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All Children Can Be Great Listeners – Learn How

free ebook on teaching kids to listen

All Children Can Be Great Listeners

If you have a preschooler that you’re helping prepare for Kindergarten, or big kids who are already in grade school – You will love School Sparks. I found this site about a year ago, and fell in love right away –

  • It’s packed full of super helpful child development information.
  • I love the selection of free printable worksheets to help kids enjoy learning.
  • The site is just so cheery, fun, and easy to use!

It’s fun by a former Kindergarten teacher, so you know you can trust the info that you find, and you can be sure that it’s just what your children need to be successful in school. She’s put together 500 Free Printable Kindergarten Worksheets that you can print to help your child develop their skills in a really wide variety of areas – cutting and tracing sheets for motor development, math and alphabet worksheets to boost their core skills, and fun printables featuring holidays and characters too!

Get the book free!

In addition to all of the amazing worksheets, early childhood development information, and my favorite – the Kindergarten Readiness Test – You can also find this amazing ebook totally free!

Free eBook – All Children Can Be Great Listeners

You’ll find it in the upper right corner – Just click to download your own copy to improve the way your family communicates. I just skimmed through it tonight, and I know you’ll love it as much as I do!

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Red Velvet Cake Balls – Plus Freebie for Duncan Hines Bakers Club Members!

Recipe for Red Velvet Bake Pops

Get Free Baking Goodies from Duncan Hines!

These pretty little yummies are a recipe from Duncan Hines – Red Velvet Cake Balls. I’m super excited to try these out later this week – Not only are they gorgeous, but they’re super easy to make. All you need is a Red Velvet Cake Mix, frosting, and candy melts. The recipe is available to anyone who is a Duncan Hines Bakers Club Member, which you definitely want to join today – They announced on Facebook that they’re going to be sending out something cool to members later this week! After you join, you can get this full recipe here –

Red Velvet Cake Balls Recipe

The Bakers Club site is filled with great recipes and cool free tools – you’ll love it. And, if you’re like me and always looking for more ways to simplify life, you definitely want to pick up the Bake Pops set! You get a full kit totally free with each set you buy – getting you double the value. And they make it so super easy to make fun Bake Pops or Cake Balls, and they come out perfect every time. It’s like, one of my favorite inventions ever.

How do you make Bake Pops?

Do you use the kit? Or do you make them by hand? My attempts at making them by hand always ended in disaster, so the Bake Pops kit is my perfect solution to creating impressive desserts. Stop by on Facebook and share pictures of YOUR best cake balls or pops – I love to see my fans creativity!

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Free Minky Carseat Cover with Coupon Code

Free Minky Carseat Cover for Baby

Get a Free Carseat Cover

This is an absolutely amazing offer – and it won’t last long. All Planning Family members were invited to an exclusive sale event at Car Seat Canopy – Get their gorgeous Minky-lined Carseat Cover for FREE, just pay shipping. Or, get the deluxe package, normally $135, for only $29.95!! Here’s how it works:

  • Join Planning Family as a new member if you’re not already a part of this great community.
  • Visit CarseatCanopy.com, and choose either the Carseat Canopy, or the Whole Kaboodle Set.
  • Use Coupon Code FAMILY2012 at checkout to get the Canopy for free, or the Whole Kaboodle for only $29.95!!

You can order more than one, but you have to do each one in a separate transaction. This would be a perfect gift for a new mom – I absolutely love our set. Plus, they’re really versatile –

Carseat Canopy™ products are made for “year-round” use – fabrics not too heavy for summer and not too thin for winter.

If you pick the Whole Kaboodle Set, this is what will be included in the super discounted price of $29.95:

  1. Minky Slip Cover
  2. Minky Head Support Pillow
  3. Baby Lap Blanket with Minky Underside
  4. Replacement Umbrella with Minky Lining
  5. Car Seat Canopy with Minky Interior and 100% Cotton Outer

 Share this deal!

This is a limited time event, and as the styles sell out, that’s it. During the last promotion from Planning Family, when they partnered with another company for baby sling discounts, they sold out in just 2 days! So, if you know of any other mommas that would love this – make sure to share it today so that they don’t miss out!

Have a great Monday….

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How To: Get 33 Fun New Freebies Today

How to Get Free Samples

Who Loves Free Stuff?

Would you love to open your mailbox each day, and see it stuffed full of cool free stuff like this? Of course you would – It’s much better than bills, right? So – Here’s your weekly list of cool free stuff. If you’ve found a great freebie today, share a link in the comments. And feel free to share this post with your freebie lovin’ friends too – The easy peasy share buttons for Facebook and Twitter are right up top. Have a great weekend!

Beauty Freebies

  • Smashbox: Get $10 free credit on your purchase of $50 or more – use code SWEETDEAL at checkout to save at Smashbox.
  • MySavings: Get the newest new free samples today – Free Trial Size Bath & Body Works, free copy of Martha Stewart Magazine, and lots more.
  • Fragrance: Get a free sample of the new Tropical Breeze fragrance spray.

