Mom of the Week!

Meet our new Mom of the Week, Carissa!

Name: Carissa Ahlstrom
Forum Name:
Children: (how many, ages) I have one wilfull 20 month old son named Cainen. Everyday he shows us the beauty of childhood.
Pets: (what type, how many) We have an adorbale Chihuahua named Kami and a sweet black cat named Uno.
Where are you from? Originally born and raised in Phx. AZ.
What do you do for a living? I work at home with a great team of women called Motivated Mom's. We show mom's how to make a supplemental income from home and introduce families to a healthier home through non-toxic products. I have been with Motivatd Mom's for 5 months now, and love what I do!!!
What's your favorite thing to do in your spare time? Travel. We live overseas so any extra time we have we spend traveling throughout Europe!
Favorite Book: Pillars of the Earth -Ken Follet
Favorite Food: True Italian!
Favorite Place To Be: Home with my energetic son and the best man for me, my husband Daniel.
Hidden Talent: Writing. I love to write poems and about life.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: We are an Air Force Family stationed in Italy. We will be moving to D.C. where my husband will be with the Presidential Logistics Squadron. I am a stay at home mother, and we hope to adopt and have another child soon.
Advice for other Mom's: Take a moment everyday to enjoy your childs smile and laugh. See the world from their eyes.

Mom of the Week!

Meet Mom of the Week, Chelsea!

Name:Chelsea Gordon
Forum Name: NA
Children: Emerald Rain 19 months
Pets: a stray cat that visits every evening and 3 fish
Where are you from: we live in San Antonio
What do you do for a living: I'm a stay at home mom and work part time
for a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities find jobs
What's your favorite thing to do in your spare time:I love to throw
themed parties for our friends and their kids
Favorite Book:anything by Julia Quinn
Favorite Food:ice cream
<strong>Favorite Place To Be: in a swimming pool
Hidden Talent:folding napkins
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I'm a young mom whose been
married almost 6 years to my high school sweetheart. I love being home
with my daughter, it's a constant adventure. She has a fabulous sense
of humor and is incredibly smart. One of the unexpected benefits I've
found to being a mom is how easy it is to make friends with other
moms!
Advice for other Mom's: take lots of pictures and videos. They change so fast!

New worries with HPV Vaccine

There are new concerns over the safety of the HPV vaccine. The vaccine is routinely recommended for 11 and 12 year old girls. Gardasil has most recently been the subject of 7,802 "adverse event" reports from the time the FDA approved its use two years ago. Several women have blamed the vaccine for causing ailments from nausea to death. The CDC says that it continues to study the reports of illness.
Merck has distributed more than 26 million Gardasil vaccines worldwide, including nearly 16 million in the United States. As of July 8th, a statement on Merck's page says "Merck has analyzed the adverse events reported for GARDASIL relating to the recent reports of death and paralysis, and based on the data available to Merck, believes that no safety issue related to the vaccine has been identified."
With so much conflicting information out there, what do you think?

Mom of the Week!

Meet Mom of the Week, Eva!

Name: Eva Davis
Forum Name: evvie_d
Children: (how many, ages) Cambron 3, (twin boys) Greyson and Gavin 14 months. and a step-daughter Maddy 7
Pets: (what type, how many) maybe some day we'll get them a dog.
Where are you from? Kentucky
What do you do for a living? Stay at home mom, and do a paper route in the early mornings!
What's your favorite thing to do in your spare time? Having date nights with my husband. Doing things with the family. Taking pictures, editing pictures. Watching Tv when i have time to catch up on my shows
Favorite Book: I like, Ya Ya sisterhood. and the Harry Potter books
Favorite Food: Mexican and Italian food
Favorite Place To Be: Home
Hidden Talent: I can play the alto sax, but i haven't touched it in years. I was pretty good at it too. I am also creative and crafty. I don't have time for anything with that either.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I am a young mom of 3 boys. I married my best friend who had a young daughter and seeing him with her melted my heart he is a great husband and father. My oldest son has erb's palsy. so we are constantly doing things with him and helping him gain any arm use back after his surgery 3 years ago. We just recently found out that one of the twins has a form of spina bifida. We don't know much about it yet. We are still seeing doctors. I run a paper route in the morning while my boys are sleeping. Its great. its "me" time and i just drive with the windows down and the radio up!! Other than that i spend most days keeping this house organized and clean, mowing the yard and hanging out with my friends and family.
Advice for other Mom's: Some days are hard, but you'll get through them. Don't take on too much, and don't be affraid to ask for help sometimes!! To your children you are the whole world. They grow up SOOOO fast!!!!

