The Bakers Creek Heirloom Tomato giveaway ends tonight, so I wanted to give you an update on my family’s Heirloom Tomatoes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. It has now been four weeks, since I first planted the heirloom seeds. This past week a lot of the seedlings grew so much that I had to replant them. The [...]
I wanted to give all of you an update on my Heirloom Tomatoes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. I almost lost them, as I had the seedlings standing out in the sun, and then the South Florida weather changed in an instant. Instead of sunshine, we had a huge storm pass through, and if I [...]
If you have ever gotten up in the middle of the night to check if your child was breathing, or if you have ever woken him up, simply because you could not see his chest move up and down, then you will love the HALO Safe Sleep Crib Set. I know you’ll probably still get [...]
My frugal garden is providing plenty of tomatoes, and my kids are extremely excited about our first corn crop. Last year I planted the corn too late, and it basically whithered in the heat. This year I started earlier, and it seems to be paying off. Our mango tree is filled with great mangoes, but [...]
Whenever I take my two-year-old son on the bus, I bring along my umbrella stroller to make our trip easier, but the umbrella stroller does not have much of a shade. This is why I bring along the SnoozeShade, a stroller shade that provides shade to almost all strollers. It helps my son take a [...]
Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story A Christmas Carol has come to life in the most incredible way in Chuck Fischer’s A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book. The transformation of this classic tale is spectacular, and page after page Fischer continue to impress with his stunning paintings, which have been made completely unforgettable by Bruce Foster’s [...]
I try to keep baby products as safe, natural and organic as possible, which is why I love the new Organically Grown Baby Lotion and the Organically Grown 2-in-1 Conditioning Shampoo and Baby Wash. The organic baby products from Organically Grown are USDA organic certified, and these organic baby products have been manufactured in a [...]
H Is for Haunted House: A Halloween Alphabet Book by Tanya Lee Stone is a fun alphabet book with a great Halloween spin. Descriptive seasonal rhymes along with detailed and colorful illustrations keep young children interested in learning their alphabet without even realizing it. Reading H Is For Haunted House out loud to my sons [...]
Introducing Jimi Hendrix to a new generation unaware of his legendary status takes courage, creativity and a wise approach. Author Gary Golio has successfully taken on the task in Jimi: Sounds Like A Rainbow, and he keeps both reader and audience coming back for more. Before Jimi Hendrix became a superstar, he was a young [...]
When I come across a good book, everyone around me can usually tell, because I cannot get my head out of it. This was in fact what happened, when I started reading Don’t Kiss Him Good-bye by Sandra Byrd, and as a result I ended up finishing it within a couple of hours of starting [...]
The Chiru of High Tibet by Jacqueline Briggs Martin is a story about the Chiru of the Chang Tang in Tibet. The Chiru is an endangered species, as it is hunted and killed for its special shahtoosh wool, the finest wool in the world. George B. Schaller is the scientist, who set out to save [...]
Always Listen to Your Mother by Florence Parry Heide and Roxanne Heide Pierce is a fabulous story about Ernest, a good little boy, who always listens to his mother. Since Ernest always listens to his mother, it also means that he never has any fun. That is until a new family moves in next door [...]
Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr is a brilliant tale of a young teenage girl and her doubts in life, in God and in her own family. Sam’s mother is in rehab, her father is struggling to keep ends meet, and as the daughter of the town minister Sam is feeling alone, excluded, and alienated [...]
Good Night, Little Sea Otter by Janet Halfmann is a sweet bedtime story about a little sea otter, who is having a difficult time going to sleep. While the sea otter’s mother tries to tug the baby sea otter into bed, the little sea otter keeps coming up with animals that he has not said [...]
Bobby The Brave (Sometimes) by Lisa Yee, is a great book for tween boys, which I enjoyed reading with my eight-year-old son. In Bobby The Brave (Sometimes) Yee has succeeded in combining the challenges of fourth-grade boys and struggles to keep afloat in the peer hierarchy with issues of sibling rivalry, concerns of a strained [...]
