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Living in a cold weather climate for at least 1/3 of the year means that some of us rely on hot beverages to keep our core temperature up during the day 😉 I admit to preferring hot coffee over other choices, but even I can only drink so much of it and often switch to herbal and decaffeinated teas during the afternoon and evening hours. While I generally drink my coffee straight up (unless I’m playing barista), I need my tea sweetened or it won’t be going down.

I recently received samples of NECTRESSE, the new natural no calorie sweetener from the makers of Splenda.

Flickr Creative Commons – By: The Shifted Librarian

My goal everyday is to just get through it without it turning into a reality TV episode. Some days I feel like that clown; juggling fire while walking on bombs! You just know if you drop one — KABOOM! A hectic day can look a little like this in my life:

6:30 AM– Wake up because the phone rings, of course it’s a wrong number and it’s a day I could have slept in a bit longer too 🙁

7:00 AM– Daughter yells from her room that the only pair of clean socks she has, have a hole in them. Laundry or darn? I dig in my drawers to give her a pair of mine. She groans. I groan.

In celebration of diversity, and coinciding with Black History Month, Procter & Gamble has teamed up with Dollar General to honor Every Day Heroes who make sacrifices for their families and are making a difference in their communities. To celebrate the Every Day Hero in each of us, Dollar General chose Sabrina Williams as its Every Day Hero for February 2013. She will be featured in a national television program airing on TNT called “Dramatic Differences.”

I don’t consider myself particularly green, but our family does what it can to reduce the impact on the environment. We’ve been using fluorescent light bulbs for years, I bring my own bags to the store when I shop and we recycle most everything we can if possible.

Papers, plastic and glass are a given, and we gather up our electronics about twice a year when they’re either broken or obsolete and bring those to the hazardous waste site (in our city they take electronics and things you can’t just ‘throw’ in the trash year round).

I don’t know how you all are doing with the New Year’s resolutions, but I suspect some of you have fallen of the band wagon with me. I was doing really well until the other night when we had a house showing over the dinner hour, so we went out to eat. Granted the food was really good, and I enjoyed not cleaning up my kitchen afterward but my decision making on the menu had something to be desired 😉 .

I love movies based on Nicholas Sparks’ books and am looking forward to the new one being released in theaters on February 14th based on his novel Safe Haven.

Safe Haven is an affirming and suspenseful story about a young woman’s struggle to love again. When a mysterious young woman arrives in a small North Carolina town, her reluctance to join the tight knit community raises questions about her past. Slowly she begins putting down roots, and gains the courage to start a relationship with Alex, a widowed store owner with two young children

It’s no secret that today’s moms feel overextended. There’s so much to do and only so many hours in the day! Audrey McClelland, Founder of MomGenerations.com, has four children under the age of eight (and another on the way) and she’s teamed up with P&G to offer her own tips and tricks for keeping the balancing act going. One of Audrey’s secrets: stick with what works. That’s why she is so excited about the launch of Swaddlers in sizes 4 and 5, and available at Target.

We’ve been fortunate in that we’ve had pretty good luck with the appliance we’ve purchased for our homes.

Not too long ago though I was doing some laundry in the evening and had some bed sheets in the dryer. I have a very sensitive sense of smell and thought that I could smell something burning. My husband couldn’t smell it though, so I tried to shake it off. Then when he got closer to the laundry room he said he could smell it too. So I went in, and the top of the dryer was blisteringly hot.

In my ongoing quest to have an iPhone case to match every outfit in my closet, in the short month and a half that I have owned it, I have amassed a small collection of cases. But there are times you want style and fashion and then there are others that you want protection. Good thing for me that Otterbox‘s Defender Cases gives you both.

I have been sporting the Digital Camo Defender Case on my iPhone 4S, in the pink/grey color.