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Ghiradelli Chocolate Thanksgiving Weekend Sale! Save up to 30% and get Free Shipping!

My husband loves Ghiradelli chocolates and their chocolates make great stocking stuffers.  I’m excited that starting Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd, at 12am PST we can get 10-30% off selected items!  That means he’ll get more Ghiradelli and I’ll save money!

Ghiradelli’s 7.18 oz. Limited Edition Holiday Assortment Stand Up Bag is usually $8.99 but it’s on sale for $6.30 now. The Red Festive Rectangular Gift Tin is 25% off!

Ghiradelli chocolates make great teacher gifts so stock up!

Click here* or the image to the right to see the sale prices.

From November 22nd-November 26th ONLY , Ghiradelli is offering 10-30% off selected items. This offer can be combined with their Free Shipping offer on all orders over $50 and will expire on Monday, November 26th at 11:59pm PST.

This offer will be starting Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd at 12am PST.

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Make Your Thanksgiving Day More Enjoyable With These 2 Laundry Tips

I know you love doing laundry. In fact I saw the results of a survey recently in which it was determined that Moms prefer doing laundry over vacuming. While I can’t find the survey now and I wouldn’t go so far as to agree with that, I do get a great deal of satisfaction out of taking clean, delicious smelling clothes out of the dryer.

Even if you don’t enjoy doing laundry, I highly recommend that you stay on top of laundry before and during Thanksgiving week.

One way I motivate myself to stay on top of laundry is by using a liquid laundry detergent that smells really good.



Holiday napkins are not used for cleaning!
Holiday napkins are not used for cleaning!

Scenario #1: Holiday Napkin Disaster

The kids don’t understand that holiday napkins are for use on special occassions like Thanksgiving & Christmas only. The kids use your holiday napkins to clean the bathroom or wipe the juice spill off the dining room floor, resulting in sticky, dirty napkins.

Tip:

Be ready to restock the holiday napkins with a spare set (yes, buy two sets of holiday napkins, at least) and while you’re using those, was the others with a detergent that is sure to make your house guests think that you just baked a delicious pie, Gain’s Apple Mango Tango liquid laundry detergent.



Scenario #2: Blanket Disaster At Aunt Betty’s

You visit Aunt Betty’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. The kids drag their favorite snuggle blankies all over Aunt Betty’s floor knowing that Aunt Betty has 19 dogs and 3 cats. Eeewww! Naturally, you find lint balls, dog hair, cat hair and who knows what else stuck to the kids blankets. But shoot! You didn’t bring laundry detergent to Aunt Betty’s house.

Sad blanket girl
This is how your child may feel when she can't snuggle with her dirty blanket on the way home from Aunt Betty's house!

Tip:

You never know what kind of laundry detergent a friend or family member uses, so I am a firm believer in BYOLD (bring your own laundry detergent)!

Just as importantly, you don’t want the kids to be snuggling with dirty blankies during the long drive home from Aunt Betty’s house, do you? All the more reason to take detergent with you and wash their blankets before driving home.

Aunt Betty would probably even appreciate it if you threw in a few napkins and hand towels with the kids blankies! 🙂


Gain Apple Mango Tango Liquid Laundry Detergent

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Teaching Children to be Thankful

It is our responsibility as parents to teach our children how to be thankful.

Teaching children to be thankful for what they have will help them become compassionate adults who want to help others.

Teaching Children to be ThankfulHere are some ways to teach children of different ages to be thankful.

Parents should start teaching their children to be thankful when they are toddlers.

  • Ask your toddler what they are thankful for and have them draw pictures of what they appreciate. These can be hung on the refrigerator as a reminder.
  • Parents should spend time talking with their toddlers about how they would feel if they didn’t have those things to be thankful for in their lives. This helps toddlers understand that being thankful feels good, so they recognize thankfulness is a positive emotion.
  • Toddlers should also be taught to be thankful for people and emotions instead of just things.

Teaching an older child to be thankful is different.

It is often easier to teach elementary age children or even teens to be thankful by showing them people who don’t have all the things to be thankful for that they have.

  • Taking children to volunteer at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter can open their eyes and help them appreciate what they have.
  • Parents can go with their kids to volunteer for local veterans’ associations or battered women’s shelters.  This may help your child become aware of how difficult life could be and thus make your child more thankful for what he/she has.

