Turn up your volume for this post because what you don't hear is the key... Growing up, Friday night was family movie night in my house. Still today, my parents watch a movie together every Friday night. Heaven forbid my sister and I (or anyone) call during movie time and interrupt it. "You know it's movie night don't you? I'll call you back when the movie is over." Now that I have my own kids, we do family movie nights. We don't do them every week, but we do have them regularly. Again, Heaven forbid something/someone interrupt our movie. One thing that used to interfere with our family nights was our dishwasher. Hubby would start it after dinner (not thinking) and eventually we'd either have to turn up the volume on our TV way loud or simply pause the movie and wait for the dish washing cycle to end. Even when we watched our movies on the downstairs TV you could hear our dishwasher! Not any more...my new GE® Dishwasher is SUPER quiet!! Just listen... Yes, the GE® … [Read more...]
Snugg iPad4 Case
We were recently contacted by the company The Snugg to review their Snugg iPad4 Case. Since Jamie doesn't own an iPad and we do I had the pleasure of receiving one. I immediately jumped at the opportunity to review this because we were actually in the market for a new case for our iPad. The main person that uses the iPad in our house is our eldest son, lil' King. He uses the iPad to work on Spanish Immersion classes, reading, and math homework for school. The case that came with our iPad worked fine (and when I say fine, I mean, it was very basic and served a very basic purpose). Our … [Read more...]
Mom Tips to Help Make Every Day Extraordinary
Samantha Harris, celebrity mom of two and television personality, shares her favorite mom tips to help make your everyday extraordinary. Tip #1: Schedule your mom activities like an appointment! I like to pencil in workouts, carpool duty and grocery shopping right into my calendar so I can keep my to-do list organized. Seeing it all written down is a surefire way to get it all done and allow you to rearrange as needed. Tip #2: Make "date night" a priority! As moms, we are constantly juggling many hats and it can be easy to forget to focus some time for our relationships. Ask your relatives or a friend to babysit for a night (and offer to return the favor), then hit the town. Or have a "date in", by setting up a sleepover for the kids (or putting them to bed early), and rent a movie, make some popcorn and curl up on the couch! Tip #3: Enlist the kids to help! Chores don't need to solely fall on mom—I like to get my kids involved by making a chore wheel and set up a completion … [Read more...]
My New GE® Hybrid Stainless Steel Dishwasher! #ad
Two years ago, when I was blogging as Mommy's Camera, I won a trip to the GE® Monogram Experience Center in Louisville, KY (click the link to read my first post about it). The trip was WAY beyond my expectations and something I will never forget. I met some awesome women (second post) and stayed at a super fun hotel (third post, yes, it was so fun I wrote THREE posts about it!!). I have maintained a good relationship with GE® Appliances since that trip so when my dishwasher died a few weeks ago, my friends at GE® were the first people I emailed for advice about a new one (I'm lazy and did not want to do a lot of research). As luck would have it, they put me on their "Clean Team" and let me try one of their latest and greatest models, the GE® Hybrid Stainless Steel Interior Dishwasher! Over the next few months you'll be hearing a little bit about my experience with the dishwasher, how it fits into my life with my kids, and what I do (and don't) like about it. Let's start … [Read more...]
An epic advenure, thank goodness for Quaker® Perfect Portions #QuakerEpicAdventures
In Minnesota we cherish warm weather, because, to be honest we don't have a ton of it! On days when the weather is perfection we try and be active outside as much as possible. This past week was one of those weeks where we spent the days outside; from sunrise to sunset. It was a good thing we started our day off right....thank goodness for Quaker® Oatmeal Perfect Portions! We each made the perfect amount for breakfast, sweetened to everyone's taste, and headed out on quite the adventure! We are blessed to live on a lake and with that comes fun family adventures for us all! This past weekend we loaded up our four kids on the boat and cruised over to the "Big Island" for a little hike. We beached our boat and headed out for the unknown. Big Island is an island that is fairly small (when you compare it to other islands) but it is filled with tall grass, trees, wild life, and beaches. Normally we spend about an hour on Big Island just walking around but this past weekend we spent … [Read more...]
TempleTouch™ Thermometer Review and Giveaway
When Lindsi and I were contacted by Medisim to review their TempleTouch™ thermometer we jumped all over the chance. After all, we've had our share of sick kids during this never ending winter. Lindsi's review of the Premium Temple and Underarm Thermometer: It was perfect timing to receive these TempleTouch™ Thermometers when we did. I unfortunately became ill (with pneumonia of all things). I will be honest and say that I was leery of the accuracy of the TempleTouch™ at first because, being a nurse, I knew all too well the inaccuracy of thermometers that weren't under the tongue. I was running a low grade fever throughout my recovery. I used my trusted under the tongue thermometer as well as the TempleTouch™ Thermometer to compare the accuracy of them. My under the tongue thermometer read 100.4 at one point and the TempleTouch™ read 100.1. I'd say that was pretty close to the same. When I tested it under my arm my thermometer read 99.5 and the TempleTouch™ (when changed to the … [Read more...]
