As you know, summer is in full swing and with the summer heat days are often spent poolside with family and friends. However, a relaxing day can quickly become an emergency if proper pool safety precautions aren’t taken. In 2012 the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated that almost 300 children under the age of 5 drown in swimming pools each year and…
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Step2 Rain Barrel
We do a lot of gardening in our family- we have a large vegetable garden, plus separate beds for pumpkins, rhubarb, asparagus, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. This can make for a lot of watering needs, especially when you add in all of our other planting areas. Having a larger sized yard makes it kind of hard to get hoses that…
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5 things most people won’t tell you about having a baby
1. Babies do not poop in one neat spot. The odds are 110003932432 to 1 that you are going to touch baby poo with your bare hands. Just accept it. There is not a 100% foolproof diaper in existence that can contain every single bit of a new babies’ poo. 2. There are reasons that people with young children have…
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Unexpected Parenting News, continued- and I went shopping, of course.
Yesterday I shared with you some new words in my vocabulary: Alopecia Areata. I did what many of my friends would do- I started poking around online. Shopping is therapeutic- but this was a different kind of shopping for me. It’s funny- looking around online – Bratz and Moxie Girlz both have dolls out with bald heads. Moxie Girlz actually sent us one, which…
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Unexpected News as a Mom- How do you handle it?
Earlier this week, I noticed a bald spot on my almost 5 year old son’s head. His friend had pulled his hair the day before…there wasn’t even mention of it to me, or his friends mom. It was kind of matter of fact. Right after I took this photo, my little guy looked up at me and asked me if…
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The new Hidden Valley Ranch- for Everything: Ketchup’s replacement?!
This post brought to you by Hidden Valley for Everything. All opinions are 100% mine. Hidden Valley has taken its Original Ranch flavor and made a thicker, creamier formula- and they are hoping their new Hidden Valley for Everything will replace ketchup as everyone's favorite condiment! It's a topping, it's a dip… You can find the Hidden Valley for everything…
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