Yoursphere

We are continuing our test drive of Yoursphere. My kids are really enjoying it. My 6 year-old neice recently joined, and she caught on very quickly! My kids have learned how to "level up". They are interested in earning prizes!

They have a new incentive for my readers tied to my referral code. If you use my code to register on Yoursphere.com, you will be entered into a weekly drawing to win a $50 gift card. My referral code is YSMC-0055 .

I wrote this review while participating in the Yoursphere Test Drive program by Mom Central on behalf of Yoursphere. I received a free lifetime Gold membership on Yoursphere.com,Yoursphere t-shirts, and a $50 American Express gift card to facilitate my review.

Mother’s Cookies

I remember that I loved animal cookies as a child. I had the opportunity recently to try Mother’s Cookies Circus Animal cookies. Since I am in the midwest, I had never seen that brand in the stores. Well, good news: they are coming to the midwest.

Although the brand was new to me, the animal cookies date back to 1914 when N.M. (Noah) Wheatley ran a newspaper stand on the corner of San Francisco’s Market and Kearney Streets and decided to purchase the rights to a recipe of some home-baked cookies from one of his customers.

I found a TV commercial from 1980 that featured real company employees singing and dancing while baking Mother’s® Cookies.

1983 – Mother’s® Cookies moved to the big screen and starred opposite Al Pacino in the movie Scarface

Compared to the animal cookies I had when I was a child, these were even better! They had a light coating of icing, so they were sweet and crunchy. My kid's really liked them too. I am excited that they are coming to the Midwest area.

You can see where you can buy them in your area. If they are not in your area, or you just perfer to buy online you can get them at Amazon.com.


I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Mother’s Cookies and received two bags of cookies and a $20 Amazon gift certificate to facilitate my review.

Get Dad to the Doctor

National Men's Health Week is June 14 - 20.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Ad Council are launching a new movement on behalf of their national public service advertising campaign designed to encourage middle-age men to learn which preventive medical tests they need to get and when to get them.

New research has found that men are 31 percent less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year. Men make fewer routine health care appointments compared with women (56.5 percent vs. 73.8 percent). I know that from my work men frequently won't go to the doctor unless the women in their lives encourage them to do so, and they are very unlikely to get the recommended screening tests.

Check out this new e-card for Father's Day.

Ask your husband, father, brother, etc. to take this health quiz. Encourage the men you know to visit ahrq.gov/healthymen, which provides recommended ages for preventive medical tests, a health care quiz designed to test knowledge of preventive health care, tips for talking with doctors, a glossary of consumer health terms, and links to online resources to find more medical information. Also, keep an eye out for the new PSA's encouraging dad's to take care of their health.

We all want our dad's to be around for many more Father's Days!

This is my Dad holding my nephew. Happy Father's Day!

Yoursphere

I am trying to get up to date with my reviews. I stared a little late, so I am posting rather close together. This week we were supposed to check out Yoursphere's contest page. My children thought the contest rules were easy to understand. They love entering contests- like their mom . : )

So far my kids love it. Their only complaint is that I don't let them online enough!

If you (your child) joins please use my unique referral code that is YSMC-0055.

I wrote this review while participating in the Yoursphere Test Drive program by Mom Central on behalf of Yoursphere. I received a free lifetime Gold membership on Yoursphere.com, Yoursphere t-shirts, and a $50 American Express gift card to facilitate my review