I'm a Soft Scrub Captain!

I'm so excited to have been chosen to be one of the 200 Soft Scrub® Club Captains!  This means that I will get to test and review products before they hit the store shelves and receive special promotions and offers on Soft Scrub products!

I just got in the mail a new Soft Scrub product for the Bath & Bowl!  I'm testing it out now and will give you feedback soon!  

Do you have a favorite Soft Scrub product? Right now my favorite product is the Soft Scrub Cleaner to use on my glass stove top.  It works great to cut the grease and remove any cooked on food without scratching the top!  Thanks Soft Scrub!

Great Debate- Does the toilet paper go over or under????

As a member of the Mom Bloggers Club, I am entering a contest for a month’s worth of Cottonelle toilet paper. You too can win some TP!

Mom Bloggers Club and Cottonelle has a new debate going on and I'm joining in!  Are you a roll over or a roll under toilet paper type??? You must take this poll and let your voice be heard!!!!  Go here to Cottonelle to vote!


Leave a comment here, on my blog, on your choice and you will be entered to win 1 of 10 Cottonelle Gift Baskets that will be randomly chosen on January 29, 2010 from all entries!

G'luck!!!!

Sleep Myth Busters: The Sleep Lady Sets the Record Straight

 

(Article given through FSB Associates)

Sleep Myth Busters: The Sleep Lady Sets the Record Straight
By Kim West, LCSW-C,
Author of The Sleep Lady®'s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy

#1  If I skip my child's nap, he will sleep longer at night. Also, the later I put my child to bed, the later he'll sleep in the morning.

Sleep Lady: The more overtired you allow your child to get, the more wired he'll get -- making it harder for him to get sleep and stay asleep.

#2  Children not sleeping through the night for the first year or two is a fact of life.

Sleep Lady: Healthy babies 6 months or older who are growing well can often sleep 11 hours at night. Although teething, illness and developmental milestones can disturb sleep at various times, they're only temporary interruptions.  

#3  Newborns sleep all the time and know what they need. You don't need to schedule their sleep times.

Sleep Lady: Even very young babies benefit from scheduling and consistency at night time and nap time. It cuts down on their crankiness and crying and lays the groundwork for learning how to sleep through the night once they're a little older.

#4  Children know when they're sleepy and when they should go to bed. 

Sleep Lady: Not once they learn to fight sleep for your company! Children need our direction and guidance with a soothing bedtime routine to help them slow down and transition to sleep. Once you get your child on a consistent schedule, you can plan your own day better and can count on having a happy awake child.

#5  Some children, including babies, don't need as much sleep as others. 

Sleep Lady: Very few children need less than the average amount of sleep for their age. They need enough good quality sleep to grow and learn at the incredible rate they do! They need us to protect their need for sleep.

#6  If I let my child "cry it out" at bedtime, I can do whatever it takes (rock, walk, nurse, bottle feed , etc.) to get him back to sleep in the middle of the night. 

Sleep Lady: Once your baby is over 6 months of age, you must be consistent at bedtime AND all night wakings. If he becomes accustomed to being fed, rocked, walked, etc. during the night, that is what he will need and expect each time he wakes up in order to go back to sleep. He won't understand why you are doing it sometimes and not other times.

#7  I will have to give up all forms of co-sleeping if I want a baby with good sleep habits.



Sleep Lady: Not true. Consider an alternative middle ground called "room sharing" -- where you keep your baby in your room in a crib or co-sleeper for months or even a year. You can easily feed your baby, its gives you the peace of mind of having her close by and you don't have to worry about the safety challenges of bedsharing. Most importantly you can begin to put your baby down "drowsy but awake" at nap time so she can learn to put herself to sleep independently and you are still near by. This will make the transition to her own crib and room one day much easier!

#8  If I feed my baby late at night, he will sleep longer.

Sleep Lady: A baby will sleep for a longer stretch when he no longer needs to eat at night AND if he knows how to put himself back to sleep without being fed.

#9  Feeding my child formula rather than relying on breast feeding in the evening will help her sleep longer.

Sleep Lady: It may help her sleep longer since formula takes longer to digest, but it won't make a difference if she doesn't know how to put herself back to sleep without nursing or bottle feeding.

Copyright © 2009 Kim West, LCSW-C, author of The Sleep Lady®'s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy

Author Bio
Kim West, LCSW-C, known as The Sleep Lady®, has helped thousands of tired parents gently teach their babies and children how to go to sleep and stay asleep. West has appeared on Dr. Phil, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, TLC's Bringing Home Baby, and CNN, and has been written about in a number of publications including The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Parents, Baby Talk, Parenting, the Baltimore Sun, USA Today, and theWashington Post. West hosts the sleep section of The Newborn Channel, played in maternity wards in hospitals across the country. She is the mother of two daughters and a licensed child and family therapist, practicing for over seventeen years. She lives with her family in Annapolis, Maryland.

In addition to The Sleep Lady®'s Good Night, Sleep Tight, West is also author of 52 Sleep Secrets for Babies and the upcoming, Good Night, Sleep Tight Workbook.

Visit Kim West at www.sleeplady.com.  

Quick pick me up free samples of Nescafe Taster's Choice

 

Taster's Choice Decaffeinated - Gourmet Instant Coffee, 6 pk., (Nescafe)

Go check out Nescafe Taster's Choice to get your free 6-flavor sampler pack.  I received these samples a few months back.  They are great to toss in your purse or man-bag and drink later at work when you need a quick pick up!! 

Tasty Giveaway

Here is my Tasty Giveaway of the week!  Why is a movie tasty? It is tasty because you get to eat popcorn while watching it, of course!
I Love You Beth Cooper is on my movie fun wish list to watch!  It is one of those movies that I need to watch before I'll let me teens watch it.  I don't always trust the reviews to tell me what is or is not appropriate for my girls to watch!
Thanks to Outnumbered 3 to 1 I have a chance to win a copy of the DVD!  You too can win!  Just click on  the button below and you can be entered to win!  She has 3 copies to giveaway!!

French Onion Pork Loin Roast

 We love eating Pork Roast.  It is the other white meat that is very lean and moist.  The first night we eat it as a warm meal.  The leftovers are eaten with a salad the next night! Do you make a pork roast? Please share your ideas,  recipe or a link to your recipe!

French Onion Pork Loin Roast

4# Pork loin roast
1 lg onion, sliced
6 cloves garlic, sliced
1T extra virgin olive oil
1/2 c. Allegro original marinade
2 c. sweet red wine
1 tsp coarsely ground black pepper (approx)
2 tsp Mrs. Dash Original seasoning

Preheat oven 375.  Heat oil on med high (keep this temp) in frying pan.
Add onions and let cook for a few minutes in the oil.  Then add the pork. Lightly brown each side of the pork.
While it is browning I add in the sliced garlic, black pepper and Mrs. Dash.  When meat is lightly brown on the outside, I add in the marinade and let that cook in with the meat and onions for 3-4 minutes.
Next, put the meat into a 13 X 9 baking dish.  Keep the pan on the heat and deglaze the pan with 2 cups of wine.  Pour this over the meat, cover with aluminum foil and bake until temp reaches 160.
Pork roast usually takes 20 min. per pound.  After 1 hour, checked the temp. For me, cooking time for a 4lb roast was 70 min.
Turn off the oven, leave roast covered for up to 20 min.  Key is to keep the roast covered so the roast stays moist.

Everyone loved this roast. It was the best that I ever cooked.  Here is the salad for the next night!

Wednesdays with Aslan

Here is Aslan, King of our Family, he protects our family from the Wild Rug Kitchen Beast!  Thank you, Aslan!