Aquaplay Water toys on sale on Amazon fo 40% off today

Aquaplay Water Toys on Amazon are 40% off today. There are several different sets and accessories to choose from.

Do you have special holiday ornaments for your tree?

When I was growing up our tree never had a “theme” per say. I know people that have beautiful uniform color trees up for the holiday. Or maybe they’re tree followed a snowflake theme or something along those lines. Our tree had engraved ornaments we got from school, handmade ornaments, and free ornaments we gathered along the way. For a while our parents would buy each of us kids a ornament that represented them at the time. For instance, once Christmas I really wanted a 10 speed bike. It was top of my list and I didn’t care if I got anything else. My parents chose a 10 speed bike ornament for me. I still have it and put it on my tree now.

Even though our tree doesn’t look very uniform or designed, it has a lot of meaning. It’s so much fun to look at the ornaments that have pictures of my kids as babies, little handmade ornaments my boys made in school, or ornaments signifying the birth of my children, mine and hubby’s first Christmas and so on.

Add some depth to your holiday with personalized 3D ornaments These will certainly be fun to look at in the years to come. Imagine pulling out your ornaments to hang them on a tree and saying “oh look here’s a family pic from 5 years ago” or whatever may come to mind.

There are so many designs to choose from. So whether your have a hodge podge of memories on your tree like I do or you like to stick to a certain color or theme, you can find a design that fits. These would also make great gifts for grandparents!

Snapily.com also offers animated greeting cards, business cards, and more!

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Real Moms Love to Eat: Book Review #RMLTE

Real Moms Love to Eat by Beth Adlrich is an entertaining book on how to live a healthier lifestyle. Yea, that’s right, I said entertaining. Also note that I said a healthy lifestyle book, not a diet book. Beth Aldrich knows how to speak directly to us moms out there in a way that can hold our attention.

I, for one, was not very savvy as far as deciphering food labels. I knew that too much sodium is bad but how much is too much? What exactly are good fats and bad fats? And what the science babble on some of the labels mean. Real Moms Love to Eat answered these questions for me and then some. Heck, the book even answered questions I didn’t know I had.

Beth Aldrich has a number of degrees and achievements of note under her belt. This list includes: Certified Health Counselor, healthy lifestyle and nutrition expert, a media personality, and author of Real Moms Love to Eat. She is a health and nutritionist columnist for Diet.com, Socialmoms.com, HotMomsClub.com, and RealMomsLovetoEat.com. She is the founder of For Her Information Media LLC. which was established in 2003 that includes productions such as PBS TV series For Her Information, the radio show A Balanced Life with Beth Aldrich, and Real Moms Love to Eat with Beth Aldrich. She also holds a B.A. in English/Journalism from Christopher Newport University in Virginia. There are really several lines more of her achievements I can include but I think you get the idea.

I found Real Moms Love to Eat to be motivating and down to earth. Some of the things I love is that she doesn’t tell you that you’re weak or should be ashamed of yourself for eating a slice of birthday cake or a brownie. In fact, she tells you to go ahead and let yourself have it every now and then. She shares her own anecdotes about her fave treats. There are little exercises in the book you can do that don’t take much time at all. There are also tips and “to-do” lists for each week that can, for the most part, be easily implemented. Great tips about organizing your kitchen, using the healthiest cooking materials, getting your family involved, and lots more.

There are also a lot of great healthy recipes in the book. One that I really want to try is for the nut pate. One thing I can say, is Real Moms Love to Eat really inspired me to choose my foods better. Both for me, and for my family. Here is one of my fill-in grocery shopping trips I did since reading this book.

I much rather buy from a local farmer’s market, but all the farmer’s markets in my area are closed down for the season. So…I work with what I got. I actually spent a little more time in my local grocery stores organic food section too.

