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Quick and Easy Ways to Ease Stress for All Ages!!
The right amount of stress can be very motivating. It can encourage you to get things done at work, at school, and at home that you would otherwise put off. However, the stress in many people’s lives isn’t this kind of stress. In today’s world, stress is pervasive and persistent, and it’s destroying our health. If we don’t learn how to manage stress, we can suffer from lower immune function, and decreased cognitive abilities, and chronic stress can even cause adolescents to develop coronary heart disease later in life. Destressing takes a little work, but it doesn’t take as much work as you might think. Here are a few quick…
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GRRRRRR…..
Today was one of THOSEdays. Where you come home frustrated and mad. It took everything I had not to buy the 1 pound bag of Peanut Butter M&M’s and eat ‘em all. (For those of you who think I’m kidding…. ummm Serving SIZE equals CONTAINER size!! This goes double for M&M’s!) Instead I bought the (normal) single size bag. I ate the first few mindlessly………. realized what I was doing and slowed down and enjoyed the rest of the bag. (btw those bags are tiny!!) Where chocolate was supposed to make everything better what I think I really need is a punching bag and channel Rocky Balboa! GGGRRRRR!!! Anyway for…
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6 Tips to Help Ease Your Child’s Fear of the Dentist!
Unless you are a dentist, it isn’t likely that you love trips to the dentist. You might even get nervous or anxious with every visit. With that being said, imagine how you feel before each dentist appointment and amplify that. Then you might begin to understand how your child feels for their dental appointments. It is possible to ease those anxious feelings and help your child feel more comfortable at the dentist’s office. You might even find some of these tips working for yourself. The team at The Village Dental Center has compiled a list of tips to help ease your child’s fear of the dentist. Start Young Don’t wait…
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Do a 180!
My great friend Stephanie in New York sent me the cutest magnet for my fridge! It has two phrases the first “Step away from the fridge there is nothing in here to eat. Put your arms down, put ‘em down! Yea! I want you to do a 180 and walk back to the rice cake immediately!! YEA!” the second is “Oh my goodness I hear the carbs calling your name — ohhh listen listen quietly “ohhh I loovvee you” See? See?? I told you so!. Thank you Steph! How did you know those are the exact arguments that go thru my head every time I go near the fridge!
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Top Tips For Marketing Your Mom Blog!
Mom blogs are currently one of the most popular niches of blog online. If you are considering starting a mom blog, this is great news for you, because you have a very wide reader base to appeal to. At the same time, the con to this fact is that you’ll have a lot of other (and larger) mom blogs to compete with. Even if you have the greatest mom blog in the world, no one will find it and read it if you don’t know how to market it so it stands out from the crowd. Fortunately, there are many effective and proven blog marketing techniques at your disposal. Here…
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FotoJet Designer Graphic Design App! GIVEAWAY!!
I am forever trying to find, create or design a pretty header that fits Peanut Butter and Whine. It’s not easy! I should say it WASN’T easy. FotoJet Designer is a simple and yet powerful graphic design app that allows me the freedom to design a header for everything from Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook and my blog. However, it does even MORE! Invitations? Yup. Store signs. Yup. Magazine cover? Yup. So much more!! The best part!? It doesn’t take a PhD to use! It’s not only easy to use but it’s rather addicting once you get started. Like how I get you to look at pictures of Alice without just plastering her…
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Back away from the flame!
If I have a hot flash why doesn’t it burn fat? All the hot flashes I have had you would think the fat would just melt off!
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Solving the Most Common Bra Shopping Issues!
If you are anything like most women you are not great at going out and buying yourself new underwear. The majority of us own at least one bra that has seen better days. Yet we still will not go out and replace it. Why that is, varies from person to person, but there are some issues that are common to most of us. Fortunately, as you will see, there are some really easy ways around most of them. Finding the right bra feels like mission impossible. At least once, most of us have spent hours trying on bras, only to go home empty-handed. As a result, we kind of expect…