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My Diaper Confession!
I know I should do cloth diapers to help with the environment but to be perfectly honest, I just can’t get myself to do it!
I remember when I was little, my Mom handing my my sisters diaper and saying “please rinse this out in the toilet!” UGH this made me drive heave a few times and I swore I would never have kids because I did not want to rinse out any more diapers!
I use Huggies now.
When we had our first child we would change the diaper at the drop of a hat. “Oh she peed, can’t have that!” We went through way more diapers then we needed to for sure! Now that we have our second child, we wait to see how much we can fit in it before we change him. Sometimes it is too long and we have a bigger mess to clean up. It is funny how we are so worried about a little wet for the first child and then the second child gets to get a lot wetter!
I am sure I am not the only parent that does this and it would make me feel better if others would come forth and comment on here that they do it so I don’t feel like such a bad Mom! I know I a bad Mom…really…I just seem to get a lot more relaxed and a bit more lazy with the second child!
I hope you all had a great Father’s Day weekend!
Peace!
Tawna
Sharing my own giveaways with you too! Each image will take you to my blog posts to enter!
Cook Yourself Thin Cookbook giveaway!
I had a lot of people enter this giveaway before and I decided to give it away again!.
I am giving away ONE Cook Yourself Thin and cookbook!
Contest is over!
Winner has been notified
Congrats #42 Gisele!
US and Canada ONLY!
Ends July 16, 2011
Ends July 16, 2011
If you are a dedicated reader to this blog you will know that I love cooking out of this book! The recipes are very Yummy and good for you!
If you have not seen the cook yourself thin show then visit lifetimetv.com and check out some online episodes. This is how I got hooked!
I will giveaway the second edition away after this giveaway! Both are awesome!
Here is the future giveaway cookbook!
Giveaway ENDS July 16, 2011
Leave a separate comment with EACH entry PLUS E-MAIL!
Winner will have 48 hours (via e-mail) to claim prize or another will be chosen!
MANDATORY ENTRY!
Follow this blog via e-mail and CONFIRM! Leave your e-mail in your comment too!
Leave a separate comment with EACH entry PLUS E-MAIL!
Winner will have 48 hours (via e-mail) to claim prize or another will be chosen!
EXTRA ENTRIES!
Follow ME On Twitter–1entry leave ID
Tweet this giveaway and leave link limit-twice a day for an entry each time
Like ME on Facebook–1 entry leave FB name
Follow my Weight loss blog GFC –1entry comment on another post
Follow my Random thoughts blog GFC–1 entries comment on that blog
Enter my Back Sac giveaway (open till June 30)-3 entries
Visit my Shakeology giveaway and enter (ongoing)-5 entries
Enter my Blog Bash Giveaway (open June 22-26)-5 entries
Blog about this giveaway and leave link-5 entries
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Weekend Hop Week 21
Rules are easy, there are only 2!
1. Follow ALL HOST’S through GFC
We are also the top 3 links of the hop!
Host-A Time Out For Mommy
3rd Host changes weekly so please be sure to follow NEW host is you link up weekly!
2. Grab the button and put it in a post, sidebar, or blog hop page and let us know where it is. This will help the hop grow and gain us all new followers. It’s a Win, Win for everyone!
Please play nice and follow our simple rules!
HOP is open
Thursday night at 10pm to Sunday night 11:59pm EST!
If you WANT to HOST with us please e-mail Tawna
Please make sure you Follow the top 3 links of hop if you want you link up!
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Positive Energy to the Ohio Dept of Education!
Image from Photobucket
I am trying to get my Teaching Certification purely on experience and on the education I already have. If you have it least 5 years teaching experience then you can fill out a form and send in transcripts and a bunch of recommendations, resume, etc and apply to get one. I sent mine in 2 days ago!
I need all prayers, fingers crossed, and positive thinking I can get. I hope all my readers will help me out with this!
I have 9.5 years of experience and a ton of references and recommendations so I am really thinking I have a good chance!
Keep your fingers crossed and in your positive thoughts today!
Image from Photobucket
Peace!
Tawna
Don’t forget I have giveaways going on! Here they are! Each image will take you to each giveaway with information on how to enter (all FREE)! Yes there are two Shakeology ones!
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Shakeology Giveaway!
I am going to giveaway 6 FREE samples of Shakeology and you only have to do ONE thing to enter!
Giveaway has ended and I am e-mailing the winners
My website is http://fitafterbabies.com
check it out!
Mandatory Entry:
Give me a website name! I am in the process of making a website and the 6 items below is what will be included on it.
It is mainly for fitness and exercise.
1. My Beachbody before and after pics.
2. My Beachbody store link
3. My journey to a Healthier me blog
4. My self-help story (story behind my mental journey to this blog along with my physical)
5. My random thoughts blog link
6. My InterStim Journey before and after the permanent implant for overactive bladder.
I need a URL name and title for my website that is catchy and one that people will remember. I want it to be geared more towards Health but also broad enough that I can include the few things listed above that are not included in weight loss and exercise.
