I am the proud mother of two cub scouts. I think the scouting thing is just great. On an annual basis, the cub scouts hold the Pinewood Derby. For those of you who are unfamiliar, the Pinewood Derby is a car race. The cars are made by the scouts (yeah right) with the help of their parents. The cars are little, in fact they can’t weigh more than 5 ounces, and are made out of a block of wood and some metal....

Win the Chance for Your Greeting Card to be Sold at Hallmark!   I don’t know about you, but every time I walk into a card store and sift through the selection of birthday, get well and anniversary wishes, I think to myself, I would so love to be a greeting card writer in my next life.  Well guess what?  Thanks to Hallmark and Ovation TV, I can stop dreaming and so can you!   Starting now, you can enter...

When Cindi Schmitzer and Nina Frye bundled their kids into the truck one morning in 2005 and headed for a trip to the beach, little did the two friends know that, by the end of the day they would have dreamed up the idea for a business. As their website explains:  Late that afternoon, as we wrestled to get seven rambunctious kids back into the truck, we both sat back and laughed at the insanity of it all.  Kids...

Much to my husband’s dismay, I am quick to call a repairman at my house. Mike doesn’t like this because he fancies himself as a repair kind of guy. I must say he is very handy WHEN HE’S HERE. Here’s the thing - you can’t repair things unless you actually come in contact with said things. This presents the crux of the problem.  Mike works 3,000 hours a week..ask anyone. I have called...