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Soup has a way -especially in winter- of being so comforting at the dinner hour. This time of the year we eat it a lot in our home, and I’m always on the lookout for easy soup recipes that I can make quickly.

Imagine putting dinner on the table in 10 minutes with just 4 ingredients…well for the soup anyway, you’re on your own for any sides you want with it!

Still haven’t finished your holiday shopping…Sports Illustrated Kids has you covered!

If you are still checking off your list and realized you missed a young sports fan in your life, Sports Illustrated Kids makes the perfect gift!

It’s the perfect stocking stuffer with no lines to wait on and easy to purchase right online!

Did we mention there is no gift wrapping? It’s delivered straight to their door. It is the gift that keeps on giving the whole year through!

If you’re still out there buying gifts here’s a great idea for a boy.  Hasbro combined Transformers and building blocks to make the ultimate gift for the Building Fanatics.

TRANSFORMERS KRE-O allows builders to construct both the robot and vehicle mode of their favorite Transformers characters with the same set of bricks!

It’s really no wonder that the KRE-O sets are some of Hasbro’s top items this holiday season.

Do your children have Christmas hopes and wishes, for not just themselves but for their family, community and even the world? Print out the elements of the book from the below button and help the kiddos craft their very own Christmas Wish Book, brought to you by the recently released Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups! Once it’s done, be sure to hang their Wish Book from a Christmas tree or mantle so Santa is sure to see it!

Okay, you convinced your mother to get an iPhone, and now she keeps calling you to ask you how to use it. “If only there was a manual for it that she could understand,” you think to yourself.

Well friends, THERE IS, and we’re going to give you a review of it.

The book is called: iPhone 5 for Dummies (6th Edition, in full color!), and it covers not just the iPhone 5 but also the 4S and 4. This is a winner of a book for anyone who has recently received an iPhone and doesn’t know how to use it to its potential. You can read through the

If there is ever a time that I feel like I’m old, it’s when I think that next year I’ll turn 40. 40! Yikes, which sort makes me want ( and not want 😛 ) to see This Is 40.

Five years after writer/director Judd Apatow introduced us to Pete and Debbie in Knocked Up, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprise their roles as a husband and wife both approaching a milestone meltdown in This Is 40, an unfiltered, comedic look inside the life of an American family.

The holidays are right around the corner, and with them come countless opportunities for parents to engage their children in math in festive and entertaining ways, says Laura Overdeck, mother of three and founder of the popular Bedtime Math national online community.

Below are three of Laura’s best winter holiday math tips.

1. Geometry and snowflakes. Making paper snowflakes is a favorite winter activity for kids of all ages. When your little ones are cutting out their

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I LOVE to travel. It likely has to do with the fact that before I could even walk or talk, I was on the go. Being the child of immigrants, much of our family lived overseas, and that included my grandparents. Every few years, we’d make that jump across the ocean and spend holidays with them. In between those travels we’d squish in the car and head south to Florida or west to the Mountains. Before the days of compulsory seatbelt laws…you’d find us sprawled across the back seat, on the floor, between my parents (those old Buicks were HUGE, they didn’t call them ‘boats’ for nothing)….

From the author of the bestselling book 52 Small Changes comes a smart, practical approach to reinventing any aspect of your life that’s not working for you. Whether you want to start eating healthy, switch careers, or improve a relationship, Brett Blumenthal’s A Whole New You will inspire you to take control of your life and to live at your very best.

Drawing on her own experience with personal reinvention, her professional work as a change management consultant, and her research in the fields of psychology and human behavior, Blumenthal breaks down how to successfully reinvent your life in six steps.

Does your jewelry collection make a statement about who you are and what you believe in? If it does, or you want it to, Origami Owl, a social selling brand best known for its unique customizable jewelry and Living Lockets™ line, has released its newest collection—TAGGED^TM. This new line of handcrafted jewelry combines solid fine pewter Tags with earth elements to create a personal jewelry statement just for you.

When asked to do a review of their products, I chose to include the Family pewter tag along with the earth element charms for our three birth months.