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Meet the Reviewers – Toni Jensen
With the redesign of our site, every week we’ll now be featuring a different member of our review team and asking them a few questions about themselves. Please hop on over to their personal blog and leave a note! Today I’d like you to meet Toni Jensen from Mommies Angels. Here’s what she has to [...]
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Say Cheese!
I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I haven’t had my daughter’s picture taken as much as I have my son’s. You know, it’s that second kid thing. I have good intentions…I do and then it just never works out the way I want. Paige is having her pictures taken on Monday – and I hope [...]
Reviews, Giveaways, & More

Just In Time for Labor Day – Herman T’s BBQ Sauce
If you’re like a lot of other families across the country, you’ll probably be spending the upcoming Labor Day holiday outdoors BBQ’ing. I know we are! So we’re turning to Herman T’s BBQ Sauce to ensure that all our guests have a fun and delicious time! The FRN members had the opportunity to review Herman’s [...]

My Purple Toes
From the site: My Purple Toes is a creative children’s board book written for children under eight-years-old that tells a story about a father’s experience navigating life with purple painted toenails. From mom to the kids to their dog, everyone reacts differently to dad’s purple toes showing their surprise, embarrassment, and even laughter. Throughout the [...]

Affordable Style
Affordable Style is a website consisting of various online stores that specializes specific products. It’s a great one-stop shop where you can get all of your discount fashion accessory needs, from designer-inspired handbags and sunglasses to sterling silver jewelry and neckties. All of their stores offer a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, outstanding customer service, and an [...]

Costume Supercenter
Recently, we posted a review of an online costume shop called Costume Discouters. Well, they’re also a part of another cool site called Costume Supercenter where you can find quality costumes at affordable prices for everyone in your family. Here’s what our member’s had to say: E=MC2: Since I don’t intend to make this [Princess Wildflower] [...]

Friday Link Up – August 27
Welcome to the Family Review Network Link Up. Each Friday, giveaways from some of the members of the Family Review Network will be featured here so you can try your luck at winning some of the products they’ve had a chance to review. FOR EVERYONE Simply Stacie – $20 Amazon Gift Card (Aug 28 ) [...]

My Teenage Werewolf
My Teenage Werewolf will find a captive audience in mothers of daughters and daughters of mothers. It is the craftily-written story of Lauren Kessler’s quest to understand her mercurial daughter Lizzie as she comes up on her thirteenth birthday. At first Lauren sits down with all the best Amazon.com-ranked parenting books but soon finds that [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Yoo Hoo
Review item provided by YooHoo & Friends Photo provided by Kailani at An Island Life Kailani is the author of An Island Life and has been blogging for three years. She is a proud mother of three children working as a flight attendant, as well as sharing some great products reviews and giveaways. She is also the creator [...]

Costume Discounters
Can you believe that Halloween is just around the corner? My kids love to dress-up and start making their costume plans from the beginning of the year. Of course, they usually have a whole list of people they’d like to be and narrowing it down can be very difficult. For me, the easiest thing to [...]

Ghost in the Graveyard
Did you know? Since 1980, the childhood obesity rate has more than doubled for children ages 2 – 5 and more than tripled for children ages 6 – 11. Between 1981 and 1997, free playtime among 6 to 8 year olds dropped 25% and homework more than doubled. Since 2005, the amount of time children [...]

Monkey Monkey Music
NYC-based singer/songwriter Meredith LeVande could truly be termed a “Renaissance woman of children’s music.” Meredith not only holds undergraduate degrees in Women’s Studies and English, she also has a master’s degree in music and a law degree! Drawing from all these disciplines for her multi-faceted work with children, Meredith heads up a project with the [...]








