Join in the Fight Against Breast Cancer with Yoplait’s Save Lids To Save Lives

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Dr. Kristi Funk, celebrity breast cancer surgeon is helping Yoplait spread the word about their Save Lids To Save Lives initiative to help in the fight against breast cancer.

There are annual events that benefit breast cancer research all across the country, but if you don’t have time to take part in these events or the money to donate to the cause, you can still make a huge difference, and there’s an easy way to do it!

For every pink Save Lids To Save Lives Yoplait lid that is sent in (don’t forget to rinse them off!) by December 31, 2009, Yoplait will donate 10 cents to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, up to $1.5 …

Monday Mingle: September 28th

This is my first week participating in Monday Mingle, which was created by Eighty MPH Mom. So glad I could join other great bloggers out there who are mingling it up!

Now it’s your turn! Go get your camera and join in on the fun! Eighty MPH Mom has her linky up all week so you can record your video for Monday Mingle any day of the week. It’s a great way to meet other great bloggers out there and also get to know a little more about the people you’re reading.

Here are the questions for next week:

1. What would you think about having our spouses vlog with us one week? Would yours make a …

Health and Safety Tips for New and Expecting Moms from Dra. Aliza and Baby Looney Tunes Giveaway (Closed)

This giveaway is now closed.

We are ending September with a bang by joining Warner Bros. in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Baby Looney Tunes and renowned health expert Dra. Aliza, who have partnered to create “Happily Healthy,” an initiative to promote healthy, happy babies. This partnerships will provide new and expectant mothers with fun, engaging and educational ways to best care for and nurture their babies; happily and healthily. This partnership and happy and healthy baby initiative will continue throughout 2010 and is also chock-full of great and useful information especially for moms.

By visiting the official Happily Healthy website, you will be …

Credit Card Laws and Court Rulings–Have They Helped Consumers?

Congress passed the Credit CARD Act in May but gave issuers and banks almost one year to implement the major provisions of the bill. Since then, issuers did exactly what they threatened to do–raise rates and fees on a broad group of cardholders. Consumers and elected officials are not happy about this, and members of Congress plan to introduce a bill to accelerate the effective date of the bill from February 22, 2010 to December 1, 2009.

The CARD Act is not the first governmental attempt to make changes to the credit card industry. United States lawmakers and judges have had mixed success in using laws, regulations, and court rulings to change the industry and protect consumers. Have these been helpful, or have they caused more harm than good?

Here are some of the governmental laws, regulations and court cases that have shaped the credit card terms …

Mark Fast Breaks Convention, Uses Size 12-14 Models for London Fashion Week

Mark Fast, a fashion designer known for his tight-knit dresses used both typical, stick-thin models as well as curvier (also known as normal) sized women for his fashion show at London Fashion Week.

Hayley Morley, age 21 and a size 12, Laura Catterall, age 20 and a size 14 and Gwyneth Harrison, age 25 and a size 12-14 appeared on the catwalk during London Fashion Week. The decision behind using normal-sized women in his show was not a publicity stunt, nor was it politically motivated; it was because Fast and his team “wanted women to know they don’t have to be …

Help Empower Women and Girls in Malawi with Join My Village

Malawi is one of the world’s least developed, and also most densely-populated countries. The people of Malawi are not expected to live past 44 years of age and 89 of every 1,000 births in the country result in infant mortality; this is because Malawi is a country of extreme poverty.

During the Clinton Global Initiative Fifth Annual Meeting, Bill Clinton introduced a very unique commitment between General Mills and CARE, which have partnered together to create Join My Village, an innovative online community that is dedicated to fighting poverty in Malawi through the empowerment of women and girls. But Join My Village will accomplish nothing without the help and the dedication of caring and generous people, which is why you should check out Join My Village.

How it works:

Visit Join My Village …