Bicycle Shopping Guide for Families

Bicycle Shopping Guide for Families

| March 27, 2012 | 1 Comment

The other day, we talked about how to choose the right size bike for your kids in “How to choose the right bicycle“. With spring just around the corner, it’s the time of year to think about buying a new bicycle if your child has outgrown his old one. Easter is only a couple of […]

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Maclaren Stroller News Updates for 2012

Maclaren Stroller News Updates for 2012

| March 26, 2012 | 0 Comments

Maclaren’s famous umbrella strollers are freshened-up for 2012 and a bit of a mysterious news story lurks in the background.
I was quite pleased to see the updates that Maclaren had made to their strollers this past week. I was worried because I had heard late last month that the company was filing for bankrupcy! If […]

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Spring has Sprung New TOMS Styles

Spring has Sprung New TOMS Styles

| March 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

You know that all of us at Shopaholic Mommy love TOMS Shoes. The designs are cute, the materials are durable and (my personal favorite) every time you buy, you’re helping someone in need. I was browsing the site today and found a bunch of new-for-spring styles that I just love! I’m going to be using […]

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Keeping Kids Safe Online

Keeping Kids Safe Online

| March 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

When your kids are small, keeping them safe tends to consist of things like keeping tiny Legos off of the floor, covering the electrical outlets and not leaving them unattended in the bathtub. As they grow, though, kids gain more freedom and, as any mom knows, freedom in kids equals concern in parents. Most kids […]

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Streamling the Family Schedule

Streamling the Family Schedule

| March 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

If you’re anything like my best friend’s family, you’re constantly on the go. With two working parents and three active kids, they seem to be running all the time! My friend and her husband are each responsible for dropping off a kid or two at school on their respective drives into work, then the late […]

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Budget Friendly Meal Ideas

Budget Friendly Meal Ideas

| March 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

We’re all feeling the economic pinch these days, and the rising prices at the grocery store aren’t helping matters. I buy almost the same items every week, and our total at the checkout counter has been slowly rising as the months have gone by. One of my goals for 2012 is to reduce our grocery […]

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Food

Cinco De Mayo Recipes

Cinco De Mayo Recipes

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over French invaders in 1862. Today it is celebrated not only in Mexico but in the US as well. We LOVE mexican food (as a matter of fact tacos are on our weekly family menu) and we can’t wait to have our fiesta tonight! Here are some […]

Turkey Advice: How to cook it, gadgets to buy

Turkey Advice: How to cook it, gadgets to buy

Our resident TopChef and cooking advisor has some Turkey tips for you this holiday season…… It’s just my husband and I in our household, so I rarely make turkey. Perhaps a turkey breast now and then, but never a whole turkey.  Besides I never needed to.  Thanksgiving was always celebrated at my uncle’s house with […]

Shopping

Things to Buy on Sale in February

Things to Buy on Sale in February

With a special holiday involving flowers, chocolate, and hearts coming up soon, you may have been planning to spend your extra money on Valentine’s Day items over the next couple of weeks. If you’re hoping to save money in February, though, those are definitely not the items that will be on sale… at least not […]

Shopping the January Sales

Shopping the January Sales

If I asked you when the best time is to stock up on school supplies, you’d say July, right? It’s when all of the big box stores tend to have boxes of crayons for fifty cents or two, 10-packs of markers for a couple of bucks, and those spiral notebooks that get caught on everything […]