Give me a name and your e-mail and I will narrow it down and pick the winner! I will actually have 3 winners as there is always the possibility that my favorite one(s) domain names will be taken. So I will be giving away 18 FREE samples of Shakeology.
If you win you will receive, from me, 3 chocolate and 3 Greenberry Shakeology samples! That is a pretty sweet freebie! That will give you a great body cleanse!
To learn more about Shakeology visit my Shakeology website by clicking on the image below!
Thanks!
Tawna
I am hoping to have this website up by July 15,2011. This giveaway will end anytime before July 15,2011 when I receive the PERFECT name!
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Back Sac REVIEW and GIVEAWAY!
My blogging BFF Terry from My Journey with Candida hooked me up with the Back Sac company to do a review and a giveaway!
I have not had back problems until after I gave birth and now it comes and goes a lot. I have noticed that I am waking up more and more with a hurt back and there are some days it takes ibuprofen and about 6 hours to get it to go away.
I contacted the Back Sac company and they were very excited for me to do a review.
US ONLY for Giveaway!
My Review:
I have to say that I was pretty skeptical at the time but I have to be honest with you…it works great! The first time I sat with it I had to adjust the amount of air I put into it and it’s positioning quite a bit, but after about 20-30 minutes I had it exactly where I needed it. It felt good! I sat there for about another 30 minutes and when I got up my back continued to feel pretty good for most of the day.
I did some yard work the next couple of days and dug out a very large garden and my back was killing me! I took a hot shower both days and then sat with the back sac and seriously my back felt better in just a handful of minutes. I am so happy I got a hold of this company because this has, by far, been the most beneficial review I have ever done. In fact I will be ordering a second one because my daughter is hooked too!
My 5-year-old can even blow it up to her liking!
She steals it from me all the time! She is relaxing while we curl her hair for her dance concert, while watching cartoons. I was told “Mommy, it feels good and I need to relax before I dance o the big stage!” I was told!
I would definitely suggest trying this if you have back issues at all!
If you are interested in purchasing a Back Sac, Check out BackSac
GIVEAWAY!
US ONLY!
Leave a separate comment for EACH ENTRY!
Mandatory!!
Go to Back Sac and tell me something you have learned ~ Also, You must follow me google friend connect. (If you don’t have google friend connect, you can sign up for my emails and confirm.)
Extra Entries!!!
1. Follow Back Sac On Twitter and tweet this giveaway (tweet twice a day for an entry each time)
2. Like BackSac on Facebook
3. Follow ME On Twitter
4. Like ME-Tawna’s Journey on Facebook-say hi if you like, not mandatory!
5. Follow my Weight loss blog – 2 entries
5 Terry Is Also giving a BackSac Away, Enter her giveaway (tell her I referred you in a comment on her giveaway) for 3 Extra entries
6. Blog the giveaway on Terry’s and My Random thoughts blog~ you can link us both in the same post-5 entries
Giveaway ENDS-Thursday June 30, 2011 11:59pm EST
Good luck!!!
Different ways to burn 200 calories!
Found this post from another blog called Lily Boxing
I asked her if I could post it on here since it fits into my blog perfectly and she said YES! She will have part 2 up tomorrow so I am posting part 1 on this blog and please head over to her blog to get part two. Or you could simply stop by and leave her a lovely comment that you found her from my blog and you want to say Hello!
Enjoy her wonderful post on how many different ways there are to burn 200 calories!
Lily Boxing post:
10 Ways to Burn 200 Calories (*based on a 135lb woman)
Try these out and in case you couldn’t guess after reading….number 6 is my FAVORITE!!
1. Get into the swing of things. Take your stress out at the driving range. Just 62 minutes at the driving range burns those calories away. Ready to take on 9 or 18 holes…skip the cart and walk. You’ll burn 5l0% more calories per minute.
2. Meet in a dark alley. Bowling Alley that is. In 90 minutes of fun with your friends you’ll roll off 200 calories, skip your light beer-you can do it in an hour!
3. Go Green. Ride your bike to run your errands. In just 23 minutes of peddling or 4.6 miles you burn off those 200 calories!
4. Strike a pose. Try Vinyasa yoga. This type of yoga moves you fluidly from pose to pose, burning more than 7 calories per minute. 29 minutes….200 calories GONE!
5. Rub-a-dub-dub. Take a 2 mile walk with you puppy (about 40 minutes), come home and give him a 10 minute bath, then treat yourself to a 15 minute bubble bath and you’ve burned 200 calories!
