I love baking during the holidays. Many of my favorite cookie recipes including my rolled sugar cookies, peanut butter blossoms, red velvet blossoms, molasses crinkles, sinfully cinnamon cookies, candy cane blossoms, peppermint sugar cookies, and gummy bear thumbprint sugar cookies call for colored decorating or sanding sugar for a more festive look. Regularly priced, colored […] More
I have been diapering my children for almost six years now. I started with disposables on my daughter but switched to cloth diapers full time when she was around three months old. With my son, I began using cloth but started using disposables part time during our eight months of travels back and forth from […] More
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Thank you to Dickies and BraVoMark for partnering on the following sponsored post. All opinions are my own. Once the Fourth of July comes and goes, I am ready to start preparing for back-to-school. Ever since I was a little girl, I loved shopping for new school supplies. My daughter graduated from kindergarten at the […] More
Traveling adults look for certain amenities: free cocktail hour, free Wi-Fi, and hot tubs. But parents traveling with kids have a different set of hotel criteria. Traveling with kids is lots of fun, but there is no denying that it is also a lot of work. It why you might want to consider an air […] More
Thank you to Bootler for sponsoring the following post. All opinions are my own. I love shopping online and having my purchases delivered to my door. With two young children, going shopping can be quite the hassle. The same is true of going out to eat. Sometimes I just want to order my meals in. […] More
Loving your own little ones can soften your heart toward all the children of the world. Motherhood makes you aware of how vulnerable each child is, and it often makes you want to reach out to everyone in need. You can get closer to this goal by spending your dollars with responsible companies that use […] More
Thank you to Groupon for sponsoring the following post. All opinions are my own. As a mom of two young children, I am always looking for the best deal possible to save money on everything that I buy. The mission at Groupon is to connect local commerce, increasing consumer buying power while driving more business […] More
What shopper in her right mind does not like saving money? Whenever I make a purchase online, which is pretty much every day for some reason or another, I double-check for coupons that help me save a little moolah first. PromoPro is a fantastic professional coupon website that can save you time and money. The […] More
I love saving money on my purchases and often use coupons to pay the lowest price possible. Groupon is an online marketplace that connects millions of subscribers with local merchants by offering activities, travel, goods, and services in more than 28 countries and 500 cities worldwide. In addition to amazing deals, Groupon also offers coupons. […] More
When I first read about using family cloth in “What’s the Deal with Family Cloth?” from Maman Loup’s Den last year, my initial reaction was, “Heck, no!” Why would I want to wash and reuse cloth wipes for the family toilet when I had perfectly good toilet paper? Then I started thinking. I already used […] More
To reduce my use of toxic chemicals in my home, I have switched to white vinegar for my daily cleaning needs in my kitchen. Not only is vinegar safer than conventional cleaning solutions, but using vinegar also helps keep the ants that invade my kitchen every summer at bay. Plus, I can safely keep the […] More
