Don’t forget to watch “Christmas in July” on QVC and look for Twin Sisters Productions. They will be promoting their line of Christmas Card that come accompanied with audio/music CDs.
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Celebrate Christmas in July with Twin Sisters Productions and QVC!
Christmas is Coming! And it’s time to celebrate Christmas in July. Time to start thinking about your Christmas cards and there’s no better place to start than with Twin Sisters Productions. Twin Sisters Productions will be promoting their Christmas cards accompanied with audio/music CDs on QVC. Be sure to watch QVC on July 20th and 21st. As an added bonus – Twin Sisters Productions will also be offering FREE three past Christmas album downloads from QVC when ordering a CD set during the first airing.
In order to obtain the additional downloads you must.
- “Like” Twin Sisters Productions on Facebook – By liking Twin Sisters Productions on Facebook you will find out the time their 2012 CD Greeting Cards are airing on QVC.
- Buy a set of card during the FIRST airing.
- Send an email to Megan.Taylor@twinsisters.com with your name, address, and receipt number to redeem your prize.
So tell me, do you celebrate Christmas in July?
I will receiving a promotional item for writing this post.
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Animals, Cleaning, 4th of July Plans & Monday Motivation
I don’t know where the days go sometimes. It’s July already. It seems like we have been mostly cooped up with the 90 degree temperatures we have had last week and again this week. Hot. Hot. Hot. It’s teaching our children diligence in taking care of the farm animals. Did I tell you we lost our second bunny due to the heat 2-3 weeks ago? The wind picked up that day and ended up knocking over Darth Vader’s cage, we had checked the chickens and due to having checked the bunny earlier after playing with him none of us thought anything of Darth Vader. Well, the children found him and he must have been at death’s door because no means of cooling him down or giving him water revived him. 
We’ve had a farmer friend who has said something to the affect that on a farm there is death. We have certainly found that out fast and furiously. Some of the children want to replace the bunnies and some do not. They’ve started a bunny fund, so we’ll see. We are working on visiting a breeder in the area.
Cleaning
Ever feel like you have to spring clean every day, week or month? I do. Sigh. Over the weekend I scrubbed our dining room carpet and steam vac’d it. It was getting so grungy and dirty. Then I had the children working on their rooms and the play room. Thankfully the girls restored the storage room to neatness last week. So we’ll have lots to give away tomorrow when the “give away” truck comes.
I still have to get at the office yet again due to the children having their laser printer in there for printing off coloring pages and things not getting put away after our last event. It looks like a tornado went through it.
Slowly but surely things are getting cleaned again. It feels so good to organize, now if only we could all get into the habit of daily maintenance maybe things wouldn’t get so out of control!?
4th of July Plans
The 4th of July is only a couple of days away. Our children asked if we could have the “cousins” over and my brother-in-law expressed an interest in coming up to see our pooch and the other animals last week, so we are going to see if they have plans. Nothing like the last minute, that’s my husband’s style. I think we will grill something on our camp stove and I found this yummy looking dessert, I can’t remember what it is called but I pinned it so I could find it easily! It’s a Red Velvet Triffle from Rebecca Parrsons at MomItForward.com
Source: momitforward.com via Theresa J on Pinterest
Monday Motivation
This is a rambling Monday Motivation, but my brain is in ramble mode. My motivation this week is to get the living room and hallway carpets cleaned. Makes me fell so good to get the house cleaned and sparkling.
I also have some paper work to do….actually a lot of paper work to do between the businesses and getting something completed for my husband.
I have been watching the new season of Extreme Weight Loss, have never watched it before, but that show is really inspiring. That and watching some food documentaries has made me want to try losing weight again. At least I am motivated to, but as far as a plan of action and execution goes…not sure where I am with all that yet. I may kick off that motivation with a Slique Kit giveaway! So come back tomorrow to check out the giveaway and the final review of the last product!
Tell me how you are keeping your pets cool in the heat? Do you have an cleaning projects you are working on? What are your 4th of July plans? What about weight loss goals? Leave me a comment below to tell me.
