Monthly Archives: October 2013

How to Make Homemade Vanilla

I love to create homemade extracts and spices. I especially love to make some, put them in decorative containers and hand them out as gifts! With the holidays around the corner, I thought I would show you how to make homemade vanilla! This is a super easy recipe that can be bottled beautifully for teacher [...]

2013-10-04T10:54:30-05:00By |Recipes|5 Comments

How to Get Your Kids to Sleep… or Not

Originally published 6/1/2010 Every night around 7, I give the girls a bath, dress them in clean, fresh jam jams, give them milk, brush their teeth, read them a bedtime story and watch them each drift into peaceful slumber not to wake until morning. I may just be an expert on How to Get Your [...]

2016-05-08T23:30:29-05:00By |Raising Daughters|5 Comments

Enter to WIN an HP Envy 20 TouchSmart

I can not tell you how excited I am to invite you to WIN an HP Envy!! Enter below and GOOD LUCK! Organized by Mom Powered Media HP ENVY TouchSmart Desktop, 2000-20-d113w, All-in-One optimized for Windows 8. An ultra-powerful PC with a 20″ diagonal HD 1600×900 display with a sleek, space saving edge-to-edge design, the [...]

2013-10-03T10:46:46-05:00By |Giveaways|11 Comments

Herbed Cucumber And Yogurt Tzatziki Recipe

I am in partnership with Smiley360 in this program for Pompeian.  I will be receiving products as a thank you for this post.  All opinions are my own. I love creating new dips and sandwich spreads that are delicious and better for me than buy in a container. I try to use the best ingredients [...]

2013-10-03T10:03:07-05:00By |Recipes|3 Comments

Room on the Broom Book, DVD & Plush Toy Review

Some Movies are just worth talking about! Room on the Broom is witch and a cauldron, cat and frog, on a broomstick they fly with the dog in the fog!  Simply a wonderful children’s book & DVD that have my little trick or treaters excited for Halloween!!  My daughter followed along looking at the exquisite images [...]

2013-10-17T13:55:05-05:00By |Reviews|4 Comments

How to Cook Acorn Squash

Fall is in the air and if you head to the store, you will see a myriad of fun vegetables begging to be on your table. Sometimes, though, I see something that looks really good but I have no idea how to cook it. So I thought I would share with you my easiest recipe [...]

2013-10-02T16:28:28-05:00By |Recipes|1 Comment

Tailgating Recipe Ideas

Tailgating Recipe Ideas It’s that time of year again and time to start rounding up the Tailgating recipe ideas too! Don’t you just love this time of year?!  The weather is changing.  The leaves are falling.  Football is starting!  Time to show your game spirit by wearing your favorite jersey and maybe even football tattoos [...]

2013-10-02T14:55:46-05:00By |Recipes|7 Comments

How a Mom Shops at Target

When I got married and we decided that children would be in our – very – near future, I had visions of what it would be like.  A peaceful day with flowers in our hair and butterflies swirling around our family’s heads as we shopped hand in hand, our baby laughing in her pressed,  white dress and [...]

2016-05-11T15:33:23-05:00By |Raising Daughters|15 Comments

Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel Review

If you have kids, or know someone who does, there is a very good chance that you’ve watched (or at least heard about) Phineas and Ferb .  “There’s 104 days of summer vacation and school comes along just to end it.  So the annual problem for our generation is finding a new way to spend [...]

2013-11-15T20:29:23-06:00By |Disney, Reviews|6 Comments
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