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Tips to De-clutter and De-stress
Are you familiar with this situation? You would like to have a clutter free home but you just have so much stuff. It would take ages to sort through everything and you just don’t have the time. So you leave it until you have time ‘one day’, and in the meantime the amount of things you have just keeps on growing, and the job becomes larger and larger. If you want to get on top of clutter you have to be ruthless and firm, pack your sentimentality away, visualize the beautiful room you want, then go ahead and get it! Here I share with you some top tips for…
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Current Giveaway: 3-month Subscription to Tales2Go
Good news! Tales2Go is offering a chance for dandelion moms to win a 3 month subscription with unlimited access to their audio books library. Tales2Go was chosen by The New York Times as a “Top Pick” iPhone App and a receipent of the Moms Choice Gold Award Winner and a Parent’s Choice Gold Award Winner. I love what this company is doing as far as promoting literacy and a love of reading that I featured the co-founder, Tracey Weil, on dandelion moms. There are two prizes for the 3-month subscription and valued at $30 each. Good Luck! To read more of our interview and about the company go here: https://dandelionmoms.com/2012/10/inspirational-moms-tracey-weil/…
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Inspirational Mom: Tracey Weil
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” ~ Jacqueline Kennedy (quote taken from Tales2Go site). One of the things that I feel very passionate about is promoting a love of reading and writing in children. I so enjoyed escaping into my books as a child and still love that feeling of getting so immersed you forget the time. So I am happy to spotlight Tracey Weil, who is the co-founder of Tales2Go. They offer a large selection of audio books for children – on the go. It is such a wonderful way to entertain and educate children with stories that…
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The iPad: Tool or Toy?
Where does the iPad fit in the life of today’s child? Is it a tool or toy? Is it really an either/or proposition? Do you ever feel like you have to justify (to yourself, family, friends) letting your child get engrossed with the iPad? Do thoughts such as these crowd your mind? Reading is important! Digging in the dirt is important! Building gas stations is important! Pretending to be a pirate is important! The iPad is just a toy!! Actually, it’s much more than a toy. Really? “Prove it,” the guilty mind-invading thoughts challenge us. Some apps, such as Penelope the Purple Pirate and Gerry the Giraffe make it really…
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Trimming the Budget Fat
You have just finished creating your budget. You have a list of all of the money you have coming in and all of the money going out. Uh Oh! The amount of money going out is higher than what is coming in. What can you do? Sort out the Need from the Want and then trim the fat! First Steps to Take – Separate Needs and Wants: First, separate your spending into two lists: Need and Want. Let’s consider the Wants as things that you can live without. Prioritize that list of Wants so you can see what is most important to you. We will put that list aside and…
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Feng Shui For Your Home
Image: Flickr Have you ever walked into a home before and immediately liked it? Perhaps it was light, bright and airy? It was welcoming and comfortable, and you felt great while you were there. You could say this house has good feng shui. If you haven’t heard of this term before, in Chinese it means ‘wind and water’. Feng shui (pronounced foong shway) is the ancient Chinese practice of arranging the layout of your home to promote happiness, harmony and wellbeing. And the great thing about feng shui is that it doesn’t require a drastic rearrangement of your home, often just moving a few pieces of furniture around, placing…
