Breast Cancer Awareness Event with Rob Lowe


13th Annual Celebrating Women Luncheon – Thursday October 11th

Legendary actor and best-selling author Rob Lowe will be the featured speaker at the 13th annual Baylor Health Care System Foundation Celebrating Women luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 11:45 am at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas.

The event, presented for the eighth consecutive year by Tom Thumb, has raised more than $18 million to fight breast cancer throughout Baylor Health Care System. In the past 12 years, donations to Celebrating Women have supported expanded technology, community outreach, innovative clinical research, education and programmatic needs for the men and women fighting this disease.

FREE Android and iPad Apps for Kids

FREE iPad and Android Apps for Kids

FREE Educational Apps for Kids

 

Guest post from KidsActivitiesBlog.com (Quirkymomma.com)

Are  your kids constantly grabbing your ipod or android to play games on them?

You are not alone.

But at least you can sneak in a little learning while they naively have fun playing on Mommy’s new toy.  Here are some educational apps that kids will have fun with and may not even realize that hey are learning a thing or two!  Like this list?  Check out our other collection of Best apps for Kids.

Vann Counseling and Associates

Lori Vann’s philosophy is that quality mental health care should not be a luxury item and that it should be available to those who need & seek it.  The counselors in her office, who are under her direct supervision, are able to provide lower cost, affordable counseling.  Since they do case consults on a weekly basis with Ms. Vann, it is like having two counselors for the price of one.  Her interns come from diverse backgrounds and the following languages are available: English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Malay, and Gujurati.

Based upon her almost 15 years of counseling experience and several years of being a professor of psychology, Ms. Vann emphasizes the mind-body connection.  She has found that you cannot separate mental health from physical health and vice versa, therefore mental health care is just as important as physical health care.  The counselors in her practice assist clients in understanding how stress affects the mind, and thus may contribute to mental health issues and possible physical ailments while also assisting clients in identifying healthy vs. unhealthy coping skills.  One focus of treatment is assessing for possible boundary issues, whether in personal or professional life.  Ms. Vann has found that difficulties in boundary setting appear to be correlated with contributing to mental health concerns.

Best Gymnastics: Athletic Play or High Level Gymnastics Training

 

Best Gymnastics offers a variety of programs to suit customers’ needs, whether you are looking for fun, athletic play or high level gymnastics training. Their gymnastics  curriculum was developed from over 75 years of personal gymnastics knowledge as athletes, managers, and parents and they have coached gymnasts to over 50 individual and team state championship gymnastics titles.

Best Gymnastics offers a clean and modern facility with the best coaches, training tools and methods in the industry. Parents can enjoy open seating at all times, a cafe area with live television and free Wi-Fi.

“Our gym not only includes all the Olympic gymnastics apparatus, but we have 6 trampolines, a large in-ground foam pit for training and for fun, a 40 foot. rod tumbling floor, a 40 ft. tumble track, and a floor dedicated to our Best Kids pre-school program.

The Scarecrows are Sweating

Fall Mantle

Easy Fall Decorating Tips to Spruce Up Your Home

by Samantha Conner

This time of year is always hard for me. Once the Fourth of July passes, it seems like all the retail world moves straight into Fall. Since I have lived in the South for the majority of my life, I have a skewed  internal calendar. Summer lasts a good 6 months and then the other 3 seasons fight it out for how the remaining 6 months of the year will end up. Some years we get weird, cold snowy weather. And some years, we go straight from Summer back to Spring. This inconsistency in weather is what makes the time of year so hard for me.

My favorite hangouts, crafty stores and Nordstroms,  keep tempting me with apple cider candles and snuggly cable knit sweaters. I realize it is September, but in the South, September is still summer and  the poor scarecrows are even sweating.

So those pumpkins, orange leaves, and ceramic turkeys aren’t going to make an appearance around my home until October. In the meantime- and to keep my mind off those all the cute fall crafts– we have been doing a few things to spruce up the house for the change of seasons. Looking for a little change around your home? Try these quick fixes!