Just wanted to let you know that during the month of June I will be hosting a Tastefully Simple catalog party. So start putting some money aside to help a sister out! Shurrece Kovalski is my consultant and I just love her! I was sad when her family had to change duty stations and left Maryland. I’ve met quite a few Army wives while my hubby was in the Army and she is one of my faves! I know it can be tough to have a career, raise a family, and hold down a job all while moving your family from station to station, so Tastefully Simple is a great career choice for her. I’d love to give her party sales a huge boost.

The best thing about my hosting the catalog party throughout the month of June is that you will not have to wait for the party to close before you get your products! You just order online and your products are shipped to you once you pay for them! Sweet deal!

When I get my link together, I will also be putting up my faves and Shurrece’s faves to give you an idea of the great products available to you. Also I will hosting a giveaway that is open to anyone who places an order during my catalog party. Not sure what the prize will be yet, but I’ll be thinking about it over this weekend.

We left Florida on Wednesday around lunchtime. I was ready to head back home. There is only so much time I can spend with my parents before their constant criticisms from how I raise my child to how much weight I have put on that I can take before I snap. That is why we work best with space in between us. We stopped sometime around 6pm in Smithfield, NC stop for the night. We needed it. Little Monkey ran back and forth like a loon quite a few times in our hotel room…I guess working out all the energy he had pent up while sitting in his car seat. Thursday morning was a nice morning to lounge around before hitting the road. The rest of the ride wasn’t too bad, but sure enough Little Monkey lost it an hour away from our house. I don’t blame him. That last leg of the trip is soooo painful. Little Monkey can only sleep so much before he is bored.

So we’re officially back home. Now I get to spend this weekend going through our mail, catching up on laundry, and organizing the house to put it on the market. Yes – it is going to be a busy, busy weekend.

What are your plans for the weekend?

Breast Cancer At A Glance

• One in every eight women in the United States develops breast cancer.
• The causes of breast cancer are not yet fully known although a number of risk factors have been identified.
• Breast cancer is diagnosed with self- and physician- examination of the breasts, mammography, ultrasound testing, and biopsy.
• There are many types of breast cancer that differ in their capability of spreading (metastasize) to other body tissues.
• Treatment of breast cancer depends on the type and location of the breast cancer, as well as the age and health of the patient.
• The American Cancer Society recommends that a woman should have a baseline mammogram between the ages of 35 and 40 years. Between 40 and 50 years of age mammograms are recommended every other year. After age 50 years, yearly mammograms are recommended.

From http://www.cancer.gov

Bangerang Bake Shop has made this delicious Cupcake for the Cure!

This Cupcake for the Cure is made with premium Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Vanilla, scraped directly from the bean and baked in our rich, buttery batter. Layered with impossibly velvety, double vanilla, blushed pink, buttercream and finished off with the sweetest little pink breast cancer awareness candy ribbons. A portion of proceeds from the sale of each “BANGERANG CUPCAKE FOR THE CURE” will go towards fighting breast cancer.

These yummy cupcakes are available for a limited time only. (I’ve been told they’ll be around until the end of summer.) So hurry on over and purchase a Cupcake for the Cure. Enjoy!

While searching for my blog link-a-thon html code on MomDot, I came across a call for help.

Beth at Manic Mother just found out her youngest son, Ezra, has leukemia. The type of leukemia he has is the most treatable type, it has the highest remission and cure rate. He now faces 3 years of chemotherapy.

Here is Beth’s call for help:

We are by no means financially well off. I stay at home with the boys, and my husband works PT and goes to school FT. We live off of his little pay and student loans.

We also share a car.

We can’t afford a new one…or even a used one. I am going to be taking Ezra to the Dr. 2-3 times a week, there is no way we can share a car, with my husband having to go back and forward from school and work. Not to mention if he gets a fever I have to take him to the Dr. ASAP.

His insurance should cover all of his medical bills. Its just the other things we can’t afford.

We also need to make my home more suitable for Ezra, I need to have the plumbing, and ac serviced to make sure it is clean. Any bacteria infection can kill him. We just don’t have the funds to do so. Yes, my family is helping out some, but their means are limited as well. Not to mention much of their money will be spent flying down to help me (they live in MN).

I am a proud person, I do not like being a charity case. But given the current situation, I am swallowing my pride, and asking for any help you can give.

Even if its only a dollar, I would be thrilled. If you don’t have a dollar (I know I don’t) , please help out by blogging about this, tweeting, stumbling, etc. I have seen how Mommy bloggers rally to help each other out in times of need, and I know you will all do the same for us.

I am putting a paypal button in this post for donations, and there will also be one up in my sidebar, which I know works. I don’t know if this one will work, its so confusing and my head hurts, but we need help ASAP so I am trying to muddle through this.

Please help in anyway you can, thanks so much, and keep the prayers and thoughts coming.

Beth we hear you. It is so hard to hear about a child being sick. I am glad to hear that Ezra has a treatable leukemia, but it still stinks nonetheless. Being a SAHM our bills are a little bit tighter than we’d like, but I did manage to squeak out $1o at this time to donate via PayPal. I wish I could do more – so here is my post to try to rally together more help. Ezra and your family will be in our prayers.

You can buy ad space and/or a bracelet to help.

MomDot gave us bloggers the opportunity to link our blogs in the Blog Link – A – Thon to promote our blogs as well as theirs. 330 bloggers participated and here is the final blog roll! If you were a part of this, here is the link to the html code. Trisha suggested in the post that they may consider doing this every few months. I think it’s a great idea. I got in on this a little late, but better late than never!