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Low hanging gift fruit: ProFlowers for Valentine’s Day giveaway #Spon

Valentine’s Day and procrastination go hand in hand around here. From a creative perspective, I embrace procrastination. From a gift giving perspective I try not to do it, but it sometimes falls between the cracks in the sofa. Caring for the kids during the day and working at night puts my time (and yours) at a premium. ProFlowers has provided us with 2 $100 vouchers to give away to two readers who may, or may not be procrastinating for Valentine’s Day.

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How to make flour hand casts #Sponsored

I’m an SC Johnson blogger. Every month I write posts for their Green Choices blog. This is an excerpt from that post and a link to a post about the topic.

If you have children you’ll want to mark a period of their life by some sort of print. A hand or foot print is what you’ll go with and there are a couple ways to do it. We’ve made hand casts a couple of different ways, both with plaster and flour. Of the two, flour is much easier and produces better hand casts.

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Megadeth taught me everything I need to know about children’s medicine

Small children are happy, uncontrollable running laboratories for things that adults can no longer get. Think Jurassic Park on a microbial level and put those tiny ill tempered Pteranadons in your child. One day our child had a rash around his mouth. My wife said, “oh, I bet he has hand, foot and mouth disease”. My immediate thought was hoof and mouth disease and then I remembered that Megadeth addressed this issue in their classic song Hook in Mouth.

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Win a movie prize pack from The Monuments Men

There are so many things about The Monuments Men to be excited about. It stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Hugh Boneville and Cate Blanchett, just to name a few. The plot is the true story of a WWII platoon tasked with rescuing art from Nazi thieves and returns them to their owners. Wait, a true WWII movie that stars Bill Murray, other great actors and the Nazis lose? I am there!

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Discover the Dinosaurs review: great times for kids for 2+ hours

Discover the Dinosaurs is a traveling exhibit that features dinosaur attractions of a wide variety. The entire exhibition is broken up into two distinct areas. The exhibit area features the moving, roaring dinosaurs that will captivate your child’s imagination. The other areas like the Dino Dig, Dino Theater, Dino Den, Dinosaur Rides, inflatables, gem & fossil panning, mini golf and gift shop make up the other half. Our review of Discover the Dinosaurs says that it’s a great time for kids, but parents need to be aware of a couple things in order to really appreciate the event.

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Win tickets to the Big Apple Circus: Luminosity in Alpharetta

Since 1975 Big Apple Circus has been sharing the joy of the classical circus to audiences all over the United States. For the second year in a row Big Apple Circus is coming to Alpharetta, this time brining their new show, Luminosity. Luminosity will be playing from January 30-February 17 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.

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