*This post is brought to you by our friends at Orkin and PartnersHub. I received a promotional item in order to facilitate this review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This post may contain affiliate links.*
Summer has arrived and with that comes little creatures that seem to crawl into every nook and cranny. This is the time of year that Alexander loves because he loves bugs. He’s even taking a Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! class in summer school.
At Orkin, they never stop learning. Their new “Bug Wisdom” video series is a reminder that some of life’s biggest lessons come from small places. Bugs are smart, curious creatures – we humans can learn a lot from their ways.
Take the quiz to discover your “Spirit Bug,” and check out all the GIFs to soak in every nugget of wisdom that these bugs have to offer!
The Orkin Man always knows what to look for when he shows up at your home. If you want to get exploration down to a science, be sure and enter to win Orkin’s Backyard Explorers Kit!
Orkin Backyard Explorers Kit:
– The Orkin 9-Page Activity Bug Book
– Orkin Bugview Bug Catching Tool and Magnifier
– Red/Black Summer Wayfarer Sunglasses
*This post is brought to you by our friends at Duracell. I received a promotional item in order to facilitate this review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This post may contain affiliate links.*
Seriously, what is it with little kids and putting everything in their mouth? They don’t seem to care what it is or where it came from and if it is shiny, you get bet it will find its way into their mouth.
While most of the things my little ones discover and put in their mouth are harmless doesn’t help me from worrying that something will end up in there that could really hurt them.
Lithium coin batteries can lead to serious injury or death if they are swallowed and every year there are thousands of cases of coin battery ingestions reported.
Duracell is doing their part to prevent battery ingestion by updating their packaging to be child resistant and placing warnings on the batteries themselves.
With the great infographic below, Duracell is hoping to raise awareness about this issue.
To prevent your children from injury, here are a few safety tips:
** Secure the battery compartments with tools or tape. (Coin batteries can be found in garage-door openers, medical devices, watches, some remote controls and those annoying greeting cards that sing or talk to you).
** When disposing batteries, wrap them in tape first.
*This post is made possible by participating in a blog campaign by Global Influence on behalf of Family Dollar and Dove. I was compensated for this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This post may contain affiliate links.*
Picking a woman in my family who is inspirational to me is not a hard task. Out of all of them (and there are A LOT), the one who inspires me the most is my mom. Here she is, turning 60 in 9 months and she looks like she is in her 30’s. She inspires me to be the mom that I am, to be a better person and to be me.
Seriously, does she look old enough to have 40 and 35 year old daughters and 7 grandchildren???
Honestly, my mom is great. She has taught me how to be the mom I am today and she even loves that I am a stay at home mom. Knowing that she supports my decision to stay home with the kids really makes me happy!
Yep, that’s me and my mom….be jealous because she is beautiful and she is awesome!
Now through June 26th, Family Dollar and Dove want to know who inspires you and wants you to show off your true beauty in their #FDBeautyIs contest for your chance to win a trip to New York City!!!!
Entering the contest is super easy to do!
Step 1 Grab a camera or a phone and snap a picture of you and the family member that inspires you.
Step 2 Share your photo on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #FDBeautyIs
Step 3 Head over to the Family Dollar site and register with your contact info.
BONUS STEP
Step 4 Share your picture URL for an extra entry EACH day!
In addition to entering the contest, you can head over to your local Family Dollar and save $2 instantly when you buy any 2 participating Dove items until June 26th 2014.
Who is the woman in your family that inspires you?
*This post is brought to you by LifeLock. I received a promotional item in order to facilitate this review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This post may contain affiliate links.*
Let me tell you a story about identity theft.
Once upon a time, back in 2006, Alex and I were on the path of creating a perfect life for our little family. We were living together in a duplex we were renting with hopes of home ownership after our wedding.
Near the end of 2006, a friend of mine relocated to Green Bay for a new job but he didn’t have anywhere to stay. We were kind enough to take him in and help him out while he was working and saving up his first few paychecks to find a place to live.
Fast forward to Spring 2007 when we ended up kicking this so-called friend out of our home for abusing our friendship.
A few months later, I received our quarterly bank statement for our savings account where we were saving for our dream wedding. Imagine the shock when I realized that the money that we had been saving the last few months was almost gone.
GONE!
Our account balance….less than $100.
Little did I know that the missing money was the least of our problems.
Here we are, 7 years later and we are still paying for the mistakes of letting our friend stay with us.
We are living proof that identity theft is a real issue, we have experienced it.
I wish I could go back 7 years and take the proper steps to safeguard us from something like this happening.
Thankfully these days, we have the opportunity to use the LifeLock site
LifeLock® identity theft protection provides you with more protection than credit monitoring, and watches out for you in ways banks and credit card companies just can’t. It’s proactive and professional identity theft protection for today’s always-connected world.
Had we been enrolled in a program like LifeLock when Alex’s identity was stolen, we would have been protected and we wouldn’t still be trying to repair our credit and pay off debts that aren’t ours.
LifeLock offers a variety of plans at affordable rates. Please the LifeLock site for more information on plans and enter code LifeLockSecure for 10% off!
*This post is brought to you by Daddy & Co. and MLAAD. I received a promotional item in order to facilitate this review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This post may contain affiliate links.*
Over the last year we have shared a lot of products from Daddy & Co. (formerly Daddy Scrubs) as they have have introduced us to a great deal of items that we have fallen in love with (Daddy Diaper Pack for the win!).
In addition to Daddy & Co., we’ve also enjoyed the My Life As A Dad series on YouTube.
My Life As A Dad (MLAAD) is the first show of its kind to delve into the lives of celebrity and professional athlete dads and highlights their journey to daddy hood. The show features personal interviews, kid jam sessions, and games, along with advice, discovery, and emotional messages direct from celebrity and professional athletes that you know. MLAAD gets their answers to important questions, such as how they feel about being a dad, their parenting philosophies, how they balance their family life with their professional life and, in some cases, how they relate their unique upbringing to being a dad today. You’ll find out what their favorite activity to engage with their child is; their best piece of parenting advice, and even their first thought following their child’s birth.
The series features interviews with the likes of actor/comedian Tom Arnold, Dancing with the Stars winner J.R. Martinez, NCIS Los Angeles’ Eric Christian Olsen, Witchblade’s Will Yun Lee, and many more!
Like they say, anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a Dad!
I love this webisode featuring Eric Christian from NCIS: Los Angeles
Love this: On birthing classes and meeting with a doula:“It was really helpful for me to have an understanding of what the next step was and what I could do [to help and be a part of the birthing process].”
Personally, I think Eric is going to rock his gig as a Daddy!
Thanks to our friends at Daddy & Co. and My Life As A Dad, you can enter for your chance to win this great Celeb Daddy Prize Pack!
This prize pack includes: Daddy & Co.’s Daddy Diaper Pack, Big Daddy Hook, What Daddy Bear Loves + Daddy Bear, I’m The Daddy Water Bottle, Sunglasses, one set of Daddy & Me Tees, and 1 box of Daddy’s Disposable Diaper Changing Pads.
