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How to Get Car Repairs at Your Home

When your car needs routine maintenance or the occasional repairs, it’s hard to juggle those appointments around your busy schedule. It’s even more difficult when you have a handful of little ones to manage. If you have ever taken a toddler with you to a simple oil change…

Traveling With Toddlers: Do’s and Don’ts

Traveling with toddlers can be a grand adventure. As a mom of three kids under the age of five who logged over 30,000 miles in the car or air with all three in tow in the last year, I consider myself somewhat experienced when it comes to the…

Summer Travel Tips: How to Enjoy The Ride

Summer Travel Tips: How to Enjoy The Ride

When I think of summertime as a kid, I always think of road trips. My grandparents lived about 12 hours from us, and at least once a summer we would each pack a bag and make the drive to their house. I used to love those trips, but…

Avoiding Car Buying Drama with TrueCar.com

I have bought a couple cars in my lifetime. The first was a 68 mustang that I bought to restore with my dad when I was 16. The second was a 2005 Toyota Corolla, which I bought from a private seller and boy oh boy did I get…

Chevrolet Gets Wi-Fi!

Do ever have moments where ou think, “Wow, the future is NOW!”? I do all the time! I mean it was not long ago that pagers were all the rage. That I would babysit with no way to get in contact with the parents of the children I…

Car Emergency Kit Essentials

Car Emergency Kit Essentials

The other day I was driving down the road and I thought I had a flat tire. I had my two kids with me, it was 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and it was 106 degrees outside. Yay for Arizona summers right? Anyway, I panicked a little when…

Summer Tire Safety Tips

Summer Tire Safety Tips

Summer often means hitting the road and seeing some of the beautiful countryside across our great nation. Last year, we were able to visit all 10 west coast US States! We are planning a road trip again for this summer and I’m hoping to make it to Mt….

2014 Kia Soul Review

I was able to test drive a 2014 Kia Soul for a week in order to form an opinion for this post. All opinions are my own.  We had the awesome opportunity to go to Disneyland earlier this month to attend the Disney Social Media Moms conference. Since we…

A New Kind of Fresh Scent for Your Car

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of PERK. All opinions are 100% mine. I drive a minivan and tote my four boys from school, to play, and all around town. That means, I always have a ton of different, usually not so pleasant, smells…

Zubie Car Monitoring Gives Me Peace of Mind

This post brought to you by Zubie. All opinions are 100% mine. We got our Zubie to try out at the beginning of this year. It was so easy to install, you just plug it into your car’s diagnostic port and then connect with the Zubie app to…

Giving Back with the Toyota Sienna! #SiennaDiaries #Endorsed

#Endorsed – I am part of the Toyota #SiennaDiaries blogging team on behalf of TMS/USA. I will be test driving this 2014 Toyota Sienna through the end of 2013. All opinions are my own. I can’t believe Christmas is here! Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and around the corner…

What We Love About the 2014 Toyota Sienna!

#Endorsed – I am part of the Toyota #SiennaDiaries blogging team on behalf of TMS/USA. I will be test driving this 2014 Toyota Sienna through the end of 2013. All opinions are my own. We have been test driving the new 2014 Toyota Sienna for just over 2…