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Easter Carrots

I love these carrots – so adorable. This is a great idea for Spring, Easter, Shower or Tea. Just wrap a napkin around your cutlery and tie with a bow – neat and pretty – ready to enjoy. You can change the color scheme too for what ever occasion you have to celebrate – though the carrots are just too cute. My advise is to buy the colors you like, when you see them. I had a hard time finding orange napkins last year. I bought these after Halloween.

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Sexy And Pregnant – Expecting More

 

 

You have to check out this really cool exercise DVD from Sara Haley.

All I can say is, “Where was Sara when I was pregnant?” (Oh,  she was not even born yet.)  When I was having my children exercise  was never recommended.  We were just supposed to get big (fat) and then get into shape after the fact.

Sexy and pregnant, unheard of.

If you are physical fit Sara’s work outs is for you. Best is you don’t have to be pregnant to do them.

Sara Haley’s workout vidoe is just the solution to staying strong and fit, and after nine months deliver with little effort.  OK, I cannot attest to this, but I know pregnant women who kept exercising, and at the end of the pregnancy they always came back with stories of how easy their delivery was.  Easy, I like easy.

Sara gives six different workouts to give women a variety of cardio, strength and dynamic flexibility exercises.  Sara developed this two disc DVD to include workouts like cardio dance, sports drills and pilates with modifications allowing soon-to-be mommies a variety of options that are safe, challenging and fun!Strong, Fun, Sexy | Expecting More™

Staying fit and sexy while pregnant is possible, but it takes a safe workout to accomplish it.   Sara Haley, fitness expert and Reebok Global Master Trainer, has developed a new prenatal fitness program Expecting More, to help all expecting moms get it right and keep it tight throughout pregnancy.  Sara designed Expecting More for active women based on her own experience with pregnancy.

Pregnant, or not Sara’s work outs will do your body good.

 

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Did You Know

Smoking And Our Kids

Marlene Dietrich! She looks so sexy, even with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.

Sex and the cigarette.

As an ex-smoker I have very little tolerance for smoking.  You know what they say about ex-smokers.  I smoked for 40 years. Wow, this is the first time I ever wrote that number down.

I smoked alot of cigarettes.

I don’t want to talk about my smoking, or my ex-smoking.  I want to talk about kids smoking.  I was taken aback when I heard that smoking amoung teenagers is on the rise.  What!  I thought that the kids of today are hipper and smarter than we ever were.  Are they not the generation that can access  information with their fingertips, but sometimes it is not about being well informed, it is also about not falling into the trappings of the advertising market.

Did you know that tobacco companies are specifically targeting kids? How is the tobacco industry marketing to kids today? Four recent trends in youth tobacco marketing include:

  • Heavy advertising and discounting of tobacco products in stores frequented by kids:  Such marketing makes tobacco products appealing and affordable to teens, two-thirds of whom visit a convenience store at least once a week. Since the 1998 tobacco settlement, tobacco advertising and promotions have soared in convenience stores and other retail outlets.
  • Increased marketing of smokeless tobacco products, and introduction of new products that look, taste and are packaged like candy.  With smoking on the decline and restricted in most public places, tobacco companies have nearly tripled smokeless tobacco marketing since 1998 and introduced new candy-like products that appeal to kids.
  • Proliferation of cheap, sweet-flavored “little cigars”: The tobacco industry has introduced a growing number of cigarette-sized cigars with sweet flavors, colorful packaging and cheap prices, which makes them appealing to children.
  • Brand extensions of cigarette brands most popular with kids: More than 80 percent of youth smokers prefer Marlboro, Newport and Camel, the three most heavily advertised cigarette brands. Tobacco companies have introduced numerous cigarette brand extensions and even smokeless tobacco products that carry these same brand names. 
Warn your children and grandchildren.  Let them know that they are IRREPLACEABLE.
We all have to make choices, teaching our kids to make the right choice is our RESPONSIBILITY.

http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what_we_do/industry_watch/warning_to_parents/

LET’S KICK BUTT!

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