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    Fitness Flower Review and GiveAWAY!!

    A 2013 Holiday Gift Guide Pick! I am stating it here and now. I need to lose weight and get into shape ASAP. These Grandkids are kickin’ my butt!! I don’t want to be the Grandma that sits in a chair and watches! I want to PLAY TOO!!  So, baby steps, cause well, you know… it’s me.  I love to eat and I’m not overly fond of exercise! BUT!! If I exercise for 2 minutes at a time? I could do that!! Hello The Bathroom Begonia from Fitness Flower. This is a really cool concept. It’s pretty. Bright colors, yellows and greens. It really looks pretty on the bathroom mirror.…

  • The Hoo-Rag

    FINALLY!! That’s how I feel about the Hoo-Rag. Seriously! I often wear a bandana, especially when we are camping. Just a plain old red and white cotton one that I have to continually have to re-tie, re-adjust. I’m loving my Hoo-Rag!! Not only is it super cute!! It’s comfortable. REALLY comfortable!! Now, all that said and done, it’s really unfair to compare a Hoo-Rag with a bandana. A Hoo-Rag is soooooooooo much more!! SO much more!! I can wear my Hoo-Rag in so many ways!! It’s comfortable all DAY long!! It’s stylish and so very versatile! The Hoo-Rag is a seamless, tubular bandana. It’s made of 100% polyester microfiber. There…

  • Excerpt from “A Parent’s Playbook”

    Enrichment Activities “It’s what we’re excited about that educates us.” ~Lives on the Boundary. Rose, M. (1995) A mother raven flew over a swan swimming in a lake, and thought him unspeakably beautiful. Believing that his fine white color came from washing in the water in which he swam, the raven left her nest and took her chicks to live near the lake. But no matter how often she washed her baby birds’ feathers in the water, their black color never changed. Instead the birds all nearly starved because the food they ate did not exist near the lake. Once the mother raven realized the error of her ways, the family…