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Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters recently began handing out "5-4-3-2-1" health pamphlets to families of children of all ages, recommending:

5 servings of fruits and vegetables:

• Choose whole fruits and vegetables over juice.

• Keep fresh cut-up fruits and vegetables around for snacks.

4 servings of water:

• Give your children water bottles and keep them filled.

• Keep track of how much they drink, especially during play or sports.

• Put a pitcher of water on the table at dinner.

• Avoid soft drinks and sweetened drinks.

3 servings of low-fat dairy:

• Blend low-fat or skim milk or yogurt with fruit and ice.

• Add low-fat cheese to soups and salads.

2 hours or less of screen time:

• Work with your children to select age-appropriate shows and turn the television on only for those programs.

• Limit overall television, computer and video-game time.

• Make TV a reward, not a daily routine.

1 hour or more of physical activity:

• Scatter activities throughout the day.

• For short trips, walk instead of driving, and take the stairs when possible.

• Enroll your children in after-school or weekend activities, or plan for active family time.

For more information, visit www.chkd.org/HealthyYou or call (757) 668-7035.

Refreshment for wives, mom's

Burned out on housekeeping and cooking??

Trade with a friend....she could clean your house.....you clean theirs.

Make a schedule where no one is home, and trade cleaning for a day.

Trade cooking for a week or day or so, someone else is cooking for you and you are cooking for someone else.....what happens? New food ideas, sharing and a nice change.  Meals could be frozen and traded. For instance maybe your friend makes a dish that you just enjoy and maybe you make one she enjoys......just trade, and you could also put the recipe in the bag so to speak. It is sort of like using the old principle of bartering, you have a skill they have one.

Tired of the way your home is decorated?  The designing shows are nice, but some of those rooms are big bucks.....so get your best friend, freind and trade ideas, have your friend give ideas how they would re deocrate your living space.  Sometimes painting and moving furniture is a whole new room. 

For me, myself and I....I like white or cream walls, yah the dccoraters are having a fainting spell.....but it sure saves money than all I have to do is change accessories when I get tired of them (pillows, vases, etc.) I also favor contrasts; light and dark and texture and to bring the outside in plants, etc.  If I see something I like I usually make it, with computers the how too's are usually accessiable unless it is a 52" plasma , flat screen TV.....ha ha

Cleaning Tips...

Scrubbing Bubbles cleaners work well for doors (front doors, back doors, door handles) test the door finish first though. It takes all the finger printers, black smudges off.

To clean the filter in your dryer use a old fabric softner sheet, to run across the screen, cleans it in a snap.

The sheets can be used in stuffing dolls and stuffed animals to, make sure the person you make it for is aware it has the sheets stuffed inside in case of allergies. I also use lids all sizes to make doll house furniture, everything in the doll houses I make are made from recycled items, that is green finding a use for something in another way.

Tip on those green light bulbs.....they contain mercury...go figure take it out of thermomters and than put it in the light bulbs. Anyway if one breaks use gloves to pick it up. All the bulbs donot contain it but please read the package.