Monthly Archives: April 2008

Apr 30 2008

Ocean Spray Cranenergy Drinks – Bursting with Taste

This week I had the chance to try Ocean Spray’s new Cranenergy drink. The drink, available in two flavors – Cranberry Lift and Raspberry Cranberry Lift, combines cranberry juice with blends of natural energizers.

The new drinks combine cranberry juice with green tea extract and B vitamins. Both cranberry juice and green tea extract contain high levels of antioxidants and the B vitamins provide you with the burst of energy.

I personally liked the Cranberry Lift flavor best, but they both were good. I sampled both drinks on Sunday when I was landscaping the yard (I’ll be posting about that later on Mommy Bits). I am not sure if they gave me additional energy (cause I worked myself to the bone) but they definitely quenched my thirst. Both flavors are made with Splenda (I couldn’t taste the Splenda as much as I normally can in products like yogurt) and it contains 50% fewer calories and less sugar than traditional energy drinks.

Apr 29 2008

Ignorant Brilliance!

This weekend I had one of those moments where I did something brilliant – genius even – without even realizing it. Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that I spent ALL weekend working on the landscaping in the front yard. On Saturday I mowed and seeded the front lawn while the boys napped and on Sunday I focused on the flower boxes.

Sunday took the most time. I spent almost 2 hours at Home Depot purchasing new supplies. I picked up flowers and new flower box inserts, I purchased new 2x4s for the wrought iron flower box holders, I picked up 15 bags of Cyprus mulch and 6 bags of potting soil. In total I made three trips to the car. I was there so long that I ran in to my friend Jenny twice. In between our meetings she’d run home, fed the kids and returned with her Mom!
So here is the instance of ignorant brilliance. I don’t know why, buy this year I decided to purchase inserts for our flower boxes-in the past I had just planted them directly into the box.
Well it turns out that I made the right decision because the next day I find out that we are expecting FROST and am informed that this KILLS flowers! Augh. I wanted to scream. All that blood, sweat and energy, not to mention the $$$ spent on flowers.
So tonight, to beat the frost at it’s own game, the hubs graciously agreed to pull all of the flower boxes and bring them inside to safety.
Sometimes things just fall into place…. Thank goodness!!!
Apr 29 2008

We’ve All Had Crazy Days

As the mother of two boys my mornings are definitely crazy. From making the boys lunches – yes, even the 2 year old packs his lunch, to grabbing special nap pillows and searching for missing lucky sneakers before rushing off to catch the bus, many of my mornings might be enough to send a sane woman packing. But we’ve all been there and knowing I am not along is comforting.

I bring this up because the makers of Breakfast BREAKS (I reviewed their products back in February) are teaming up with Denise Jonas, the Mom of the The Jonas Brothers, for a contest in search of “Mom’s Craziest Morning.” Everyone who submits an essay about their “craziest morning” is entered for a chance to win four tickets to one of the The Jonas Brothers’ summer concerts. For us Moms, they’re also throwing in a $150 Gift Certificate to Spafinder.com.

The contest runs May 1st to June 15th and they’ll pick one winner from four regions of the country will be chosen.

We’ve all had crazy mornings (and days and nights) so I am sure we’ll all have plenty of options for entries!!