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How to Have a Healthy Family During a Crazy Germ Season

How to have a healthy family during a crazy germ season: Not to brag, but I was a germophobe long before being a germophobe was all the rage. You could call me a pioneering germophobe. Our family socially distanced before it was cool. We lived like hermits and rage cleaned things normal people View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Life Style, Motherhood Tagged With: germs, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, review, special needs

Instilling confidence and raising happy children is a challenge. The Danish way of parenting. Positive parenting tips. Parenting tips to raise happy and confident children. A growth mindset in parenting is important when raising confident kids. #TheDanishWay #PositiveParenting #Growthmindset #ConfidentKids #HappyKids #MamaintheNow

Raise Happy and Confident Children, The Danish Way

What IS the Danish Way? “I just want him to be happy!”, how many times have you as a parent thought that about your child? From a parenting perspective, “happiness” is the greatest measure of success. Every single day we are a faced with opportunities to thoroughly screw up our kids, but at the View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Hygge, Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Reviews, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: Danish, family, Happiness, Kids, Motherhood, Parenting Shortcut, review

LEGO gifts for kids who have a lot of LEGO. A mother of four LEGO-loving boys gives her best shopping ideas and gift inspiration when LEGO is on the wish list. #LEGO #LEGOGifts #GiftsforBoys #LEGOGiftsforBoys #GiftsforGirls #GiftsforKids #LEGOIdeas #GiftGuide #GiftIdeas #MamaintheNow

LEGO Gifts For Kids Who Have a Lot of LEGO!

I just finished our Christmas shopping for the kids! (I know, don’t hate me for it!) There were of course a lot of LEGO sets on the list, and with good reason. Our kids live and breathe LEGO. But what LEGO gifts do you buy kids who already have a lot of LEGO?!  Here are my favorite sets of the View Post

Filed Under: Gift Guides, LEGO, Life Style, Popular, Reviews, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Danish, Kids, LEGO, Mama's Quotes, review

The secret of getting your finances under control. I will show you how to speak with your spouse about your family's finances. You will get a list of information to gather before your review. Educating and empowering mothers.

The Secret of Getting Your Finances Under Control

I look at him, batting my blue eyes and give him a sweet smile. He knows that can only mean one thing. Well, it could mean a few things, but regardless, he knows I am about to ask him for something. The look I get back is a mix between an apprehensive “what now” and a “should I be scared”… We have View Post

Filed Under: Financial Life, Life Style Tagged With: family, Money Matters, review

20 healthy post-game snacks for soccer moms. These snack ideas and the printable are sure to give you inspiration for next time you are called upon to bring snacks after the big game.

20 Healthy Post-Game Snacks

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Kraft Foods for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. 20 Healthy Post-Game Snacks! It was an unseasonably hot afternoon, even for South Florida. The sidelines were packed with cheering parents and slightly bored siblings. A few of the dads had View Post

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: health, Kids, Printable, Recipe, review

LEGOLAND Florida Resort 2016 Event Calendar. Build memories with your family, brick by brick, with these AWESOME LEGO events and happenings!

LEGOLAND Florida Resort 2016 Event Calendar

LEGOLAND Florida Resort 2016 Event Calendar: All-New Events Promise More Fun, More Fireworks, More Time to Enjoy LEGOLAND Florida Resort in 2016.  Full Year of Kid-Friendly Activities Include Two Exclusive New Events, Plus Expanded Favorites Brick or Treat and Christmas View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Reviews Tagged With: family, LEGO, review

Dinosaurs Around the World exhibit at the South Florida Science Center. This is the best and most educational dinosaur exhibit around. Our budding paleontologists loved every roar, fossil and animatronic dinosaur.

An Out of This World Dinosaur Exhibit at the South Florida Science Center

How do you entertain four boys under the age of ten for several hours without resorting to bribes, bodily function contests or sticking them in from of a screen? This was the question I had the pleasure of answering recently when school was out, my husband was working and I had four energetic boys View Post

Filed Under: Life Style, Our Life, Reviews Tagged With: family, Kids, review

An exclusive look at the new 4D "The LEGO Movie, A New Adventure" experience at LEGOLAND Florida Resort. Bonus: release dates of three future LEGO movies!

Exclusive First Look at “The LEGO® Movie™ 4D A New Adventure”

Exclusive First Look at ‘The LEGO® Movie™ 4D A New Adventure’ Offers Sneak Peek of Dazzling New Attraction Emmet, Wyldstyle and Friends Reunite in All-New Story Debuting Jan. 29 at LEGOLAND® Florida Resort. WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (Dec. 16, 2015) – For the first time ever, LEGOLAND® Parks are View Post

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The tips and tricks you need to give the perfect present - to pick the perfect photo! When deciding which picture to memorialize on canvas, ask these six questions.

Give the Perfect Present! Pick the Perfect Photo!

This post and the giveaway are sponsored by CanvasPop. Every opinion stated is mine. My husband started a beautiful tradition years ago for Christmas. He found a present that I would cherish forever, but would have never bought for myself - and isn’t that by definition “the perfect present”? Each View Post

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Christmas Bricktacular Celebration at LEGOLAND Florida Resort. Stunning LEGO builds, fun for the whole family throughout the park.

Must See Christmas Bricktacular at LEGOLAND Florida Resort

Holiday Fireworks Making Spirits Bright During Annual Christmas Bricktacular Celebration at LEGOLAND Florida Resort WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (Dec. 2, 2015) – This December, LEGOLAND® Florida Resort will celebrate the holidays in a uniquely LEGO® way with the return of Christmas Bricktacular Presented View Post

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The 10 People Who Should Always be on Your Holiday Card List! Plus tips on how to save time and money on your holiday cards!

The 10 People Who Should be on Your Holiday Card List

Thank you, Walmart for sponsoring this post. All the stated opinions and experiences are mine. We make more of an effort during the Holidays to stay in touch, reach out and reconnect with friends and family. This is one of the reasons why I love this time of year. Every text message, phone View Post

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Start a LEGO tradition for the whole family! This will grow and expand as the years go by - and the kids will LOVE setting it up each and every year! So much fun!

Start a LEGO Tradition For The Whole Family

It is said that “if you build it, they will come!” As a little girl, living in Denmark, I took those words to heart, year after year… after year. The Danish folklore is full of tales of elves and gnomes who move into your home during Christmas time. These little creatures play harmless tricks on View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Our Life, Reviews, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Danish, DIY, family, Kids, LEGO, Pin THIS!, review

Travel Soccer Parents, you need this for your team! This app will truly bring your team together, saving time and the sanity of the parents and the coaches!

Travel Soccer Parents, You Need THIS!

I stepped outside and looked up towards the sky. There was an unmistakable rumbling in the sky, just as we were packing our bags, getting ready to head out to the soccer fields. The fields where Jacob practices with his travel soccer team are half an hour away. Loading four kids in the car late in View Post

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Reviews, Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: health, Kids, review

Parenting with Purpose: Tips to stop sassy behavior - and hands-on advice to reconnect with your children! A must read for parents with young children!

Parenting with Purpose: Tips to Stop Sassy Behavior

One of my favorite parenting bloggers, Nina V. Garcia from Sleeping Should be Easy recently wrote her first parenting book: Parenting with Purpose: How to Raise Well-Behaved Children and Build a Strong Parent-Child Relationship. I am so excited to share the book with you, as I know it will truly View Post

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Motherhood, Parenting, Reviews, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: Kids, Motherhood, Parenting Shortcut, review, Toddlerhood

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