web analytics

Rally for Real Pizza!

8 Mar By 32 Comments

I can tell you two things about my eating habits:

First, I eat balanced meals…some healthy, some not so healthy, but I would say balanced. Recently my friend Lynsey said to me “I don’t think I have ever seen you eat junk food..do you eat junk food?” I guess not. But I also don’t consider myself organic. I cook. I enjoy cooking actually. Baking..well, that is a whole other battle. Ill leave that to Cat.

Secondly, I don’t do frozen meals. There are very few things you find in my freezer. I have vegis to steam, I keep extra bread in there, powdered sugar (don’t ask), waffles, meats (Kim makes me do organic on chicken and beef), and of course pizza.

Pizza. Yum.

The all American (well, Italian? Who knows.) go to meal.

Pizza is one thing that I absolutely do NOT make from scratch. Actually, anything that involves dough is out for me. I burn sliced french bread and nothing I create rises. Like I said, I don’t bake. Ironically, while I dont love frozen foods, I LOVE frozen pizzas. If I am having a down night where I don’t want to cook, its my “go to” meal.

In fact, I keep at least one pizza in my freezer at all times for such a night.

That being said, just because its frozen and just because its packaged, doesn’t mean it has to be BAD for my family.

Which is why I am so excited to share Freschetta Brick Oven pizzas with my audience. While Freschetta has quite a few lines of pizza (and the ones I have tried are ultra tasty), their Brick Oven line is made with flash frozen vegis, sea salt and olive oil, and not only taste great, they are better for you than traditional pizzas!

At Freschetta®, we continue to be committed to making every pizza taste as if you made it at home – with minimal processing; special-recipe meats; crispy, yet tender crusts; and home-spun recipes like our new Brick Oven sauce featuring sea salt & olive oil.

Let me just show you…(please watch, Charlotte and I worked hard for this minute video..we hope you enjoy!)

Now the good stuff!

Wanna win pizza for a YEAR?

Of course you do~

CLICK TO ADD YOUR PHOTO!

Just add your photo to our BOYCOTT BLAH mosaic and you are entered!

Do you have a pizza night in your house?

~Trisha

————-

paid Rally For Real Pizza spokesblogger

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

What to do with a million Lego pieces

29 Nov By 20 Comments

This past week Charlotte and I ran down to Central Florida.

I say “Ran down”, but it was 9 hours of straight driving eating Pringles and popping Starbucks. At any rate, one of the days we got to visit Florida’s newest theme park attraction Legoland and one of the coolest things you get to see are the gobs and gobs of  creations placed around the park.

Absolutely engineering marvels.

Maybe a bit nerdy….

But most definitely aweworthy.

Like Darth Vader.

So if Santa brings you 34,000 sets of legos this year, here is just a little inspiration:

See any recognizable cities?

 

And I loved this with a little shark…

I have tons more photos…apparently you can make ANYTHING with a Lego, but I figured this post is long enough. I’ll do another one for the rest.

Do your kids (or you) play with Legos? I know my vacuum does on occasion…

 

~Trisha

Filed Under: All About Trisha Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Amazing business cards that will get you noticed

20 Oct By 10 Comments

For as long as I can remember I have had this business card picture on my computer.

I have an idea to make a cut out of myself and give out extra cards with different paperdoll outfits at each conference I attend. Like…collectibles. Unfortunately it has absolutely nothing to do with my site, so its something that has never come to fruition.

That being said, I am absolutely inspired by these business cards. The point to a card is to get someone to keep it and often cards are boring. There cards are anything BUT boring.

Do you have a unique business card and if so, what is your business?

Feel free to send to me at trisha(AT)momdot.com and I will add it here.


Filed Under: Guest Writers Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

7 Unique Treehouses

7 Oct By 7 Comments

Love these amazing and unique treehouses? Want to check out Funny Signs?

Filed Under: Guest Writers Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Planning for baby..do you have life insurance?

29 Sep By 30 Comments

Planning for baby..do you have life insurance?

It always amazes me when I talk to people with children that:

A) Don’t have a life insurance policy set up for the incomprehensible, even if its just basic expenses, to help plan for your childs future if they were to be left without a parent. I think its so easy to add the breadwinner, generally a husband, but leave out the wife. But in a lot of cases, including my own, if something happened to me, my kids would need during the day care, so I have a life insurance policy as well.

B) Don’t have a will stating where the kids will go if something happens to parents.

Personally, I am taken care of in both departments. I is smart like that.

