Henry's Humdingers is a small company in the Pacific Northwest, founded a few years ago by teenage entrepreneur Henry Miller.   Henry's story is fun and inspiring!  A chance meeting with a Beekeeper with an interest in Hive Collapse Disorder led Henry to ask for his own hives and he was on the road to Henry's Humdingers. With the support of his parents, Henry ended up with so much honey, "Henry's Humdingers" was born!  Running out of ways to use up the raw honey collected from Henry's personal Read more [...]

As a former nurse, I adore and tend to collect (okay, I hoard) pens and I've always loved the Pilot brand pens. I've been using the Precise line religiously since high school. The Pilot company has come out with a new line of recycled pens called B2P.  B2P stands for "Bottle 2 Pen". They are made with 89% post-consumer recycled bottles. The B2P pens come in two retractable varieties: Ballpoint and Gel. The Gel inks are the same used in Pilot's ever popular G2 pens.   I was sent the ballpoint B2P Read more [...]

Richard Silverton's tale of Mr. Hookumbacker and the Yella Yella Yum Yum Tree is a fun adventure story aimed for children ages 5-8 years old. My daughter is a little younger than that, and we started reading this at bedtime, and she wasn't really interested in it, so I kept reading myself! This little adventure starts off in the Cracking Stone Forest, where the forest tree master, Mr. Hookumbacker, is preparing Wiggle Twig Village for a naming ceremony of the newest bumble tum and sapling in the Read more [...]

I've been looking at all the fancy thermometers at the store thinking how nice it would be to take a temperature and not worry about the impending struggle of keeping it under my child's armpit.   It's not one of my favorite pastimes as a parent,  and the temperatures are incorrect half the time because you have to get it in juuust the right spot to get a correct reading.  Hard to do with an uncooperative kid. I have never tried the temporal thermometers,  as our oral thermometer has been fine Read more [...]

At first glance, the Ornaments with Love website is a  pretty basic ornament website with lots of product pictures, and after just a few clicks,  it's easy to get sucked in looking at all they have to offer.   They have a really great selection of ornaments  and, after receiving mine, I think they are even more cute in person! There are so many options to choose from including ornaments to add names or faces for 8-12 people--perfect for large families, or grandparents!  There are some Read more [...]