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The International Car Wash Association (ICA) through its Wash With Watersavers consumer awareness campaign, is committed to promoting the importance of using eco-friendly carwashes that use less water and return clean water back into the environment.

Winter is a time to get together with family and enjoy the holidays, but getting ready for the change in seasons is no small feat. It takes time and planning to make sure your family and your home are ready to brave the elements.

A lot of people’s holiday shopping lists get larger and more expensive each year.  My husband always only asks for one thing – Chocolate.  To be more precise…Dark Chocolate.  I think he would be thrilled with a delicious dark chocolate gift set from sweetriot, a small mission-based company in NYC which strives to build tasty little morsels for a different generation.

sweetriot’s riotBar 70% Quirky Quinoa comes in packs of twelve riotBars.

Earlier this week I was invited to participate in a sponsored post campaign for Collective Bias where I was asked to come up with a DIY craft using Wrigley’s Extra Chewing Gum to create a holiday gift.

As the weather gets chillier we find ourselves seeking cozy refuge inside for warm, delicious food connecting friends and family around the table.  My parents are visiting us right now and between Amber working odd hours and being out and about quick foods are where it’s at right now for me.

Whenever I smell the scent of gingerbread it’s like time rewinds.  My grandmother would bake dozens of cookies and we’d eagerly run to her kitchen on Christmas Eve begging for a taste of them before we’d even eaten dinner.  Even now 30+ years later any time I come across that scent I remember those Christmas evenings, with my siblings and my cousins huddled around the small kitchen table indulging in those frosted gingerbread cookies.

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Maytag needs your help to select the best candidate for the 2013 Maytag Dependable Leader Award – an award to recognize someone committed to making a difference in the lives of youth – through America’s Vote competition.  I first learned about this partnership that Maytag has with the Boys & Girls Club of America at Blissdom earlier this year, and was so glad to see a large company team up with an organization that supports the nations young people, and I wanted to share this information with you, so you could help make a difference too.

You all know this is probably the busiest time of the year for a blogger.  It’s great that I get to work from home especially when I have company.  My parents are arriving this evening from Canada to spend some time with us over the Thankgiving holiday. 

Then I realized – my mom is going to want to use a computer while they’re here.  And that’s hard for me to let her do, because no matter how many times we tell her to not click links in e-mails, she just doesn’t listen.

The countdown to the 75th Hunger Games: Catching Fire leaves us with just ONE MORE DAY!!!  And I got a jump on the Panem action with a delivery of ‘Capitol Bars’ artisanal chocolate in 12 Hunger Games inspired flavors.

Each Capitol Bar in this collector’s set celebrates a District’s speciality, from Technology to Lumber to Livestock.

With ingredients from harvest cherries to smoked chipotle chiles.

My family and friends are posting pictures on Facebook of snow and and cold temps, and while it’s just beginning to feel like Fall here (ha ha you all!), I know a lot of you are in the same boat (or maybe I should say the same igloo?!).

Well this is the season where our slow cookers get worked overtime, and we’ve got a delicious and easy recipe from eMeals to share with you: