Scroll down to watch the video segment of the peachy keen recipes that I recently showed in my morning show segment on KTVK’s Your Life Arizona. I showed how to make three peach recipes that include a refreshing peach sparkling water beverage, healthy peach yogurt and a decadent peach cobbler dump cake that can be […]
Quick Tips Peachy Keen Peach Recipes
September 7, 2020 By
As seen in my Your Life Arizona morning show, here are my favorite quick tips for peaches during peach season. Yay for peach season! To celebrate this fabulous fruit that satisfies a sweet tooth while providing fiber and antioxidants, here are three recipes. The first two recipes are healthy and the third one lets you […]
Freebie Friday Prize Winner!
September 3, 2020 By
Thanks to all who entered this week’s drawing for the most relaxing prize that is one of my favorite items! Our winner is listed below but first a little about this awesome prize. Today’s prize rocks for several reasons.First these essential bath oils remind us to breathe and do things to relieve our stress like […]
New Chapter, New Blog Direction & Prize Drawing This Week!
August 31, 2020 By
My favorite compliment that many of my readers and morning show viewers tell me is that they love my quick tips. Now that I am an empty nester, I am excited to have time to share more of those quick tips. Lifestyle quick tips about beauty, cooking, health and more that make our manic lives […]
Helpful, Heartfelt & Some Humor, Too…My Ten Tips For Empty Nesting Adjusting
August 29, 2020 By
Last week my husband and I became official empty nesters. 23 years later and it is an adjustment. I am blessed. My family and friends have checked on me with loving messages, texts, phone calls and some gifts, too. They all want to know the same thing… HOW AM I ADJUSTING TO AN EMPTY NEST? […]
Emptying The Nest With Our Daughter’s Bittersweet LA Launch College Move
August 26, 2020 By
Our nest became empty last weekend with our daughter’s bittersweet move away to college that I call Lexi’s LA Launch. I haven’t blogged about my lastborn in a while. Unlike many mom bloggers, I chose not to post anything about our Class of 2020 child the last few months. Like many mom bloggers, we were […]
Lemi Shine Drawing Winner!
August 7, 2020 By
Thanks to everyone who entered our drawing for a chance to win a gift box with products from the Lemi Shine cleaning product line. Lemi Shine has become my new favorite cleaning brand. I especially like how lemon extract is used in the products to get things extra squeaky clean. So who is our winner […]
Lemi Shine Cleaning Line Shines…Plus A Giveaway Drawing
July 31, 2020 By
Manic: My cleaning supply closet a few months ago. The anxiety that Covid19 caused early on had me scrambling to stock up on home cleaning supplies. Testing different cleaning lines has become one of my unexpected hobbies these last few months. Managed: My cleaning supply closet today. It is stocked and organized. Finally. I now have some […]
Wonderful White Wine Sangria! My Morning Show Recipe Demo
July 17, 2020 By
With everything else in life so out of whack…why not make my autumn sangria recipe now and call it summer sangria? Cheers to that. Watch the video below from my Your Life Arizona morning show segment. I demonstrate this simple recipe for scrumptious sangria with an unexpected twist ingredient. You will see what I mean […]
AZ Local: EQuip Our Kids! Organization Provides Mostly Free Parenting Resources
July 15, 2020 By
Parenting is always a big job. This year has proven to be even more challenging for moms and dads to stay positive and focused every day. Kids of all ages watch how parents cope, so the pressure is on to stay as emotionally strong as possible. A friend of mine told me about a nonprofit […]
Summer Sangria Recipe
July 14, 2020 By
As seen in my KTVK Your Life Arizona segment today, here is the recipe for the sangria. It is actually an autumn recipe but why not do sort of a little Christmas in July twist today since the world is so upside down anyway?! I hope everyone is hanging in there. Here is the cheer […]
4th of July Pet Safety Tips
July 2, 2020 By
Staying home this 4th of July to help curb the Covid19 spread will also make your furry family members happy. The noise from the fireworks that come with this holiday send many pets running for cover. Your presence will soothe them and lessen the stress that your precious pooch or kitty cat may experience every […]
Kitchen Cool Tools For Healthy Eating & Multitasking
June 18, 2020 By
2020 finds me cooking in my kitchen much more than in previous years. I noticed that I’m using a lot of my tried and true kitchen tools to prepare healthy foods for my family. I also noticed that I’m multitasking with a lot of these cool tools. Most of what I show are simple items […]
Cool Tools In The Kitchen For Healthy Eating & Multitasking
June 16, 2020 By
As seen in my 3TV Your Life Arizona morning show segment that aired today… Like most people, I have been cooking a lot more lately. As I spend more hours in the kitchen these days, I noticed that I have some favorite cool tools that I swear by. All are ordinary kitchen items that you […]
Written By My Son: Touching LA Times Article About NHL Hockey Prospect’s Two Moms Helping Son Realize His Dreams
May 17, 2020 By
My son worked on this piece for months. He traveled to Canada to interview this cool family. He wanted to share their story in a way that honors good parenting. It was important to my Jack that he share their story and celebrate this NHL Kings Prospect young man and his parents in just the […]
