Green and Gorgeous! Today’s giveaway is brought to us by Good For You Girls, an all natural skin care line made with pure organic ingredients. Founder, Kim Grustas (and this week’s ‘Hot Mama’) believes that good habits should start at a young age and I couldn’t agree more.  Each product is specifically formulated for the unique needs of young skin without harmful or questionable ingredients.

NO Synthetics NO Parabens NO Petrochemicals NO Dyes or Irritants

Enter to win this trio of Gel Cleanser, Purifying Toner and Moisturizer for your tween! The simple, three-step process of cleansing, toning and moisturizing will effectively clean skin of impurities, balance pH, and help to protect from the elements leaving only clean, luminous, naturally beautiful skin. These three products are designed to compliment each other and work together harmoniously. The super-cute packaging doesn’t hurt either!

For a chance to win, please send an email through the H&H Contact page. A winner will be chosen at random tomorrow.

Good luck! Good luck! Good luck!

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Name: Kim Grustas

Kids: Kayleigh (10) and Miranda (8)

Occupation: Owner,  Good For You Girls Skin Care

Hometown: New Hartford, CT

H&H Interview with Kimberly:

1.  What are the top 3 items in your grocery cart?

Yogurt, Fiber Plus granola bars, Fresh Fruit

2.  What are you reading (honestly)?

Women’s Bodies Women’s Wisdom- Christiane Northrup

3.  What is your guilty pleasure when you get a break from the kids?

Bargain hunting!

4.  What would we be surprised to find in your purse?

An asthma inhaler.

5.  What is your favorite reality TV show?

Survivor

6.  What is your cocktail of choice?

My hubbies margaritas

7.  What is the funniest thing your kids have said or done lately?

My girls told me to stop dancing in public because it was embarrassing.  I can’t help it, 80’s music makes me want to dance.

8.  What is your favorite quotation?

When shopping for cars with my dad at 16 he said, “Remember, a cheap ride is better than a proud walk.”

9.  What is your most hated household chore?

I actually love housework but hate doing the laundry. It never seems to go away.

10. Who is your favorite celebrity mom and why?

I’m honestly not a big celebrity watcher but I do like Kimora Lee Simmons. Her fabulocity is fun and despite her crazy life she still seems to put her kids first.

11. What is one thing most people don’t know about you?

I pray every night for my many blessings and my beautiful family.

12. What is your secret to staying Hot & Healthy?

I stay away from junk food and soda and don’t eat processed foods. I nurture my soul with good friends who make me belly laugh. After 20 years of marriage my husband and I still go on dates. I take my work very seriously but never take myself seriously.

*Reader Tip – Make sure to check back in Wednesday for a special giveaway from Kim’s company, Good For You Girls Skin Care!*

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It is one B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L day in Florida. Spring is here and it’s only mid-February. You have to love it! I’m in a bit of a kick back, cocktail-by-the pool sort of mood so today’s post is purely for laughs. If these old pictures from PLAYGIRL don’t make you smile nothing will. Enjoy!

Mark Harmon – 1986

We know him from Summer School with Kirstie Alley. Our mom’s know him from Navy NCIS and well, maybe this cover.

The title says it all.

The funny thing is this is how I still picture Canadians.

meow.

That was too easy.

Very subtle, Playgirl. Very subtle indeed.

The cast of Glee’s……parents?

*Happy Friday*

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by Alexis Novak

I must confess that babies used to freak me out.  I wasn’t the type to oooohhh and aaahhhhh and shove new moms aside to hold their barfing bundles.  I loved the idea of “baby”; the fantasy of teeny pink clothes and tiny fingers and beautiful sleeping baby coos.  I just never understood the attraction to the littlest beans who scream incessantly but can’t tell you what’s wrong. I preferred toddlers, teenagers and a few more communicative ages in between until I had my own little birds.  Now I have officially joined the club of weird baby holders. And I hear that tick tocking for a third time.

This week as my youngest turned one a familiar bitter-sweetness snuck up on me and I found myself thinking about one more. (I got pregnant the week after my first daughter turned one). Is there a mental disorder that makes women want to collect babies? Am I the Lady Gaga of pregnancy or is it my wacky hormones? These were just a few of my thoughts. It may not be just hormonal though, as my husband practically knocked me over to hold our dear friend’s angelic 5-month-old son last weekend before me.

Now, part of my Baby Lust problem was that well-meaning Tanya bought me this fertility book a few years ago that scared that bejesus out of me so much that we conceived that very month. It was either called, “Damn Girl, Your Eggs are Old!” or “Older Moms Birth Circus Freak Babes”.  I can’t remember the exact title but the thesis from this frightening book which altered the very course of my life was that if you want babies, you had better try to make them today before your eggs are too fried…and they will be fried sooner than you think.  The entire book was comprised of interviews of highly successful women across multiple career fields (Diane Sawyer types) who admitted they wanted families but never put their careers on hold long enough to actually plan them.  Then they woke up one day in their 50’s, highly-accomplished, but missing spouses and children and living with regret.  Even though I was only 30 reading this book and had no reason to worry about my own fertility, I knew my future babies needed to be planned ASAP.  The book encouraged women not to wistfully waste away their fertile years thinking that science could ensure their older eggs get fertilized when they wanted children later.  It argued that the media gives false hope to older moms by focusing on rare success stories but gave the grim “true” stats of the trying-to-conceive aging woman which were in fact depressing.

So I had one baby.  Then another one.  I could exhale.  I didn’t forget to have the kids we really wanted.  But the urgent feeling didn’t go away for long.

Maybe some women have unending Baby Lust and nine kids to show for it but my case comes on strong right after first birthday cake candles have been blown out. Urbandictionary.com defines Baby Lust as “When a woman is really in love with the idea of having a baby and thus wants to ogle every baby or baby-item she sees. She may not mentally want to get pregnant, but she has the physical and emotional urge.”  Yep.

Now we are mulling over the idea of expanding our brood.  I might or might not have already retrieved my fabulous maternity wardrobe from storage…

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