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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.

When you’re trying to sell your home and you get offered to write a review on a book called “5 Days to a Clutter Free House” you jump right on that.

I struggle with clutter – it’s not that my house is messy, it usually isn’t, but we like to ‘keep’ things. It’s what we do around here. But as so many of you know, all those little things tend to add up, and then there’s no room to keep them anymore, or if you’re like us in our transition in life, you have to box them up to move them, and it seems so so overwhelming.

In honor of Valentine’s Day and American Heart Month, Master Lock is offering consumers the chance to win a trip to Paris, France for two when you send a love lock through MasterLoveLock.com in their ‘Lock Up Love & Getaway’ Sweepstakes.  Master Lock has renewed their partnership with the American Heart Association and have pledged to donate a baseline of $10,000.  For each lock sent and received through the website, one dollar will be donated to AHA through Master Lock and an entry will be received into the Lock Up Love & Getaway Sweepstakes for a chance tow in a trip to Paris, France for two!

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’m sharing on behalf of American Heart Association and their Go Red for Women Campaign. Women’s heart health is important to me as my dear mother-in-law passed away five years ago from heart disease. February 1st, is the 10th National Wear Red Day, a moment in time when women and their families take action against the #1 killer of women – heart disease. While the movement has succeeded in saving 627,000 lives through awareness and education, the fight is far from over.

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

Well here it is a month into the new year, and I can honestly say that I’ve been doing really well watching what I’ve been eating. I didn’t set out to lose any weight per say, but just to eat a bit healthier and be more active. It’s obviously been working, and I have been using different books over the past few weeks to get into a routine. I have actually lost nearly 4 pounds, plus I have more energy and have been sleeping better!

One of the books that I received was Reader’s Digest “The Digest Diet Cookbook.”