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How many times do you wash the windows and cough? What about when you are scrubbing the shower, tub and toilets? I know for me personaly, when I used regular 'box' store cleaners, I would cough and sneeze something awful. I also would never let the kids come close to where I was using the cleaners at. One more thing......Do you realize that no cleaning/laundry type of product (even the empty containers) are to go into the landfill????  The reason? They are considered Hazardous Waste by our government!!! Now, why would we as parents want or let that around our kids? "Our homes should be the safest place for our family." I know we often say (myself included) the products work well, or everyone else uses them, or Natural cleaning products are too expensive, or they won't work as well.....etc.  Believe me, I was the same exact way! That is until I started using Shaklee and learned the proper way to use it right! Shaklee's Get Clean p

How many times do you put business cards on bulletin boards only to find them gone in a few days?? I found the solution..... Make your own Business Card Holder!! I think these are not only cute, but would also help your business......I found a great (very detailed) tutorial on Stitched Boutique .   I decided to make some for me! the first one that I made, I followed her steps, but with three kids running around, I though it was kinda time consuming, so I decided to simplify and it went much quicker....plus I liked the outcome better! So here it is simplified: Fist I printed out my tops onto card stock: Then I made one cut down the middle. (You should now have two pieces of paper.) Next, fold the bottom of the paper in half and draw a line 3/4" from the fold at the bottom. Lay a business card on the line (centered) then draw up the sides. -see picture below  Cut out the rectangle: Fold the bottom up like it was before you cut it. Add tape to each of t

 Everyone With A Child Should Read This..... Car Seat Safety: The Benefits of Extended Rear Facing (ERF)  What is Extended Rear Facing? Extended rear-facing simply means to keep a child in the rear-facing position after the child reaches 1 year and 20 lbs. 20 lbs is the minimum requirement for turning a child to the forward-facing position (by Ontario law). While you can choose to forward-face at the current minimum of 20 lbs, it is highly recommended that you keep your child rear-facing until the upper limits of the seat are reached. Your child will reach these upper limits when one of the following conditions occurs: 1. The child reaches the rear-facing weight limit 2. The top of the child's head is within one inch of the top of the shell of the car seat. Push down on the padding and measure with the plastic shell. Why should I keep my child Rear Facing? It is the safest way for anyone to ride. Need proof? *From 1992 through June of 1997, only 9 properly restraine

Is Your Home Safe? GET CLEAN -  Safe for you, your home, and your planet.™ The real dirt on clean. You know that good, healthy feeling you get when you’ve just cleaned house? Sorry to spoil it, but you may have just madeyour home dirtier. Think of it this way. You wouldn’t let your kids play with toxic chemicals, so why would you let the baby crawl over a floor that’s just been wiped with them? That’s much more dangerous than the orange juice that was just there. How dangerous? Just take a look at these statistics. • Over 90% of poison exposures happen at home. • Common chlorine bleach is the #1 household chemical involved in poisoning. • Organic pollutants, found in many common cleaners and even air fresheners, are found at levels 2 to 5 times higher inside your home than out. • A person who spends 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls could inhale three times the “acute one-hour exposure limit” for glycol ether-containing products set by the California Office of Envir

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!" To all you moms out there.....I have a secret!   My kids do not get all the colds and coughs that usually go around in the winter..... and it is because of Shaklee! I put one chewable Vita-C in each 8 oz. baby bottle and sippy cup of water for my baby. As a result she has had only one cold the entire winter.....and that was while she was also cutting two teeth! She loves the vita-c water even better than regular water! My 4 yr. old son takes 2 Vita-C chewables a day and eats them like candy! My 9 yr. old daughter perfers the swallowable Vita-C. Each tablet of Chewable Vita-C® delivers 100 mg of Vitamin C and enh ances immune function by: Supporting the body's natural antioxidant defenses Helping maintain cell integrity Promoting healthy eyes, teeth, gums, bones, muscles, and blood vessels A healthy immune system is your body's most powerful weapon in its daily battle against smog, smoke, and other environmental as

Last winter, almost a year ago my sister came over to do crafts with my daughter and I one evening. We made Book Angel's!  My book angel  My daughters book angel  It was simple enough that my daughter could do everything (except for help with the hot glue gun), but was also lots of fun! Items needed: A book (I used an old song book, my daughter used a reading book with pictures), a glue gun and glue, fake craft hair, wooden balls and scraps of lace and ribbon. You take the book and fold the first six or so pages up.....they are the 'wings'. Do the same thing with the last six or so (the same amount) of pages. Then go through  the rest of the book folding the pages down. (children may need some help to try to fold the pages all the same)  folding pages  Set the book upright, glue on a wooden ball for the head, then glue on hair, lace, ribbons and bows, etc. (my daughter added a face with a marker to hers...)  cutting the hair  and there