posted
07/16/10
I felt the need to write a post about motorcycle safety because 3 weeks ago I witnessed a motorcycle accident first hand and today I attended a funeral for a young woman who was killed in a different motorcycle accident last week (she was riding on the back).
Whether you’re riding a motorcycle or if you’re in a car, please, please, please be careful!! I certainly don’t want to lecture anyone about how to drive. This has just hit way too close to home and, I know this is cliche, but if I can at least help to save one life then it’s worth it.
When you’re driving in a car it’s hard to remember about those bikes riding near you. Just double check your mirrors and don’t ride too close. Here is a link to a website for the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, specifically for Car & Truck Drivers. Click here to visit the site just to see how you can be more cautious.
Here is also a link to the Motorcycle Saftey Foundation. Here you can learn how to protect yourself while riding a motorcycle and to also find Rider Courses near you!!
Thanks everyone and please be safe out there driving!!
posted
05/26/10
I recently met Beth from the website “Mommy On A Shoestring” online. I noticed right away that we had a few things in common. First off, being moms and the second is that we had websites on how to save money.
Beth, along with her partner Jenna, has come up with a fabulous website full of creative and easy to make crafts, activities and projects for children that don’t break the bank!! “The website includes how-to tutorials for gifts, games and activities. Knowing more and more grandparents are acting as caregivers these days, there is a special section dedicated to activities grandparents can do to keep the kids happy and engaged!”
“Beth and Jenna blog daily about new craft projects, cool links and easy to make recipes. The website also features the Junk Drawer Challenge and an Aglet of the Week. An aglet is the tip of a shoestring so you can imagine Mommy on a Shoestring’s aglets are useful tips that save time and money. The junk drawer challenge is when readers are challenged to create something useful out of junk for example making a jump rope our of dried up markers or a broach out of tea light holders and old keys. How fun is that?”
Since December 2009, Beth and Jenna have started hosting Mommy on a Shoestring Radio, which is part of the Her Insight Network on Toginet Radio. The Show, like it’s namesake website, features simple and easy ways families can have fun on the cheap. The show typically has 2-3 guests per show and topics range from children’s recording artists, authors, crafters and kid entrepreneurs.
Guess who is going to be on the show this Thursday? Any guesses??? ME, Kerri from TheSavalots.com!! YAY!
Make sure to listen Thursday May 27 from 2:45 – 3:00 EST!! I’m so excited! It’s going to be so much fun. CLICK HERE or on the logo on the left to be taken to the show!! Wish Me Luck!!
posted
05/23/10
Here is an at-home bubble making solution:
Get 1 gallon of distilled water. Remove 1 1/4 cups. Add 1 cup dawn dish detergent and 1/4 cup Karo syrup. Let sit overnight. WORKS WONDERS!
Thanks to our friend Wendy for sharing this on our Facebook page.
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posted
04/23/10
I recently had a follower ask us if we would consider doing a review for their services. As soon as I looked at their website and read what they are all about, I said ABSOLUTELY!
Renee Pena has a unique style of babysitting. She won’t just come to your house, turn on the television and plop the kids down in front of it while talking on the phone to her friends. She brings fun and diverse artistic mediums to your child so that she can truly provide an enriched childcare service. Renee simply could not sit for all the families that love her style of sitting. Hence, Creative Sitters was born.
We all know that the arts are being cut from schools all the time. Therefore, children need to be able to express their creativity elsewhere. Creative Sitters brings the arts to your kids at home. Their service “helps your child to develop the very essential skills, to have a productive, creative and happier life in school, at home and a lifelong learning experience.”
Renee says, “Creative Sitters is a response to seeing the arts and recess being cut in schools and as well as more and more standardize testing going up. We felt that our children whom are our future their creativity was at stake and without creativity we can not provide creative solutions to our problems in the world. Hence bringing imagination home by providing the arts in a child’s everyday routine. We truly believe in Happy Childcare!”
Right now Creative Sitters is based in NYC and provides services to Manhattan, Brooklyn (Heights, Williamsburg, Park Slope and Dumbo), Queens (Long Island City, Astoria and Jackson Heights). They also serve Hoboken, NJ. I so wish that they were closer to where we live but maybe if they get lots of requests for their unique babysitting services they will be able to expand in to other areas!! 
All of the sitters go through a full screening process, including a background check, multiple reference checks and interview process. They make sure that the individuals that they hire are not only qualified but that they are also a good fit for this type of high quality service that they offer to their families.
If you live in NYC (or any of the areas listed above) or if you’re planning to visit and are in the need of a sitter, please contact them!!
**They would generously like to offer our readers $50 Off your first package with them!!!** Make sure when you contact them, to let them know TheSavalots.com sent you!!
You can visit their website here: http://www.creativesitters.org/ if you have any questions at all! The website is very informative but if you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to contact them!! They are SUPER sweet!!
Also, make sure to stop by on twitter (@enrichingkids) and Facebook and say hi!!
posted
04/19/10
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Bloomingdale’s.
All opinions are 100% mine.
Bloomingdale’s is a proud supporter of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and their goal of ensuring a healthy environment for all life on earth. They’re having a wonderful contest that you can enter for a chance to win a $2000 Bloomingdale’s gift card!
Visit their site and enter the Tote-ally Green design contest! They have all the tools you will need to design your tote. Or if you want you can upload an image of your own.
Submissions will be whittled down to 50 favorites based on user votes and the winning tote will be produced by Rebecca Minkoff and sold exclusively at Bloomingdales.com!! Plus you will receive a $2000 Bloomingdale’s gift card. Second place will receive a $1000 gift card (will be chosen by receiving the most votes). One winner will be chosen everyday, based on our favorite submissions, and will receive a $100 Gift Card!!
Even if you don’t win the BIG prize, you have a good chance of receiving that daily prize, so why take the chance and enter. It’s fun to see how your designs come out!!
If you don’t want to enter, I would greatly appreciate it if you wouldn’t mind voting for our entry (pictured here). You can find our tote design by CLICKING HERE. We would love as many votes as we can get!! You can’t really read what it says on the image but up top it says, “How will you make your mark on the world?” and down the bottom it says, “Go Green”. The handprint is a symbol of you making your mark on the world… What do you think?
If you do decide to enter, please comment here and leave a link to your design!!
I felt the need to write a post about motorcycle safety because 3 weeks ago I witnessed a motorcycle accident first hand and today I attended a funeral for a young woman who was killed in a different motorcycle accident last week (she was riding on the back).
