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Janet Tumelty

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Mom Around Town

Rotisserie Chicken to the Rescue

A rotisserie chicken can help busy moms—like me—get dinner on the table without all the baking and basting.

You know those days when you're running ragged at work or traipsing the kids from place to place and you don’t have a minute to breathe, let alone prepare a nice meal for everyone? If you're like me, you have one of those days at least once a week. A rotisserie chicken always saves the day for me and often helps out with the next couple of days as well. Chicken lasts in the refrigerator for three to four days, but you can also freeze it for up to three months. Wegmans knows this. Have you noticed that rotisserie chickens wait for us at the cash registers? They know what moms need: dinner—fast! It’s amazing what you can do with a $5-8 grocery purchase. Not only can you use the bird as a nice family meal with some rice, potatoes, stuffing or…

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Mom Around Town

Too Sick for School?

It's cold and flu season and many parents, like me, agonize over whether or not to send their kids to school when they don't feel well. What do you think?

Your child wakes up looking pale, sneezing, coughing and complaining of a sore throat. You take their temperature and it’s an even 99 degrees. He/she doesn’t look well; you can tell they feel awful. What do you do? Our family follows the fever or vomit rule. You stay home if you have a fever or you’ve thrown up within the previous 24 hours. I don’t always obey rules and, to my husband’s dismay, I tend to break this particular one pretty often. He thinks I let my kids stay home too easily. I think I know my kids pretty well and know when they need to skip a day of school. Regardless of the situation, I always question my decision to keep them home or send them off. If I keep one of my girls home when they complain, I worry they are missing …

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Ric

6:37 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013

@Sarah. Actually John is on the money. In this day and age we need to much more cautious about cleaning our environment and although it is important for children (and everyone) to wash their hands - much more needs to be done. Common surfaces need to be often sprayed and by a person PROPERLY wearing gloves. By properly I mean most people mistakenly think it is just enough to put on gloves to stop…   more ›

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