March 2010

Cooking Live! A Chattanooga Favorite!

  Today, I attended a “Planning A Weekly Menu” cooking class taught by one of my dearest friends Amanda Varnell. Amanda is a wife and mother of  four beautiful children and she learned, by trial and error, the best plan for preparing food for a large family.    She is the creator of Cooking Live [...]

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Wordless Wednesday!

My work area!!

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Who Doesn’t Need A Good Nap?! And A Giveaway!

  Do you ever wish that you could sleep like a baby again? Well, today is officially National Napping Day!! This is the day I have been waiting for all of my life. People who really know me, know that sleep is on the top of my “favorite things to do” list. To help commemorate this [...]

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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Responsibly!

  St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, and it’s not the luck of the Irish that will keep the roads safe ? It’s planning now for a safe and sober way home.  Are you headed out with friends after work this Wednesday to celebrate the holiday?  No?  Well when you and your family are [...]

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A New Decade Of “Techy” Kids!

Do you ever wonder if our kids are too “technology dependent”.  Will our children ever achieve handwriting skills, know how to do math calculations, how to research information, or how to have a social life WITHOUT technology? Is technology a good or bad thing? I guess it’s all in the way it is introduced to a child at an early age.  I [...]

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Little Remedies!

As a pharmacist, I am always getting questions about over-the-counter and prescription medications for the whole family but particularly infants and adolescents. When a child is sick, the first inclination of a mom is to treat their child naturally or with tender loving care. No one wants to medicate their child if it is not absolutely necessary. That’s [...]

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How Do You Prepare For The Babysitter?

  My husband and I are just jumping on the “we need a regular babysitter” bandwagon. There is just so many times you can ask your family to watch your child without seeming imposing. We prefer our babysitter to come to our house and watch (entertain) our son there because he is in his familiar environment, [...]

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How Blogging Helps Me To Express My Passion!

Mabel’s Labels, a company that designs personalized labels for children’s products, is offering a great opportunity for a blogger to win an all expenses paid trip to the Blogher 2010 conference and a one year paid blogging contract with their company. In order to enter the Mabel’s Labels Blogher’10 Contest, all I have to do is answer this [...]

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Longevity of Marriage!

    This month, my parents celebrate 51 years of marriage. I just had to write about the longevity of their marriage because in this day and time, marriage is a very disposable union. So, in order to make this post more personal, I decided to interview my mom and ask her specifics on what makes their marriage [...]

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Learning The 5 Senses!

Our second Pre-K class at the local museum focused on the five senses: hearing, seeing, smelling, touching and tasting. During the class, the kids got a chance to study art work that portrayed images that related to the five senses. We saw a painting with birds and oranges. The teacher of the class played bird [...]

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