Leslie Sholly Reviews and Articles:

It's Christmas Eve! In a time of year full of traditions, there is one I think I cherish the most, and it will happen this evening, after Mass and dinner out, when all my kids--even the adult ones--will gather in the living room before the tree to open one present each. The tradition has its roots…

I've written previously about our family's Christmas book tradition and shared some of our favorites.  Just in time for you to order before Christmas, here are five more of our all-time favorites. Who Is Coming to Our House I am pretty sure this was the second Christmas book I bought for Em…

I told y'all a few weeks ago that I was going to be getting a ring from Mama's Jewelry in exchange for my honest opinion here.  Well, it arrived last week and here is my honest opinion:  I LOVE IT! The ordering process for this was only hard because there were so many choices.  The…

Y’all remember Splash, right?  About the mermaid who became human and walked the streets of New York?  And of course before that there was Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of The Little Mermaid, most recently re-interpreted by Disney.   In our popular imaginat…

A couple of weeks ago I told y'all about this cool company that helps add a little magic to your child's Christmas.  I received a letter, phone call, and video from Santa--all personalized--in exchange for my honest review. First of all, let me explain how all this works.  You purchase th…

About six weeks ago I was given the opportunity to try some products from Healtop, which the company’s founder describes as “a company dedicated to increasing health & wellness through natural, efficient and effective proven supplements, vitamins, skincare products, and more.”&…

Oh, y'all, I feel so bad about this.  I received this product in exchange for my honest review, and somehow I did not get around to writing the review in a timely manner.  Now it appears that the company may have suspended operations. And I hate that, because not only did I like the pro…

Before I even give my usual disclaimer let me tell you that I LOVE LOVE LOVE my crabpot tree! Yes, I received said tree for free in exchange for my honest review of it here, in my capacity as a blogger for National Family Guide.  But it's not even stretching the truth a little bit to tell you …

I'm here today to give my honest review of the AdoramaPix photobook I told you about several weeks ago.  I worry that you won't trust a review that is as glowing as the one I am about to write.  But I assure you that even though I received this product ($50 value!) for free, I am…

Y'all, I am late doing this review and I feel really bad about it, because I LOVE this service and these products and I will definitely be spending my own money here in the future. So, yeah, to get business out of the way, this IS a sponsored review, which means that U.S. Family Guide hooked me up …

Surprise, surprise! It's another sponsored review post from me.  I know these disclosures can get boring, but ethics require I let you know that I received the following product for free in return for my honest review. This time I am going to write about my experience with Bulu Box, anoth…

Back again with another review for US Family Guide.  Monthly Pepper Box (to which I was given a three-month subscription in exchange for my honest review) is NOT a box full of pepper shakers or a box full of jalapenos and habaneros!  Rather each box contains three bottles of what I would c…

So maybe coffee is not for you. (I suppose people like that exist, hard as it might be for me to understand it!)  Well, I had the opportunity to enjoy a free three month subscription to a club for tea lovers recently.  My honest review follows. We actually drink a fair amount of tea aroun…

Y'all, I overbooked myself in a big way in December, and now it's time to start paying the piper.  As a blogger for US Family Guide, I accepted several free gifts in exchange for my honest review.  Well, I've enjoyed the gifts, but it's long past time I reviewed them!  So today I'll s…

Awhile back I posted some info on Coobie Seamless Bras.  As a blogger for US Family Guide I occasionally get free stuff in exchange for my honest opinion on said stuff.   Usually my honest opinion ends up being more or less positive, but I'm not a fan of the Coobie Bra I received.   …

This has been a traveling year for us so far! In May, we went to Baltimore for my mother-in-law's 80th birthday; in June, we took the kids to Gatlinburg; in July John and I went to Chicago; in August we spent a weekend in Pigeon Forge; in September we went to Nashville for my cou…

It's been a couple of months since I let you know that I would be visiting all of the Ripley's attractions in Gatlinburg and reviewing them here.  That's because there are EIGHT separate attractions, and we needed to pick a time that we could visit them all.  Originally we had in…

I'm sure you've heard of Madame Tussaud and her wax museum in London.  I know I had, without ever thinking very much about it.  Then, via my affiliation with U.S Family Guide, I got an opportunity to visit her Washington, D.C. branch. Having attended college in D.C., and frequently visiti…

If you are my age, you probably grew up reading the Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon in your daily paper.  I can remember being fascinated and excited by Ripley's observations of the curiosities from all corners of the globe. So I was very excited to have been given the oppo…

Emily and I took the little kids hiking in the mountains last summer, and we made a stop at the graveyard in front of Little Greenbrier School. This is a graveyard, not a cemetery.  There is nothing manicured or fancy about it. All the same, it looks a lot better now than it did the last …