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With all the fanfare that accompanies a big game you’re probably aware that there is a HUGE soccer event being played out in Brazil later this month. That’s giving many fans a reason to celebrate. Johnson & Johnson and Walgreens are aware that celebrations don’t just need to be about the ‘big’ things, but that families can celebrate every goal this summertime no matter the size.

I woke up last week and realized this is the last summer we have together before we send our daughter into the wild blue yonder.  One more.  Just one last one, before she moves away. 

The weather is heating up and Fruttare Fruit & Juice Bars are a summer treat that you can feel good about indulging in.

June is both National Safety Month and Home Safety Month.  It’s a wonderful privilege to live in a safe community where you know your neighbors and everyone watches out for each other, but sometimes that very feeling of safety makes us become negligent in keeping our home safe from break ins.  As part of the Master Lock Live Secure Safety Squad I want to share a few easy and affordable ways that you make your home less of a target for thieves.  You don’t have to spend a lot to deter a burglar to move on to another home.

Do you crave caramel, chocolate and cookie crunch so much so that you can barely get the wrapper off that candy bar before you take a bite?

Then you’re in luck!  TWIX bars now come unwrapped in bite size pieces.  Just open the bag and you’re on your way to sweet chocolately bliss 🙂

When we have guests the last thing I want to do is cook.  I want to be able to spend us much time with our friends or family that I can and not be hiding out in the kitchen cooking or doing dishes.  When my parents and our best friends were here for Amber’s graduation I made it a point to try and have easy fuss free dinners scheduled for those 12 days.  Something that we could all enjoy but would be effortless for me.

We had four extra people visiting who flew in from out of town during our daughter’s high school graduation.  As we drive a Honda CR-V and a VW Jetta, both which only seat five people, I was a bit perturbed that we were going to have to drive both vehicles everywhere the week our guests were here.

STI Drive came to my rescue though and loaned us a 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander SE for the week, which just happens to be a vehicle that seats seven people.

The American Bible Challenge is back for a 3rd season Thursday May 22nd at 8pm/7C on Game Show Network!

THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE is a spirited game show that celebrates the Bible and its place in American culture. Bible enthusiasts from all across the country compete in a variety of challenges that put their knowledge of the Good Book to the test. The show’s prizing further reflects the celebration of faith, as teams earn money for the charity of their choice.

I teased you a few days ago about the Good Cook Kitchen Drawer Sweepstakes.  It starts on June 2nd.  If you enter you’ll have a chance to either choose 15 Good Cook kitchen tools that you would like to have to make your ultimate kitchen drawer – look for the “Add Me” icon on participating products.

Being a mom is hard.  It’s exhausting.  Much of the time it’s a thankless job.  We often feel like failures.  We put waaay too much pressure on ourselves.  What every mom needs on occassion is a Mom’s Night Out.  A time where she and her friends can decompress, let their hair down and not have two or four or six (or more!) sticky hands needing something that only Mom can give.

I was planning on hosting a Mom’s Night Out party through Mom Select earlier in May.  Yeah, that never happened.  It was supposed to happen.  But you know what it’s like when you have kids.  And your friends have kids.  The best intentions get usurped …by kids.