Inspired Great Mama

                   Con la celebración del día de la madre en el horizonte, quería saber que le iban a dar mis hermanos a mamá para no repetir regalos. Por fortuna tengo un gran plan móvil o celular: el  Walmart  #FamilyMobile .  Lo digo porque es un  plan ilimitado de llamadas, texto y data  -  a un precio muy c ó modo. Me encanta que tiene la opción de agregar un  plan internacional   que me permite llamar económicamente a Colombia y México donde viven dos de mis hermanos.     Empecé a hacer mis llamadas internacionales. Con los hombres la cosa es al grano y rapidito.  Con mi hermana es otra historia.  Una llamada corta es de 45 minutos.  Igual yo fresca como una lechuga: puedo hablar con todos mis hermanos, sin importar donde viven y sin  afectar mi presupuesto familiar ya que mi plan incluye  llamadas internacionales  a  Argentina, Colombia, Cost...

Los recuerdos y las tradiciones van muy de la mano.  Sin darnos cuenta, ponemos a la obra las cosas que han pasado de generacion en generacion.  En nuestro caso, estamos perdiendo los dientes de leche!! Como imaginaran, no vemos la hora cada vez que se cae un diente, de que llegue el Raton Perez!! La emocion y anticipacion es toda.  Me encanta, realmente me enternece, me trae buenos recuerdos y ahora, bueno vamos un paso mas alla en un hogar donde van todas las costumbres en una sola ocasion pues tambien llega el Tooth Fairy. Por eso me encanta la nueva iniciativa  de   Delta Dental Insurance Company y su concurso de cuentos, "Tooth be Told", de MySmileKids para niños de 12 años o menos. Para participar, los niños deben presentar un cuento inédito (de un máximo de 750 palabras) acerca de algún tema relacionado con la salud dental, junto con un formulario de presentación firmado por su padre/madre o tutor. Los cuentos pueden presentarse en inglés o en español. Tr...

At home we are all big fans of Italian Cuisine. Particularly I love making it because it feels like a no brainer: I can please my family Regardless if it is chicken, beef, seafood, fish or just plain pasta. Personally, I love how many diverse thing I can come up with tomatoes.  Imagine my delight when I received Tuttorosso Tomatoes! There is nothing like help in the kitchen. All sorts if help. I needed cooking instruction!  Do you know what tomatoes to use when? I didn't really but now thanks to suggestions and tips on the can labels of Tuttorosso Tomatoes I can now tell you when to used crushed, diced, whole, puree, plum, sauce, etc. For example, crushed tomatoes make a great base for pasta sauce, while paste can be used to thicken recipes .  Besides this help, I found out of a Tuttorosso neat giveaway they are having. The 85-year-old tomato brand is hosting a Facebook promotion and is asking home cooks to post about their inspiration in cooking. Who (or what) inspired...

While we are out making an extra effort to do good for the planet in our daily habits, specially these two weeks leading to Earth Day as we kicked off the celebration  here where we shared our Alligator photo, then  here with the green skincare, and how we can support our National Parks, we told about the film Bears here , we have now found a new brand to us Hastens. With a passion for sleep, just like us chasing after our loss of sleep after becoming parents, Hastens has been out on a mission to change the world through sleep, perfecting their technique at offering us the best bed to sleep in since 1852. Using only the most natural materials like sustainably resourced horsehair, cotton, flax and Sweedish pine among others,the use of natural materials and expert craftmanship results in beds that offer deep natural sleep.  Sounds like a dream! With the same dedication and drive to work with natural materials, we can count on them to offer us fabulous personal accessories...

What a great opportunity it was to chat with Kristi Yamaguchi at an Alpine lace Deli Cheese webinar last week.  Besides great tips, Alpine Lace Deli Cheese sponsors this giveaway too! I honestly thought after her skating career and growing up, she was now another housewife and mom.  Nothing wrong with that at all.  After all being a stay home mom is a full time job.  I was surprised to discover that she is also a successful business woman  creator and owner of her own active wear line, spokesperson, mom, wife and much more. during the webinar, Kristi shared tips on reaching a balanced life while keeping active and healthy. My favorite thought from her was the fact that just like any regular working mom, she knows that there is not enough time to accomplish it all, so she focussed on prioritizing and finding 30 minutes of me time. As moms we tend to focus on everyone and everything else. Me time is sometimes just a dream.  Listening to Kristi, I realized tha...

