Month: January 2009

Most kids are out of school on Monday, January 19th to honor Martin Luther King’s birthday. If you need a warm, indoor activity to keep them entertained, you’ll be interested to know that Jumpzone in […]

Okay, so maybe paying the monthly bills will never be “fun,” but one of our Motherlode mamas found some cute checks that might make the process just a tad more entertaining. Check out these “Super […]

  By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s premenstrual mama When I’m in the clutches of a bad case of PMS, I sometimes get on my hands and knees with an old towel and a bucket of hot, […]

As a self-professed “band geek,” I can tell you that the drummers were always the coolest people in the room. Ask any band geek, and I bet she’ll agree. So just imagine how cool it […]

By Gwen There’s a running joke at my house that I’m a plant killer. Mine is the black thumb of vegetative death. So when I ran across an article titled “Houseplants Even You Can’t Kill,” […]

If you’re trying to cut carbohydrates as part of a New Year’s resolution, here are a few recipes from Better Homes and Gardens Biggest Book of Low-Carb Recipes to try. All of the recipes in […]

Dear Amy, I read about a new product that promises to grow longer eyelashes. Does this really work? Dear Skeptical, RevitaLash, Jan Marini Eyelash Conditioner and MD Lash Factor are among a new group of […]

5 And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 ‘for a friend of mine has […]