Parenting Healthy

Back to school is so much easier when we are organized and have clean spaces ready to take on school lunches and homework time.

The Libman Company knows their way around cleaning products: for over 120 years, the family-owned business has made quality their priority, offering the finest USA-made brooms, brushes, mops, and cleaning tools.

As the summer season rolls out and the Back-to-School season draws near, messes are one thing that won’t fade with the seasons. With the Libman Maid Caddy, you can store all of your cleaning supplies conveniently in one place.

The Libman Maid Caddy is a large but lightweight cleaning caddy with special compartments to hold a variety of essential cleaning tools including gloves, brushes, dustpans, sponges, cleaning solutions, dusters and more.

Libman is known for taking common cleaning products and improving them to provide better functionality and ease of use. In the case of the Maid Caddy, Libman has created a solution for consumers looking for not only a convenient way to store their frequently used cleaning tools together, but also one that offers them a portable solution when house cleaning from room to room.

The Libman Maid Caddy has an open design that can fit a wide array of items, including up to six 32oz. bottles. There are numerous compartments as well as a special compartment for a toilet brush.

Made of a one piece polypropylene mold that won’t crack, the Libman Maid Caddy is lightweight at 1.75 pounds and measures 16 inches x 11.5 inches. The Maid Caddy is equipped with pour spouts on one end to create a “mini-bucket.”

The unit has a riveted handle grip to make carrying it from room to room a cinch. Once, the user is finished cleaning, the Maid Caddy can be stored under the sink or in a mud or laundry room.

The Libman Maid Caddy has a suggested retail price of $9.97 and is available at Home Depot and Kroger stores across the U.S. For more information about Libman and its products, visit www.libman.com.

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Healthy Living

Twice Toothpaste with Double the Purpose

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 Erin Sluka

Twice A Day Toothpaste

Do you brush Twice a day everyday? Twice toothpaste comes with 2 tubes. One for morning – a little wintergreen and peppermint into your morning routine to feel clean, confident and ready to take on the day. One for evening – refreshing, lavender, vanilla and peppermint form a dream team of flavors to end your day.

Feel Good and Look Good

Twice toothpaste is free of SLS, parabens, charcoal and triclosan. 100% vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO and cruelty-free. Twice toothpaste is full of vitamin A, C, E and aloe vera + dentist approved ingredients to help with preventing cavities and sensitivity.

Twice Toothpaste delivers smiles…literally!

Every purchase of Twice helps provide free dental care to those in need. In 2015, brothers Julian and Cody Levine joined Lenny Kravitz and a team of passionate dentists on a trip that would change their lives. Learn more about Lenny’s Let Love Rule Foundation and the GLO Good Foundation.

Perfectly named to remind us to brush twice daily, Twice toothpaste is available in a variety of packaging options. Learn more HERE.

Movies Reviews

OVERCOMER Movie is Courageous and Heart-Warming

July 25, 2019June 5, 2020 Erin Sluka

OVERCOMER

This movie is from the creators of War Room, Fireproof and Facing The Giants, OVERCOMER movie hits theaters August 23, 2019. It stars Alex Kendrick, Priscilla Shirer. Visit https://www.overcomermovie.com

“OVERCOMER in many regards, is a discovery of who we are in
Christ, who gets to determine our identity and what we have to
overcome to embrace the life God has for us,” said Alex
Kendrick.

“Overcoming is about powering through and realizing that on the
other side of it you are stronger and more courageous than when
you started,” said Shari Rigby.

Official Synopsis

Life changes overnight for coach John Harrison when his high school basketball team’s state championship dreams are crushed under the weight of unexpected news. When the largest manufacturing plant in town suddenly shuts down and hundreds of families begin moving away, John must come to grips with the challenges facing his family and his team. Urged by the school’s principal to fill-in and coach a sport he doesn’t know or like, John is frustrated and questioning his worth … until he crosses paths with a student struggling with her own journey.

OVERCOMER Movie Trailer

Two forces come together to create this movie about family, courage and there is a bit of humor too. Provident Films, a division of Provident Music Group, a Sony company, develops, produces and markets faith-based films. Kendrick Brothers Productions is the company of brothers Alex, Stephen and Shannon Kendrick that exists to honor God and share the truth and love of Jesus Christ through movies, books, curriculum and speaking.

Kids, Travel

Day Passes Now Available at Great Wolf Lodge

July 18, 2019July 17, 2019 Erin Sluka

If there is one place Anthony loves most here in the Seattle area, it is Great Wolf Lodge (Grand Mound, Wa). This past May you may remember my posting about spending Anthony’s birthday at Great Wolf Lodge (see that post here). He asked this year to forgo presents and a big party and bring a few friends to GWL for an experience instead. He has never regretted that decision. He even now talks his cousins into asking for an ‘experience’ instead of gifts because he promises them it’s “better than any toy or game”.

I wanted to take this post to announce that Great Wolf Lodge now has Day Passes!

We took our day passes and treated my nephews (ages 5, 9, 13) to the experience of Great Wolf Lodge for their first time along with Anthony (age 11). I brought my Mom along and she is hooked! No doubt that we decided that because all 4 boys have birthdays fairly close to each other that doing spring birthdays here going forward is a must! These boys were hooked! My nephew turns 10 at the end of this month and is so excited to find a way to get back here to stay!

With the day pass you get all access as you would normally if staying the night minus a room. You can eat at their restaurants, visit the other activities (extra charges apply as usual), attend story time and more. We did have ropes course passes but with the rain we had that day, we could not visit so we will update you later on that experience.

In the Wa. location near us, the water park hours were 10am to 8pm. Check in at that time of morning is a breeze and we were in the water by 10:30. The lines were low too at that time so I am glad we made a point to get there right at opening hours.

They were worn out and water logged by 4pm, so we got dressed and played some arcade for a but upstairs. Grandma bought them each a play card and they had some fun there.

Spending the night can cost you on average about $300 a night, but remember that is for up to 6 people to enjoy the water park and stay. You can bring your own food (to your room when you stay). It is well worth it. If you stay the night you get great value buying Wolf, Pup or Paw Passes if the kids plan to utilize the indoor activities.

If you are going for the day, I would weight how much stimulation you want the kids to have. It is a lot of great activities for the value on those passes, but if only going the day, it is hard to pull those kids out of the water when they know they will not be staying.

We spent so much more time in the water with the day pass then we ever do staying the night with play passes. So, if you have been before and plan to come back for only the day plan to get there early, score a table and keep it all day.

Another fun tip if trying to enjoy Great Wolf Lodge and save is that at the cafe in the water park, we spent about $20 on 2 Family Fries and a bag of chips and salsa and it was a lot of food! We had leftovers to throw out after feeding 4 hungry boys, my Mom and I. Kids meals are about $9 each and that would have added up with 4 boys (2 of which are teens). We also brought packaged snacks and gatorade bottles from home for them. Great Wolf Lodge is really good about allowing you to eat your own snacks so that you can spend your dollars on the fun instead if need be.

Enjoy the day and be in your own bed by night at Great Wolf Lodge!