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Laws Restrict Sale of Allergy Medications

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Spring is just around the corner. Many people welcome the warmer air, the sunny skies, and the lack of snow. Parents of kids who have environmental allergies know that Spring weather makes their child suffer. Certain laws might make it more difficult for you to purchase your child’s allergy medications this year. The flowers are blooming, and spewing pollen into the air. Parents may have already noticed that their child is sneezing, needing to blow or wipe his nose more often than usual, and may be rubbing his eyes. These are all symptoms of allergies. This is the time to … Continue reading →

Get Coupons for Allegra and Free Pollen Alerts

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You know that old saying: “April showers bring May flowers”? If you have seasonal allergies, then you are aware that May flowers bring pollen. Allergy season is here. You can get coupons for Allegra, a commonly prescribed allergy medication and sign up for free pollen alerts at the same time. This is the time of year when many allergy sufferers are engaged in battle with their worse nemesis: Pollen. All those “April showers” have started to produce flowers that are blooming, and spewing their pollen into the air. You can see it floating by in chunks that are large enough … Continue reading →

Blooming all Over

Our house is blooming at the moment. No, I don’t mean the garden outside, but the house. As our orchids have started to flower, we have been steadily bringing them inside. Each week when people come to our home they find that another orchid has been added to the display, or that those there have been rearranged. The latest to be added to the flowering collection was one we bought as soon as we moved into this house just over three years ago. It is a deep pink to maroon striped with a deeper maroon and white throat. It has … Continue reading →

It Must Be Fall Allergy Time…

I don’t need to look out the window or test the temperature to know that the seasons are changing. I have two dogs with seasonal allergies! Moose’s allergies are milder. He tends to get itchy all over — I’ll catch him rolling on the floor on his back much more often when the seasons change to spring or fall. That’s when I break out the Benadryl to help ease his symptoms. Lally is my problem child when it comes to allergies. You may remember the large sore she scratched into her neck last year? She’s up to it again, and … Continue reading →

Vacation Packages for Overworked Moms

Perhaps it’s because the new school is fast approaching and kids will be heading back to class after being home with mom all day or maybe hotel marketing people simple know that the words “slave labor” and “mother” are easily interchanged. Regardless of the reason, lodgings around the country are running some outstanding deals on travel packages that cater to women who need a break from their chaotic lives. Take a look: PALM SPRINGS The snazzy Parker Palm Springs is offering a great deal on a “Rest and Rejuvenate” package. It includes two nights in a king room, breakfast daily, … Continue reading →

Summer Travel: American Girl Fun and All-American Flower Display

If you have an American Girl fan in your home you might consider heading to Cincinnati’s Museum Center at Union Terminal this weekend. That’s where hundreds of tween admirers of the American Girl franchise (from dolls to clothes, books to movies) will be gathering today and tomorrow. “Kit’s World Tour” serves as the kick-off to next weekend’s nationwide release of the new big screen feature “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl.” The film is based on the books about a 10-year-old budding journalist in Depression-era Cincinnati. Admission to the event is $10 per person and includes Kit-related activities such as climbing … Continue reading →

Minneapolis—-More than Just Home to the Mall of America

I admit it; one of my first trips to Minneapolis, Minnesota was to visit what was then the world’s largest indoor shopping center–the Mall of America. The massive retail establishment is located in the suburb of Bloomington and is worth the 20-minute car ride from downtown Minneapolis. It is considered the Mecca of malls and with 2.5 million square feet (another 1.1 million square feet is being added), more than 500 stores, an indoor amusement park, a 1.2 million-gallon aquarium with more than 8,000 fish and other aquatic creatures, a virtual submarine ride, a wedding chapel, a NASCAR simulator, 50 … Continue reading →

Blooming in the Right Place

While I sat having lunch today I looked out at our garden, which is starting to look more like our own, as we eliminate the white flowering plants leaving only the plants we like, interspersed with some new additions. Before me I saw flowering orange day lilies, red impatiens, blue hydrangea, blue agapanthus, blue plumbago. No prizes for guessing my favorite color and I particularly like blue flowers. The blue is interspersed with pink geraniums. After years, my husband has finally come round to the idea that a geranium is not a weed. Starting to twine over the archway we … Continue reading →

Allergy Attack — What Am I Doing Wrong?

In the last week or so, my allergies have kicked into overdrive. My days have been full of sneezing fits. The garbage cans are filling up with used tissues. My throat is tickling, and my eyes are watering. All the signs point to an allergy flare up! I’ve always had trouble with allergies. It all started when I was a little kid. My brother was three and I was five when we started with scratch tests and allergy shots and all that fun stuff. I’m no stranger to what an allergy attack feels like. But I have been fortunate — … Continue reading →

Blooming Teas

As I was sitting down to write about blooming teas –also called flowering teas, display teas, or blooming art teas– it occurred to me that this was another discovery made with my sister Coco. Like she did with Penzeys Spices, it was she who noticed the bags of tea with pictures of flowers on them in Franklin Tea, a specialty tea shop. She asked the owner what the picture represented, as the flowers were very exotic looking but the only writing on the bags was in Chinese except for the “title,” in this case “Jasmine Fairy Maiden.” “Oh that’s my … Continue reading →