Here are some of the best recent articles on parenting and kids:

Creative Parenting Tips and Tricks: Creative Parenting Tips and Tricks via Family from SC Johnson

The Best Part of Parenting: The Best Part of Parenting via New York Times Parenting Blog

Tips for Keeping Kids Busy: Ways to Entertain the Kids While You Work was recently featured on christiancounselingdegree.org

Fun Travel Activities for Kids: Top 5 Kids’ Travel Activities via Travel-Tot

This is a compensated post written by me on behalf of Walgreens. All opinions are 100% mine.

If you’re anything like me then you have tried lots of different diets.  I know I have bought just about every diet pill out there to try and see if it would help me to lose some weight.  And also spent a lot of money on those various diet pills out there.

I was recently given the opportunity to try Walgreens Brand Green tea Dietary Supplement so of course I took it.  Sometimes I am a bit wary of using store band items instead of name brand items.  But given the price of the name brand pills I didn’t think it could hurt to try Walgreens Brand Health & Wellness Products.  I had tried name brand products like this before but had never tried the Walgreens Brand Green tea Dietary Supplement.  It’s a natural dietary supplement.  If you use diet and exercise along with it, it will help burn calories and curb your appetite.

With the rising cost of everything theses days it’s nice to be able to save some money.  At Walgreens you can buy their store brand over the counter medications with confidence- they usually contain the same ingredients as the name brands, they are recommended by the pharmacists and have a 100% satisfaction guarantee.  Not only that but there is the Walgreens Way to Well Fund™ that is doing good works.

Before spending a lot of money on name brand products be sure to check and see what Walgreens has to offer.

This post brought to you by Express. All opinions are 100% mine.

In a way I am ready for summer- I am stick of the cold weather and the snow.  I really want to be able to go outside without having to bundle up in my coat or be freezing cold.  But on the other hand I am not really ready for summer yet because I still haven’t lost the weight I was trying to lose last year.  So to give myself some motivation to get on the treadmill and start eating healthy I was looking at women’s swimwear today.  It’s a little scary to think about wearing a bathing suit in front of others.

There are some amazing bathing suits at Express that I enjoyed looking at.  If you sign up for the Express e-mail you will have a chance to win one of ten $200 gift cards to Express… and who couldn’t use that?  Make sure you check the sweepstakes rules and remember that it ends on April 21st at 11:59pm EST.

There are a lot of different choices available and tons of great accessories to pick from to really dress up whatever you pick and make you look your best this summer.  I have to get to work on my weight loss and getting in shape so I can look good this summer.  Here is something I would feel comfortable wearing this summer:

Written by Jillian Hodges

When I was visiting my aunt for the holidays a few weeks ago I noticed that she had redecorated her home and she had this really great velvet slipcover for this chair that she had made herself. I thought that it was so beautiful that I wanted to recreate one for an armchair in our living room. It also looked very wintery and thought it would be fun to try to make on my own.

I went online with my clear wireless internet to figure out some directions for how to make a slipcover for an arm chair. I took the measurements of the chair and then took all of that into account too. I also picked up enough fabric at the local fabric store to make the slipcover.

Well, I finished my velvet slipcover and it looks pretty good. I guess the fabric isn’t as forgiving as canvas or other fabric that’s typically used for slipcovers that you have to tuck in. But it’s really comfortable to sit in, which I guess is what counts the most.