Tech & Finance Freebies

Health & Weight Loss Freebies

Pet Freebies:

Fun Freebies:

  • Under One Roof: New community combining HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel, where you can share your experiences in home improvement, decorating, cooking, shopping. Super fun. And – by signing up and confirming, you’re automatically entered to win a $250 Amazon Gift Card!
  • Bake Pops: Buy one Bake Pops set, get one totally FREE! This is my favorite invention of all time :)
  • Family Memories: Our old VHS family movies begin degrading after only 10 years. My childhood videos are over 20 years old now! Sign up for a free account at iMemories, {choose ‘ship it myself’ to make the account free} and check out the amazing tools they give you to create cool family movie DVD’s!
  • Coloring Book: Get a free educational coloring book for your child, ages 5-8. I’ve requested stuff from them many times, always good quality.
  • House Party: Apply to host an HGTV House Hunters House Party event. They’ll send you out a party pack filled with everything you need for a fun night.
  • Free Movies: Watch independent films for free on Fandor – very cool site.
  • Snapily: Set up a quick account, get a FREE $3 credit! Very cool photo products.
  • Free Card: Join Thankster, and get a free thank you card as a gift for joining!
  • Food on the Table: Free Menu Plannning service that matches your favorite recipes to local store sales – so cool, and saves me TONS of time!

Travel Freebies

Baby Freebies

  • Magazine: Get your FREE Subscription to American Baby Magazine. Click Here.
  • Pampers: Sign up for the Gifts to Grow program, and use the codes on every Pampers product to get free stuff – I use mine for free Shutterfly photo packages!
  • Planning Family: You can find advice, free samples, programs to join, and my favorite – printable diaper coupons!

Share the fun!

If you have freebie lovin’ friends, feel free to share this list with them. And if you have a cool free offer you’ve found today, take a minute to leave a link in the comments – I’m sure we’d all love to go and check it out too! Have a great weekend….
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Full Kit to Relieve Knee Pain – No Cost to You – Delivered to Your Door!

Hot Healthcare Freebie

If you suffer from knee and joint pain, this could be super helpful to you. I have tons of trouble with this type of pain – and since blogging doesn’t include health insurance, I take advantage of any offer like this that I can. Since I know many of my readers are getting by without insurance too, I thought I’d share…. Just click the pic above, request your kit, and it should arrive within a few weeks!

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Beauty Samples from Clinique, Sephora, Aveda, and more!

Fresh Face Cleaner

New – Free Beauty Goodies

Visit MySavings today to grab all of the newest Free Samples – Including some super fun beauty freebies:

  • Free Sample of Fresh Soy Face Cleanser at Sephora Stores
  • Aveda – Coupon for a Free 2-Piece Invati Haircare Sample pack
  • Free Epiderme Cosmeceudical Skincare Samples
  • Clinque Rinse-Off Cleanser & Mascara – Free Samples at Sears
  • Qualify to Receive a Free Schick Hydro Silk Razor
  • L’Occitane Shea Butter Hand Cream – Free with Coupon
  • Order a Free Sample Set of Axe Anarchy Body Sprays

Those are just the goodies that you’ll find on the first two pages! There are even more if you keep going. I use MySavings all of the time – They’re really great at ensuring all sample offers that they link to are legit and safe, so no worries.

If you have freebie-lovin’ friends, make sure to share this post on Facebook and Twitter too – they’ll appreciate it!

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My Weight Loss Resolutions Over the Years… #humor

New Years Diet humor

Dieting – New Year Resolutions over the Years…

  • 2008: I will lose 10 pounds.
  • 2009: I will follow my new diet religiously until I reach my goal weight.
  • 2011: I will work out 3 days a week.
  • 2010: I will develop a realistic attitude about my weight, and be happy where I’m at.
  • 2012: I will try to drive past a gym at least once a week. Sometimes.

Anyone else have trouble with New Years Resolutions?

Every year I’d say, “This is the year I lose that 10 pounds!” And I never lost them. And then I had a baby. And now I have a lot more than 10 pounds to lose, lol. If weight loss is on your list of 2012 goals too – here are a couple quick things to check out:

  • – Get a Free Body Assessment from Nutrisystem. This is great, helps you figure out if you really are fat, or just a little extra squishy :) Either way, you’ll be able to set a realistic weight loss goal.
  • – Try the Gym for Free. We all know that most people join with good intentions, but don’t stick with it. Here’s a free gym membership you can print out, to try it out before you pay the joining fee!
  • – Join Food on the Table. This is a totally free service, and it helps plan your meals with healthy options, matches your shopping list with coupons at your favorite stores, and makes eating well and saving money simple!

Or, say to heck with it all!

Just buy a set of Bake Pops {my favorite invention ever}, make them for tomorrow’s breakfast, and smile :) Do more of what makes you happy this New Year! Share this post using the easy peasy social buttons, and give a giggle or two to your own friends today too – Happy 2012!

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