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Tuesday, October 16th is World Food Day in which  Oxfam America uses this day each year to help promote conversation about where your food comes from, who cultivates it, and how you can take personal actions that will make the food system more just and sustainable. Oxfam has launched the GROW campaign to build a better…

Through Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, more than $167 million has been raised, providing children in 190 countries and territories with much-needed health care and immunizations, clean water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more. That is truly wonderful and such a great way to teach your children the importance of helping others. The original Kids helping Kids campaign began…

Ill-fated: destined to fail or have bad luck. “The stars have aligned to make my life grim and loathsome…” fourteen year old Leila Edgewick stands on the brink of disaster, balancing the fate of Bainland and her father’s legacy against a vague, ill-fated prophecy. A meaningless number, a luckless red moon, and worst of all– a…

Search engine marketing(SEM) techniques mainly entails properly optimizing online businesses for search engines like Google, Bing etc. as well as for the users to enhance online fundability and conversion optimization for better ROI. Search Engine Marketing includes a number of sub-processes like SEO, Content Marketing, Video Marketing, Social Media Marketing as well as PPC (Pay…

Don’t you just love flowers? I do and I love receiving them, although hubby doesn’t always send me some.Usually I get them for something important like an anniversary, birthday, or his has done something that has landed him in the dog house (typical man!) I try to send beautiful flowers as gifts as often as I can.

How many times do you pin something on Pinterest? Do you ever actually do or buy whatever the pin is? I do every once in a while. However I have decided to do something about that. I am going to actually do some of those things, create some of those outfits! Here is my first…

Self-Esteem is something that is so important for girls. I know first hand because my self-esteem has not always been the best. I grew up with a sister who was thinner than me, had longer hair than me, had more boyfriends than me, you get the picture. If anyone ever said something about how pretty I was my mom’s…

Shopping for my outfits at jcpenny was so much fun! I took my mom with me and she helped select the complete outfits, although there were a few things she suggested that was more old lady than me but not to worry. I decided that I would put together one casual chic outfit and one…

If you are a mother then you must have seen advertisements for baking your baby’s cord blood. It has become a hot topic in the medical world with the recent would be parents. The reason for saving cord blood bank is very simple. The companies who store cord blood tout advantages for saving life once in a lifetime….

Being a mom is not easy and being a mom who homeschools and works form home can be even harder. At least it is with me! I tend to spend a lot of my day in front of the computer whether it is for work or planning lessons. As you can see from my desk it is…