I am happy to announce that coming soon I will be reporting to you my experience with a new Dishwasher from Frigidaire and if it truly offers what it claims it can.
As you may know, this month Frigidaire rolls out a brilliant new collection with more than 250 kitchen and laundry appliances. They designed these high-performance products with easy-to-use, time-saving features to give Moms more free time away from the kitchen and laundry room.
Frigidaire recently conducted a survey to get a window into moms’ lives. The Frigidaire Motherload Index revealed that Moms log more overtime than most Americans. That is little news to us moms! The index found that moms spend most of their waking lives – 200 hours each month, in fact – doing the activities we least enjoy rather than the things we love. Again, I think all us moms can yell a big Amen to that! Yet the majority of us say we “rarely” or “never” feel caught up on our household tasks. Frigidaire kept all of this in mind when designing their new appliances. With new features such as a six-minute PowerPlus™ preheat time on their ovens, a Quick Clean dishwashing cycle that cuts the time it takes in half to clean our dishes, the Fits-More™ Dryer that allows us to dry the whole family’s clothes at once, and TimeWise™ technology to make the dryer and washing cycle equal, we can have enough time to watch our favorite shows—or even better—get a manicure!
What I love most is the guarantee that comes with these appliances. Frigidaire has so much confidence in the efficiency of these products that they are offering a “More Me-Time” Guarantee: Moms will reduce the amount of time they typically spend on housework by at least 8 hours a month using a combination of three or more select Frigidaire appliances or they can return the appliances to their place of purchase within 30 days and get their money back! Frigidaire also wants to know what you would do if you had an extra hour of blissful “me-time”. Starting today, moms can go to
http://www.frigidaire.com/ to report the five things they would do with an extra hour each day. All participants will be entered for a chance to win an entire suite of NEW Frigidaire appliances. Plus, check out other prizes you can win – like a gorgeous new Frigidaire Affinity washer/dryer.
I will only be testing the new dishwasher out but I am so excited that I may need to start saving up for the whole collection! 8 hours or more a month! I could blog more!
Frigidaire Collection Kitchen
I was asked to cover the Sesame Street Live’s Elmo’s Green Thumb performance now showing at the Dodge theater at last night’s opening night show. Having a 4 year old, they didn’t have to break my arm to get to go. Actually, having grown up on Sesame Street I wanted to catch up with my old friends Elmo, Bert and Ernie.
The whole Sesame Street gang was there last night. The first thing I noticed as soon as we sat down was that the stage was SO BEAUTIFULLY set! The colors blew me away. Bright colors without it being overwhelming or distracting. I had been to the Dodge Theater but it had been quite some time. The way the seats are set up for this show there really isn’t a bad seat to be had.
The show began and aside from the music numbers being really too loud over the speakers, it was great fun throughout the show. The music numbers incorporated all genres of music. One number was curiously a lot like a High School Musical number. I was thinking it when my 4 year old turned to me and said, “Momma, this reminds me of High School Musical.” There was dancing and rapping and just plain fun music. What would a Sesame Street performance be without the theme song, “Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street” played at least once!
The high energy and music along with the whole Seasame Street gang explaining how Sunny, the sunflower plant that Elmo has grown (literally) to love, needs certain things to help him grow big and tall. They go through all of nature and how we can take better care of the environment. Teaching love along the way, I was impressed at the amount of information given while keeping it on a child’s attention span.
After a 15 minute intermission, the show picked back up and it was even more high energy, upbeat music and the only way that stage could have been prettier was with lights and they did that too. If you have been on the fence about whether or not to take your children to see the Sesame Street Live performance of Elmo’s Green Thumb, I can tell you every child that left last night was very happy and they were all talking about their favorite part of the show. For fun family entertainment at a reasonable price, you really can’t beat this show if you have young children.
Don’t forget to use the code: MOMZONE if you plan to order online tickets
http://promo.livenation.com/green/or if you go to the box office to buy your tickets to receive $3 off each ticket purchased. Have fun!
I read a report recently about a “famous” study performed in the late ’60s. The report was the conclusion based on an experiment with young children ages 3-5. The researchers would go into the room where the children were (one child at a time) and while placing 5 M&M’s in a plate, tell the children they CANNOT eat the M&M’s until they come back in the room. The reward given to the children who waited twelve minutes was 4 more M&M’s.
I cannot remember exactly how many children they performed this experiment with but I do recall them saying while most of the children could not wait, there were quite a few who did! The study’s purpose was to see what it was the children employed as techniques to help them not eat the forbidden treat.
The conclusion? Distraction. The children who could wait had been taught either by their parents or a caregiver the technique of distraction. I believe it said most of the children who could wait had been from larger families and therefore may have learned this as a result of having to wait on their siblings for various activities. I’m imagining using the bathroom being number one and possibly getting the food passed around being another.
I can truthfully say I would need much more than the promise of 4 M&M’s to keep me from eating the treats in front of me. If they performed this experiment during a certain time of the month, the researcher would be doing well to leave the bag of M&M’s and make no sudden moves before leaving me alone in the room with my chocolate.
I wanted to share this “report” with you for two reasons. My first reason being that I was shocked any living creature could actually resist the chocolatey goodness of M&M’s. The second being that distraction may be a tool we can give our children to use when they need it. I think I would encourage my child to negotiate for more M&M’s but if he could learn how to self-discipline himself in such a way, this could be a good thing. Right?
Welcome to My World!
Hello Mom’s Zone readers! I am very happy to begin my blogging journey with you. My name is Tara and I will be bringing you a mix of observations of my life as a mom here in Phoenix as well as reviews of area events, products and services that will be of interest to other moms and families in the great state of Arizona.
You may be interested to know a bit about me. I was born and raised in Georgia where my very noticeable accent was honed. My husband and I moved to Phoenix several years before starting a family. I currently work for
www.MomsZone.org and am proud to be a part of this company’s ties to the community. I now have a sweet 4 year old little boy who, although he has never had a Red Bull, most days acts as though he had. I have a cat and a dog and 2 fish. I have a very messy house and most days a happy household despite that fact.
I love Arizona and would not trade my life with anyone even if I do crab at times about the heat, my husband becoming slower than my grandfather on a daily basis and my son quickly getting smarter than me. I have no words of wisdom and I am not eloquent like our great blogger Sara (
http://momszone.org/blog_talk/). I am not an expert in any area like our bloggers Blythe (
http://momszone.org/baby_expert/), Michelle and Maria (
http://momszone.org/blog_mothers_moods/) or Laura (
http://momszone.org/blog_power/). What I do have is a keen sense of observation and what I have been told is a good sense of humor. Most everyone I know, at one time or another, has said I make them laugh. I would love to make you laugh as well.
I hope you will join me on my journey of the day to day.