Recipe Swap! Chicken Soup!

This recipe is from Leachelle!

Stock is made from water I steam my vegetables over, so it has all the goodness from the veggies but no salt. I use about 750ml to a litre.
I cut up a large chicken breast about 250 - 300 grams into thin strips.
Then I grate:
2 carrots
1/4 pumpkin
1/4 sweet potato
1 zuccini
2 celery sticks
2 medium potatos
Very small amount of onion.

I put it all into a pot on the stove, bring it to the boil stirring then turn the heat down & let it simmer for 45 min - 1hr whenever the chicken is cooked through. Then I zap it with a stick blender for a minute untill its all smooth. I then feeze it ( once cool ) in small sandwich bags.
Its usually a nice thick soup - if its abit runny I put small bits of wholemeal bread into it when re-heating & that sopps it up.

My lo loves it, its very healthy & very easy.

Thanks for the recipe!!

July's Monthly Give Away!

Good morning! This month's giveaway is going to be a $75 USD gift certificate for spafinder.com! Spa finder gift certificates can be used at over 4,500 spas world wide! I know some of you can really use a bit of pampering yourself so I thought this would be a nice give away for a change!

The Rules

On August 1st, 2008 we will randomly select a winner to receive the Spafinder.com prize. Last chance to enter will be July 31st, 2008 at 11:49 p.m. For a chance to win you must:

* Be a member of our momsneedanswers forum
* Reply to this post with your forum name
* In your post, tell us about why you'd like this certificate

Winner will be contacted by forum admin and we'll announce the winner on our blog. Do not enter twice or register twice or you will be disqualified. Good luck to everyone!

Mom of the Week!

Our new Mom of the week is Leslie!

Name: Leslie Kremer
Forum Name: LeslieKremer
Children: Elizabeth 2 1/2 and Delaney 1
Pets: none
Where are you from? Epworth, IA
What do you do for a living? 1) Mom 2) Online Marketer
What's your favorite thing to do in your spare time? Photograph my girls; Take long walks around town with friends and our kids; Read; Have coffee with friends
Favorite Book:Bible
Favorite Food:Ice Cream
Favorite Place To Be: Ocean
Hidden Talent: Writing
Tell us a little bit about yourself: Prior to having my girls, I worked as a full time Physical Therapist. I loved it, but I love even more being at home with my girls! I do some "as needed" work at a local clinic, but primarily earn my income as an "Online Marketer". I have a passion for photography and would love to learn more some day..take a class with a friend! Relationships are very important to me and I put alot into them! I love making friends online, reading blogs, forums, and hopefully being able to help with the experiences I've had in my own life! You can look me up on Facebook, or my Skype is leskremer.
Advice for other Mom's: Stay in touch with other Mom's...Don't Isolate!

Recipe Swap!

This recipe comes from Nancy...thanks Nancy for sharing!

Take well washed potatoes with skin, my favorite is the red skin
Cut into cubes
Place into a microwaveable big square bowl with lid
sprinkle with olive oil,oregano,garlic salt(or powder)
cook 6 1/2 minutes-shake-and put in another 6 1/2 minutes

My family loves it!!

So simple!

We have two winners!

We recently had a contest on facebook for the lady who could refer the most friends and our winner was Teresa!! The winner of our monthly contest is Shannon whose momsneedanswers name is Smashed Reality. Congrats to both of our winners!