Using RANDOM.ORG, the winner of The Five Love Languages is Julie!  Congratulations, Julie.  Just email me your mailing address, and I will get your book in the mail.

Sunday, February 28, is the last chance to enter in the drawing for a free book, The Five Love Languages, by Dr. Gary Chapman.  Chapman is considered an internationally respected marriage and family life expert.  This book was on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold over five million copies.Just leave a brief comment with your first name.  Also, leave your email address in the info part.

Do you ever stop and add up all of the insurance premiums you pay in one month?   It adds up to a lot of money!  That’s why it’s good to shop around and find the best auto insurance quotes, homeowner’s insurance quotes, health insurance quotes, and life insurance quotes.  We even have flood insurance, so that’s five different types of insurance for us.  It’s good planning to compare insurance quotes in order to find the best and most economical coverage.

If you’re interested, I plan to be having a drawing for this book on March 1, 2010.   Just go to The Five Love Languages – Valentine’s Day Book Giveaway and leave a brief comment and your name. I will be contacting the winner by email, so leave your email address which I will keep confidential.  Or you can leave a comment here.
Deadline for entries is Feb. 28.

I have been trying hard since the holidays to eat healthy and not have all the goodies that surrounded us during Christmas and New Year’s. However, I do allow myself treats and small servings of dessert from time to time. I don’t know what the best weight loss pills are since I just try to eat sensibly and healthy.  If you have a healthy recipe that you would like to share, email me.  (Go to “About” at the top of the home page to find my email address.)

Those of you who’ve had babies, do you notice how hard getting rid of belly fat can be? Some people don’t have that problem, but I think they’re in the minority.  I just resigned myself to the fact that I would always have some, and it’s a reminder of our two precious children.  As far as trying to slim down some, I try to go for longer walks more often and eat healthy.

Using RANDOM.ORG to determine the winner, the winner of  The Five Love Languages of Children is… Maria.

🙂  Congratulations, Maria!  I will get your book in the mail.  Just email me your mailing address.

Aren’t digital cameras great? I remember having to buy film, waiting until all 24 or 36 pictures were taken before getting the film developed, and then having several pictures that weren’t that good and that wasted part of the film. Now it’s so easy to pick out great pictures to print out the same day you take them, and there are options to edit them and cut out background clutter which is a feature I like.  And digital cameras are great for taking pictures of family, especially grandbabies who require a lot of different camera shots sometimes to get a really good picture!

It would be nice to have the most successful home based business.  I’ve checked into some jobs online in the past, but didn’t find anything I wanted.  For now, I’ll stick to my part-time job.  Some people work for companies where they can work part time in the office and part time at home which sounds good to me.  Our neighbor works almost full time from home.  These days, though, a lot of people would like to have a job and wouldn’t care if it was at home or a business.

I’ve noticed that if I eat very much bread, it’s easy for me to gain weight.  In order to lose the weight, I don’t take top rated diet pills but just try to eat healthy, eat less bread, and go for walks.

We traveled during the holidays and would end up going through drive-throughs a lot and ordering some type of sandwich. Plus we had rolls at holiday meals and then left-over rolls to eat afterwards. So I know that’s part of the reason for my weight gain during the holidays.

Well, I did it!  I gained my usual several pounds during the holidays!  Ugh!  My pants are fitting tighter in the waist and I do not like the feel of that.  I won’t be reading fat burner reviews, but I will be trying to eat less. Hmm…the hard part is all of this dark chocolate we have here at the house. Actually, dark chocolate is good for us, only we don’t need much per day. I need to measure out how much I can eat in a little dish and limit myself to that amount per day. OK, I have a plan for the chocolate!

When we had our own business years ago, we didn’t need call center services because of our size. I can see how large businesses might need these services, though.  We did need insurance for our business, advertising, and other services.   There were so many things to see about plus our regular business hours that it was common for us to put in 60+ hour work weeks.  Looking back, it would have been nice to have been able to afford some other services to help.