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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.

Are you already fretting about what to make for a Valentine’s dessert because you’re counting your calories, but you don’t want to disappoint your sweeties by making them nothing, or be a bit down yourself because you can only watch them eat it and not partake yourself?

No worries! Fiber One has you covered.

Regular readers of my blog will know that our family is trying to move to Texas. I say trying because we’ve had our home on the market for nearly seven months now, and we can’t move until we sell it. Besides that though, things are going great.

To catch up those of you who may not know about this ongoing saga, our daughter wants to attend UTD next year to get an arts & technology degree, and since my husband can just switch his location to one in the DFW area and we have no family or roots here, we decided it would be a good time to move South.

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.

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If you’ve been reading my blog for a while then you’ll know that my family and I immigrated to the United States from Canada. In 2010 we became US Citizens, after a very, very long paperwork process. When you become a naturalized citizen there are only two documents you can use that prove your citizenship, your naturalization certificate and a passport.

A funny thing happened to us the day we became citizens – it likely wouldn’t have occurred if we lived in a metropolis, in NYC passports can be issued expediently without a very long wait at all. But we live in a small city and the only place you can apply for a passport is the post office.

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings have announced the release of Billy Joel’s She’s Got A Way: Love Songs, a new collection of 18 essential love songs drawn from three decades of recordings by the music legend and composer/singer songwriter. This collection comes just in time for Valentine’s Day!

She’s Got a Way: Love Songs is a perfect distillation of the artist’s expressions of love and romance over the course of his life and career.

We all live for those little moments of Oh! when we look and feel our best. The feeling of Oh! when you button on your favorite old jeans…and they fit! Or the Oh! you get from your friends when you walk into a room confidently sporting a new dress! Those moments of Oh! are some of the best of our lives! When’s the last time you had one of those moments? Who’s said Oh! lately in your life?

Have you ever dreamed of walking the red carpet? Thanks to Crest 3D White, you and your sparkling white smile could waltz down the red carpet at this year’s hottest Hollywood event. The Young Hollywood Awards with “So You Think You Can Dance’s,” Cat Deeley!

Crest 3D White and Cat will be hosting a competition on the Crest 3D White Facebook page, asking the question, “What Can a Crest 3D White Smile Do for You?”

If you’re looking for new, more productive ways to get things done in your home and life, one of the best resources you’ll find is Mary Hunt’s “Cheaper, Better, Faster” book. This book is full of tips that can help you do what you’re already doing, well….cheaper, better and faster. But probably the main benefit is actually finding solutions to annoying problems that you just couldn’t solve on your own. By using these tips, you’ll be using your time and your money more effectively. This book is a wonderful way to help you make smarter changes in the way you do everyday things. Here are a few tips that I really liked from the book: