Thank you to Beebee+Bongo for sending product for review in exchange for my honest opinion in this review.  I love toys that have no electronic components and encourage my children to play with them in a multitude of ways. The new toys we got from Beebee+Bongo do just that!  If you are new to Beebee+Bongo, they provide high quality, ethically made and sustainable toys. If that wasn't good enough,  they support employment of marginalized women in Cambodia! Beebee+Bongo products Read more [...]

Thank you to Tangle for sending products for review in exchange for my honest opinion.  We are savoring our last few days of summer. My daughter starts school in just 10 days and I go back to work full time at that point too. Summers always fly by so quickly!  Recently I was able to team up with Tangle to try out some of their fun new summer toys: Aquatic Tangle Pets and NightBall Volleyball. My three-year-old and six-year-old LOVE the Aquatic Tangle Pets. I like that they are small, Read more [...]

Thank you to Cutluxe for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own.

We prepare most of our meals at home. We enjoy using fresh locally sourced foods whenever possible. We buy our meat from local farms and try to grow a lot of our produce.

Just as important to us as our ingredients so are our kitchen tools. We try to limit the number of things in our kitchen drawers and cabinets. We want to make sure what we choose to bring into our home is essential.

When Read more [...]

Thank you to TrailKeg for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own.

My husband drinks at least a gallon of water a day. He works in the forest industry and is often out in the woods for 14+ hours a day. Because he is in the middle of nowhere, he doesn't have access to fresh water. Every day he takes a plastic gallon jug of water with him. The jugs usually last a week and then they get punctured and need to be replaced. For years, it has bothered me Read more [...]

Thank you to Hansleep for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own.

Last month, I was asked to review Hansleep's Four Leaf Clover Memory Foam Mattress Pad Topper With Cooling Gel. After reading the description on Amazon, I thought they sounded great. They were happy to send us mattress toppers to try. 

This was perfect timing for me. As we prepare for our daughters to go back to school, I try to get them a few products to help improve their Read more [...]

Thank you to FiiTii for sending headphones for review in exchange for my honest opinion.  Earlier this year we took our first family vacation to North Carolina. We flew on an airplane and had a few hours in the car on the way to the airport as well as a few hours driving once we were on the ground in North Carolina. When we were planning, we decided to get a tablet for the kids, since there was going to be so many hours of car seats & sitting involved.  We really try to limit screen Read more [...]

Geneverse sent me a HomePower ONE battery and two solar panels for review. All opinions are my own.

I live in Michigan, which I see as one of the better regions to live in if your goal is to avoid power outages. We don't have to cope with hurricanes around here, for example.

Still, we occasionally lose power. Five or six years ago there was a bad winter storm just before Christmas that left a ton of people I know without electricity for almost a week, including on Chrismas day. 

I'm Read more [...]

Thank you to MantraBand for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own.

Have you ever heard of MantraBand? If not, allow me the privilege of introducing you!

MantraBand is a company that specializes in inspirational jewelry. Each precious piece of jewelry has an important message engraved on it. For example, Dream Believe Achieve, Always In My Heart, and One Day At A Time, just to name a few. MantraBand has a wide assortment of necklaces, bracelets, Read more [...]

Thanks to Trifo for sending me the Lucy Ultra Robot Vacuum. As always, all opinions are my own.

If you've been following the blog, you have probably read about Trifo Robot Vacuums! We run our robot vacuums every day and it's amazing how much less I have to sweep and vacuum up after our two kids and four cats. We have Trifo's Ollie in our cat room/laundry room, Lucy covering the main living area, and Emma cleans upstairs. Just recently, I was able to test out Trifo's Lucy Ultra, which has a feature Read more [...]

Thanks to Crosley for sending me this beautiful turntable. As always, all opinions are my own.

I have got the most fun back-to-school product for your college-aged students this year! Crosley Radio is dedicated to bringing analog music to the masses, with turntables, cassette players, jukeboxes, and more. For that student who recognizes that everything sounds better on vinyl, the Voyager Turntable is a perfect back-to-school gift. 

Crosley Voyager Turntable
First off, how beautiful is Read more [...]