Borrowed Sugar (local news and discussion website)

There are no shortage of Central Texas news websites, and Borrowed Sugar is an East Austin start-up that puts a spin on local news.  For those of you familiar with Babycenter or City-Data, Borrowed Sugar incorporates the idea of community forums into a news aggregate site.  It’s similar to the Community Impact newspaper but adds a [...]

Vacation Rental By Owner

We just came home from a few days vacation to visit the grandparents, and in the past I have always used Priceline bids to save money on the hotel. This trip, we decided to try something different. We booked a vacation home through VRBO.com (Vacation Rental By Owner).  The website lists vacation properties with photos, [...]

Winner! Sippy Straw Cleaner review and GIVEAWAY!

Local Austin mama Jennifer Reyes is the brainchild behind the award winning Sippy Straw Cleaner, an invention I think every parent should have.  She created the Sippy Straw Cleaner after getting tired of throwing away sippy straw cups that couldn’t be cleaned properly.  I used to have similar capillary test tube cleaners for labwork, and I’ve [...]

CurlyQ Cuties, customizable monsters – We have a WINNER!

A month of thanks giving: I am thankful that even though my children act like little monsters sometimes, they are more lovable than not. CurlyQ Cuties are the handmade creations from Austin area mama Stephanie Estrin, who began selling her plush monsters on etsy.com before launching her own e-store.  The first time that I came across [...]

Greenling.com – local, organic food delivery service

A little while ago, I saw for the first time, zipping down Mopac, Greenling’s delivery van with its tagline for organic food home delivery, and it made me curious to look into it though I never did use the service right away.   We would go to the farmers’ markets to pick up what we needed on [...]

Cheap gas is always good.

I was joking with the hubby that we should calculate into the weekly spending how much money it takes to lull the children to sleep (naps) because that money spent in burned gasoline is money well spent for some parental sanity.  Thankfully a gallon of gasoline has dipped below the outrageous $4+ per gallon, but [...]