Happily Blended Product Reviews, Giveaways, and tales from a Mommy Blogger of three - Part 2

We Love Moon Dough, Do You?

August 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Product Reviews

Moon Dough Barn

My family was able to test out some Moon Dough and above is the picture of the barn we received and in the far right you can see an animal one of my boys made out of the Moon Dough. You know me when I review something I am usually really excited if it comes with three of whatever is included so that all three of my children can play without as much sibling rivarly and the Moon Dough Magic Barn came with a yellow, blue and white sample of Moon Dough. That made this Mama happy for starters.

My children and I were able to test out this product together when it first arrived, which is a first for us, usually someone is missing from the picture when I review a product. Baby K was in charge of making hay, AJ in charge of making fences and animals and Princess Ki simply did whatever her little heart pleased.

Moon Dough Kids

Setting up the barn was pretty simply, you put a side silo looking thing in, a crank and voila you have a magic barn ready for endless hours of fun times. The children didn’t quite have the patience to work with the crank because it’s best to take pauses in between each time you move the crank in order to get the best looking barnyard animals. We created yellow, white and blue animals and eventually all of the Moon Dough was mixed together because after all Baby K just turned two and loves to make a huge mess.

Speaking of mess, clean up was easier than other products we have used similar to this. Simply roll up Moon Dough in a ball shape and roll it on all the little extra pieces! We loved this Moon Dough Magic Barn and would highly recommend it to your family if you have children between the ages of 2 and 4, as that is the age recommendation from Moon Dough for this particular product.


Disclosure: I am writing this review as part of a campaign with Team Mom and the product reviewed was provided to my family for free.

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A Positive Update on Mister AJ

August 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Brandy's Life, children, parenting

Oh my gosh, this past week has been simply amazing with my son AJ who turned four this month. I am sure you have seen a post here or there that mentions his aggressive behavior and how he is the only one out of my three children like that. Well this past week I was given a whole new little boy! At least that is how Justin and I feel, this four year old boy says please, thank you, love you, and gives hugs like you wouldn’t believe. I think AJ has turned into quite the affectionate little dude since turning age 4 and it’s left me with my jaw dropped wondering what happened?!

I was talking to Justin about how proud I was with AJ’s behavior lately, of course he still has his sleep issues off and on, but the day time hours are so much easier because he is what I call a “normal young boy”. Sure he pops his brother in the had for taking a toy or pushes his sister or pulls his sisters hair and yes sometimes he still hits me on occasion but overall my AJ has had less and less aggressive reactions as the days go on. It’s like AJ woke up to be age four and the way he has been since before age two has been removed 90% from his mind or body, whatever the word is.

All I can say based on my experiences with AJ is that patience, consistency and love will outlast any medicine or negative attention you can give to a child! Justin and I have worked so hard to be positive and loving with AJ, even though we haven’t been perfect, we have yelled out of frustration at times, we have placed him in his room for “chill out” time so that we could recoup before, but overall our main parenting technique with AJ {and our other children} is to remain a positive, consistent and loving as you can. This is not to say you won’t fall on your face and be negative or say something in a loud tone or say something you don’t mean to your children, it simply means you focus the majority of your efforts in parenting to be that of a positive nature! Once you can learn to be as positive as you possibly can be and to simply love your child or children then you will see a huge change in their behavior over time that will make you happy that you chose positive parenting!

My son AJ smiles often now, he wants to talk on the Flip video often and he is so full of love and affection that my heart melts every day when I see how much better he has gotten since the days of destruction and anger started!

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Giveaway Linky Up Enter & List Giveaways

August 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · giveaways

Happy Saturday friends! You list ‘em we enter ‘em … or list ‘em and enter ‘em … whatever works for you! Enjoy the weekend and remember to SMILE!

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Yummy Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo Giveaway

August 27th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Product Reviews, giveaways

I recently was able to test out the new Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo and today I am going to share my thoughts and information along with a giveaway so you can win your own package of Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo!

Sandwich Shop Bottles

I know that most would think of mayo on a sandwich but truth be told I rarely place mayo on my sandwiches, and yes this Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo has the word sandwich in the name therefore is probably made more for sandwiches so I do plan to give the garlic and herb a test drive on my next turkey sandwich for lunch. In the meantime here are some ideas that I have been given and that I think would be great uses for these new Kraft Mayo’s:

  • Add a little Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo Chipolte to your macaroni salad to give it a slight kick along with your favorite mayo you use in the salad.
  • Add a little Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo Garlic and Herb to your potato salad.
  • Add some hot and spicy Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo to your next chicken finger dipper dinner or lunch time!

Learn more about Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo by visiting the Kraft Sandwich Shop YouTube Channel.

Ready to win you a package of Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo in Chipotle, Garlic & Herb, Horseradish-Dijon, and Hot & Spicy?

Giveaway starts today and is open to US. Ends at 11:59pm on September 9, 2010. Please follow all rules, as any commenter not following rules will have their entry removed without notice. Random.org will assist in choosing a winner and the winner will be announced live on site!

HOW TO ENTER:

  • Tell me which flavor of Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo would be your favorite to try. Leave one comment below with this answer.
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Good luck and have fun!

