I have very dry skin that is definitely showing its age. I tend to use some very good moisturizing creams, and have a pretty good system to keep my skin from being dry, but I still have skin damage and age spots (Southern California has lots of sun). I was checking out the creams at…
Welcome to the our series: The Skeptics Guide to Essential Oils. Specifically I was very skeptical about how the oils worked and if it was all just an airy fairy new age concept. We are having a whole series with our Oil Explorers group, which is a wonderful group of people who are on an…
We all need a little pampering, and our feet are often ignored when it comes to pampering. Let me start by saying that my feet are really really dry. I have a condition that affects me on my feet and hands. I am actually really lucky that these are the only affected areas that I…
I have a teenage boy with very smelly feet in my house. His feet are so smelly that it is considered a form of torture to be shut in a room with his shoes. We tried powders, sprays, deodorants, and Lysol to no effect. Those trials resulted in smelly shoes that had a hint of…
There is a lot of talk and hype about essential oils right now, and I got on the band wagon. My initial intended use for them is not going to work out, so now I am going to go on a journey to see what roll these oils can play in my life, and I…
I had quite a bit of success a while back with losing weight doing the Flat Belly Diet, and it is time for me to start thinking about that again. One of my favorite breakfasts that helped me succeed on the diet is yummy yogurt and cherries. I keep a huge bag of frozen cherries…
I have just finished my first week of Summer break and I am loving it. I work at a school district, so during the school year I have no time for this personal blog. I see kids and do evaluations for Occupational Therapy, then pick up my kids from school, get homework going, start dinner,…
I am trying to use the food that we have in the pantry, and we have a lot of apples that need to be eaten. We happened to have some Pillsbury crescent roll dough, so I cut up some apples, added a little sugar, cinnamon, and caramel, and then rolled the apple mix into the…
For 4th of July, I signed up to bring a dessert to the barbeque. I had seen a couple of desserts on Pinterest that I wanted to try, so I had my daughter pick the one that she thought looked the best. She decided on a dessert that has a chocolate cookie bottom, reese’s peanut…
Well since this blog is called Smart Mommy Solutions, I thought that maybe I might post a solution that I just implemented. When my son leaves the bathroom after taking a shower, the bath mat is soaked, and the bathroom floor is really wet. He can’t seem to keep the water from getting past the…
I made this little ribbon Christmas tree to have some of my students do in therapy, but It is so cute, I am going to use it in my house too. It is so easy to make, and it is so cute. It is a great activity for kids to do as a Christmas craft….
I stocked up on fruit yesterday and have a lot of strawberries and cherries. As I was having my daughter wash and cut some strawberries for lunch, she and a friend were saying how great it would be to fill them with chocolate since they were hollow. I jumped on that idea, and found some…
I have seen these cake pops around the internet, and they look so cute. I thought that it would be fun to have a holiday party and decorate cake pops. Instead of a cookie party, we would do cake pops. After making them, I’m not sure that I want to have a party around them. …
When I used to work in an outpatient clinic environment, I used to have the kids make these gingerbread type of houses out of graham crackers. It was a fun, christmasy activity that was good therapy at the same time. It was also out of the ordinary, and the kids loved it. I had my…
Confetti eggs are one of the most fun and best selling games at the fall festival at my kids’ school. The confetti eggs are regular raw eggs that are emptied, filled with confetti, and the hole is covered with tissue, and then painted. The kids buy the eggs and then break them over each others’…