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I cannot believe that it’s only 3 weeks until my baby graduates from high school.  I’m seriously behind on the party planning.  It’s a good thing my parents are coming in a week before the big day, because I’m going to need my mom’s help to pull Amber’s graduation party off smoothly.

Doozers is the first Hulu Original for kids! The animated preschool show from the Jim Henson Co. (“Dinosaur Train,” “Sid the Science Kid”) and DHX Media encourages kids to design and create. Inspired by the “Fraggle Rock” characters, it features the four Doozers kids from Doozer Creek, known as “the Pod Squad,” who put their ideas into action.

Doozers premiered yesterday (April 25th 2014) on Hulu, and is  executive produced by Lisa Henson, Halle Stanford, Steve DeNure, and Anne Loi.

If you’ve ever moved to a new city, then you know that exploring your community and the things they offer is so fun and exciting.  I just found out today that not far from our home, actually just an 8 minute drive from my husband’s office, a new Tiff’s Treats is opening.

And yes this excites me because we’re talking about COOKIES!!! Home-made, hand-delivered warm and fresh straight to your door.  Now that’s seriously delightful.

I would think that most everyone that is reading this post has at least one tech gadget in their home. Whether it’s a smartphone, tablet, Kindle, Nintendo DS or a digital camera. At the very least you all probably have a TV many of them flat screens that are plasma or LED. And while some of you might be at the library or a friend or family member’s home reading this on their computer, if you’re not doing it on a mobile gadget, you’re viewing this on your own monitor. So what am I getting at? Then there’s at least one item (or more) on this list that will be handy to you (or at least I hope you think so!).

The church we attend just completed a new building to worship in this spring.  For a few weekends in March and early April they had some guests come and help us open the building and invited and welcomed the community to come visit (and hopefully come back too!).  One of the special guests that came was Nicole C. Mullen. 

I took video of what is probably her most recognized song “My Redeemer Lives” and thought it was so appropriate to post today.

Kids can be recycling pros and turn trash into cash for their schools through a new campaign with snack time favorite Entenmann’s Little Bites to create a fully recyclable lunch!

The Entenmann’s Little Bites “Recycle… Reuse… Replenish” Fully Recyclable Lunch Earth Day campaign teaches kids the importance of reducing waste while earning money for their schools by redeeming Little Bites pouches for cash and points with recycling partner TerraCycle® through the Entenmann’s Little Bites Pouch Brigade®.

Easter has always been an exciting holiday in our home.  And I literally say IN our home, because more often than not where we lived we needed to have Easter Egg hunts in our house because it was too cold or wet or (yes!) snowy or rainy to have them outside.  It never diminished our daughter’s excitement for searching for the treat filled eggs (or my chagrin at her pulling out few dust bunnies in the process), but what she did miss out on a lot was the receiving of traditional Easter Baskets. 

Blu and Jewel are back for an all new adventure in Rio 2!
The entire cast of the animated smash RIO returns in RIO 2, and they are joined by a new flock of top actors and musical talents. Rich with grandeur, character, color and music, RIO 2 finds Jewel (Anne Hathaway), Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and their three kids leaving their domesticated life in that magical city for a journey to the Amazon.

Remember earlier this month I had the chance to taste Seattle’s Best rich, smooth and “just right” House Blend.  I told you how great their new House Blend is but wouldn’t you rather hear it from someone else? Watch five real guys named Duncan share what they think about our new blend.  You’ll have to watch the video to understand why they chose five guys named Duncan for it…