Let's just start this out with, I really love this product!  What is it, you ask?  It is a wonderful Household Cleaner called Soft Scrub.

I've used Soft Scrub in the past, but now they have different types and I love them all!  They have cleaners that are all purpose, bath and bowl, and one that works on grease.  The new bottles have a patented trigger that will either spray a fine mist or a thick foam.  You can even spray upside down so it will reach in those tricky spaces, like the rim of the toilet bowl.

Another plus for me, is my kids really like to use the foam so they are much more willing to clean because the cleaner is "cool!" as they put it!  The bathrooms looked sparkling clean after using the Soft Scrub Bath and Bowl cleaner.

I tried the Soft Scrub All Purpose Cleaner on my kitchen sink.  Check out the before and after pics:
Before - totally Gross!

After - Sparkly Clean and Disinfected!

My kids leave all sorts of gross messes in my kitchen sink, but Soft Scrub got them out and with very little scrubbing on my part!

I love it becaue it got the stains out, but is gentle on the surfaces.  Plus, it cleans and deodorizes.  I told you I loved this product!

Right now Soft Scurb is holding a sweepstakes with $3000 in prizes!  Can you say Woot! Woot!  One lucky winner will will $1000 and 50 other winners will win $40 each!  You can enter here!

Now, for even more contesty fun... how about a chance to win some coupons for a free bottle of Soft Scrub!  Three winners will each win two coupons for one free bottle of Soft Scrub Total, Soft Scrub Bleach Clean, or Soft Scrub abrasive product!  Very cool!

Contest ends Wednesday, September 26, 2012. Three winners will be randomly chosen from all correct entries. Winners will be notified by email and have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. This contest is open to residents of the US.

Disclosure:  I was given this product for the purpose of a review.  The opinions are all my own and free of charge!

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Can I just tell you, I love to blog!  I really do!  One of the reasons, (besides giving my opinion, which I LOVE to do!) is I get to try the neatest things!  Oh, I can hardly wait to tell you about this!
 
Betty Crocker (who is one of my go-to brands to begin with) has come out with the neatest product!  It is called Betty Crocker Shake-N-Pour.  They are mixes that you just add water to, shake, and wait for it.... pour! See, I told you it was neat!
 
We had so much fun trying these mixes out!  We got the Chocolate Cupcake Mix out, added water, and had a blast shaking the mix!  I even added a little dance as I shook it up!  Wait, does that count as exercise?
The kids each took turns shaking (not because it needed that much shaking, it was just fun to do!) and then my daughter poured it into the cupcake papers, plopped it in the oven, and soon we were eating heavenly chocolate cupcakes!

You can find these gems in the baking aisle of your grocery store.  You can try the Chocolate Cupcake, Confetti Cupcake, and Chocolate Brownie.  Is your mouth watering yet?
 
I love the quickness and convenience of this.  Plus, my son with special needs can now help with the baking, which I love!  I highly recommend Betty Crocker Shake-N-Pour!  They're easy, convenient and delicious! 
 
Well, just when you thought it couldn't get any better... one of you lucky readers can win your own prize pack!  It includes:
 
*All three varieties of the Betty Crocker Shake-N-Pour Dessert Mixes

Very cool! Don't you love trying new things!

Mandatory Entry:
Please leave me a comment letting me know which mix you'd try first! How easy is that? Please include your email in the comment if it's not visible in your profile (jane smith at yahoo dot com)

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Contest ends Friday, September  21, 2012. One winner will be randomly chosen from all correct entries. Winner will be notified by email and have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. This contest is open to residents of the US.

Disclosure: The product, gift pack, information, and additional sample have all been provided by Betty Crocker through MyBlogSpark.

Contest is over and winner has been chosen!  Thanks to all you amazing readers!

I love a good bargain and I love a good contest!  Well, I want to pass on some info about both!  Woot!

Sports Illustrated Kids is offering their August tablet issue completely free!  Cool, huh!  The tablet edition has everything that the print magazine does,but it also includes bonus photos and interactive features like games and sports cards that kids will loved.

