day long?  Now that it is winter and the kids are not quite so active outdoors their wanting a snack has gotten a little worse.  Although now it is out of boredom. Curbing their craving for a snack can be quite the challenge on some days. [...]

World Prematurity Day – Raising Awareness On Premies and #RSV

Anna in an incubator about an hour after birth.

World Prematurity Day Today, November 17 is World Prematurity Day.  I will never forget the fear and shock I felt when, at 32 weeks of pregnancy with twins my water broke.  It was 3:30 am and I was sleeping soundly.  I was a semester away from finishing my Masters and was in the middle of [...]

Pine Bros Softish Throat Drops Review

Pine Bros

The weather is already quite cold here in Illinois and it is not even winter yet!  We had a super hot summer and had heard predictions that this would be a cold winter.  With the cold weather hitting so hard already I am sure we are going to have a lot of runny noses and sore throats [...]