Parental Honor Roll

If I asked you to name the top 2 influential people in your life, most likely you would name one or both of your parents. Now there is a website where you can honor them through photos bc My Parents Were Awesome! I discovered the website a few months ago. You can submit a picture, or a few through the website and if your picture (or I should say your parent's photo) is chosen it will appear sometime in the near future. So dig through the boxes of memories and visit the times when your parents were young and modern.

You may not like to admit it, but one day your children will be looking back at photos of you wondering what the 80s, 90s and the turn of the century was all about and why you thought you were so cool. Then one day they will realize. Thanks Mom and Dad and to all the other moms and dads shown here and here.

Happy Time

When I visited my friend in Sweden a few years ago she had the most enlivening body wash in her guest bathroom. It was called Happy Time, made by Nivea. The scent of orange blossom filled the steamy shower and I used it as much as I could without being a greedy, over-using house guest. With the exchange rate it would have been very expensive for me to buy even the smallest bottle, so I said "Hej da" to the Happy Time wash and returned to the various bottles of body wash stacked
up in my bathroom at home.

To my joy she sent me a bottle of it for my birthday. I used it sparingly since I never expected it to become available on the shelves of US stores. BUT THEN!....one day I was grocery shopping and beckoning me at the end of an isle was a display of "New!" Nivea products. I rushed over to find that Nivea was now marketing the wash in the US under a different name,"Touch of Happiness" along with it's other family members, "Touch of Smoothness" and "Touch of Bliss". I grabbed the "Happiness" and decided to also try the "Smoothness", which is also wonderful with it's clean scent. I've been enjoying both for months now and even saw more scents in this line appear on the shelves over time.

I guess that I alone, could not keep the sale of these products alive bc sadly I can no longer find them in stores....at least the ones I've shopped in. You can however, purchase items from this Nivea line on Amazon, drugstore.com, and likely other similar online sites. If staying clean is one of your goals for 2010 (and I hope every year) and you need something invigorating and moisturizing for your morning shower routine, seek out one of these washes!