How many cleaning products do you have under your sink? I dare you to count. If you’re number is less than five, you’re less of a sucker than I am. I’m always looking for that product to make my life easier, faster and cleaner. As a busy Mom to four kids, I don’t have a [...]

Why, a pee-pee teepee by Beba Bean, of course! These Canadian-made, 100% cotton cones are designed to cover the sprinkling pee-pee during diaper changes. Anyone with a son knows why that’s necessary. We were given these as a baby gift by a good friend, and the simple act of putting these into the parcel turned [...]

For years, I was The Girl With Bad Nails. I chewed ‘em down to the quick, and then I went to work on my ragged, dry cuticles until they were bloody. It wasn’t pretty. Fortunately for me, and for anyone else who might ever see my hands, I trained myself out of the chewing. I [...]

If you have children old enough to color, you are surely familiar with how quickly a pristine new box of crayons turns into a box of broken stubs and little peeled paper bits. It’s a scenario that I remember from when I was a little kid and as an adult, I find it oddly irritating. [...]

The Baby Buddy Nursing Pillow was the first gift I received after my son was born. It was expected, and it didn’t come a moment too soon. When I was about eight months pregnant, we had one of my best friends as a house guest for the weekend. She is a mother of two and [...]

I’ll let you in on a little secret. My family LOVES turkey. Loves it more than any other dinner I make. My son is such a turkey fiend that he likes to weigh himself before and then after Thanksgiving dinner, just to see how much food he stuffed down his gullet. Last year was something [...]

There are two kids of advertisements on TV for bras. First you get the writhing, sex-obsessed hot babes in their Victoria’s Secret demi-bras with the matching underpants. The models look like they haven’t eaten a real meal in years, and oh, those silicone enhanced boobs. I don’t think those are the bras for me. The [...]

I have been meaning to blog about this since August. August!!! I swear I have some kind of motherhood-induced Alzheimers or something because I forget stuff ALL the time. Anyone who comes up with a product to fix THAT will have my undying gratitude and a blog post overflowing with props. So yeah…when I flew [...]

Earlier this year, I had a series of really annoying experiences with my Macy’s credit card where the billing went awry, resulting in me getting off the phone with customer service, immediately driving to the store and paying the credit card balance with cash to avoid late fees. This goes exactly against one of the [...]

but I got mad, mad props for Babies R Us. Yeah, you heard me. That store that i typically regard as the eighth circle of hell actually made me happy whilst separating me from my money, which is quite a trick. I mean really…how many people are mentally composing a blog post about the virtues [...]

If you’re not familiar with it, Tend Skin is a product that helps stop those nasty ingrown hair bumps that you get a) when your wax job starts to grow back in or b) when you shave against the grain in your bikini line area or c) you’re cheap and lazy and keep using a [...]

When it comes to celebrity gossip, people tend to enjoy the bad a teeny bit more than the good. I mean do we really want to hear how good Britney and K-Fed are doing? Or that Nick & Jessica are reconciling? Or that Pam Anderson has found everlasting bliss with yet another trashy boyfriend? Hell [...]

I have banked at Washington Mutual since before it was Washington Mutual. I can’t remember what it was before – that is how long it has been. Why? Because they have Totally Free Checking and I am cheap that way. But the thing I love about WaMu is the interface on the ATMs. It is [...]