XO, Alexis

Erin from Parenting Healthy is bringing you a post on playing for health, which features helpful playtime activities so that you are spending quality time with children of all ages. Quality Time with Children of All Ages: Perhaps you have been able to find ways to sneak in exercise with naps, so this age tends to give us extra time except we are so tired in or days as we get used to being a parent! Not only do I get to know exactly what he’s playing and how he behaves, but when I stand to play and things get intense I get tense. For more from Erin Sluka, visit her blog Parenting Healthy where she offers topics and product features that help families live happy, healthy and active lives.

Today I am sharing with you 10 budget-friendly home decor stores that are my favorite stores to shop. While I love to find pieces for my home for everyday decor, their seasonal selection is the best I’ve found anywhere. I hate spending a lot of money on items that I know won’t be in style long, so I choose to find them at Marshall’s, TJ Maxx, and HomeGoods since these stores are insanely affordable. I hope you enjoyed this post on 10 budget-friendly home decor stores.

My second and third pregnancies came with morning sickness all day every day for most of the pregnancy. As I endured the first six weeks of pregnancy for the 4th time I was determined to find the solution on how to deal with morning sickness. Not only does plenty of water help with nausea associated with morning sickness, but also helps prevent other not so fun pregnancy symptoms like constipation, leg cramps, headaches, and Braxton-hicks contractions. If you have the intensity of morning sickness like I did you may even find it helpful to snack on them at night, so you don’t have to get out of the bed at midnight.

Happy Monday, friends! I’m back at work and drinking all the coffee, definitely feeling the time change this morning. Speaking of work, my work days changed to Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and I’m super excited