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How would you like to hear that for one low payment of $39.99 a masseuse will visit your home at the snap of your fingers and give you a stress and pain relieving back and neck massage? Wouldn’t that be nice? Ever since a car accident 9 years ago I suffer from neck and back cramps and on top of that I have two kids, a business, and a home to take care of which as I’m sure you are aware, can lead to a good amount of stress which leads to painfully tense neck muscles. My husband isn’t always home to give me a neck rub but I have the next best thing, a Homedics Shiatsu Pillow
I am enjoying my Homedics Shiatsu Pillow as I write this. My body is swaying back and forth to the shiatsu motion, my lower back is nice and warm and my muscles are relaxed. I have an old iJoy massage chair that does the job but I can’t go upstairs and sit in the chair every time I feel tense or when I’m not home obviously. I can however take my Shiatsu Pillow anywhere and is an amazingly effective alternative to a massage chair or an actual massage. I am extremely impressed with how strong the shiatsu mechanisms are. I was expecting more of a light shiatsu massage with some vibration but this is the real thing! The Homedics Shiatsu Pillow is about half the size of pillow and fits nicely in any chair. I find it gives a particularly deep and tension relieving massage when I sit in a hard chair such as the chairs below. Do you like my office space? – I’m working in my dining room today.
The soft plush Shiatsu Pillow conforms to your body and there’s even an option to add heat to your massage. The shiatsu pillow is perfect for use on your neck, back, shoulders and more. Finally, moms can relax while the soft plush pillow kneads away muscle tension, pain and fatigue! What a relief! That’s worth $39!
Homedics’ Shiatsu Pillow would make a great Mother’s Day gift, don’t you think?
Whenever you see this icon 
– that means that it is an invitation link! Click here to jump to the online flash sale website list.
Parents are always looking for ways to save money and shopping at Target and Old Navy seems to be the thing for a lot of moms these days. However, we still need to maintain style and uniqueness via ours and our kids wardrobes and accessories, right? Buying clothing and accessories from online flash sale websites is a great way to build yours and your kids wardrobe without spending a fortune… and gets you away from Target and Old Navy every once in a while.
Online flash sale websites including Gilt, Rue La La , and ideeli offer exclusive sales on top brand name fashions at scheduled times.
I’ve found some adorable items at online sample sale sites like super cute socks for Madelyn at Gilt Group, Cynthia Rowley sunglasses down from $150 to $49 at Rue La La (for me of course), and HauteLook had a big SIGG kids sale event during which I bought a few SIGG bottles for my family. Click here to sign up for HauteLook.
Some flash sale websites feature only well known designer and luxury brands for women and men but some including Gilt have a section just for Children’s items where they feature the most adorable items that you might not otherwise find or buy because of their originally high prices. The flash sale sites on which I have found the most children’s items are Gilt and HauteLook.
Last week, my husband packed up our printer and brought it with us on our Spring Break vacation so he could print a few photographs of our 3 year old daughter in his spare time (ha!) during our vacation.
Why? Because Madelyn, our 3 year old, has been commenting on the fact that we don’t have any framed photographs of her up. There are a couple of photographs of both kids on the fridge, but that’s it. There are dozens of photographs of Sebastian (10 years old) all over the house, but not one framed photograph of Madelyn. See the photograph to the right.. the frames to the right are full of photographs of Sebastian while the frames to the left are empty. That’s so sad. Needless to say, Tim didn’t print photographs while we were in Orlando last week.. we were a little busy. I am however, determined to print and frame enough photographs to fill the blank spaces in the frames to the right.. before her 4th birthday, May 9th. Please say a prayer for me!
While I am looking through photographs on my computer to print for Madelyn’s frames, I am going to flag a bunch of photos starting from the day she was born so I can finally create a scrapbook for her. Her scrapbook may not be as elaborate as Sebastian’s, it will most likely be a Photobook.. from Vistaprint (why not?) but at least we’ll have something to look through. I love both of my kids so much.. it breaks my heart that I haven’t spent as much time on organizing and sharing photographs of her as I did when Sebastian was younger. I am much busier now than I was when Sebastian was her age, but that doesn’t take the guilt away. So, enough of the sad stories..
These days it seems we all keep our photos online.. as we should for security and longevity of our memories. However, there’s nothing like having hard copies of your photos to share with your friends & family!
Vistaprint also offers such great products as Birthday Invitations, Custom T-shirts, and Personalized Mugs.
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I realized today that I am still recovering from Spring Break which was last week. I am mentally exhausted.. trying to catch up with work and life and on top of normal work and life to catch up on, my 10 year old has CRCT’s this week at school and I’m the one having nightmares.. no kidding!
We went to my home town, Orlando, for Spring Break. While in Orlando, we visited a couple of great family destinations, Busch Gardens and Kennedy Space Center and I couldn’t have been more pleased with our visit to both places. The kids were just amazing and they both had fun.. which as you know if you have more than one child, can be difficult to accomplish when they are far apart in age. My kids are 10 and 3.
Our first big outing was a visit to Busch Gardens Tampa where we spent over 10 hours. I wish we could have gone a second day as we weren’t able to go on nearly all the rides we wanted or visit all the exhibits and shows. That’s to be expected though when you have two kids of such different ages, 10 and 3, and 4 adults with varying tastes in rides and shows. The highlight of our Busch Gardens visit was in Busch Gardens’ new Sesame Street Safari of Fun and boy.. do I wish I brought swimsuits for the kids! Both kids enjoyed Sesame Street Safari of Fun. I wasn’t sure if Sebastian, 10 years old, would like it so much as it looks like it’s geared for a younger crowd but he LOVED it and was Madelyn’s big helper when going through the rope maze and over the tree house bridge. We didn’t get to do many of the rides in Sesame Street Safari of Fun and could have easily spent 3 or 4 hours just in the Sesame Street Safari of Fun section of Busch Gardens so I hope we can go back soon so we can go on more Sesame Street rides. I particularly enjoyed Snuffy’s Elephant Romp (pictures below).
Here is a bit I wrote about during our first 1/2 hour at Busch Gardens which was amazingly stress-free and yummy!
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Even though I grew up in Florida I had not been to Busch Gardens Tampa and am so glad I got to go with my kids for the first time. My kids had a blast and were absolutely wonderful there. Neither of them got fussy or impatient which when coupled with beautiful weather, a wonderful atmosphere, and nice people, made our experience at Busch Gardens a great one that I won’t forget.