Jumpin-Beans

When decorating...  Are you one for fun and funky colors?  Or are you more of whites and neutral? Personally, I think fun and funky are just that... FUN and FUNKY. My mom is more of whites...  Browns... I was so excited to have the chance to review the Bormioli Rocco Italian Glassware...  I mean, Italy?  LOVE LOVE LOVE...  (Dad's family is Italian.. My grandaddy was FROM Italy!) First up, we had the chance to check out the  Sorgente Colored Cooler Glasses. You can purchase from Bed, Bath and Beyond , but you can also purchase from Amazon .   They offer fun colors such as Red, Orange and Blue in BB&B... but also have Fuschia, Purple and Green from Amazon.   These are great functional glasses...  I mean, think about it...  Sending your child off to college?  They need glasses to drink out of ... Make a statement with RED glasses for those going to UGA (or other schools with red as a scho...

In keeping with my whole Back To School Bash, I get to share with you a pretty cool company that I recently had the chance to work with... Campus Book Rentals . Wow, how the times have changed since my college days...  I know when I was in college, things were so different! Here I go.... Ha ha ha... "Back in my day" we had to go to the book store... Our books were RIDICULOUSLY priced... It was around $100 (sometimes less, most times more) for a single book.  We would use it for the quarter/semester and then when it was time to sell them back, they would only want to pay us like $20-$40 for the book... That they turned around and raised the prices on.  Sometimes we were lucky and we knew a kid taking the class that we could sell our used books to them and try to make back some of the money that we lost... But then you had the whole changing of the books that made ours no longer in use on our campus...  It was always so frustrating, so when my kid brothe...

If you are looking for a great page turner, look no further than Between You and Me by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.   If the authors seem familiar to you, it could be because they are also the authors of The Nanny Diaries.  (I have not heard of that either, sad to say, but thought it seemed pretty important, so I wanted to make sure you knew about it...)  Anyways, I just finished reading this great book and I am trying to figure out what to do...  Pass it along so that others can read it, or keep it in my library to read again later?  I thoroughly enjoyed this book!   Let me try to share with you, without giving it all away...  Logan and Kelsey were best friends in their childhood, but then one night, Kelsy was uprooted from her home and the "best friends forever" were no longer allowed to have contact.  Logan went off to school and is currently living in New York.  She shares an apartment with a roommate that s...

What do you do to cool down in this heat? I am telling you what.. It is hot as anything lately and I am so appreciative of my husband. The other day, we had a friend call to see if Marc was working, or if he would be able to take Broxton to a ball game, you know.. Father / Son - Guy day...   Marc was working, so he couldn't go.. but we were talking about it being so hot that we didn't know if the game would really be fun anyways... and then it hit me..  My husband goes out and works in this every day to provide for our family...  That just makes me so proud of him! So, getting to the heat.. We were lucky enough to try a few new frozen treats to help us beat the heat and I will tell you this..  THEY DID NOT DISAPPOINT!!!!!!!!! With the Breyers Blasts, I am holding out until I see the Banana Split in stock.   Marc loves banana split ice cream, so I am hopeful that he will enjoy it.  Honestly, I think the blasts of other flavors mixed in...

I never noticed the importance of Probiotics until Broxton was sick one time.  We had just started a "play group" of sorts and he was around kids (and yes, germs....)  He got a nasty bug and I did not know what to do.   It was the middle of the night, so I called the on call nurse and tried to figure out what I needed to do to make my little one "all better."  She asked questions to figure out what was going on, gave me advice and then started telling me that I needed to get probiotics in him. Truth be told, I had no clue what that was, so I had to google to figure it out. Long story short, I took it to be that probiotics are the good bacteria that helps your immune system. It can be found in yogurt and other items, but the sure fire way to know if you have them on hand and ready is to just purchase probiotics to keep in your medicine cabinet. One point when we had the boys, I noticed they were all not feeling well, so I quickly started them on probiotics... Th...

Whenever I travel, I tend to over pack.  I have always done so and I think I always will.... Marc on the other hand has to be the person that knows how to pack the best.  From packing the car full but still managing to get the doors to all close (and nope, we do not even have to ride with luggage in our laps!) To packing bags to make everything fit. You see, I count the number of days I am going some place.. Then, I must have an outfit for each day... plus extras. You know plenty of extra shirts( you never know when something might spill) to plenty of panties and bra's.  (Not really sure what I am expecting here, but hey... I am prepared!) OH MY GOODNESS... When Broxton was born... Do NOT even get me started, I packed a huge suitcase for me... and then like 4 other bags for him... you know, diaper bag, extra diaper bag, enough clothes to outfit him for a month, bottles, formula, toys and if you name it, we might have packed it...   Had I read the book, Smar...

If you are a fan of Stargate Atlantis, you will love to know that Seasons One through Five are being released as Complete Seasons on BluRay August 28th. I have never watched, but I know how excited I get when I hear about my shows coming out on disc, so I thought I might make someone happy!   Continuing the journey of “Stargate: SG-1,” television’s longest running sci-fi series, “Stargate: Atlantis”  explores the great city of Atlantis built thousands of years ago by the Ancients and the new home base for an elite expedition team from earth.  Overflowing with exciting quests and surprises, fans will experience every captivating, and spine-tingling mission of the Intrepid Team from their first hostile encounter to their last rescue mission.  Available as individual season sets for the first time ever on Blu-ray beginning August 28 exclusively at Best Buy, the compelling ensemble cast includes Jason Momoa ( Conan the Barbarian , “Game of Thrones”), David Hew...