The Beauty Challenges of Festival Season!

Fight #Allergyface with beauty tips from makeup artist Jamie Greenberg

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ZYRTEC® I’ve been an outdoor  concert and festival person for as long as I can remember. Back in my single days, we drove hours and even flew across the country for music festivals several times a year. Now that I’m a married mom of […]

How I Protect My “Daughter” From The Bugs She Hates

How I protect my "daughter" from the bugs she hates.

This is a sponsored post, but as always, the opinions are all my own. I’m the mom of a couple of wild, crazy boys and I’ve written about not having a daughter a number of times but the truth of the matter is I kind of have one. Her name is Hadley and she’s really fond of running around […]

How I Idiot Proof My Holiday Entertaining

BJ's Cooking Club

This post is sponsored by BJ’s Cooking Club – the only cooking club I’m allowed to be a member of. I’m not gonna say I don’t know HOW to cook exactly.  I can follow instructions well enough. It’s just that I don’t have time for those instructions to be complicated.  I have 2 crazy little boys […]

Christmas Might Not Be In His Genes but It’s In His Jeans

Our Christmas Tradition is on the line. - Joe Boxer at Kmart

My husband and I don’t share a religious background but we do share a very playful sense of humor. It’s what makes us work.  And let’s face it, I could never be with someone who didn’t enjoy a little mischievousness, during the holidays and all year long. When our relationship was still pretty new, I got the idea to […]

PIWTPITT’s New Book – Good Enough To Eat

People I Want To Punch in the Throat's new book is good enough to eat - Toulouse & Tonic

Nevermind that there’s a cupcake on the cover.  Jen of People I Want To Punch in the Throat’s new book is so good, I just want to eat it. Everyone needs one of those friends who says exactly what everyone else is thinking but won’t say.  I’m often that person in my circles (and yes, […]

The Surprising Tool That Helped Me Sell My House

Make sure bugs don't feel at home. #HotShot

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Hot Shot® Insecticides. Last summer, we decided it was time to move.  I can’t even get into how horrible it was to put our house on the market at the very moment the kids got out of school for the summer.  To have to be […]

Confessions of a Horrible Homemaker

Confessions of a horrible homemaker - Toulouse & Tonic

I’m a pretty good mother, despite my constant complaints of how crazy it is mothering two insane hooligans.  What?!!  It. Is. Chaos. But still – I put everything I have into it and then some.  Which is why, when people say, “How are you?” I usually say, “Tired.” But the rest of the crap involved […]

Combatting #ALLERGYFACE

Combatting Allergy Face with makeup tips by @jamiemakeup

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ZYRTEC®. When I reached my 30s I noticed a strange thing start to happen.  I started sneezing and getting watery eyes in the Spring.  This had never happened to me before and when one of my sassy-talking friends said, “You’ve got allergies, dumb-ass,” I […]

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