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Zaycon Fresh – Coming to You SOON!

For my friends who ask me where we get our delicious chicken and other great meat products from, Zaycon Fresh is the answer!

Formerly Zaycon Foods, Zaycon Fresh is now bigger and better and ready to bring some fresh and fabulous products to you!

Check out their website for a list of events happening in your area and place your order. Don’t forget to tell them TheMegalomaniacMommy sent you!

Since we first had their chicken breasts back in 2013, we have been faithful customers and now Zaycon Fresh is the only place we purchase chicken.

Since our first purchase, we have also tried their Bacon Wrapped Pork Fillets and are now waiting on our latest order for 93% Super Lean Ground Beef to stock up our freezer.

As a matter of fact, with our most recent order of Zaycon Fresh chicken breasts, we whipped up a batch of Wildtree Chicken Alfredo Extraordinaire and it was absolutely delicious.

 

Find an Event Near You

You can find a Zaycon Fresh event near you by registering with their website and you will be notified of events coming to your area far enough in advance to place your order.

Connect

For more information and to stay up to date on Zaycon Fresh, be sure to follow them onFacebook and Twitter.

 

Online Businesses For Stay At Home Moms

Staying at home with young children is a tough job all by itself, but many stay at home moms either want or need to earn a bit of extra money while they are watching the kids. Starting an online business is the perfect way for a stay at home mother to help contribute to the household income while still providing child care for young kids and babies. There are a variety of different businesses a stay at home mother can start online, depending on her field of expertise, hobbies, the amount of time she can devote and any special skills she might have.

Crafting For Cash

One very common online business that many stay at home mothers choose to pursue is selling handcrafted items online. Items that are made by hand are extremely popular right now, and there are a number of websites which allow people who make handmade crafts to list their crafted items for sale. For a stay at home mother, setting up a domain with a web presence explaining her crafts and her process and then linking to her online craft shop is a great way to draw interest to her crafted items.

Self Publishing For Money

Self publishing is one way that stay at home moms can make a nice amount of money without having to work constantly. Short stories, nonfiction articles, recipes and all kinds of other texts can be formatted and converted to electronic book formats and sold on certain websites. By charging a minimal amount for these items, such as a couple of dollars, buyers are drawn to purchase the items. The same file can be purchased multiple times, so the person selling the file continues to make money on it despite it only needing to be created once. This same method also works when creating customizable files that can be sold on crafting websites. PDF files for invitations, paper crafts and other goods can be made along with customisation instructions, with the same file then being sold repeatedly for continued profit.

Freelance Graphic Work and Writing

If a stay at home mom happens to have a special talent such as graphic design or writing, they can make some extra money by joining any of a number of websites which offer the opportunity to write articles or design graphics for money. These websites allow stay at home mothers to work at their leisure, whether their free time is early in the morning, late at night, or somewhere in between. They also allow stay at home moms to engage in a trade that they enjoy and are good at, keeping them involved in a field they may have once worked in or plan to work in again in the future. There are many other tasks that can be done via websites that offer freelance work, such as coding, transcription and photography. If a stay at home mother has a special skill, chances are she can find a way to turn it into freelance employment.

Direct Sales

There are hundreds of direct sales companies and each of them have something new and different to offer. You can sign up for little to no cost with some and a slight investment with others. If you like food and think you can sell it, try out companies like Wildtree, which is something I do on the side because I love their products.

Check out this article for even more ideas for making money at home!

We Need a Vacation

It’s official. After the last 2 weeks of being sick, this family is in dire need of a family vacation. I’m sick of laundry, dishes, cleaning, losing sleep, being exhausted and so much more.

We need to kick back, relax and have some much needed family fun! I’ve been checking out some hotels, close to home that offer lots for us to do as a family so we can just enjoy ourselves and not have to worry about the normal day to day stuff.

Now I just have to come up with a way to pull it all together, find the free time and figure out when we are going to go and do it.

Oh how I wish we could just drop everything, pack up the van and be off!

Until then, I guess I’ll be looking into some family friendly hotels and see what I can find!

Greening Up Our Home

Now that it is officially Spring, I am ready to get this house cleaned up, purge it of things that we don’t need, and *fingerscrossed* finish up the work that needs to be done inside. 

Yes, there is stuff that needs to be done. We remodeled our kitchen in November of 2012 and we still have to put in wood trim around the base of the walls, around the window, the back entry and put in the new lighting. 

Another thing I have realized our house is lacking indoors is greenery. I need plants. I want plants. Something has to be done. Now that Joey is 19 months, it is getting easier to keep him out of things and he is learning right from wrong which means we might be able to add some pretty plants to the house finally!

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I’ve been looking around the internet to see which plants would be the best in our home, meaning which ones won’t kill my kids or the dog if they eat them and I’ve come to the conclusion that I need an expert, to come into our home and make it work. Did you know that there are actually people you can hire to do this and even some that come and take care of your plants too, like Gaddys indoor plant hire Sydney

This, this is what I need. Send in the professionals and let them put some pretty plants and flowers on display and give thos house some life! Then…please send me a professional landscaper so we can discuss what is going on on the outside of our house as well….it’s tragic!

Do you keep plants in your home? What do you do to keep the kids and pets safe from them? Help me!

Show Your #PregamePride with Unilever

*This post is made possible by participating in a blog campaign by Global Influence on behalf of Walmart and Unilever. I was compensated for this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This post may contain affiliate links.* 

It’s no secret that we love football in our home. We are big supporters of the NFL, NCAA and high school leagues and of course, we have our teams.  When it comes to college football, you can bet we spend our Saturdays watching the Wisconsin Badgers take on their latest opponent.

When we get ready to watch our team, there are steps that need to be taken hours before the game starts. We take pride in our pregame prep and you should too!

It is important for you to show support for your team on game day and we are firm believers in educating our children on dressing to impress at an early age.

Get out your Badger hat, t-shirt, dress or whatever piece of Badger apparel you have.  

No game day is complete without a smorgasboard of snacks, meats and other treats along with drinks for everyone to enjoy.

Of course, before all of this starts, it is important to ensure that you are clean and smell good on game day and the NCAA and Walmart, along with Axe, Dove Men+ and Degree want to make sure your pregame froming needs are taken to the next level.  Before you settle in to your normal game day ritual make sure you cleanse, protect and stlyle prior to your party.

Right now you can score a $5 Walmart gift card when you stock up on $15 of more of Unilever mens grooming products at Walmart. (This offer available on in-store purchases only and all purchases must be in one transaction).