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    How Do You Tackle Cold Sores? #Abreva #ColdSore #GetReal

    December 23, 2015 - By 

    Winter is here. For my daughter and me, that means one thing – colds, often accompanied by by cold sores. Every winter, my daughter and I both get cold sores. They pop up at least once every cold and flu season. It’s horrible. They hurt sometimes and they look awful. It even pains me to see my daughter with that cracked, chapped lip cold sore every year. It looks like it hurts, but my sporty daughter is not super on top of tackling them at the outset. After years of this though I am on top of it and luckily we’ve found some ways to limit them as…

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    10 New Year Celebrations for Kids

    December 21, 2015 - By 

    10 New Year Celebration Ideas for Kids Family Slumber Party Grab your sleeping bags, pick out a couple of your favorite movies, make a yummy dinner that everyone will enjoy, and bring out the board games. Hunker down for a great family slumber party while you watch the clock tick tock down to the New Year. Here are some of my suggestions for a great family slumber party. –Melissa and Doug Suspend Game –Mickey Mouse Playing Cards –The Bee Movie –Epic Movie Apple Juice Toast Indulge your kids and let them be part of the New Year’s toast. Pick up…

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    After The Instagram Bullying Incident

    December 20, 2015 - By 

    For weeks after the Instagram bullying incident people kept asking me: How is your daughter doing? I have answered the question often in person, but I haven’t had time to share news here. So today is the day I finally got around to writing about what happened  – AFTER. Here’s the thing. Immediately after the Instagram bullying incident my teen, who struggles with anxiety,  had a kneejerk reaction. She wanted to quit school, leave grade nine and stop entirely. That lasted about one to two days. Then came this. .. We talked her through it and we took our time…

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    Small Business Ideas For Teens

    December 18, 2015 - By 

    Just a few short months ago my kids discovered the beauty of starting a very small business. I couldn’t have been happier. Oh one of my daughters has been babysitting for years. But this summer the kids stumbled upon a petsitting business they didn’t even really set out to build. A friend of ours needed some cats watched for three days. So we volunteered. Then another friends needed petsitting and we said we could do it and then a couple more friends were heading away for a week and both of my girls decided they’d help out there too. So…

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    6 Female Fertility Facts You May Not Know

    December 17, 2015 - By 

    How much do you know about your own fertility? Chances are some of these female fertility facts will be new to you even if you consider yourself to be well informed. Female Fertility and Infertility is something we don’t seem to ask about or inquire into until there is a problem. Let’s change that. If you’re trying to have a baby, you need to know these female fertility facts. You may know some of these, but all of these female fertility facts can give you a better chance of making a little bundle of joy without so much of the worry and…

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    Spice Up Pizza Night With This Mexican Pizza Recipe

    December 15, 2015 - By 

    Easy, Fantastic and Family Friendly! That’s the trifecta of all great recipes in this house. In fact, the easier the better some nights! And well, easy also means that sometimes kids who are 11 and 14 can actually take the lead in cooking it. That makes this Mom happy. There’s nothing my one daughter loves more than pizza – well, unless it is peanut butter. I think she could live on those two foods regularly. Not at the same time of course, but she’d be totally okay having them both back to back I think. Not that we’ve ever tried. Anyways…

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    Five Easy Natural Ways to Tackle Hot Flashes #Health

    December 14, 2015 - By 

     Menopause changes everything. But it doesn’t have to be horrid. Menopause generally occurs between the ages of 40-50 years old and it is basically a big hormone shift that causes all sorts of side effects including hot flashes. I remember my Mom and her friends talking about hot flashes. They sounded bizarre to a kid at the time, and now it’s my friends talking hot flashes. Hot flashes are basically just an episode of when you get really hot and begin sweating profusely, they come out of nowhere and they can feel awful! Sometimes these hot flashes last for just a couple…

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    Christmas Scrambler Free Kids Puzzle Printables

    December 13, 2015 - By 

    This adorable Christmas Scrambler word game has done extremely well over the past five years. People enjoy the word puzzles and games published here on Thrifty Mommas Tips. But until now one thing was missing… The answer key. People have been emailing me and leaving comments here asking for the answers so read the post to find them. I have updated this content this year (December 2020) to add the answers for you. Merry Christmas! How’s the shopping going? Have you kept to budget or is it straining at the seams? We Interrupt the Shopping for a Moment… I know…

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    family - parenting

    A Collection of Snoopy and Peanuts Gift Ideas

    December 12, 2015 - By 

      Wouldn’t it be fun to get a collection of Peanuts gifts for someone who loved the Peanuts movie? These Peanuts gift ideas might help you if you have someone like that in your life.   Did you grow up with Snoopy and Peanuts like I did? Can you hear Charlie Brown’s teacher in your head every time someone drones on and on about a topic you don’t really care about? HEHE. Yes, me too. I remember many Christmases as we were growing up, snuggled on the couch watching Christmas movies such as a Charlie Brown Christmas. I also still…

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    Five Winter Fashion Trends to Embrace – Looking Fabulous Even With Bladder Problems #LBL #ad

    December 10, 2015 - By 

    I’ve been discussing LBL and various facets of it for a few articles now. This is part 3, the final portion of a series about light bladder leakage, a medical issue that impacts far too many women. In the first post about LBL I talked about travel strategies for women with LBL and ways to embrace travelling with support and a few easy travel tips. In November I talked to author and positive living expert Barbara Hannah Grufferman about ways to discuss LBL with a loved one. Today I’m tackling fashion because it’s the season to get dressed up and 2016 is…