A real yawn - but you know, i a good way.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/meditation/MM00623







Continuing with the "My Favorite Things" theme...this is a wonderful video - found at the Mayo Clinic website regarding meditation and relaxation.  I went there after a particularly trying time in my life - when i found nothing else was working to help ease the anxiety and stress that was proving to swallow me whole....it was during this desperate time I searched meditation on the web and stumbled across the MC website.  They talked quite a bit about the benefits of meditation - then went further to offer several videos and links on ways to bring meditation and relaxation into a daily routine.  Cool, Im all about making things easy and accessible in a busy life.   I love this video - whenever I use it I walk away feeling calmer :)  And while this might be the most boring post ever written (its takes too much effort to be wordy and creative when your freakin' sick) dont let that deter you from checking out the website.

Skin Deep (no giggles please, this is mature subject matter, I MEAN, adult, ahem, serious, ok serious)

Ok, so a great website is Skin Deep (wait for it) Cosmetic Safety Database (aw shucks).  Ok, bust still a good website (I think you were thinking of the other way around).  You can enter any cosmetic product from shampoo to wrinkle cream, baby butt cream to sun screen and find out how safe it is to use.  Now I know what youre thinking, who cares?  But a few years back a handfull of popular make up brands, for example, had traces of lead YES lead in their lipstick.  Sunscreen we have all heard can carry carcinogens, and if youre trying to protect yourself from sun cancer, you dont want the crap you smear on yourself to be nearly as dangerous, right?  Especially when youre putting SPF 70 on your baby/child.  So it rates products on a scale from 0-10 (0, being perfectly safe - 10, being instat death, well, no not really, but just a step above pesticide and arsenic).  And if you find yours falls on the more lethal side, it offers better options and connects you directly to a site you can purchase the safer products from.  So, i really like this for screening all my baby stuff, and also for checking out a few essentials for myself (cough cough stretch mark remover, eye lift in a bottle, home bikini wax, lol, not really, I prefer au naturale), you get the idea.  So check it out sometime...feel good about your safer purchases and oh yeah, watch out, shopping safe is WAY expensive,(but SO worth it - meh).

~Kim

Btw, KT how do i post the link on our sidebar?  :) Man i am so tech savvy.