When I first heard about the Kalsø Earth Shoes “Project Earth Day Scholarship” and read what all it was about, I immediately emailed Jaylin’s Girl Scout troop leader to ask if she would be interested in doing a project with the troop if I were to apply and get selected…she thought it was a great idea and we happened to be having a meeting tonight so she wanted to discuss it with the girls (and parents) to see if they would be interested. They were!

This is Jaylin in March 2010 at Big Gem Park...it hasn't changed much but has a lot of potential!

Being that I was in Girl Scouts when I was little, I remember doing things for the community to make it a better place and being a good citizen. I’m thrilled to be able to pass that down to my daughter by having her be a Girl Scout too. When thinking about project ideas, living in a small town the possibilities are endless with $1000! We have a nice park that is slowly being built up called Big Gem Park and my family and myself have volunteered there in the past and love to watch it grow. The girls could plant flowers around the area, make flower beds and tend to flower gardens that have been planted in the past that aren’t being kept up right now. This park is along the major road that goes through town so most people passing through town see this park. This is also the park that the town holds it’s Tree Lighting Ceremony every year as well as Easter Egg hunts, I’ve seen people have weddings there and I know we’ve had at least one birthday party there…it’s a park that is used a lot but needs some extra beauty!

The troop leader also brought up a good suggestion of planting some flowers or doing something special in front of the church that we have meetings in. This church has been the meeting place for Girl Scouts since I was little! It would be nice to give back to them for once!

Shenandoah Daisy Scout Troop

I think it’s important to teach the girls at a young age, the importance of keeping the Earth clean and beautiful. That’s why I would love to be selected to get the Kalsø Earth Shoes “Project Earth Day Scholarship” so the Girl Scout troop of Shenandoah, VA can have a great Earth Day celebration by planting flowers, trees, cleaning up trash and making the Earth beautiful, just like they all are! This group of kindergarten and 1st grade girls would love to make their hometown beautiful and do an Earth Day project! Even the parents were excited when we were discussing it! Kalsø Earth Shoes “Project Earth Day Scholarship” would benefit not only my daughter, but her entire Girl Scout Troop as well as the entire town.

Kalsø Earth Shoes is offering a “Project Earth Day Scholarship” to 3 bloggers in the amount of $1000 each to do projects around their community for Earth Day. This post is my entry to be considered for the sponsorship.

I remember watching The Lion King when I was younger, Jeff does too…actually when he heard it was released in theaters in 3-D he was excited and wanted the kids to see it! Now we can, but from the comfort of our own home!

In honor of the release of the 3D Blu-Ray, and Blu-Ray Hi-Def Combo pack, I was given links to great coloring pages and craft ideas all based on The Lion King! As well as a coupon for $5 off the Blu-Ray Combo pack all to share with my readers!!!

Click to get a $5 coupon ($8 Canada)

Click to Download Zip file with Activity and Coloring Pages

Click to Download Zip file for Wild Crafts!!!

Click to Download Zip file for Fun Food ideas!

I can’t wait to sit down and watch The Lion King with my kids, show them a movie Mommy and Daddy watched as kids! Then do some of the activities with them…wish I had this stuff when I was younger!!!

A Full Size Scentsy Warmer (comes in many different colors and designs!)

I LOVE candles!!! But having 3 kids and another on the way, it can be dangerous to have lit candles around the house. Scentsy has made that fear go away with their safe wickless alternative to candles! The scents are amazing as well! You get to pick a beautiful warmer (in 3 different sizes) and a great selection of scents!

Like the title suggests, Scentsy is having 10% off their products all of August! And I’m hosting a Online Party where you can order from me! Just go to THIS SITE and order! It will ship right to you! If it happens to ask, click on “Jackie’s Online Party” to make sure you order from the right person

As a dedicated wife and mother of three extremely active kids, I often find that my own needs have to take a back seat to whatever my family wishes. I also find it hard to justify spending money pampering myself when beauty treatments can be so expensive and there’s so much else that could be done with the money.

However, I have noticed myself lagging recently after a hard couple of months and my husband suggested I take a weekend break and focus on myself – I could hardly pass up the chance to get some guilt free time to myself and so I started thinking about what I could do with my time away. I considered visiting my mom and dad, but every gal knows that can this can make a holiday more stressful than what we’ve come to get away from! I was looking wistfully at the costs of some pampering days at local spas when I stumbled across Wahanda, which is a god send for us girls, let me tell you!

Wahanda’s mission is to make wellness and beauty available for everyone and to suit every budget and I was amazed by some of their offers. They had everything I could have ever dreamed of and at prices that weren’t going to break the bank, so instead of feeling guilty about spending money on a beauty treatment I worked out that I’d actually be able to buy more than one for the same price I’d usually nervously part with for a single treatment!

I ended up buying a great little spa deal that meant I was able to get away from it all and have some much needed me time. Knowing that it didn’t cost me the earth to treat myself made the experience even more relaxing and now in the future when I need some mommy alone time I won’t feel quite so bad about asking for it!

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It’s a time every mother dreads: your two little angels who had been peacefully sharing a bedroom have suddenly turned into devils bent on one another’s destruction and the bedroom has turned into a battlefield. It’s happened to me and, let me tell you, nothing turns your life upside down quite like warring children! I found there really was no other solution than to give each of them their own space. Making a bedroom for your eldest out of a spare living space is a great way to make them feel independent and to give both children somewhere they can go to get some peace from the other should they need to.

Creating a fun and individual bedroom for my eldest was a breeze – I started out thinking that it was going to be a costly and lengthy exercise, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. How you decorate it will be based on your (and your child’s!) tastes and age, but I found that many home improvement stores now stock wall decals that can be affixed to the bedroom wall and come in all shapes and sizes, from princess themes to popular Toy Story characters. I considered going with these, but was put off by the idea of having to scrape them off the walls before I could paint again and considering how often my kids get bored with things this would be sooner rather than later! I found that the stores also stocked many stencils that allowed me to mix and match and paint individual designs directly onto the walls. By mixing stencils, paint and feature walls, the bedroom gained a personal touch without breaking the bank and when she grows out of it I can change it without much fuss.

My biggest concern after this was making sure that both kids had beds that were suitable to their needs. Previously both shared a bunk bed, with the eldest on the top bunk (of course). Sorting out a bed for my youngest turned out to be simple as he quite happily climbed into the top bunk and claimed it as his own, despite my reservations that he might be too young for the top bunk. My eldest was trickier. With limited storage space I needed something I could store things under, but that was still comfortable and stylish. I decided to go with a simple, sturdy single bed as I didn’t want to have to buy another one any time soon. This turned out to be a perfect choice as there was still plenty of room underneath to store bedding, toys and clothes and a bed skirt covered up the clutter nicely.

From here it was simply adding touches so that everything he needed as he grew rapidly would be there – we bought a lovely little writing desk so that he would have somewhere to do his homework in peace away from the kitchen table and some toy hammocks to store those toys he rarely ever played with but absolutely refused to part with.

As much as my little ones enjoyed sharing a bedroom, they are delighted to have their own space to retreat from battle to and I haven’t had to split up a fight over whose turn it is to clean the room in months!

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