We have another giveaway for our movie goers! This time we have a prize pack of 4 tickets to see the The Legends of Oz: Dorothy's return in each of these cities on 5/3: Dallas El Paso Phoenix Miami Los Angeles San Jose Chicago  San Diego Tucson McAllen San Antonio Sacramento New York Albuquerque Houston The movie will be released in theaters on  May 9th Here is the  Synopsis : Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return is a 3D-animated musical based on the adventure books by Roger Stanton Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum. A continuation of one of the world’s most popular and beloved fairy tales, Legends of Oz finds Dorothy (Lea Michele) waking to post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the Lion (Jim Belushi), the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and Glinda (Bernadette Peters) from a devious new villain, the Jester (Martin Short). Wiser the owl (Oliver Platt), Marshal Mallow (Hugh Dancy), China Princess (Megan Hi...

There are so many projects I have at home. I am day dreaming about having everything done, but at the same time, I am looking forward to actually doing the projects.  I can get all the help I can get, and are ready to enlist the cheering of the kids. The fact that  Savings.com  and Home Depot are giving away $3,000 worth of gift cards and it’s easy to win is getting me making a special schedule of many weekends of DIY! From now  until  Wednesday, April 23rd at 7:00 PM EST   Savings.com  and Home Depot will be giving away $1,000 in gift cards each day! Winners will receive a $20 Home Depot gift card and can enter once a day to win more than once! To enter the giveaway, visit the Home Depot page on  Savings.com : http://www.savings.com/m-Home-Depot-coupons.html#i- 5464132 What would you do with an extra $20 from Home Depot?

Our Earth Day celebration went through the roof when we attended the pre-screening for the new Disneynature film "Bears" which is in theaters today April 18. The film took our breath away with the beautiful cinematography that has Alaska's amazing landscape as a backdrop to a storyline that follows a mamma bear during her first year of motherhood.  Here is the synopsis of the movie: In an epic story of breathtaking scale, Disneynature’s new True Life Adventure “Bears” showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life’s most important lessons. Set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop teeming with life, their journey begins as winter comes to an end and the bears emerge from hibernation to face the bitter cold. The world outside is exciting—but risky—as the cubs’ playful descent down the mountain carries with it a looming threat of avalanches. As the season changes from spring to summer, the brown bears must work hard to find food...

Are you ready to party with Muy Latinas Blogging Network and Sprint? Great! A fabulous party is in store because as  the exclusive wireless sponsor of  Premios  Billboard de la  Música  Latina, Sprint is bringing music lovers everywhere closer to the artist and music they love. When:  April 24/14 on twitter Time:  7 pm EST (4 pm PST) How:  use  # Framily  AND  # Billboards2014  (participants that ONLY use one hash-tag will not be eligible to win) Who to follow:  @muylatinas, @monicazyoung, @coolchillmom, @ahorradolares, @colombianaenca and @comiendoenla What else to do:  Like the Sprint Latino Facebook page Prizes: valued at over $3000 to win with Muy Latinas and Sprint! 1. 5 x $20 dollars gift cards 2. 5 x $50 dollars gift cards 3. 3 x $100 dollars gift cards  4. 3 Samsung devices You even have 2 chances before the party even begins to win one of the $100 gift cards: You can tweet this  Join @MuyLatina...

We are happy to bring to you a giveaway where you will find plenty incredible products. thisngs that caught our eye are the Iron Man mouse and the floating pool sofa! But, we are getting ahead of ourselves, here is the run down on how you can enter another great giveaway for a chance to win! Welcome to the What Would You Buy $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway sponsored by Oh the Things You Can Buy and hosted by The Parenting Patch ! Oh the Things You Can Buy features cool, amazing, weird, geeky, and just plain awesome products that you can buy. From a Star Wars Chewbacca Onesie to a Glow-In-The-Dark Mushroom Kit, OTTYCB scours the internet daily for some of the most amazing products for sale imaginable. One lucky reader of The Parenting Patch and Cool Moms Cool Tips will win one (1) $50 Amazon gift card courtesy of Oh the Things You Can Buy. To enter for your chance to win the What Would You Buy $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway, simply use the following Rafflecopter form. Good luck! The What...

This is part of a product review campaign with Latina Mom Bloggers and Hasbro; complimentary  products were provided. However, all opinions expressed are my own.  Tenemos un par de grandes fans de Spider-Man en casa.  Su lado científico, y por supuesto sus heroicos esfuerzos por mantener a la comunidad a salvo de los "malos" son algunas de las cosas que admiran nuestros chicos de este superhéroe.   No vemos la hora de que podamos ir el 2 de mayo al cine a ver la nueva pelicula  SPIDER-MAN 2 donde con su nueva tecnología Spider-Strike se enfrentara a un nuevo villano: Electro.  Wow, suena que viene esto con mucha acción! Morimos por saber de que se trata el Spider-Strike y los poderes de Electro! Mientras vemos la pelicula, estamos felices jugando a salvar el mundo con Spider-Man y sus amigos con los juguetes #MisHarbroMarvel.   Nos encanto el   Marvel Super Hero Mashers de Hasbro  léelo  aqui , por que fomentan la imaginación ...