This past week I had the chance to visit Iraq and Lebanon with World Vision.  The only thing I knew, prior to the trip, was that we would be visiting with families living in refugee camps who had fled ISIS. I’ve seen footage of the violence and destruction that ISIS has wreaked on families in Syria and, like most who have seen the stories of these traumatized and desperate people, I am devastated for the Syrian people. I wanted to go on this trip because I think that their stories . . .

This post is sponsored by Best Buy I've got three tweens in my hose these days, and one who thinks she's a tween. They are obsessed with texting friends and checking Musically and watching youtube. All of the kids have older iphones available to play on when they earn screen time.  In addition to this, we’ve also got three ipads in the home, and Jafta has a chromebook he uses for school. I'm not totally against kids and online . . .

I'm opening the latest Fab Fit Fun Box for fall. You guys know I adore these fun boxes that are always full of beauty and fashion goodies. This box has a crazy-soft scarf, a great mask, a fun matte lip color, and more. If you want to get your own @fabfitfun box, go to fabfitfun.com and use the code RAGE for $10 off. Which product looks like one you would use most? . . .

This post is sponsored by Children's Hospital of Orange County I've talked quite a bit about how important I think it is for parent's to monitor their child's screen time, both for the amount of time they spend on screens and to insure that the content kids are watching is appropriate. Recently, I had a chance to chat with a pediatrician from CHOC (Children's Hospital of Orange County) to hear an expert opinion on screen time and kids. Dr. Katherine Williamson shared her expertise on the . . .

This post was sponsored by Clorox The kids are back in school next week and instead of looking forward to the time to work, get things done and not be distracted, I’m feeling regret. Not that summer’s over, necessarily. I’m always ready for back-to-school. The regret is because I feel like I failed at summer. It seems like I always start each summer with a Big Plan. And I always fail to follow it through. Every summer begins with goals. Every summer ends with me wondering where the time . . .

I remember a few years ago, a friend was lamenting about how hard summers were with teenagers. I thought that surely she was insane, because how could it be worse when a child is mature enough to make their own lunch and stop asking you to voice My Little Pony scenes? But alas, she was right. It is really difficult when kids grow out of the age of "playing" and just wander the house complaining about nothing to do. Tweens . .. the boredom is real. I can no longer tell them to go "play with . . .