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TinyPrints.com
Need invites for your summer parties? Planning a wedding or shower? How about a birth announcement? Got a kid’s birthday coming up? I Do! Head over to Tinyprints.com for your invite printing needs. Once you pick your card, this is a very user friendly site. It walks you through each step of the card. If you need to edit, just click on it! Very simple.
Check out all of https://www.facebook.com/tinyprints
· Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/tinyprints
· Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tiny_prints/
I will be receiving cards for posting this blog information.
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Father’s Day Frosty Weekend & Giveaway!
This weekend is Father’s Day! What plans do you have? We do not have anything fancy planned, just a quiet day at home. Simple is our motto these days. However, if you are still clamoring for a gift for dad, perhaps you would like to give a gift that gives back. Wendy’s has something that you and your whole family can do that will also help other families! It has a yummy factor too!
Now through Father’s Day, anyone can help children in foster care find permanent, loving homes. Wendy’s is inviting all of us to help continue it’s Father’s Day Frosty Weekend tradition – for the sixth year in a row! Wendy’s is raising money for Wendy’s Wonderful Kids. This is a program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, which focuses on helping children in foster care find their forever homes.
Here’s what you need to know:
Who: Everyone! And dad, too!
What: Help Wendy’s make a big donation to Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, the signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption that is dedicated to finding permanent adoptive families for children in foster care. They want to beat last year’s $1.4 million donation! Let’s help them get there!
When: Father’s Day Weekend (June 16 – 17)
How: There are three ways to donate:
1. Buy any Frosty product: On Saturday, June 16 and Sunday, June 17, for each Frosty product purchased, participating Wendy’s will donate 50-cents to Wendy’s Wonderful Kids. (includes the original, parfaits, shakes and floats).
2. Use a mobile-friendly website to check in at Wendy’s: Wendy’s will donate 50-cents for every customer that checks in at Wendy’s restaurants during Father’s Day Weekend (June 16 and 17 only) using Wendy’s special mobile-friendly website found at www.wendys.com/treatitforward .
3. Re-tweet: Now through Father’s Day, re-tweet one of @Wendys special Twitter posts with the hashtag #TreatItFwd—and Wendy’s will make a 50-cent donation. You can follow @Wendys on Twitter at https://twitter.com/wendys.
Giveaway!
Prize: 3 winners will each win a $7.00 Wendy’s gift card!
How to Enter: Simply enter the Rafflecopter choices below.
Faith and Family Reviews received a $10 Wendy’s gift card for our family’s use and a $7 Wendy’s gift card for the giveaway as a participant in this Wendy’s campaign through TheMotherhood.
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Happy Mother’s Day & Discount Code!
Happy Mother’s Day!
In honor of this fine day, Body Bark (read my review here) is offering you a 20% discount in honor of Mother’s Day. There is a special the discount code “Faithandfamily” that can be entered in the promotion field while shopping at www.BodyBark.com. The code is only good through May 13. Hope all you moms treat yourselves to some Body Bark for Mother’s Day!
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Spring Cleaning #CBias #EasterSmiles @Colgate
Have you started your spring cleaning yet? Did Easter gifts put you in the mood to purge? My spring cleaning seems to be ongoing. We’ve done most of the closets – sorting, purging, organizing and packing things away. The garage was started but it’s far from being done. I did get brave and packed up some winter things, not all, after all we are still getting frost. Who knows if we could get another snowfall. This is Chicago.
This week I decided it was time to go through our bathroom medicine cabinet. We do not have a lot in our medicine cabinet, but since it has been several months since we moved, I thought it was time to see what was really lurking behind those doors. We have three sections in our medicine cabinet. One side is mine, the middle is for family and the right side is my husband’s.
My Side of the Medicine Cabinet
The Middle
The middle side has scissors, band aids and thermometers. Pretty bare…
My Husband’s Side
Hmmmm…..what’s down there in the right-hand corner?
I found some interesting dates on some peridontal stuff called Peroxyl, also a Colgate product, in my husband’s side of our medicine cabinet. As I was going through the cabinet my four year old and 20 month old jibber jabbered away at me.
Take a look at these dates, if you look closely enough you can see they are from 2007 and 2009. I had no idea they were that old, neither did my husband.
