Anne is a 30-something full-time SAHM mom of 5 ranging from 3 to 17 and grandma of 1 who resides in Ashwaubenon (Green Bay) Wisconsin. She started blogging in 2008 as a way to regain her sanity. She enjoys coffee, chocolate, cheeseburgers and vodka along with spending time with her husband and kids.
Get ready for the hockey season with the new Mabel’s Labels hockey combo kit! This unique label combo pack has been created especially for the hockey players in your family! With the custom hockey stick labels, equipment labels, number labels & skate labels, you can keep all of your family’s sports gear in order and make sure that all of the look-alike equipment gets into the right bag after the big game!
Yesterday, Alex went in for his 2nd big snip. As you know, his first vasectomy, last June, was not successful and we found out in January we were expecting again. The doctor recommended doing the entire procedure again as he was still functioning normally 7 months after the first procedure.
So, yesterday afternoon we made the trip to the doctor’s office, Alex all nice and calm thanks to the valium the doctor had prescribed. During his last vasectomy, I left the procedure room since I had Ellie along with us. This time however, I stayed for the entire thing! I had to make sure things were snipped, tied, double knotted and burned because I AM NOT about do this whole pregnancy/baby thing again—5 kids is more than enough for us!
Yes, there he is, in all of his glory, waiting for the procedure to start. Between the amount of valium in his system and the entire bottle of lidocaine the doctor used to numb the procedure area, he did very well and I have to say, he complained less about the pain this time then he did the first time!
He was so calm and relaxed he laid there and played cribbage on his phone for a lot of the procedure!
I even rewarded him afterwards with ice cream, video games and the house to himself while I took the kids swimming at my parents house.
Alex has already been informed that he will have to have at least 2 negative samples after this procedure before I let him anywhere near me again.
**I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consultingfor Healthgrades. I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating.**
Being pregnant once again and having a high risk pregnancy this time around, I can say that I have met my fair share of doctors and specialists. Every time I have had to see someone new, I have Googled them and researched them on the internet every which way that I could. One of the most beneficial tool’s during my research was Healthgrades. I’ve used Healthgrades multiple times to look up providers for myself and for my family.
The Healthgrades Women’s Health Report 2013 can help you make a more informed decision when choosing a new healthcare provider.
As an expectant mom, I found it interesting that the report offers maternity care ratings based on the analysis and equal weighting of the following 4 factors.
**Maternal complication rate among women undergoing vaginal deliveries
**Maternal complication rate among women undergoing cesarean-sections (C-sections)
**Number of newbornsadjusted for the percentage that were low birth weight
**Newborn risk-adjusted mortality
Prior to reading this report, these are things that I would not have thought to look into but I will be now!
I have neglected my own healthcare over the past few years and put my family before me and this is something I definitely plan on changing in the next year and I feel more confident about doing so and making these kinds of decisions. I love that Healthgrades lets me learn more about a provide before I commit to seeing them because I am definitely one of those moms who needs to ‘know before I go’ and I like to be prepared at all times for all things.
If you are a woman who wants to make a commitment to yourself and your health, I encourage you to check out the Healthgrades Women’s Health Report.
You can download the Healthgrades Women’s Health Report 2013 and check it out for yourself!
Week 32 has arrived (and is almost gone) and it has been a week filled with wonderful news!
On Monday, we met with Dr. S the perinatologist and are happy to report that Baby Joey’s brain is absolutely perfect, his ventricles are measuring within normal limits and according to her they are absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Of course, this news made us very, VERY happy and it was definitely a great Monday morning!
Not only did we get great news, we also go some great shots of the little guy and I am so excited to share them, so here he is!
Look at those delicious cheeks!!! I cannot wait to me this little guy and cover those cheeks in kisses!
After I shared these pictures on Facebook, a friend pointed out the resemblence between my father and Joey. Coincidentally, Joey is being named after my dad!
Have a look for yourself and tell me what you think!
The countdown to meet the little dude is on! I think I am even going to make a game of it and have you guess when he will arrive and offer a great prize to the person who gets it right…..watch for an update!
**This information was provided to me as a member of US Family Guide. I received a promotional item in exchange for this post.** How does Zaycon Foods manage to provide such high quality super fresh meat and produce to its customers at such low prices? The answer is strength in numbers. And not our numbers, yours!
Zaycon Foods can sell its products at bulk rate prices to individual consumers and families because our unique sales event business model brings lots of people together, adding all their purchasing power into a combined bulk food purchase. And when you buy as part of a group that’s committing to such a large purchase, the power is in the hands of the purchaser! It’s the ultimate group buy in terms of both price and consumer empowerment.
You can pre-select exactly what you want to order from a given Zaycon sales event – sometimes you may want to stock up on our amazing meaty back ribs and sometimes it might be all about the Zaycon bacon – and then, on the day of the sales event, you and a whole big bunch of your neighbors will find yourselves in a nearby parking lot watching as an entire tractor trailer’s worth of high quality natural food is unloaded into all of your cars! You will be amazed at how quickly one of our refrigerated trucks goes from being filled with natural, fresh chicken or hundreds of gallons of grade A non-homogenized milk to being empty and back on its way to the farm!
A Zaycon Foods truck sales event often lasts less time than you would spend on a trip to the grocery store, yet you will leave with a whole lot more food than you’d get at the market, and for much better prices, too!
When you use the Zaycon Foods sales event as your preferred place to purchase meats, milk, and any of our other fine products, you get advantages even beyond the bulk pricing that comes with our special sales model. You also have the peace of mind of knowing exactly what you’re going to get! A trip to the grocery store can involve wasted time wandering around looking for various foods spread out across the store; at a Zaycon Foods parking lot meat truck delivery (or milk or berries or fish delivery, too!) you have pre-ordered your foods, so all you have to do is show up and wait for our friendly staffers and volunteers to load up your car.
Also, unlike in the grocery store, the prices you will pay for a Zaycon Foods product are locked in on our website, so you will know how much you are going to spend before you have committed to a purchase.
At a supermarket, you might pay one price for chicken on one day, and then a higher price on another day. With Zaycon, you decide that you want to order a case of our fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts, you check the price and then you commit to it, knowing that from that moment on, we are committed to getting you your fresh, natural food!