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Never Said I Was Perfect

August 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Brandy's Life

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Today I am going to talk about a person fictionally named Freddy, based loosely on a real life person … not named Freddy of course …

Freddy is your typical negative person who has to have others around him to please him, he must always have the best of everything and continuously spends more than he has. Due to him spending more than he has he must pick up a new relationship partner every so often because he continuously drains the one before them. Then when Freddy finally gets a good partner they use and abuse them until they have nothing more inside of them, they are dead to the world. A broken heart can change a person, you know?! Freddy doesn’t care, they continue on in their path of self destruction trying to bring along everyone they possibly can and boy did this used to upset me dearly. I watched as people came and went, I watched as a sad and lonely person who could not love themselves continuously tried to find love in money or relationships. Sad thing is I doubt Freddy will ever learn how to love himself no matter how much I had hoped he would. You see Freddy is a self absorbed person who appears to love himself and appears to be all together, little does the outside world know this person is a very evil person who has destroyed many peoples chance at a good life and continues to move on in the same direction, while still sitting up on his high horse as if he has done no wrong ever in his life and continues to blame his life on others.

Fast forward to current day ….

It took me many, many, many years to become the person I am today. I made a decision and I worked my butt off, stayed focus and became the person I wanted to be, or so I thought at the time. Years ago when I decided to be the person I am today I actually thought I would be some great person who never did anything wrong or always made the right decisions. What a silly thought that was! I know now that if I were to never do anything wrong or always make the right decisions my life would be so completely boring, I wouldn’t have a blog, I wouldn’t take a risk, I would be just plain Jane and that is not me, after all I do have some of my father’s genetics in me and them people are no where near boring!

When I write on here I am always preaching about how I never said I was perfect, so many people see that positive energy I hold inside of me and they talk so highly of me most times that I feel like maybe I am misleading some people. I mean I do make mistakes, I sometimes yell at my children, I sometimes give my kids a time out for something that may not have been worthy of a time out, I yell at my husband for no reason, and the most not so perfect thing I am famous for doing is venting in a way that makes the person listening feel like it’s their fault. I try to talk, I try to vent but it always comes out as if I am blaming that person which usually is not even close to what I was trying to say.

You see I am human, we are all born with some flaws and it’s how we choose to deal with the flaws we have that makes us better or worse off in this world. I know that when  my daughter says things like “there’s that positive Mom I know” or “I was thinking positive today Mom” that something I am doing with the person I am now is making an impression on my children, and that my friends is really all I care about … making a  positive impression on my children because after all, I saw what a negative parenting situation creates, the monster that used to be ME.

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Take Some Time To Catch Up

August 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Brandy's Life

Today I am leaving a post like this …. take some time to catch up .. I have written so many new articles, reviews and giveaways here that I wanted to give you all a chance to stop by my blog and catch up with some reading …

Start with Brandy’s Life then  maybe move onto Product Reviews and Parenting from there the list is endless check out whichever menu bar is of interest to you and see what’s new. Today I take a one day break to recoup it was a long day yesterday and I need some Mama time!

Hope you take some time today to catch up because I feel I wrote some great articles the past few weeks discussing a variety of topics … and I want your insight please leave comments on any posts you feel are worthy of your time. Thank you for all your support since December 2008 but today I simply need to step away to recoup! I will let you in on a secret, I’ve been writing articles in a notepad so once I get back here I will be writing you some great articles to read for sure!

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Wordless Wednesday: Fun To Be Silly

August 25th, 2010 · 10 Comments · wordless wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Me and Justin He's Making Silly Cross Eyes

Me and Justin He's Making Silly Cross Eyes

Me being Goofy one night

Me being Goofy one night

AJ the King of Silly

AJ the King of Silly

If you are a blogger participating in Wordless Wednesday please link up below and leave a comment, for more WW you can visit 5 Minutes for Mom as well as Moms Vacation Land.

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White Heat by Brenda Novak Giveaway

August 24th, 2010 · 75 Comments · giveaways

I am excited to be offering a fantastic giveaway to you all today, White Heat by Brenda Novak the book, a $25 Visa Gift Card, and lip gloss made just for White Heat! Read on to learn more about the book and the author then feel free to enter the giveaway for your chance to win!

ABOUT BRENDA NOVAK

brendaNew York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Brenda Novak has three novels coming out this summer – WHITE HEAT, BODY HEAT & KILLER HEAT. She also runs an annual on-line auction for diabetes research every May at www.brendanovak.com. To date, she’s raised over $1,072,000. Brenda considers herself lucky to be a mother of five and married to the love of her life.

As with any person who is a famous author we wonder where it all began and so I took some time to read How It All Started on the Brenda Novak website. Brenda caught the shock that no parent wants to catch, a daycare provider drugging her children with Tylenol and cough syrup to get them to sleep while she was away. Just then she had that same Mom moment I had, “I need to do something from home”. Although I didn’t have that same thing happen to me, I just knew “Mother knows best” and wanted to raise my own children while earning an income from home!

Brenda had never expected nor planned to be a writer, her strong skills in school were math and science and she even left an academic scholarship to Brigham Young University at the age of 20 in order to get married and start a family, Brenda dabbled in commercial real estate, then became a loan officer.  It took Brenda five years to actually craft her first novel!  After Brenda sold her first book her path of being an author began!

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