Look closely at the edge
I promptly threw them into the garbage can.
I found Ibuprofen that is still good ’til 2013 and ear drops good thru 2014.
We definitely had toothbrushes that needed replacing. My youngest daughter, Blondie and I went shopping at Walmart and bought the Colgate Nickelodeon toothbrushes by Dora the Explorer and Spongebob Squarepants. Perfect for our younger children. You can see more of our shopping trip on Google+.
Oral hygiene is important to our family especially since my husband suffered from gum disease several years ago. Let’s just say he’s very good at giving the children reason to brush their teeth!
To learn more about Colgate products visit their website, follow them on Facebook or Twitter.
Happy Spring Cleaning!
This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. #CBias #EasterSmiles
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Girls and Boys Bibles – Last Minute Easter Gift Idea
The NIV Girls Bibles if for girls 9-12 and not only does it have a Bible inside, but it also has a ton of extra features like a dream girl section where girls can use their imaginations, finding out what they have in common with great women of the Bible, words to memorize, and answers to questions that they have always wanted to find out about.
My girls really liked the notes on the side/bottom of the pages and the index in the back too. Most girls will love the frilly pink design and cute flowers that are scattered throughout. It also has a read the Bible in a year index is something that most girls will love and I know that my girls did. They will also love the list of verses to read when you are feeling bad or upset.
The NIV Boys Bible is targeted with boys ages 9-12 in mind. With tons of cool features and devotions designed to strength your boys walk with God parents will love that their boys are leaning values at a young age. The colors and textures in the boy’s Bible will appeal to them since it is very “manly” and they will love the metal cover. They will also love the gross and gory section that features all the weird and cool thing that you never knew was in the Bible. It seems to be very sturdy and I am guessing that it would last through even the most destructive boy.
Both Bibles are really nice and tweens will love the extra features. I’m not too crazy about the hardcover, but I prefer soft cover Bibles so that is just a personal preference. I think that these would make nice bibles for tweens and then you could “upgrade” to a more adult Bible when they reach their teen years and outgrow these.
The NIV Bibles can be purchased at bookstores nationwide and www.Zondervan.com A great last minute Easter gift idea!
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Too Many Easter Eggs!!
This past weekend my family and I went on 2 eggs hunts, with more planned Easter weekend. My daughter had a great time and we enjoyed watching her at the hunts. BUT NOW!!!!
What am I going to do with all these plastic eggs!!!
Sure, I could store them and save them for next year (which I will – for some). I was thinking there’s gotta more uses for these plastic eggs than use them once a year! Right?
There’s TONS of great ideas all over the web! You can make a wreath, store jewelery in them, or my favorite – clean them good and put snacks in them!
Here’s my ideas –
Find an egg carton, put a half of the plastic eggs in there and put paint in them! You have a holder and it’s easy clean up!
Cinco De Mayo is coming in May – Put some beans in the eggs and tape them closed. Easy Maracas!
I have lots of eggs, help me out. What are your ideas?
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Pillow Pets Review
Come sing the jingle with me. I know you’ve heard it….
and a 1….. and a 2……
“It’s a Pillow, it’s a Pet… It’s a Pillow Pet!”
When Jennifer Telfer observed her sons crunching up their stuffed animals to make pillow out of them, Pillow Pets was born.
Most little kids have a special friend that goes EVERYWHERE with them. The Pillow Pet does double duty. BONUS for me – less to carry. These snugly creatures are very soft and have Velcro under their belly. They also have a flap to cover the sticky part of the Velcro. What began as only 6 Pillow Pets is now a huge line, including Farm, Zoo, Ocean, Fantasy, Sports, Specialty and Disney. Coppins Gifts has a large variety to offer.
My Review:
Sir Horse joined our family and he is very much loved by my daughter. He has gone from the grocery store to the couch. Much to my daughters dismay – the other day she found her Daddy taking a nap on Sir Horse. So, it’s a great product even for adults! I really like the flap to cover the Velcro, it keeps the Velcro clean and it doesn’t catch on everything. Go and buy your kids a Pillow Pet. Or tell the Easter Bunny to bring one as Easter is coming!!
Faith and Family Reviews received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product.
