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The highly-touted family tv movie, Secrets of the Mountain, captured the number one spot in its time slot when it aired April 16, 2010 on NBC. The reason? Families are “voting with their remotes”, showing the media industry that there is a huge appeal for quality family entertainment.

This excellent family movie caused so much chatter, that the day it aired it was one of Google’s most searched terms.

Memorial Day food doesn’t just have to comprise of potato chips and hot dogs.  Using Private Label foods, like those from Daymon Worldwide (they provide the private label brands to stores like Costco, 7Eleven, Stop & Shop, etc.) you can whip up these recipes that their head chef, Chef Kim, has created, to impress your guests, without spending a lot of money.

If you’re getting together earlier in the day, how about making these Mini Spinach and Feta Quiche Soufflés.

I am an antibacterial hand gel junkie.  You will never find me without a bottle in my purse.

CleanWell Hand Sanitizers are up to even the most persistent microbes and bacteria, and is the only range of hand sanitizers proven to kill 99.99% of germs without using alcohol, Benzalkonium Chloride, Triclosan or other toxic chemicals. 

Not only do their products leave hands soft, they use a kid safe formula, so it’s good for everyone in your home to use.

CleanWell All Natural Hand Sanitizers come in convenient pocket size sprays, wipes, desktop bottles and easy to use foams. 

WholesaleKeychain.com is such a fun online store.

Back in February I reviewed a crystal heart keychain, which made a perfect gift for Valentine’s Day.

This time around I get to share a Scrabble Keychain!  This classic Hasbro game, got miniaturized, and is perfect for on the go game play.  So dig out your pocket dictionary and get ready to out spell your friend or spouse the next time you’re waiting in a restaurant or doctor’s office.

Nature provides us with safe cleaners to handle the worst dirt and grime, you don’t have to use chemicals to accomplish that.  But in your wildest imagination would you ever have thought that a company could make them from sugar beets?  Scandinavians are famous for being eco and energy conscious, so it’s no surprise to find that the Danish company, Eco Clean, is doing just that.

Eco Clean, takes the high quality surfactant, D-Glucopyranose, from the fatty acids of plants and makes all kinds of cleaners for your home.

AEB (Active Eco Boost) the proprietary formula Eco Clean uses (which is a natural amino acid derivative), stabilizes the dirt and keeps it suspended in the solution.  AEB goes into Eco Clean’s All Purpose Cleaner, Bathroom Cleaner, Dish Wash, Glass Cleaner, Hand Wash and Kitchen Counter Top Cleaner.

Eco Clean products are fragranced with fresh smelling essential oils, and are great for people with allergies.  “What fragrance is good for allergies?” you say…let me explain.

Happy Birthday Cookie Monster!

I thought about baking a cake to commemorate the day, but I suppose I really should bake cookies!  I have a couple of my own cookie monsters in my home though, so I’m guessing they’re not going to last long.

Actually there is a discrepancy on when Cookie Monster actually celebrates his birthday

June & July’s PartyLite Hostess Special is an exclusive Margarita set.  The party host will be able to purchase this set at a huge discount!  Regularly a $150 value a hostess can get the set for under $65!

The set includes:

I didn’t understand what depression was or how this could take over one’s mind until it happened to me. — Susan Polis Schutz

Depression and Back will provide you with valuable insight about depression if you have never dealt with it.  If you have suffered from depression or are currently battling with it, Susan Polis Schutz’s poetry, may help the healing process.

Susan shares her own profound journey through depression and recovery in this poetic memoir.

Recently released in March of this year; Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther, by Ginger Garrett, is the story of Esther retold in a first-person diary format. 

It is a introspective look into what the daily life of young Esther might have been like in King Xerxes palace.

Last August I had blogged about two Sid the Science Kid DVDs, and I’m glad I can share the newest Sid the Science Kid DVD released on May 4th, Weather Kid Sid.

The music on this DVD is great and will have your kids engaged in the learning process.

There are four episodes on this DVD. In Sid’s Rainy Play Date,