As a former first grade teacher who spent a great deal of my days teaching kids to read, I am always on the lookout for great tools to help children develop a sense of literacy. I was more than excited to preview Meet the Sight Words with my 4 ½ year old daughter who is [...]

During a recent grocery store trip I noticed something new in the breakfast freezer food section called Kraft Bagel-fuls. I was curious about a frozen bagel stick with a cream cheese filling and I was hungry, so in the cart the box of Cinnamon bagels went. There were several other flavors to choose from such [...]

Props & Pans review team was recently sent the new line of Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Cleaning Gel that involves leaving gel disks inside the bowl to keep it fresh and clean for up to seven days and you never have to touch it to replace it. For those in charge of cleaning toilets, it seems [...]

As much as I embrace anything pink and anything that recognizes Breast Cancer Awareness, I have to pan the Cherry Vanilla Bagel at Panera Bread Company. I usually like many of the items on their menu, but the idea of a cherry vanilla bagel rubs me the wrong way. A cherry vanilla muffin sounds good, [...]

A few weeks ago I spent what seemed like a small fortune on razor blades. Actually, I picked up a combo pack that included a Gillette Venus Breeze razor and about 18 refill cartridges that I hoped would last several months. I’d used several versions of the Venus razor before and been satisfied. They seem [...]

The very thought of anything that resembles potato chips excites me. It’s a favorite junk food of mine. There is something about the crispy crunchy salty goodness that I enjoy. So I fully expected to enjoy the new line of snacks from Pogos made by Medora Snacks. My family tried all three flavors of the [...]

We have tried not to turn our home into an overcrowded sea of baby gear. So far, there has been success in this venture. We did realize however, that there needed to be places to put the baby down sometimes. Enter the Boppy Rock In Comfort Travel Swing. The best thing about this swing is [...]

I am not a neat cook. My stove top usually resembles a Jackson Pollack painting after I’m done with it. I need something to clean it with that is powerful, yet I can’t tolerate bleach and hate the idea of smearing chemicals all over the same surfaces on which I cook. Vinegar of the Four [...]

I could not wait to get my sample of Blinc Kiss Me Mascara in the mail. I was excited by the new concept of tubing lashes rather than painting them. This product coats lashes by combing a tube of black mascara over the lashes like a pipe so that the waterproof formula will not run, [...]

Our son probably has about 4 pair of sunglasses at any given time. You can find a pair in the car, a pair near the sandbox and probably a few pairs at the bottom of the toy basket. The problem is that he wears them and lays them down somewhere and then forgets where they [...]

I recently tried out Sole Clips – a product designed to keep your pant legs from dragging on the ground. I’m short and need to have most of my pants tailored, so when I heard about sole clips I was excited at the prospect of saving a few bucks at the seamstress. I tried them [...]

This stroller, also known as “The Stroller That Set Us Free,” was the purchase which finally allowed us to go somewhere with our 20 month old and newborn twins. We had looked around and found that almost all of the triple stroller options that existed were simply way over-priced, at least for our budget. But [...]

My son loves Winnie the Pooh. I never intentionally introduced him to Pooh because I never imagined he would be the type of kid to be interested in honey pots and a bouncing Tigger, but when we were at the library one morning he saw the video and grabbed it. It is one year later [...]

Maybe you’ve seen this shiny lipstick combination package on a store shelf and wondered if it was worth the price of around $12 (or if you find it on sale like I did for $6). You might be inclined to give it try (especially when it’s half-price) in hopes of the promised extra moisture to [...]

One of my friends at work gave me some small bottles of hand lotion to try out and the C.O. Bigelow Lemon Hand Treatment was one of them. My first reaction was lemon equals boring. But it smelled nice so I set it aside to try out when the lotions I knew better had run [...]