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Relish! and GFree Meal Planning Giveaway
Happy Monday everyone! After trying out a few different meal planning services, I’ve decided that Relish! is still my favorite. The interface is easy to use, I like the format of the shopping list and recipes, and the meals are easy to prepare, but look and taste gourmet. If you want to know more about Relish! Meal Planning, you can read the review I wrote here. Relish! has also just come out with a new … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Homemaking, Mommyhood
Make a List, Check it Twice, Save $5
If you missed it when I wrote about it at the beginning of the year, your chance to save $5 on a ListPlanIt membership is back! Membership includes access to over 700 lists in categories for home, school, business, and extracurricular planning. ListPlanIt has three different types of memberships to pick from – print, download, or professional. The print membership (normally $20) allows you to print the lists as much as you want and write on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Frugal Fawn, Homemaking, Mommyhood, Spending Less
When the Truth is Written All Over Your Face
Teaching my children about telling the truth has both surprised and challenged me as a mother. I think I had the (unfounded) belief that children just naturally tell the truth, and that they wouldn’t start to tell bold-faced lies until they were old enough to really think through the process of having devious motivation, an alibi, and details to back their claims up. It seems, though, that kids (at least, MY kids) are actually naturally … Read entire article »
MOMcation 2012
You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting quite as much lately. That’s because I’ve been busy planning MOMcation 2012. This is the third year for MOMcation. It’s a weekend retreat for MOMs and MOMs-to-be to take some time out for themselves. When I came up with this idea back in 2009, I was looking for a way to show other moms how beneficial some me time could be. I wanted to put together something … Read entire article »
Filed under: Arkansas, Education, Events, Health & Fitness, Local Yocal, Mommyhood, Travel
What a Penicillin Allergy Looks Like
We discovered that our youngest is allergic to penicillin way back in 2009 after he took amoxicillin for an ear infection. I posted about it on our family blog back then, but I thought it would be good info to share with all of you as well. Essentially, he broke out in a hive rash, starting on his stomach and moving up to his head and out to his arms and legs. A trip to the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health & Fitness, Mommyhood
Why I Will Continue to Support the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
For the past four days, my head has been buzzing with all the back and forth over the Susan G Komen Foundation’s (SGK) decision to pull funding from, and then give it back to, Planned Parenthood. The media circus continues to swirl, and it appears that while the initial decision to pull funding created many a foe out of former SGK supporters, there are now also people who are mad about the reversal of the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Events, Health & Fitness, Local Yocal, Mommyhood