Children have a way of learning to be thankful when they understand that other people don’t have all that they do.

Do you have tips on how to teach a child to be thankful? Please share them with our readers in the comments below.

Alicia Hagan, Editor

Tune into Nick Jr. – Nick Jr.’s Olivia Talks Turkey!!

With the holidays in full swing, it’s time to get into the “turkey day” spirit with our little ones! Olivia, a 6 ¾ little girl, is inspired by Mrs. Hogenmuller and takes up a new hobby – turkey calling! She turns out to be a natural, and before long, she’s attracted a turkey. But when the turkey takes a real liking to her and refuses to leave her side, Olivia has to find a way to make it leave her alone!

Get in the Thanksgiving spirit all week long by tuning into Nick Jr. to see her “Olivia Talks Turkey” special and find out if Olivia is able to get rid of the turkey!

Olivia Talks Turkey

You can visit www.facebook.com/OLIVIATV to learn more about Olivia and to see what she is up to every day! Olivia’s Facebook page will also help keep you up-to-date on the latest OLIVIA news, tips and more from the star herself.

I’ll be watching, will you?

What special family times or family activities are you most thankful for?

With Thanksgiving coming up I’ve been having the kids do little projects that are getting them to think about what they are thankful for.  During the first project, both of my kids, 11 and 4 years old, said they were thankful for mom, dad, toys, etc.. The normal stuff, right?  By the 3rd project, a flower petal sponge painting on which they wrote what they are thankful for, my 11 year old said things like ‘my health’, ‘mom’s time’, etc.. That was what I was looking for. When I was asked the question “what family activities are you most thankful for?”, it took me a while to come up with an answer.  My initial thought was that I am thankful for everyday things like playing board games and running around the yard with the kids. After thinking for a while though, I realized that the family activities that I am most THANKFUL for are:

  1. Campouts – great family bonding time… we’re stuck together!
    Photograph 1 & 2
  2. Odd & End Activities like Ice Skating – lots of laughter and requires that we help each other when we fall.
    Photograph 3 & 6
  3. The family activity that I am most thankful for is our trips to Florida
    Photograph 4, 5, and 8

Family Activities - Thanksgiving

Over the last 4 years that my son’s been a Cub Scout and Boy Scout we’ve had the opportunity to camp at some really cool places and it’s not just the places that make the camping fun but sleeping in a tent together, roasting marshmallows, and watching each other get dressed while freezing our butt’s off is pretty fun too!  I am thankful for the memories that camping has given us.

Another family activity that I am thankful for is ice skating. I took the kids ice skating for the first time about a year ago and my son loved it.  He was 10 at the time and it took him a while to get used to being on ice but boy did we laugh (and cringe in pain) a lot during that hour and a half we were on the ice.  Since then I’ve taken my son to a local ice skating rink, just the two of us.  It’s our special mom & son activity that we are both thankful for.

The family activity that I am MOST thankful for is our road trips to Florida. My Dad lives on an alligator-free lake in Orlando, where I grew up, and the memories we have from our trips to visit him there are some of the best for myself, my husband, and my kids.  We play and swim in the lake, the kids dig in the sand, we chase each other around the yard and have ‘WED’ (water expulsion device – AKA water gun) fights all which makes us downright dirty!   Thank goodness for Shout laundry strain remover, which my step-mom always has on hand in the laundry room (thank you!).

Like I said in a previous post, without SHOUT stain remover, I would be in a panic every time the kids got close to mud, rolled in the grass, or spilled BBQ sauce on their shirt during a campout.  Knowing that we have SHOUT! stain remover waiting for us at home puts my mind at ease, then the kids and I have more fun because I’m not worried if their clothes getting dirty.

Shout! Go Play MomI am a Shout Go Play Mom and wrote this post  to talk about the family activities that I am most thankful for.  To learn more about Shout and their Go Play initiative, check out Shout! on Facebook.

What family activities are you most thankful for?

Please take a minute and tell us what family activities you are most thankful for.  You won’t win a prize for telling us, but  you’ll feel good knowing that you shared with the world what activities you are most thankful for!