Author: Tammy Litke

Crystal Light is excited to announce a fabulous new addition to its drink mixes – 0-calorie Crystal Light Liquid Drink Mix. That’s right, breakthrough flavor with 0 calories.

It’s available in Strawberry Lemonade, Blue Raspberry, Iced Tea, Mango Passionfruit, Peach Bellini and Pomtini flavors. The liquid drink mix comes in a 1.62 fl oz bottle and has enough to flavor 24 servings of water. Plus it is sugar free (the product is sweetened with a blend of non-nutritive sweeteners) and it is gluten free as well.

For fans of Disney/Pixar movies the 2001 animated classic, Monsters, Inc., executive produced under John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, is now available in 3D on DVD, and it’s so cute, it’s scary! Everything that made the original Monsters, Inc. movie special—the loveable monsters, the underlying humor, the workplace shenanigans—has been digitally mastered to HD standards, you’ll want to get a copy for monstrous fun!

As many of you know, February is Heart Health month, where many products and services let us know that it’s important for us to take care of our physical hearts. That’s an important topic to me, since both of my in-laws succumbed to heart disease. But ’emotional’ heart health is just as important, and it’s often something that I need to work on by connecting touches within my own home.

I don’t know if you’re aware of Gary Chapman’s “The Five Love Languages,” but it is a great insight on the basic five ways that people experience love. It’s broken down into; 1. Acts of Service, 2. Quality Time, 3. Gifts, 4. Physical

Shakespeare’s works are some of the archetypes of classics, for both reading and performing. Whichever way you choose to take it, 60-Minute Shakespeare helps you do it. We read the newest edition in the series “Taming of the Shrew,” and Cass Foster has condensed the play so that it’s shorter and easier to read. If you want to act out the play, the abridged version helps the performance to keep to an hour (hence the title).

If you have an 8 or 9 year old boy around your home and you said “A world without UNDERPANTS?!!!” You wouldn’t just be creating bouts of laughter (I’m sure), but also referencing a most loved book series by Dav Pilkey. And the newest book in this series geared for grade school students is:

Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers

Ever wonder how some chef’s stay so skinny? For some of them I’m pretty sure it’s because they know that if they eat food that is loaded with nutrients and protein they’ll stay full and keep their energy up for hours at a time.

Take this Chocolate Shake that you can make for breakfast that Jennifer Iserloh created (adapted from Secrets of a Skinny Chef – 2010) filled with power foods!

Relocating the family is one of the hardest decisions an individual will make in their life. Some areas require extra research before anybody comes to any final conclusions, whereas others present themselves as real contenders early on in the process. One such area of the U.S. that’s proving perennially attractive is the south of the country, where states such as Georgia, Texas and Florida continue to prove popular options for those looking for a different quality of life for their loved ones. Sometimes it’s just the better weather that motivates people to take the plunge, but new jobs and cheaper properties, are often implicated too.

I LOVE Pancakes. They are one of my favorite foods. I could eat them all the time. I’ve begun experimenting with my pancake batter to try and make my pancakes even tastier by stirring extra things into it. Last week I made Rocky Road Pancakes, and here’s how.

I think we as parents all think OUR kids are all-stars. Whether they come home with straight A’s and an Honor Roll achievement, they scored 2 goals in last night’s soccer game, or they just finished their broccoli at dinner – we revel in their accomplishments and want them to succeed.

It’s hard to do all those amazing things when they have tummy troubles though, which is why good digestive health is so important for kids. Culturelle Kids Probiotic can help your all-stars stay in the spotlight!

Valentine’s Day. I remember the first one with my husband, that was 20 years ago! We had only been dating for about a month. He showed up at the door with a teddy bear that had a small box of Lindt chocolates. I still have the teddy bear, the chocolates were eaten pretty quickly.