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I love love love things that make my house smell good!  It’s a slight addiction of mine.  With pets and kids in my house though (and myself) I look for safer alternatives to the traditional paraffin candles.  Soy burns longer, burns cleaner, and makes me feel better about it. 

I still don’t burn it in the kitchen around my birds because I haven’t come up with conclusive evidence that it is safe for birds’ respiratory systems (it doesn’t take much of the wrong thing in the air to kill a bird), so I am extremely cautious with them.  I do light candles in the other rooms of my house, because I like the ambiance in the evening and the smell all day long.

Diamond Candles has put a very neat spin on their candles.  Not only are they soy, they have a ring in the middle of each candle.  A ring that could be worth $10 to $5000 dollars.  A glittery pouch tucked away in the candle.  What will you find in it?  I dreaming pink sapphires, but that’s just me.

They also are having a call for bloggers right now!  Yep, they need us to review, giveaway, and spread the word about their unique candles!  Interested?  Head on over and see how to get involved!

Have fun and good luck!

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I love love love things that make my house smell good!  It’s a slight addiction of mine.  With pets and kids in my house though (and myself) I look for safer alternatives to the traditional paraffin candles.  Soy burns longer, burns cleaner, and makes me feel better about it. 

I still don’t burn it in the kitchen around my birds because I haven’t come up with conclusive evidence that it is safe for birds’ respiratory systems (it doesn’t take much of the wrong thing in the air to kill a bird), so I am extremely cautious with them.  I do light candles in the other rooms of my house, because I like the ambiance in the evening and the smell all day long.

Diamond Candles has put a very neat spin on their candles.  Not only are they soy, they have a ring in the middle of each candle.  A ring that could be worth $10 to $5000 dollars.  A glittery pouch tucked away in the candle.  What will you find in it?  I dreaming pink sapphires, but that’s just me.

They also are having a call for bloggers right now!  Yep, they need us to review, giveaway, and spread the word about their unique candles!  Interested?  Head on over and see how to get involved!

Have fun and good luck!

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I was sent a pair of leather palm gloves to try out. 

Now, I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to try these out on.  I thought maybe I’d give them to my dad.  He’s a work glove type of guy.  He uses them for doing his outside work, like splitting wood for campfires, dragging away brush, working near poison ivy, all that fun stuff that you won’t catch me doing. 

Pato saw them and said, now wait a second!  I want them.  Pato is now the proud owner of a pair of leather palm gloves.  He’s used them a few times when outside working on various things with his car (ie: changing rims).  He really likes them.  He said on the day that it was cold out, having them on and not having to touch the metal with bare skin was much better.  He also said that he imagines these would do a great job protecting the hands when you are doing all of those things my dad does outside. 

I could see me using them to open a jar of spaghetti sauce.  They’ve got a nice grip on them.  Unfortunately, Pato has hidden them in the garage because he said I will not be tarnishing them with tomato products.

My gloves came from Care Cleaning Protection and they have tons to choose from for various tasks.  I’m sure your husband would love a pair as much as Pato did.  They might not even know they need them, but once they have them they will find plenty of ways to use them.  They most likely won’t let you use them to open spaghetti sauce.

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So, Shout wants to know how you make time for play in the fall? 

We live an apartment, so we have no need to rake.  Not a lot of jumping in leaves around here, though sometimes Pato will push the leaves together with a shovel (we don’t have a rake yet – since the apartments take care of that), then the kids get a chance to run and jump in the leaves.

Oh yes, that is Miss Katiana and Miss Alyce when I was pregnant with Christiano jumping in the pile daddy raked.

Since they don’t get to do that often, because as you can see we really don’t get a lot of leaves over here (we have like miniature trees), we try to find other things to do.  I take the kids to the park a lot during the fall.  I hate hot weather and I’m one of those people that stays in the air conditioning all summer long.  Come September, I am in heaven when it drops to 65-75 degrees and we go a lot.  Plus, fall starts a new year of soccer.  I always equate fall with soccer.  We spend most of our time in September and October at the practice fields or the game fields.  With 2 kids in soccer I am always on the go.  While the older 2 are practicing, the younger 2 are always playing on the playground.  They live for Tuesdays and Fridays (our practice days this season).

And what else does fall bring for us?  Halloween!  Halloween is my favorite holiday.  I know most people love Christmas best and I do love Christmas, but I love Halloween.  I love the fun of picking out costumes, I love the dressing up, I love all the fun activities there are scheduled around Halloween.  Most of my kids aren’t really old enough yet for a haunted house, but I might take my oldest this year.  We always go to the zoo for Night Eyes at least once, then we hit Living History Farms for their fun (hay rack rides, roasting marshmallows, etc), and of course trick or treating, which we usually do at least twice.  We usually trick or treat in our area one night then go out to where Jordan’s dad lives because all of his relatives love to see the kids dressed up. 

Message from Shout: Shout knows play is so much more than fun and games. Studies show that unstructured play helps kids build fundamental skills like problem solving, coping, and conflict resolution. In other words: play is how kids become happy, healthy adults. Fall has arrived with crisp, cool air and new reasons to go out and play. So, let your kids take that rewarding jump into a pile of leaves. Take at trip to the park and watch their imaginations run free. The one thing you won’t do is worry about their clothes; play should get messy and Shout can help.

Soccer alone causes a lot of messiness with grass stains and mud when you play in the rain plus there’s all the fun dirt to play in at the park.  My littlest 2 love to sit in the pebbles or the sand and build to their hearts content.  I’ve never been one who worries about stains.  I have some friends who freak out when their kids are playing.  No!  Don’t do that!  You’ll get your clothes dirty!  First, I don’t take my kids to the park in their best clothes, second, clothes wash.  Shout makes plenty of stain fighters for that.  More important is the fact that they are having fun, running, playing, getting exercise without even knowing that’s what they are doing.  And they are learning every time they are out there.  I watch Christiano and with every step he takes on the playground, he gets a little more adventuresome, tries one thing he hadn’t tried before.  He gets a little braver and climbs a little higher.

That to me is more important than how I’ll have to try to get that grass stain out of his knee after he fell running after his sister.  The sound of his giggles and him yelling his sister’s name – Leece!  Leece!, how can you even think about laundry when you hear that?

Don’t forget to visit Shout over on Facebook and see how other moms are letting their children go play!

I was chosen to be a Shout Brand Ambassador through a Mom Blogger’s Club program!

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