You just need to download the SI kids app on an iPad or Kindle Fire, and then use this info to get the latest issue:

Login:  freeissue@sikids.com
Pasword:  september2012

SportsIllustrated Kids is also holding a contest for the 2012 SportsParent of the Year!  The Grand Prize winner will receive a $1,000 gift card to held support their child's or community team's sports needs.  The winner may also be featured in an upcoming issue of Sports Illustrated Kids magazine and/or on SIKIDS.com.  The deadline for the entries are 9/24/12.

It's pretty easy to enter:

Decide who you'd like to nominate.  It can be yourself, your spouse, or another parent.

Go to www.sikids.com/sportsparent and follow the instructions to submit your nomination.

You can only nominate one person.

Like the Sports Illustrated Kids Facebook page.

Share your entry with your friends and followers via social media (Twitter hashtag: #SPOTY2012)

Good luck!

Disclosure:  I received a product for the purpose of a review.  The opnions are all my own and free of charge!

I have been plaqued with motion sickness all my life!  I've learned all the tricks, fresh air blowing on me, keeping my eyes fixed forward, and absolutely no reading while I'm in the car!  Blegh....

Trips were always miserable, curvy mountain roads were torture!  I missed out on lots of amusement park rides because they made me throw up.  Blegh...

Then I discovered Dramamine!  What a lifesaver!  I could take a pill, and then be able to do the things everyone else in my family could!  I even went on a boat, woo hoo! The only drawback was how drowsy I felt when I took it.  Though, when you think of motion sickness and all the symptoms associated with it, drowsiness was well-worth it.

Now, Dramamine has come up with Dramamine Less Drowsy!  My family recently took a road trip down to Tucson.  I took Dramamine Less Drowsy and was able to enjoy the trip down and back, plus all the driving we did (including lots of u-turns as we tried to find different destinations!).  I didn't feel so tired as I usually do on Dramamine.  Plus, one pill lasted 24 hours.  I could be a Dramamine Poster Child!  This stuff allows me to enjoy vacations with my family, and take trips that used to be just horrible. 

There is also Dramamine for Kids which comes in a safe, precise children's dose.  It prevents motion sickness.  I wish I had this as a kid.  I hated getting sick, then begging Dad to pull over because I was going to throw up. Then, having all my brothers and sisters making comments and gagging noises!  Geesh!

Now, not only is Dramamine a wonderful solution for me, but they are also offering an opportunity to win a week long cruise!  You know I'm all over that!  Entering is easy!  Just go to www.Dramamine.com and click on the sweepstakes banner.  Just tell them in 50 words or less why you wished you had used Dramamine on a recent trip, and you could be chosen to win a week long cruise for four people!  Oh yeah!  Four finalists will receive a travel package containing headphones, an e-reader (Kindle fire), neck pillows, eye masks and of course, Dramamine!  How fun!

Go enter!  But hurry, the contest ends September 30th, 2012.

Thanks Dramamine, for giving me back the chance to have travel adventures with my family again!

Disclosure:  I received samples for the purpose of a review.  The opinions are all my own and free of charge!

When I was little, I loved ants!  I loved to watch them scurrying here and there, always busy, always working.  I did reports on them at school.  I remember working particularly hard on a poster all about their little ant community.  I totally aced that report!

Now that I'm grown up, well.... while I admire their work ethic... I'm not a big fan of those little buggers.  Especially when they try and invade my home.  Nah uhh... don't like them one little bit. 

During the summer around here, those nasty little guys always try to invade my kitchen and my laundry room.  Combat Source Koll Max Ant Bait to the rescue!

I love this stuff!  It can wipe out a whole colony.  The ants carry the bait back to the colony and can pass it on to the queen.  Good bye ants, good bye queen.  I like that I can set the little ant baits wherever I need them and they are child resistant.  The poison is inside, not where I can get any on my hands.

I'm currently using it in my laundry room and kitchen and I have not seen any ants since I started using it!  Woo hoo!

