I make Peyton's school lunch every single day. Most of the time she wants a sandwich. Since that is an easy lunch request to fill I obliged. But I think it would be boring eating a plain old sandwich day in and day out. Last summer I started using cookie cutters to make her sandwiches fun. Cookies cutter are fine but there's a lot of wasted sandwich. Then I found sandwich cutters, they are specifically made to cut your sandwich into fun shapes without all the waste! I've used the dinosaur a ...
Cold Brew Coffee From the Comfort of Your Home
Coffee is a must for my daily routine. It's how I start my day. But sometimes, I rather have an iced coffee. Typically, I would stop at the local coffee shop and pick one up after dropping Peyton off at school. At $4.50 a coffee that can add up pretty quickly. Dripo has an ice drip coffee maker that will let me have my iced coffee without leaving the house. We are also a very active family so I really appreciate that the iced coffee maker is portable. I am looking forward to taking this with ...
Being A Mom Comes With It’s Ups & Downs: Here’s How To Deal With Them!
Before you have a child, you don’t realize how much of a full-time job parenthood is. People tell you how hard being a mom is, but until you have a child of your own, you don’t realize how much time and effort it takes to bring up a child. Of course, all the stress that comes with parenthood is totally outweighed by the love that you have for your child. Life might be stressful at times, but that doesn’t mean that you would have it any other way. However, that being said, just ...
Discover the World of Minecraft and Best Buy
The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free. My nephew is obsessed with Minecraft. He can spend hours upon hours on his iPad and play. So after seeing how engrossed he had been in this game I decided to take an interest. I wanted to know exactly what he was playing. Plus, Peyton wanted to start playing too, so I needed to see if it was appropriate. My nephew gave me a little crash corse in ...
Show Them You are Thinking About Them with Grandbox
Life is busy. And once you have children life becomes chaotic. I feel like I am constantly running from school, to work, to the grocery store, to an afterschool event and then playdates. Not to mention at some point, I need to cook dinner and do laundry. There is just so much to do that it is easy to caught up in my day and forget about connecting with family members that do not live in our house. GrandBox is a great way to show grandparents that you love them and are thinking about ...
Spread Some Joy this Holiday Season
This post was sponsored by Hasbro’s Joy For All brand as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central. All opinions expressed in my post are my own. Our family is the type of family that has at least 2 pets. Growing up, we always had a dog. His name was Half-Pint and he went everywhere with us. When we would go on vacation, Half-Pint would come along. Over the years we've had other dogs and they have all been wonderful. But dogs are a lot of work. There's the daily walk or exercise, ...