Dollar Shave Club

Let me just begin by saying this is an unsponsored review. I wanted to try out this shave club so I thought I would share my thoughts. IF you choose to try it too and click my link HERE, I will get $5 in my account to use towards future purchases, and for THAT I thank you!

As soon as I opened the box, well I found out I am a FAVORITE MEMBER!! :wink::wink:

Ohhhhhh bathroom reading material, because who does not need interesting stuff to read about while….Finally the good stuff!!My starter kit included:

• Executive razor handle
• Easy Shave Butter
• Calming Body Cleanser
• One Wipe Charlies
• 4pk of Executive Cartridges.

So now down to the nitty gritty…what did I think?

Executive razor handle

• It has a nice grip and is solid feeling. The cartridge release button seems a bit flimsy, we shall see how long it lasts.

Dr. Carver’s Easy Shave Butter

• A very nice smell. I love smells, well let me rephrase that, I love pleasant smells. This does have a peasant smell. I really enjoyed how smooth it made my legs though. I know this product is intended for shaving ones face, I, however do not have face hair. =)

Wanderer Calming Amber Lavender Body Cleanser

• So to begin I am not a huge fan of lavender scented anything, I know call me crazy, but I just am not. That being said I was a bit skeptical to try this but knowing I have 2 kids into grooming in my house the it would not get wasted if I did not like it. Results…I was not crazy about it. I liked how my skin felt, nice and smooth after using but the scent. Just cannot use it.

One Wipe Charlies

• These were fantastic! Just enough scent and just enough moistness to make me feel so clean after a swipe. Enough said.

4pk Executive Cartridges. 

• Can you say 6 blades of sharpness! Wow I needed to be careful to not cut my legs. I may need to change these cartridges for the 4 bladed cartridges, just not needed on my legs and pits. I would guess on a man’s beard they would be amazing for a nice close shave but again I thankfully do not have facial hair.

Final thought:

• A great monthly, or every other month, subscription box.

That is Enough

I love being a mom. It has been my favorite thing for the past 23 years.

Sure there were hard and stressful times…

…like when my oldest had a seizure in the backseat while I was driving.

….or put his hand in the car door as I was shutting it and sliced off the tip of his finger, blood gushing everywhere!

…almost dying, not really though felt like it after very difficult delivery, giving birth to my second child.

…the day my youngest when he was only 3 wandered off and was missing for 20 minutes at a convention with more than 3,000 people, though felt like an eternity!

…oh and then there was the time no one could figure out why my youngest would get so sick whenever he ate anything….yes ANYTHING. That was extremely stressful until the docs figured out he had this very long named condition that in a nutshell whenever he ate his body thought the proteins in the food were a type of virus and would cause him to vomit profusely, become greyish and lethargic. He really looked like he was dying for about 45 minutes, it was horrible. Fun times!

…the numerous sleepless nights of anyone of them being sick, hurt or missing. (Yes missing, my oldest left when he was 16 and for a few days we had no idea where he was. I am pretty sure that is where most of the gray hair I have today came from)

But you know what? I would not change anyone of those memories. They made my children who they are. I think I have some pretty amazing kids.

And the good memories? They far outweigh the stressful ones.

Becoming a single mom though had to be, next to the time my oldest was missing and my youngest wandered off, the most stressful and difficult thing I ever had to face since the day I became a mom. I know many do it, some choose to do it, but not me. I never wanted that. But we adapt. The most difficult part was being away from my kids for hours and hours  because I now having to go to work more than just help the family budget, now I was completely responsible for them financially and it was scary and I was angry. Angry for so many reasons.

It has not been easy, but finally, four years later I have settled into a great job and routine that allows me to be a fulltime Mom here at our home again and financially support us. If you have a desire to do something and you ask and keep asking and searching you will find a way!

I am so thankful for those in my life, but most of all my children. Calling them a blessing is truly an understatement, they are my life.

My ex has moved on, he is remarried and I am sure looking to start a family with his new wife. I work daily at ridding my anger about it. Working through the feelings of him robbing me of my youth and leaving the family he and I created with the intentions of being together forever, not giving me closure by even acknowledging my feelings, though that should not surprise me as our entire 22 years of marriage he hardly ever acknowledged my feelings on anything and did not take responsibility for the affects of his actions, so really nothing has changed and now it is on me to move on, to figure out how to move on and I will.

Summing things up I love being a mom, regardless of the fact I am a single mom, almost 50, but loved by my children, and for now…

That is enough!

Movie Monday: Justice League(2017)

What a movie.

Let me just say I grew up watching Aquaman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman, both the cartoon and TV shows along with the Movies, but I truly disliked this movie. I felt like I was watching a bad interpretation of Marvels ‘The Avengers” movie.

About halfway through I got so bored I got up and started dinner.

I was very happy I did not waste my money on taking the kids to see this film in the theatres or to rent it. Thank you Redbox for free rental codes!

If you care to check out their sites please do:

Justice League Facebook Page

Justice League Website