Charlotte is listed on the life insurance policies of Chris and I both and our will states her custody and where she would go in the event of our (untimely!) deaths. We even have it all drawn out so if the person we listed can’t care for her, where she would go after that and after that.  Mama isn’t taken any chances.

Of course now I have to get Phoenyx added.

Here is my discussion and thoughts regarding the topic:

Remember…its very easy to think that nothing will EVER happen to you while you are young. We tend to only think of death as something for the elderly, but when you have children, you cannot be too careful in planning for their futures. We are proactive about slings, diapers, breastfeeding, pacifiers…but when it comes to the important stuff we are often too passive.

Now you join..I want to put out a little survey in the comments:

  • Do you, your spouse, or both of you have life insurance. If not, why not?
  • Do you have a will set up dictating where your kids go in case of a death of both parents? If not, is there anything holding you back from it?

~Trisha

 This sponsored post was inspired by Genworth Financial.  Opinions expressed are my own. For more information about the different life insurance types visit the Genworth Financial website.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Did you know?

22 Sep By 1 Comment

Its really easy to just grab a battery and throw it into your electronics without any care of what that battery does or why it goes in there. But if you think about it, I mean really think about it, you realize that batteries are constructed with specific life for specific electronics and choosing the RIGHT battery may mean the difference in your camera working at the right time versus going dead the minute you have a “Kodak” moment.

Battery Education

There are many different kinds of batteries from Alkaline to Rechargeable. In my home, I most often utilize the alkaline to power my baby toys, although I should probably be using the rechargeable since I know I will be running my items long term. I am just seriously running out of plugs to even charge things.  You would think as a blogger that I would have hoards of other items that must run on batteries, but nope…my life is fully consumed by baby items.

Just call me a “mom” blogger.

hehehehe

To help YOU out so you can spend less on the things you dont need and only exactly what you DO need, Rayovac has come up with a way to help you easily identify which batteries will last the longest in your household- baby items OR techy items.

Things to Remember about your batteries

Alkaline

  • Household electronics like boom boxes…do they make those?

Rechargable

  • Frequent usage items like game controllers

Lithium

  • High drain devices like cameras

Of course you can always head to Rayovac on facebook and ask questions about you are looking to power and what battery choice is right for YOU! And thank you for following on my personal Rayovac journey the past year. It has been a blast working with the Rayovac team on educating myself and my readers on the items I use every day like batteries.

~Trisha

————-

Rayovac Sponsored blogger

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Quotes from harry potter

11 Sep By 3 Comments

Some Harry Potter Quotes to live by:

Who said you couldn’t learn something from a movie?

 

~Trisha

————-

Like Quotes?

Filed Under: Guest Writers Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Halloween Costumes Discount Code

11 Sep By 1 Comment

This is Halloween at my house last year, where my little no-toothed diva dressed up as a witch:

(don’t be fooled by this smile….this witch doesn’t know how to clean her room)

Last year we went through like 500 costume ideas for my then 5 year old before she stuck on this one. She absolutely loves Halloween (I’m guessing its the allure of free candy) and has been asking me about it for the past 4 weeks.

This year when I asked her what kind of costume she wants, she said Wonder Woman. Honestly, I have no clue where she is getting it. To my knowledge she doesn’t even have a clue who Wonder Woman IS. Heck, I think Wonder Woman is before MY time.

But once a kid decides something, as you probably know if you have kids or have ever been around them, they have decided.

So Wonder Woman it will be…unless she changes her mind.

Which is likely.

Now this year you will have tons of choices on where to purchase your Halloween Costumes and if you are anything like me, EVERYTHING is easier to purchase online. I know with a newborn in my house, I am on the “please deliver to my front door” kick from now till age 3.

Speaking of little Phoenyx, I get to dress him up this year. *cough* I love torturing my kids before they are old enough to tell me now. Its like a special parental privilege.

The only problem is that I’m finding that  infant costumes come in a 0-6 month age range . I’ll have to wait further along to see how big he gets before I get him one. Ideally I would love to have him match Charlotte, so if she stays on the Wonder Woman theme, this, or something similar, will be my choice:

Halloween Costumes Discount Code

To help you out HalloweenCostumes.com has given momdot visitors a 10% off discount code on all your purchases through them. From infant costumes to sexy adult costumes, there is sure to be something for your entire family or your personal party needs!

CLICK HERE FOR AUTOMATIC DISCOUNT CODE TO BE APPLIED

~Trisha

————

HalloweenCostumes.com is sending me a costume on behalf of them as a thankyou for this article.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,