Raising Blessings

If you want to learn about wrinkle creams you might go to www.wrinklecreamsthatwork.net and if you want to learn about cloth diaper myths and facts you might go to the Pampers website or at least that is what Pampers wants you to do. I find it funny that Pampers feels threatened enough by cloth diapers [...]

China is currently the world’s biggest tobacco consumer and hopefully visitors and residents of China will be able to breathe a little easier soon because China plans to ban smoking in public building and transportation by 2011. Utah has the lowest smoking rate in the US so when we travel some where else, cigarette fumes [...]

Several weeks ago Quebec, Canada woman Nathalie Blanchard made headlines when she went public with her fight against Manulife, the insurance company that provided her with disability benefits for a year and a half because of depression. Manulife stopped issuing the disability benefits when they found searched through her facebook pictures and found her having [...]

Like many other women who started their families young, I never did finish the course I started at University, I actually went to three! I took a semester break after Sariah was born and then planned to go back but then I became pregnant with Rebekah so I gave up on that idea. If I [...]

Last night JJ and I taught our 2 year old and 3 year old how to floss. Sariah who is 3 thought Dentex’s kids floss were pretty cool. She did a really good flossing her teeth and eventually she let me help her get to the teeth she wasn’t able to. Rebekah had fun playing [...]

I have never watched TLC’s 18 Kids And Counting as I don’t have cable but I have heard from those who do watch it that all the kids are really well behaved and Michelle Duggar is super patient with them. If they are a happy family why is there so much negativity surrounding the announcement [...]

One group of people I really admire are people who have disabilities and want to work hard to provide for themselves. I have a good friend with a developmental disability and one time while at Baskin Robins with a group of friends he insisted that he pay for my sister’s ice cream, she told him [...]

Life would be boring if we were all forced to drive the same cars and we couldn’t choose between copper sinks or stainless steel sinks to install in our own homes. But what about when it comes to our health? Is it best that we are told by health officials or even government what we [...]