Real Moms Love to Eat isn’t available until January 2012. You can pre-order it now though for chances to win some great prizes: http://www.realmomslovetoeat.com/sweepstakes/

You can also find Real Moms Love to Eat on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/realmomsluv2eat
and on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RealMomsLoveToEat

This book is a great read. Entertaining, educational, and inspiring. A definite read for your 2012 book list. Also, I have been doing, and will continue to do reviews on some of the great healthy products I’ve recieved as part of the Real Moms Love to eat Food Affairiate program. You can check out my reviews for Dreamfield Pasta and Peanut Butter and Co. Dark Chocolate Dreams.

***I received an advance e-copy of Real Moms Love to Eat at no cost as part of the Socialmoms.com blogger program and Real Moms Love to Eat Food Affairiate program. I also received a goody bag and will be receiving SocialMoms points for this post. I believe they still have a few openings left in this SocialMoms.com blogger program if you’re interested. Just click on the hyperlinked Socialmoms.com link in this disclaimer.***

Social Picnic Giveaway Hop Nov. 8-15 $500 cash, 19" LCD TV, and More enter here!

The 3rd edition of the Social Picnic event is finally here, hosted by This Lil Piglet and Family Approve. To enter the giveaway, the Rafflecopter giveaway form will be located on participating blogs November 8 – 12:01 AM EST – 16th 12:01 AM EST. All entries in the form below support all the participating blogs, please bookmark this giveaway page, write down where you ended off your entries to make it easier to enter all ways possible over the next 7 days, plenty of time to get ALL entries. We have limited the number of links/entries for each participating blog to make it easier on everyone however we suggest keeping track to make sure you don’t repeat entries. Duplicates are always deleted prior to selecting the winning entry. Please read all Rules, Regulations and Tips below before asking questions.

Giveaway Total Prize Pack Value $920

**If you like this event and want to participate in something similar where prizes are provided and all the work is done for you, check out the Ultimate Gamer event here (sign ups close on the 10th) or if you are looking to find your own sponsor packages and join a hop event, consider Blog Bash Christmas here.**

Enter to win…

1. $500 US Cash via PayPal

Provided by This Lil Piglet and Family Approve

2. Linksys E4200 Wireless Router – $180 Value

Sponsored by Cisco

3. Favi Wireless Mini Keyboard – Value $50

Sponsored by Favi Entertainment

3. Magnavox 19-Inch 720p LCD HDTV – Value $190

Provided by This Lil Piglet and Family Approve

Rules and Regulations of the giveaway:

1. Each entry gains you one entry towards the winning prizes

2. The winning entry will be checked to ensure they have complied with their entry. If it is found that the winning entry has not completed the entry requirement, a different winner will be selected.

3.The $500 Cash prize is open Worldwide. The remainder of the prizes are open to US and Canada residents only. One winner will be chosen and will win ALL prizes. If the chosen winner is located outside the US & Canada, they will win the cash prize only and a second winner will be chosen for the other prizes.

Tips: If you’ve never used Rafflecopter before, it’s an easy way to enter giveaway’s. Keep in mind that Rafflecopter is run using Javascript so you must enable javascript on your computer to use. If you are having trouble, try a different browser or make sure you have updated your computer and browser. If you notice that an entry you already completed now says that you did not, unless it’s the mandatory entry don’t worry about it. Rafflecopter is run on your browser cache; when your browser cache clears so does the saved completed entries in the rafflecopter widget only. This does not mean your entries were not recorded; they were recorded into the giveaway database. If you want to keep track, write where you left off or completed down for referrence later or if you aren’t sure, redo the entry altogether. If there are duplicates, we will delete them prior to selecting the winning entry. Some blogs provided direct links to their GFC however some did not. Please note that the GFC (Google Friend Connect) widget doesn’t always work properly, at no fault to the blog; if you cannot follow this way, please it write down to return later for that extra entry. The more ways you enter, the more chances you have of winning.

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Cyber Monday Infographic from Cheap Sally

I got the email from Cheap Sally asking if I’d be interested in sharing their interesting Cyber Monday infographic with all of you. Since I’m a Cyber Monday fan and I just recently did a post on it, I thought I’d go ahead and share it with your. My favorite part, “how to secretly shop at work”.