Shake Up Your Wake Up Mom Ideas to Start the Day With A Fun & Healthy Breakfast for Kids

Good Food

Get ready. In this sponsored post I'm going to be inspiring you about about getting your family to eat a healthy breakfast. Moms have been saying it for generations -- I know my mom sure told me all these things while I was growing up in the 1960s before McDonalds ever invented the Egg McMuffin. 

• Never skip the first meal of the day
• Always eat a good breakfast
• You really need to have some protein first thing in the morning if you're going to do well in school
• My mom said _______________ (fill in the blank)

You get the idea. I'm betting your own mom told you one or more of all these things, too, when you were little. I'd also be willing to wager that you've tried -- not always successfully -- to imbue all that motherly good eating habit wisdom into your own growing children.

Fresh Blackberries, Strawberries, Raspberries, Image by MommyBlogExpert.com

Sad but true, breakfast and starting the day on a healthy note is in danger of extinction. According to Statistic Brain and the U.S. Food and Agricultural Organization (FDA), only 44% of people eat breakfast every morning and that 22% of the breakfast skippers are obese and horror of horror 73% of today's kids who do eat breakfast are ingesting sugar sweetened cereal one or more days per week. There is definitely something wrong here because a full 21% of the sales at fast food chains come from breakfast items.

The good news is that we can put breakfast back on the menu at home for our kids right now. All it takes is a little more enthusiasm and creativity by us parents, both moms and dads, and other caregivers of our children. The key is making breakfast not a chore or a boring every day activity but making the breakfast table and the food we put on it fun, appetizing looking and tasty so kids will make it a priority and come running to do what's good for us all: get the proper nutrition at the start of every day.

Silk Fruit & Protein Trio of Products, Image by MommyBlogExpert.com

Skip the fast food drive through during morning carpool. Instead why not consider getting your kids to try something really delicious before they leave the house on those crazy, hectic mornings: new Silk Fruit & Protein. It comes in three delicious flavors: Mixed Berry, Mango Peach, and Strawberry Banana -- they all sound so good I don't know which one to try first. 

Not only is the brand nutritious and an excellent source of protein, it is easy to serve: all you have to do is pour it into a glass and watch your child enjoy it. It's not just good for kids, either. You should give it a try, too. You can drink this straight up out of the carton (glass optional), blended into a smoothie you whip up in your blender or added to a variety of recipes you make for your family.

Silk Fruit & Protein has so many benefits

• Good source of soy protein
• Excellent source of calcium, vitamin D & vitamin C
• No cholesterol or saturated fat
• Non-GMO verified
• Free of dairy, lactose, gluten, casein, egg & MSG
• Absolutely no artificial color or flavors
• Just 130 calories per cup
• Comes in half gallon & quart sizes
• Affordably priced and available at the supermarket

Fresh Strawberry Desserts, Image by MommyBlogExpert.com

So what are you waiting for? Do it for your own mom and do it for your kids and yourself. Find Silk Fruit & Protein in the refrigerated section at your closest local store.

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$500 Spa Giftcard Mother's Day Giveaway from Verizon Wireless, Ends 5/12/13

Giveaway

As we approach Mother's Day this Sunday, I'm imagining most of us who are blessed to have a living mommy think our mother rocks our world -- even though many of us, myself included, are mothers of children ourselves. You know what makes my mom special, the best in the whole wide world? I'm a Baby Boomer and she has been there for me since the day I was born 50+ years ago. I have especially fond memories of all the really fun birthday parties she made for me and my sister who's birthday is just a week before mine.

I Love You, Mom!

Me watching as Mom cuts my birthday cake, Circa 1961

Think your mother deserves a Perfect Day at the Spa? Then I encourage you to enter to win a $500 Spa Gift Card from Verizon Wireless simply by Tweeting your answer using the hashtag #PerfectDay and telling why your mom is the best on the planet. Contest is hosted by Verizon Wireless. No purchase is necessary and deadline to enter is May 12 at 11:59:59 pm EST.

How to Enter to WIN

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Jews Celebrate Yom Yerushalayim Today in Jerusalem & Around the World Photo Montage

Celebrations

I couldn't resist sharing the images that just arrived in my email box from Chaya, a mother of many and my good friend, who lives in Israel. These inspiring photos, live from Jerusalem, are of this year's picturesque and exuberant Yom Yerushalayim celebration -- Jerusalem Day -- going on right now. Note: Due to the time difference, this Zionistic holiday doesn't officially start here in the U.S. until tonight at sundown.

From Wikipedia
Jerusalem Day (Hebrew: יום ירושלים‎, Yom Yerushalayim) is an Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in June 1967. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel declared Jerusalem Day a minor religious holiday to thank God for victory in the Six-Day War and for answering the 2,000-year-old prayer of "Next Year in Jerusalem".

Celebrating last night (Israel time) in the Old City of Jerusalem...

And waving the Israeli flag in Jerusalem and at the Kotel Western Wailing Wall today...

To all of my fellow Jews around the World

May Yom Yerushalayim bring you much joy!

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