Glade Expressions Review

I receive coupons and free samples of products from a website called BzzAgent. Earlier this month they sent me coupons for a free Glade Expressions Oil Diffuser and a Fragrance Mist. The Sunday paper a few weeks ago also had coupons to get free items when you buy refills so at the grocery store last week I picked up two Diffusers and a refill kit and two fragrance mists and a refill for it.

So far I've only set up one of the diffusers in my living room, I was going to put another one somewhere on our second floor but honestly you can smell it through the whole house. I quite like it but my husband thinks it's too much. The major plus for me is that it's not a plug in and the oil bottle is closed so I don't feel like I need to worry about the kids playing with it and either hurting themselves or making a mess.

Here are the facts about the Glade Expressions Line:

Before you channel your inner hostess - filling the air with true-to-life fragrances and inviting life in - learn a bit more about the convenience and value the Glade Expressions^® Collection offers.

Glade Expressions^® Fragrance Mist

• The first refillable fragrance mist from Glade^®
• Squeeze-to-release a soft, light mist of true-to-life fragrance that lasts
• Instantly enhances any room and eliminates odor
• Refillable with your favorite Glade Expressions^® fragrance — so true-to-life, it's as if the ingredients are being cut open right next to you
• With a removable label, the holder is artfully designed and chic enough to incorporate into any décor
• Fragrance satisfaction guaranteed or your money back*

Glade Expressions^® Oil Diffuser

• The best non-electric oil diffuser for living spaces, delivering 3x more fragrance**
• Refillable with your favorite Glade Expressions^® scent — authentic, exotic ingredients like mangosteen and cardamom spice are unlike anything else in the fragrance aisle
• Trendy holder (available in bamboo or white) matches home décor perfectly, allowing you to place true-to-life fragrance in any room
• The intuitive snap-in-place setup makes the diffuser easy to assemble, refill and enjoy
• The spill-free design fills living spaces with fragrance for 30 days
• A wide and thin wick releases fragrance slowly, leaving you with consistent fragrance over time
• Fragrance satisfaction guaranteed or your money back*

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**Vs. Glade^® Solid Air Freshener

10 Apples Up on Top

On Monday after I dropped the kids off at school my Mom and I went apple picking at Bob White's Acres (same place I got the peaches from). In no time at all we picked two baskets which equaled about 35 pounds of McIntosh apples.

This is the first time I've ever made my own applesauce but the way the girl child goes through it, I had to try. That's why Mom was on hand, she's done her own for years and was happy to teach me my grandmother's secrets. We washed the apples first and sliced/cored them. No peeling necessary. We piled as many of the slices as we could into a spaghetti pot and cooked them down until they were mushy. Then we put spoonfuls into the Apple Mill and strained the sauce through. I found that you had to make sure the apples were sufficiently cooked down or this would be hard, still doable but harder then it needs to be.

Once the whole pot of apples had been strained we added about a half a cup of sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla to the sauce, stirred and started pouring into jars. My Mom freezes her applesauce but I hate waiting for it to defrost so I wanted to try canning it. Thanks to the peaches from a few weeks ago this was the easiest part. 35 pounds of apples for $21 + $14 for two cases of pint jars (bought at WalMart using $1 off coupons from last week's paper) = 22 pints of homemade applesauce for about $35. Definitely cheaper then those store bought snack cups.

 I may go back on Thursday to pick another basket. My Mom also froze trays of scalloped apples and I would like to make a crisp and a cake with them too. Isn't Fall wonderful?

Books and Binders

I've been working on a Family Binder, check out Parenting with Miss Poppins for more on this and because I'm doing something, the girl child who wants to do it too. What does a 4 year old need in her organization binder? First I printed monthly calendars for her to keep track of important events from now until Christmas. Then I found a printable wish list for Santa so every time she sees a commercial and says she wants something, she can add it to the list. I also printed some mazes and other preschool worksheets for her to do.

My book is full of To Do and Idea Lists and I wanted something like that for her too so I thought I would add a Books to Read List. There are tons of lists out there but I wanted this to be a list she could manage and for that there needed to be pictures so I had to create my own. I took some books from the lists on Amazon's List Mania and added a few that I've been putting on Pinterest and this is what I came up with.


The idea is that she can use the list to look for books in the library and then cross them off as we read them. You can get my whole list here - Books to Read - Preschool Girls. I did this very quickly this morning because of course she wanted her binder down "now" so updating it is now being added to my To Do list:)

Happy Reading!