I also used the Combat Source Kill Max Ant Gel.  It's a fast acting gel that will kill the ants, but not before the ants get back to the colony and share their poison prize!  I placed this where I knew the ants were getting in, in the laundry room and I have not seen any since.  I am one satisfied customer!

Combat is also holding a fun contest (you KNOW how I love contests!) that you can enter.  It is for $1000 and an assortment of Combat brand products!  It's called the Combat Bug-Free Backyard Bash Sweepstakes!  You can enter here!  We could all use a Bug-Free Backyard and oh yeah!...  $1000.  Woot!

So, are those little buggers bugging you too?  Want a chance to win some Combat Ant Bait?  Well, my dear reader, now you have the chance!  One of you lucky readers can win a box of Combat Ant Gel! 

Mandatory Entry:
Please leave me a comment, telling me if ants are a problem for you! How easy is that? Please include your email in the comment if it's not visible in your profile (jane smith at yahoo dot com)

Extra Entries:
Leave a separate comment for each extra entry:
Enter the Combat Bug-Free Backyard Bash here
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Contest ends Friday, September 7th, 2012. One winner will be randomly chosen from all correct entries. Winner will be notified by email and have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. This contest is open to residents of the US. 

Good luck!

Disclosure:  Combat provided a sample of their Ant bait and Gel for the purpose of a review.  The opinions expressed are all mine and free of charge!

Contest is over and winner has been chosen.  Thanks to all you amazing readers!

I know, I know... someone else talking about healthy foods and fiber.  Now, don't tune me out... I want to tell you about something that's yummy AND healthy.  Yes, Virginia there Is a yummy, healthy cereal.

Introducing Fiber One Nutty Clusters & Almonds! 
First the Healthy Part:

It contains 11 grams of fiber (43% of the Daily Value) and 23 grams of whole grain goodness.  Did you know that 9 out of 10 Americans don't get enough fiber in their diet? I didn't either...

Now the Yummy Part:

Fiber One Nutty Clusters & Almonds contains... wait for it... delicious clusters of nuts and almond slivers!  I think it had just the right amount of crunchiness mixed in with the flakes!  I also loved that I felt full and kept feeling full for much longer than usual!  That's quite a plus for me!

I don't know if I would have pulled this off the store shelf if I saw it in the store, simply because it's called Fiber One.  But I'm so glad I had the opportunity to try it, because now I'm a fan!

Want to try some for yourself?  You can click here to get a coupon worth $1.25off of a box.  Or.... you  can enter my contest and win some for yourself (plus a little extra)!  One of you lucky readers can win two boxes of Fiber One Nutty Clusters & Almonds, a wooden nut bowl and a spoon!  Woot!

Mandatory Entry:
Please leave me a comment, just something nice!  How easy is that? Please include your email in the comment if it's not visible in your profile (jane smith at yahoo dot com)

Extra Entries:
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Like Fiber One on Facebook
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Contest ends Monday, August 20, 2012. One winner will be randomly chosen from all correct entries. Winner will be notified by email and have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. This contest is open to residents of the US.

 Disclosure:  The product, gift pack, information, and additional sample have all been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.

Contest is over and winners have been chosen!  Thanks to all you amazing readers!

The Odd Life of Timothy Green - What a movie!  I was oddly charmed, oddly moved and oddly uplifted! 

My sweet husband and I had the opportunity to preview this movie.  We went to the preview not knowing one thing about the movie.  From the first scene we were drawn in and stayed captivated through the end.  What a movie!


My husband and I found this movie especially poignant because we dealt with infertility and have a child that sees life differently, yet brings great joy to all around him!  We laughed, we (I) cried, we were completely immersed in this movie!  We absolutely loved it, and want to see it again!  Then we want to buy it when it comes out on BluRay!  Just watching the trailers again brought up all the joy, and memories and emotions that I felt watching it the first time.

I give The Odd Life of Timothy Green a great big thumbs up!  It opens in theaters today, August 15th. Go see it!  I think you'll love it!

Disclosure:  I was given the opportunity to preview this movie for the purpose of a review.  The opinions are all mine and free of charge!