6. Build Your Own Boot Camp. Try this 30 Minute Circuit from Ruben Belliard, co-owner of Warrior Fitness Boot Camp in New York City. All you need is a pencil, paper, watch, a chair and a set of dumbbells with a weight heavy enough so that your 10th rep is tough, but not impossible.
Warm Up for 5 minutes, doing your choice of cardio
Do each of the following for 1 minute each, pausing long enough to jot down the number of reps you did
1. Jumping Jacks
2. Push Ups
3. Crunches
4. Bicep Curls with dumbbells
5. Lunges
6. Overhead Press-holding a dumbbell in each hand
7. Squats
8. Planks
9. Tricep Dips on a chair
10. Mountain Climbers-in push up position
Then repeat, trying to complete even more reps the second circuit.
Cool Down for 5 minutes
7. Leave Town. You’ll burn 200 calories before you arrive by taking 4 minutes total to carry your suitcases to the car, then to baggage drop (hauling a 25lb load burns 4.8 cals per min), then read while sitting on the 3 hour plane ride, burning the rest! You burn a little more than 1 calorie a minute simply sitting!
8. Sock It To An Avatar. Of course you could jump into a real ring and box it out, but you’ll make out just as well minus the bruises or broken nose with Wii Sports! Set up an avatar that you want to use as a punching bag and start throwing punches! In just 26 minutes, you’ve relieved stress and burned 200 calories.
9. Be Rakish. In the fall spend 26 minutes raking the leaves in your yard you’ve burned 120 calories. 15 minutes hauling them to the compost and you’ve burned another 80!
10. Plunge Right In. Take a scuba lesson! In 27 minutes of scuba you torch 200 calories. Not sold yet? Diving burns more calories per minute than working the elliptical (7.5 vs. 7), you feel weightless while working out. Not to mention the most air tight excuse to hop on a plane to a tropical place!
I hope you enjoyed this guest post!
Tawna
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A liitle advice to those who design street light signs!
I get frustrated with stop lights anymore and wanted to share my vent about them this week.
How many of you pull up to a stop light and there is a sign, especially a no turn right sign during certain hours of the day, and you can’t see the time!
A year oh so again my husband and I got pulled over in Columbus OH because we turned right before 6:00pm at a stop sign downtown. We could not read the exact time on the sign and we just assumed it was 4:00 because it was in a school zone, and most school zones say “no right turn on school days between 7:00-4:00pm. We guessed on the time because they make the writing so stinking small! We did not get a ticket but a rather harsh warning. We told the officer, “we could not read the time and we assumed it said 4:00 because that is what the school zones say around our house.” Of course he did not believe us. Mind you it was like 5:56pm too so we were pretty darn close anyway.
I tried to get a picture of the sign near a shopping center near my house to show you how small it is so here is my try.
My argument is…if you are not going to make the times universal then please print the times LARGER so us older people can read them! In fact, I have always had a hard time reading them, even when I was younger!
I kept trying to take a picture when I wasn straight on the turn sign but was always in the car by myself and would not get my camera out fast enough before the light changed green so this is my turning corner picture! Either way, the sign looks about the same.
OK there is my gripe for the day!
Hope you are all having a wonderful Monday!
Peace
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Tagged drive, driving, lights, signs, stop, stop signs, street, street signs, traffic, traffic lights, traffic signs
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Discovered dissovable Melatonin!
The Melatonin I linked here from Amazon is something I found on my trip out west and it is awesome!
I hate taking sleeping pills when I need them as they make me feel really drowsy and awful the entire next day. I have heard of Melatonin for sleeping before but had never tried it
This one is a strawberry dissolvable pill and I DON’T do chewable or dissolvable pills because they NEVER taste like they are suppose to!
I have to be honest, when I say, this one did not make me gag. In fact it is not horrible. It is not yummy candy but doable for what it needs to do.
I need only one and I am tired within 20-30 minutes and I only sleep my eight hours and I wake up feeling good.
I found this bottle at Wal-Mart for $8. I am not sure how much it is in other stores but this price on Amazon is not bad and to be honest, it’s worth the extra $1 to not pack the kids up in the car and take them in the stinking store to get it.
This bottle will probably last me itleast 6 months, if not longer, so I didn’t have to worry about it for awhile.
Just thought I would share this little tip. This is my new sleep aid when I need it for sure! Goodbye Tylenol PM you make me too tired the next day!
Peace
This one is much cheaper. The 90 capsules worksout to about 10 cents per pil and this one (300 tablets) is about 6 cents per pill. sweet! This one will be my next purchase and probably last me like 5 yeaars! I don’t need them every night!
This review is 100% mine. I did not get paid by any company to make it. This is my opinion only. I am not a medical doctor. When I find something that either does or does nto work for me I like to share it and that is what this post is…my opinion of what worked for me.
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Tagged dissolvable melatonin, melatonin, sleep, sleep disorders, sleeping, sleeping pills, strawberry melatonin
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