Valentine’s Day is around the corner and Buy.com has a variety of items for those on your love list!  They offer stylish gifts like jewelry, perfume, and handbags for the lovely lady in your life.  If there is a techie in the family, eReaders, MP3 players, and headphones may come in handy. Video games, stuffed [...]

With the winter weather comes lots of staying indoors.  I know that my main exercise plan is walking and when the temps are 30s and 40′s in the a.m. I will always choose to stay in.  With that decision is the lack of exercise, but now that we finally have a Wii system, I have [...]

A few months ago, a catalog was passed on to me about a Thirty-One Gifts at home party.  I sifted through the pages and saw a ton of useful products for around the home, work, and school.  The various patterns are bright, bold, and beautiful and I was intrigued.  Unfortunately, I lost sight of the [...]

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Last month when I was in Kissimmee I had so many great opportunities to check off my life list.  One of those was flying in a bi-plane.  I called my husband up immediately after viewing my itinerary, “what is a bi-plane?”  “are they safe?”  My husband joked and told me I must be going on [...]

September 14th can’t come soon enough! Academy Award-winning Best Animated Feature “Finding Nemo” returns to the big screen for the first time ever in thrilling Disney Digital 3D. In this stunning underwater adventure, with memorable characters, humor and heartfelt emotion, “Finding Nemo” follows the comedic and momentous journey of an overly protective clownfish named Marlin [...]

I say it every year, “I don’t want anything for my birthday!”  I tell this to my mom, my kids, my husband, and well anyone else that asks.  Just two weeks away from my 39th year, I wonder if I really have meant what I’ve said.  Do I want anything, no.  Do I need anything, [...]

My youngest daughter is turning six in a few weeks and birthday invitations are always the first thing to purchase for the party.  The invites determine the date, the place, and the time, and often the theme.  Once the invitations are purchased and sent out, the rest of the party falls into place. Paperflavor has [...]

2x Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White debuted a new cool home collection available at Target just for boys after Christmas. Shaun White and his brother Jesse are responsible for creating a multitude of designs – from snowboarding gear and accessories, to shoes and apparel, and now, are launching their first ever home collection. Shaun was [...]

Anchor Bay Entertainment and The Weinstein Company released I Don’t Know How She Does It on Blu-ray and DVD on January 3, 2012. The highly relatable romantic comedy stars Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) as Kate Reddy, a wife and mother trying to balance her career and her family life with hilarious results! [...]

There were days when I first started blogging that I had posts lined up for a week a head of time.  I’d have them publish daily and my mind just spewing random things.  Lately with the majority of work done on The Mom Reviews’ posts, I have little time to siphon my pensieve.  But yet,  [...]

Headed to the Sierras last weekend. It’s been such a dry winter, the only snow on the ground was manufactured for the ski resorts. In the sun, kids played with short sleeves and no coats.  So strange. Across the street from our cabin, the lake awaited. Still and beautiful. Though ice cold. The beach full [...]