Author: Tammy Litke

If your kids are anxiously awaiting the DVD release of the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie…did you know that it’s already available on Digital HD?!

My daughter grew up with VeggieTales (way back when they were sold on VHS tapes!).

We loved snuggling up on the couch and watching the antics of Bob, Larry, Junior and the rest of the crisper drawer, laughing, singing and learning important life lessons, and that God Made Us Special and Loves Us Very Much.  She is now all grown up, but we still sing the songs, and it’s actually one of our Christmas traditions to play the CDs while we decorate our Christmas tree.

We didn’t really know how our daughter would adjust to the first semester of her freshman year of college, turns out we didn’t have to worry.  She’s not only doing fantastic academically, but has also made a ton of friends.  To our surprise she’s taken to being the “activities director” among her friends.  That means planning study sessions, coordinating video game tournaments and hijacking our streaming accounts so they can all see the latest episode of Once Upon a Time in their mini-lounge area.  Since she uses her laptop to do this we thought that wireless JBL Charge 2 Speakers would be a great Christmas gift for her.

We do a lot of bulk buying because of the money it saves us but now that there are just two of us at home it takes a lot longer to eat up ten pounds of beef or chicken.  Wrapping the meat up in layers of foil or plastic wrap and then again in plastic bags to freeze is time consuming.  Add to that, it still isn’t completely protected at air getting at it and before we can get at using it up, it often has freezer burn and then we have to toss it.  In which case our savings didn’t end up being savings at all.

Enter in the Ziploc® Brand Vacuum Sealer System.

Decadent treats and wine.  There isn’t much else I need to make a party festive 🙂  And while I like to entertain and provide great desserts and wine offerings to my guests, I’m neither a chef nor made of money.  So this holiday season I welcomed the gift of some dessert and wine pairings from Pacific Rim Riesling wines and Sara Lee desserts.  They are making holiday entertaining easy and fun!

Oh my goodness, there are only 22 days left until Christmas!

I’ve bought most of my ‘fun’ gifts already, but I still do put a few practical ones under the tree for the folks that live here 🙂  You know the ones like socks, flash drives …and toothbrushes.

Lest you think I’m a Scrooge, there’s a reason why those things will be added to the gifts on our daughter’s wish list.

Why is it that the gals that are born with curly hair want it staight and those with straight hair want it curly?  Am I right?!  I have natural curly hair that with age has become more wavy than curly, but give me some curlers, a curling iron or a perm and I’ve got spirals happening! 

While I do on occasion let my hair dry naturally and thus get some great volume (and sometimes frizz!) in it, I do prefer to have straighter hair, but not without some lift.  Alas, I find it difficult to wield the hair dryer, brush, and flat iron with my two hands without burning myself or just having it take too darn long to make it worth the frustration.

It was so good to have our college daughter home for Thanksgiving break.  It was truly the kick off to the holiday season for our family and I was anxious to get out and do some Christmas shopping for her after we took her back to school this past Friday.  College students LOVE electronics (can’t say I mind them myself!) and I want to gift smart this year. Good thing RadioShack can help me out with that.

We decorate for the holidays early around our home.  Firstly because we grew up in Canada, and since Thanksgiving is celebrated in October there once Halloween has passed it’s a free for all when it comes to Christmas decorating.  Secondly not only do I love the holiday decorations, but it takes so much work to get the house all seasonally decorated I want to have it up as long as I can!!  Our tree is up every year on November 11th. 

Last year we bought a brand new 7′ tall LED Christmas tree.  It is bee-you-tee-ful.  It’s the first thing you see when you walk into our home and when it’s all lit up at night, you can’t help but get a warm & fuzzy feeling inside. 

Our daughter has never been a girly-girl.  When most 12 or 13 year old girls were begging their mothers to wear make-up, Amber was more interested in beating the high level in the latest video game or trying to memorize Pi to the 104th digit.  I admit as a mom I dropped the ball when it came to getting her into a skin care routine, part of it was because she really only got a pimple here or there at the time, but the real truth is I didn’t want to fight with her over it.