ToysInTheDryer focuses on finding ways to spend quality time with your children. However, sometimes you need a break from them, and/or they need a break from you. It can be difficult to keep your children entertained (and quiet) while you get that much needed 15 minutes to yourself. It might also be hard for you to let go and relax for short periods of time. Playing games online solve both of those problems! Pogo.com offers 100+ FREE online games suitable for multiple ages and interests. They have everything from simple, relatively low thinking games such as Mahjong and Poppit, to Scrabble and card games that require some level of concentration, all the way up to Chess and casino games that require skill. Pogo.com even offers multi-player games! I prefer the low thinking games and some of the classic board games. Nutty (age almost 6) loves that she can play the low thinking games (Bejeweled and Poppit) just like her mom! We use online games from Pogo.com as rewards for Nutty and … [Read more...]
Quick and Easy Meal Planning with Relish!–Giveaway too!
What's for dinner? It is a question that many of us dread each day. What is for dinner? What do I have the ingredients for? Ugh...I don't feel like cooking... If you've been paying close enough attention to our blog, you know that Lindsi is a meal planning freak "expert" and Jamie has been trying her hand at meal planning too. We both find meal planning to be helpful in stress, energy, and money saving. It also helps with the dreaded, "What's for dinner?" question! The one problem however, is the time it takes to come up with recipes. Flipping through multiple different websites and cook books can get confusing and overwhelming. Add in the time it takes to make a grocery list for all your meals and making a weekly meal plan can take up to 1/2 a day! That's where Relish! comes in! We've been using Relish! for our meal planning for a little over 2 months and we couldn't be happier! The first week Jamie used Relish! her Facebook status said, "Trying out a new online … [Read more...]
Plates In The Dryer–Sponsor Spotlight 2
Our Plates In The Dryer event is this evening and we are SO excited! Today Jamie will be running around picking up last minute things such as the cheesecake and coffee, Lindsi will be attempting to keep her kids in line, Julie and Stephanie from Color Me Mine will be setting up the studio, and Rod from The Imagery will be preparing his camera and other equipment. We wanted to take today's post to send a shout-out to the sponsors who have joined our Plates In The Dryer event since we did our first sponsor spotlight post on March 1st. If you haven't checked out our first sponsors, please do! As a reminder, here they are again: First, we're excited to be offering up a great prize in the giveaway! It's from Scentsy! Lindsi is an Independent Scentsy Consultant and she is offering one of our lucky guests a fabulous plug in and bar of wax. How cool is that? We sure hope you will swing by Lindsi's Scentsy page and check out the wonderful items that are available for purchase. Scentsy … [Read more...]
The Myths About Signing With Your Baby
Today we are pleased to have Kristy from HearMyHandsASL.com guest posting for us. Hear My Hands recently became one of our sponsors and we are so thrilled to be working with her! Jamie has a special place in her heart for ASL (American Sign Language). She started learning it in First grade when her elementary school partnered with a school for the deaf a few miles down the road. Years later, Jamie took ASL as a second language in college. Unfortunately Jamie has not kept up with her ASL skills and has lost most of it. She was hoping to teach her girls sign language at a young age but her husband wouldn't let her due to popular myths. We now have Kristy guest posting for us so that others don't fall into those same myths! Check out Kristy's website HearMyHandsASL.com. She's got some GREAT info on there and has frequent signs for words up on her blog. If you're in her area, check out her classes! Without further ado, here is Kristy... The most common myths when … [Read more...]
Fight Hunger Together
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Walmart Foundation. All opinions are 100% mine. More than 50 Million Americans don't know where their next meal will come from. People tend to remember that around the winter holiday time, however we forget that those 50 Million Americans go hungry year round. Springtime traditionally brings a decrease in food and charitable donations to food banks around the country. To Help bridge the Spring hunger gap, Walmart is working with Feeding America and four of the most recognizable food brands in America- ConAgra, General Mills, Kraft and Kellogg's - in a nationwide Fighting Hunger Together initiative from Monday, April 9 through April 30. Our Toys In The Dryer readers can join the fight against hunger in-store or through Facebook. Between April 9th and April 30th Walmart will be hosting Vote to fight spring hunger with Walmart on Facebook. Fans can rally support for communities in need of hunger relief. Vote among 200 … [Read more...]
Wee Gen – Seventh Generation Diapers- AWESOME!
Going green, when it comes to diapers, can mean lots of different things. You could interpret it to mean "I am going to cloth diaper and use cloth wipes" or "biodegradable diapers and biodegradable wipes" or even "disposable diapers that are chemical free." Either way you look at it, it involves a little bit more effort on your end but in my honest opinion totally worth it! My "need to be green" started when my youngest was 3 weeks old. We used the same diapers on him that we had used with our previous three children. We noticed that his poor little bottom was getting redder and redder with every change until at 3 weeks of age is bottom was so raw that we took him to the doctor. He had been diagnosed with a chemical burn from the brand of diapers we had been using. I was horrified! A chemical burn? Really? Yes, really! We had to use 3 different prescription creams to help heal his sweet bottom up and used cloth diapers until he was completely healed. After that experience I did … [Read more...]
