Looking for your next family read aloud? Look no further than debut novel The Adventures of Rockford T. Honeypot.

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I received an advance copy of Legends from Mom’s Closet for my review.

About Legends from Mom’s Closet

In Legends from Mom’s Closet, 10 year old Sasha Olsen documents how she spent a rainy summer indoors using her creativity and imagination. After reading a stack of books about women like Frida Kahlo, Audrey Hepburn and Billie Holiday, Sasha’s imagination ran wild and she ended up in her mom’s closet picking through her clothes and her grandmother’s vintage pieces to dress up like all the female legends she had been reading about.

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Teriyaki Shrimp Stir Fry cooks up in 30 minutes, and gives you flavor and ease every mother of 5 kids is looking for.

For a month I listened to my 10 year old ask for Stir Fry. For a month, I hemmed and hawed. I like Stir Fry, but was feeling overwhelmed with suddenly needing to cook 3 meals a day for my 5 children.

I finally got around to making this Teriyaki Shrimp Stir Fry, when Birds Eye was looking for influencers to share how they use their frozen veggies.

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I received a copy of I Am Awesome in exchange for a review on this stop of the Book Tour. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I Am Awesome by Ryan K. Maule and Illustrated by L.M. Phang

Host of the popular podcast Expect Awesome wants to make sure all children get an early start on their self-esteem. With new studies showing that by age 5 children have a sense of self-esteem comparable to that of adults, this is important!

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This post on keeping kids rooms clean is sponsored by The Good Stuff and Coupons.com.

If you’ve got a whole house to keep clean weekly, you know how just a few good tips can drastically alter your workload. With kids in the house, that cleaning task can sometimes seem insurmountable, but by utilizing these nine tips for keeping rooms clean, you’ll be relaxing with your feet kicked up in a clean house in no time.

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This post on summer shorts is sponsored by The Good Stuff and Coupons.com.

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Remember the days when holes in pants were considered messy and poor? When did we get the trend where pants are being bought with holes in them? It truly baffles me.

I have to admit though, as my kids wore holes in their pants, I became a little lax and let them wear them anyway.

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Hellooo Summer! Long days full of sunshine, and fun, and family togetherness. Or is it more like long days of kids home, begging for electronics, with toys and crafts strewn from one end of the house to the other while Mom spends all her time cooking one meal and snack after another.

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This article on compost is sponsored by The Good Stuff and Coupons.com. All opinions are my own.

Any good gardener knows that compost will significantly benefit their garden. Whether you’re planting a large field of vegetables, or a small flower garden compost will increase the health of your plants.

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When I was a kid, we kept an old ice cream bucket under the sink.

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This post on morning meditation is sponsored by The Good Stuff at Coupons.com. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Not everyone is a morning person, and sometimes even morning people need a little help to get going with their day. These tips for creating a morning meditation routine will help start your day on the right foot.

Some people talk about drinking coffee in the morning, as the only thing that can wake them up.

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This post on serving others is sponsored by The Good Stuff and Coupons.com. All opinions are my own.

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“Whenever you are having a bad day, go out and serve someone else.”

These words were like a mantra from my mom. When we seek to focus our attention on others problems – we soon find what was bothering us really wasn’t that big a deal.

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