Breakfast On the Go

I have said it before, mornings are crazy around here. This is due mostly to the fact that the Little Men have to catch the bus pretty early and well, frankly, I don't want to get up at the butt crack of dawn. So we sleep until the last possible minute, leaving barely just enough time to get them up, dressed, fed, and off to school.

Breakfast and putting on shoes are the two time suckers. While breakfast is an obvious place to use up time, don't ask me why putting on shoes is the other. There is no good reason. Notice I said putting on shoes, not finding them. The shoes are always there. I am this close to only buying slip on shoes. 

So slip on shoes will solve that issue. 

What to do about breakfast? What to do? What to do?

Well a portable breakfast of course. Cereal in a cup to me more precise. 

Cereal in a cute cup nonetheless. These Kellogg's cereal cups are adorable. You guys know how I love myself some good packaging. They are easy to grab on the go. You just peel back the paper and start eating with or without milk. Half of my kids eat cereal with milk and the other half prefer cereal dry.
Either way these cups make it so I don't have to clean up any bowls. Thinking beyond the bowl means I can go back to bed one those sweet children of mine head out the door. Can I get a virtual high five?
"CLAP"
That was us high-fiving.
I did try to make our cereal-in-a-cup breakfast a little bit special by adding a coordinating plastic spoon and a fun patterned paper napkin. The cereal, spoons, and napkins all came from Walmart.  Package up the cereal the night before. Set out everything (but the milk of course) out on a tray.

That way when it is breakfast time all you have to do is shove the tray at them. Er, I mean stand lovingly with the tray in hand and offer them breakfast. Yes that is what I meant.

One might even have to hand it to them on the way out the door.

Have I said how great it is that these cups of cereal are easy to take on the go. They can even eat them at the bus stop.

No matter how the kiddos eat it, it is a time saver. They also make great snacks on the go too. Bean loved having his own cup of Fruit Loops just as a snack in the car on the way to the library.
So in our kitchen, on the way to the bus stop, or in the car we loved ourselves these cups of cereal.

With Summer coming school might be out, but that doesn't mean that our life isn't getting crazier. I am keeping lots of Kellogg cereal in a cup around. We have a pretty lengthy car trip coming up. You better believe I am packaging up some of these. These will help me make the most of my time and Make The Most of my Summer.
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Suave Professionals® Moroccan Infusion: Beat Dry Winter Skin {Sweepstakes}

Winter is a tough old broad.

She is also resistant to leave.

Long tough winters are especially hard on your skin.

Thanks to Suave Professionals® you can have luxuriously silky and radiant skin even in the grasp of mean old Lady Winter. For the first time, Suave® Body Care is launching products in the Suave Professionals® line. Eek. So exciting. This product line is offering women everywhere access to premium quality skincare products.

Suave Professionals® Moroccan Infusion Body Care line includes both a body lotion and a Dry Body Oil Spray. Suave Professionals® Moroccan Infusion features a lightweight miracle oil from Morocco known to be rich in nutrients and antioxidants.

The NEW Suave Professionals® Moroccan Infusion Body Lotion is a daily moisturizer that absorbs quickly and allows for up 24 hours of radiant skin. The best thing is that this body lotion hydrates without being greasy. The Moroccan Infusion Body Lotion leaves your hands silky soft and smooth, and that silkiness lasts and lasts.

Eat that Lady Winter. No dry skin for me.

The NEW Suave Professionals® Moroccan Infusion Dry Body Oil Spray has a non-greasy formula that absorbs instantly and seals in crazy long-lasting moisture. The Dry Body Spray is perfect for special occasions because it can give an added radiance and a lovely sheen to your legs. Who doesn't want extra glorious legs while wearing a fancy dress?

Both the Body Lotion and the Dry Body Oil Spray have a light, luxurious fragrance. I never thought of a smell as luxurious before, but seriously I felt immediately richer and more pampered as soon as I took a whiff of this lotion and body spray.

These premium products are clinically proven to moisturize as well as Moroccanoil®1 and will create beautifully silky, radiant skin.

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The awesome news is that you can enter a sweepstakes to win a $1,000 Gift Card right here on this old blog by simply letting me known which of the Suave Professionals® Moroccan Infusion Body Care products you would like to try most.

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Easy as that.

Trust me that these Suave® Body Care products are amazing.  You know I know a good lotion when I use it.



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Disney's Planes "Reach Your Dreams and Have Courage" Sweepstakes

 

Our family has been anxiously awaiting the arrival of Disney's new film Planes in theaters. Since the very first preview, we have been counting down. We love both Cars and Cars 2, and have already marked August 9th on our calendars for this release.

We have watched every trailer available. We feel we already know and love so many of the characters, especially Dusty, the films main character, a crop-dusting plane who has big dreams to become more than he is. He decides to follow his big dreams, enter a rally and race against the world's greatest flying machines.

Dusty has a team of colorful and endearing characters, who each in their own individual way support and help Dusty try to reach his dreams.

Dusty's journey to his goal reminds me of the big dreams and hopes my own children have.

My own little "Dusty's" have or will have big, sometimes unattainable dreams.

 

How am I a part of their team? How do I support and help them reach their goal and have courage to do so?

Basically, what is my parenting style?

In the film, each member of Dusty's Team has a different way of encouraging him. They each bring different traits and styles. I found my own parenting style sprinkled in little traits of each character. However, I found I related the most to Dottie.

Dottie is a little too practical and is very much a realist. She worries over the grandness and the seemingly unreachable nature of Dusty's dreams. She doesn't so much worry about the dream itself, but the danger of the dream for Dusty. Ultimately, though, whatever he decides Dottie will fiercely support him and help get him to where he wants to be.

While I do not possess her tough-love mentality (here I am little more like Chug with my softie heart), even in the face of impractical, unreachable, and even dangerous dreams, I, like Dottie, will back my own little crop-dusters.

When it comes down to it, I would rather them have big unattainable dreams than no dreams at all. I daily will encourage them to Reach For Their Dreams and Have Courage. I find myself doing this by facing life with joy, some seriousness, a lot of laughter, and a bit of biting my tongue.

When their vocalized goals seem impractical, I make sure I don't put out their fire with a ready response such as, "That pencil stand made from folded printer paper is nice, but let's not sell it door-to-door in the neighborhood." Instead I try to let them follow through with their idea. Even if that means there might be danger in their feelings getting hurt or no one buying their very "fancy" paper holder. Who knows, they might just be the inventors of the next must-have ergonomic desk accessory.

I want them to be smart about their goals and encourage them to think them through. However, I work really hard to not dash the dream or the dreamer.
 
All it takes is courage, both for the dreamer and the Momma.

The dreamer just needs the courage to reach, to try, to fail, to succeed, to dream. As parents, I feel we can help our dreamer by tapping into who we are and using our strengths to support them. Just like Dusty had a team full of supporters with different styles encouraging him, our dreamers can be encouraged by different styles, too.

The Momma and Dad just need the courage to let our dreamers FLY while trying not to worry too much about the heights or possible crashes.

Again, dreaming a big dream is better than no dream.

Let them fly.

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How do you challenge your children to follow their dreams?

 

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If you are counting down the days to PLANES like we are, head over to their Main Site for all the movie goodness.

 

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