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Workout Motivation: 5 Free Apps for Fitness

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Motivation of the week in the form of cool fitness apps for your phone!

My Fitness Pal:

With a huge food database you can easily keep track of your calories and your exercise. It’s easy to use and simple to understand.

An example from Apple:

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Run Keeper:

This is a great app

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Toddler Meals: Anna’s favorites at 20 months

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Babies go through food phases so fast that it’s hard to keep up. One week Anna loves broccoli, the next week she won’t eat it. Then she won’t eat cucumbers and now she eats them all of the time. It even happened with sweet potatoes. She used to love them when she was 7, 8 , 9, 10 months and then she refused to eat them until recently when I made sweet potato fries. I think development is to blame

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Hosting a chat with Jen Broe: Founder of Baby Gourmet

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Thanksgiving was so wonderful this year. Full of family, friends, food, fun and relaxing. We spent a few days in Chautauqua, then came back and celebrated with Brady’s family here in Cleveland. We are currently having a great time with John and Ashley here visiting. I did an absolutely horrible job taking pictures – not sure what I was thinking. Anna’s baby book will be pretty bare for Thanksgiving 2011. I will have to step it back up this week!

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Stocking Stuffer: Pampered Chef Garlic Press

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Another great idea for a stocking stuffer – the PC garlic press. It’s life changing.

It presses garlic into perfectly minced pieces. And the best part – you don’t have to peel the garlic. This press presses through it without much work!

I can’t tell you how often I use this. Actually, I can. I use it daily!

Just this week I used it to make the following!

   

It’s amazing. If you

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Pampered Chef Cookie Scoop: Stocking Stuffer Idea

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When thinking about some of my favorite kitchen gadgets, this is very high on my list.

It’s the right amount of dough, the right amount of height, and pops right out of the scoop when you use the handle. It makes perfectly round cookies to eat and share over the holidays!

Let me know if you need a perfect cookie scoop in your life for you or someone you love!

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Tips for flying with toddlers

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We just got home from San Francisco. The whole trip was wonderful, including the 5 hour flight from SFO to CLE. Anna did a good job staying entertained and happy for 97% of the time – which is pretty amazing. Here are a few of the essentials needed to keep a toddler (therefore a mommy) happy while flying! 1. Books: Books are such a great activity. Anna is obsessed with them. She is like her dad in her obsession with

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