I am always looking for ways to try to be healthier.  I try to exercise and try to eat healthy.  I try to get enough sleep, but Hailey doesn’t always cooperate with that plan.  Recently I’ve noticed when I look in the mirror that I am starting to look older.  Now, I have always looked quite a bit younger than I am.  When I was in my late teens and early twenties it really bothered me that people thought I was so young.  Now that I am 30 something I really like hearing people tell me they think I only look 20.  But the lack of sleep that being a mommy brings and several stressful things that have happened are starting to make me look a little older.

Guest post written by Rachel Owens

Every year I always go to a whole lot of trouble baking Christmas cookies that seem to disappear as soon as my husband and kids descend upon them. Well, I decided that this year I’m not going to bake cookies. Instead, I’m going to just make them. That’s right, I’m going to fix some no-bake cookies instead. I’m not that big of a Scrooge.

I went online to try and see if there were any recipes for no-bake cookies that were especially festive for the holidays and while I was doing that I came across some clear bundle pricing information and decided to order the service.

I already made a batch of classic no-bake Christmas cookies, even though I also plan on making a few different versions of no-bake cookies up until Christmas. I think that for my next batch I might even add in some Christmas-y looking sprinkles to make them look especially festive and because it isn’t the most practical thing in the world to decorate those kinds of cookies with icing like you would regular sugar cookies.

Guest post written by Nicole London

I guess that some people may say that a Barbie is kind of an early gift for a 3-year-old, but I decided to go ahead and buy one for my daughter. She’s really into playing with baby dolls anyway so it would only make sense that she would love Barbies.

But I actually got the idea to give her that for Christmas when I was out shopping for my niece. She’s 6 and my sister told me to just pick her out a Barbie for Christmas. So when I was looking at Barbies online I was thinking about how much I was looking forward to buying Barbies for my daugther. That’s actually also when I found some information about a new internet service and I chose to sign up for one of its packages for our home internet service.

Well, I went ahead and ordered a really simple Barbie for her so that there wouldn’t be a bunch of small parts for her to put in her mouth. When I open it for her I’m going to take away the shoes and any other small parts.

Written by Sherri Hicks

In your opinion, who are the top three teams in college football right now? Quick. Don’t think about it. It should be the first three teams that come to your mind. If you’re like most college football fans, the answer will be Auburn, Oregon, and TCU. This is because these are the current ranking. But even if you throw away the rankings and you make your own, you would probably put Wisconsin and Ohio State in there. There is one team that most people don’t put in there for some reason, which is Stanford. Has everyone forgotten what this team is capable of? Have people been witnessing their dominance on the gridiron? These guys win in an interesting fashion. They’re not flashy and they’re not methodical, either. They’re what would be known as a very solid and intelligent team. They don’t make stupid mistakes and they’re very efficient in everything they do. They also display poise when they’re down. There is no doubt that we will see Stanford in a championship game, and when they play, Im going to watch it on my Satellite TV deals. I will enjoy watching them pound on whoever they play. I will enjoy it even more when they are then brought up in national title game talks. If you think this is not possible, you havent been paying attention. Watch them play once and you will understand.