Pinterest is flooded with quick workouts you can do inside — all claiming to burn hundreds of calories in just a few minutes. I’ve tried most of them. There is one from Prevention that claims you will shrink a size in 14 days, and I don’t see how that is possible. Maybe it’s because I [...]
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So, you’re wondering what I got in my Altoids Tins? This particular one came from the one who loves green — which explains the green highlighter used to write my treasured “Gift Tag.” He even borrowed a little ingenuity from this Origami Master Brother to make an “envelope” that was a shirt — without a tie, because [...]
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When my son complains his head is itchy, I don’t, after years of watching him go through this, automatically assume he has head lice. After I do a check, with a flashlight and a magnifying glass to make sure there are no eggs, I tell him it’s dandruff again. “Oh no, please not the vinegar!” [...]
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Two out of four is pretty darn good. I didn’t even serve them a kale shake yet (because mine is gone before they’ve had a chance to taste it– and they are grossed out by the look of it.) This method, “frying kale” tastes so good!!! You can wipe that vision in your head of [...]
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A review of the top ten yoga DVDs for beginners and beyond and how to develop and maintain a home yoga practice.
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Have you taken a look at the new “plate” that replaces our “food guide pyramid?” This plate is now the official USDA’s new food guide recommendation. The vegetable spot is now the biggest spot – taking up twice the space of the protein and carb spot!- the spots that typically hold most of our meal. Visuals [...]
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BlogHer and Knorr sent me a package of Knorr’s new Homestyle Concentrated Kitchen Stock to see if I could come up with a new recipe. Of course, simply because it’s summer, all I could think of was… flowers. If you’re looking for a way to introduce these nutrition-packed Daylily blooms to your family’s plate, this is [...]
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My first “mommy I’m sick call” came yesterday while I was in the checkout line in the grocery store. (Same exact place I was standing two years ago when I received another sick call.) I pulled out a tube of these “sugar pills,” Boiron Oscillococcinum, which, yes they do taste like sugar — but are [...]
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As if having the frogs around wasn’t enough, they came with an accompaniment. Poison Ivy. Frogs like to live in the tall grassy weeds, and there, unbeknownst to my son, was a big bed of Poison Ivy. He had marched right though the weeds, and there was not one spot of his body that didn’t [...]
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