Last night was Junior Prom for my oldest daughter. It wasn’t easy picking a dress but I think we did a good job! She didn’t have a date so her sister and I were her dinner date but that is okay…

I think she looks amazing for doing her own hair, makeup and nails! I can’t believe next year will be senior ball.

Kids grow so fast! Enjoy each day to the fullest!

Here are some quotes about life that I thought some of you might enjoy.

“I participated in a campaign on behalf of Millennial Central for Seventh Generation. I received a promotional item and product samples as a thank you for participating”.

When I was pregnant with my daughter Hannah who is now almost 10 I was involved with a health & wellness home business opportunity where  I learned about all the bad chemicals and toxins that were in many of the products that I was buying regularly in my home. I threw away all those yucky cleaners and vowed to never buy anything with harmful chemicals and bad toxins again.

Will you believe my mom and my mother-in-law both have brought cleaning chemicals with bleach over to my house because they realized I didn’t have any good products to clean with. I had to let them know that I hate the smell of bleach and never buy those kind of products. I won’t buy any chemical with warnings for directions for contacting poison control. I buy products that are safe for the environment and safe for my family to use, like products from Seventh Generation. I remember trying their products for the first time when you could only buy them online. I was so happy when they started selling the Seventh Generation products at Target.

Did you know this…

This is one of the reasons that I don’t use those toxic chemicals in my house. Here are some facts that I want to share just in case you didn’t know…

• More than 80,000 chemicals available in the United States have never been fully tested for their toxic effects on our health and environment.
• Scientists have linked exposure to toxic chemicals to many health risks, such as Cancer, Alzheimer’s, learning disabilities, asthma, birth defects, and various reproductive problems.
• The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was passed in 1976, and unlike other major environmental laws, has never been updated. As it currently stands, tens of thousands of potentially harmful chemicals continue to be used in the marketplace since the 1970’s without proper testing and without disclosure by the companies that produce them.

Stand up for safer chemicals and become a Toxin Freedom Fighter! You can become a Toxin Freedom Fighter by signing Seventh Generation’s petition to urge Congress to reevaluate the Toxic Substances Control Act for the first time since 1976. The original goal of 100,000 has been reached but the more signatures, the better impact the petition will have on Congress!

I have teamed up with Seventh Generation as a Toxin Freedom Fighter and made sure that I signed the petition…

Are you going to sign the petition?

Follow the Action Against Toxins chat by following the hashtag #FightToxins on Twitter.

I received Peeps products in exchange for this post. No monetary compensation has been received and all thoughts are my own.
Every year since I was a kid I have always looked forward to Peeps around Easter time. My Nana would make us grandkids an Easter basket and we always knew we could count on Nana to have a package of Peeps in our basket. Although I know these things are loaded with SUGAR, I still continue the Peeps tradition with my kids and they always know mom is going to have a package of Peeps in their basket.

(My cousins and I at my Nana’s house on Easter 1983)

This year I am having some fun with the Peeps products. Not anymore are Peeps just boring colored marshmallow chicks and bunnies, the Peeps brand has some fun and exciting new products, flavors and colors this year.

For those of you that like chocolate, you are going to love these Peeps. They have Peeps that are dipped in milk chocolate and Peeps that are dipped in dark chocolate. I am liking the Chocolate Mouse Peeps that are dipped in milk chocolate. The ones in the pink package below.

I still like the traditional Peeps and this year they have some pretty colors. I LOVE these green Peeps.

For those of you chocolate fans that prefer the bunnies over the chicks, don’t worry because Peeps has you covered.

For those that like their Peeps pretty, you might want to grab a package of the Party Cake Peeps.

I think I like the Peeps Marshmallow Bunny. For those that don’t like chocolate bunnies, this might be a great replacement. I think I would like mine dipped in chocolate!

Then again, I have my dark chocolate dipped Peeps on hand too!

In my possession is a bag of Peepsters. I don’t know if I should share these on Easter or hide them in one of my drawers and keep them to myself.

At last is my FAVORITE Peeps item this year, the Peeps Milk Chocolate Egg. This is a hollow egg with a a Peeps Marshmallow Chick inside.

I LOVE this idea…

For those of you Peeps fans, what is your favorite Peeps product?

 

I can’t believe we are already halfway through the second month of the year. I have also started the Spring semester at my local community college. I am proud to say that I have been going back to college for a year now. One thing that costs money when going to school is BOOKS. Some books you can find for a good deal online but there are others that can be expensive. For those that would rather rent than buy, there is a website where you can rent your textbooks online called CampusBookRentals.

Here are some of the perks of renting textbooks with CampusBookRentals:

• SAVE 40-90% off of bookstore prices
• FREE SHIPPING both ways
• You can highlight in the textbooks
• Flexible renting periods
• A donation to Operation Smile is made with each textbook rented

For those of you that have taken some classes but don’t want to keep your books anymore, you might want to take advantage of the website RentBack. If you have books that are in demand, you can make some extra $$ by renting them to other students.

How the RentBack service works.

1. Look up your book to see if it is in-demand.
2. If your book is in demand, print a label and ship it to RentBack
3. They rent your book to a student and you make $$.
4. That student returns the book and it is then re-rented to another student making you more $$$.

I have a book from last semester that I paid about $120 for. Luckily this book is still in demand because I may be able to make most of my money back on it if I send it to RentBack.

So getting your textbooks for college may not be such a bad thing. If you can’t afford them, rent them. If you can afford to buy them, use them and rent them out to more students.