Citrus Lane September Box

So, I'm a month behind in everything. I feel like I didn't even have a September and that I went straight from the end of August to the beginning of October. Technically, no one is to blame for that but me. Well my husband might be able to take a little bit of the blame, for agreeing to take 3 weeks off and head North to visit his parents and catch up with old friends and such, but I'm the one who let things get so far behind.

Anyway, now that the 15th of October is quickly approaching and I'll have a new Citrus Lane box to review in about a week, I finally decided I'd better do something about the last one I got. So, here's a look at our September CL box for a 20 month old girl.

•  The Purple Poodle Goody Bag from North American Bear Company - okay, so I left all most all of this stuff in the packaging it came in because this is going to be a stocking stuffer. My daughter is obsessed with dogs, she loves the color purple and she loves having her own bag to carry. Talk about win-win-win! 
• Charley Harper ABCs from AMMO Books - I am absolutely in love with this book. Needless to say, it's also been put up to use as a part of a later gift. But it's gorgeous! If we didn't already have multiple ABC books I'd have kept this one out to read now. The images are amazing.
• Playful Wash from Episencial - this seems to be a Citrus Lane staple item. I don't know how many boxes we've received this item or another item from Episencial in. The stuff works, but you can only use so much soap at one time. We're currently still working on another soap from one of their boxes so this will either be regifted or put away for another day.
• Super Toddler Bar from Happy Family - again, this seems to be a go-to company for Citrus Lane. I would love to see them branch out for older kid snacks and send out foods that the whole family might enjoy that aren't marketed specifically to the baby crowd. However, I'm always glad when the snack item sent out isn't a pouch, so I'll take this one.
• Nail Color from Julep - Okay so up until a month ago, I hadn't bit on the Julep train. Then, finally I did. I have a color almost identical to this one from Essie that I love. The Julep polish seems to be really quite good. I was excited to get a non-makeup beauty product for mom this month! While I don't wear tons of face makeup I do love a good bottle of nail polish and this was mom treat I can definitely get behind.

All totaled the value was over the $ money spent on this box and we got an awesome variety of products this month. Some months I'm totally wowed by the contents of our boxes and others seem to be average. That being said, I've subscribed for well over a year now and have countless items from Citrus Lane boxes that we use all the time items I never would have bought on my own. Plus the fun of getting a package for your little one is always a fun treat! 

For those that don't know, Citrus Lane is a subscription box that curates monthly boxes for ages 0-5. They supply a box filled with 4-5 of the best parent-picked and parent tested finds on the market customized to your child's age, stage and gender. Boxes are priced at $25 but if you sign up for a longer prepaid subscription you can get your boxes for as low as $21/month. If you're interested in subscribing you can check them out here if you want to just try out one month you can use the code 'takehalf' and only pay $12.50!

All thoughts, opinions & photos included here are my own. No compensation was received for this post. If you use my referral links listed (I appreciated it and thank you, if you do!) I may receive some credit toward my own future boxes. I have been a subscriber of Citrus Lane's monthly boxes since June 2012.

#ChooseSargentoCheese VoxBox from Influenster

Cheese.... I don't honestly think my family could live without it. I personally, would be okay with less cheese in my life, in fact I don't think I ever ate so much cheese and definitely never bought so much cheese before meeting my husband and his family. They are cheese fiends. They love it and so does our toddler. So I was delighted to be selected to review the #ChooseSargentoCheese Vox Box from Influenster and to get a free package of string cheese from a brand, surprise-surprise I had never tried before. Yippee! 

My husband and my toddler think string cheese is literally one of the best snack foods on the face of the planet. When we were living in Korea there was only one chain of convenience stores that routinely carried single serve string cheese and my husband would go out of his way just to pass one so he could go in and buy one and the look on his face was pure delight.  Well that's about the exact same look that was on my daughter's face the first time she bit into her first Sargento® Sting Cheese!

She absolutely loved it. I suppose, it probably helped that she was starving and our bus didn't come for another 20 minutes and we had just finished our weekend grocery shopping when I magically pulled it out of the bag to give it to her, but still... she loved it! My husband was a teeny-tiny bit jealous so I pulled another one out of the bag for him and then yes, I caved and had one too and I can honestly say that this is my new favorite brand of string cheese! Yummy! I usually find it way to salty and this one was just right. We loved it. It is one of our new go to on the go snacks. We also used it to make perfect cheese rounds for toothpick kebabs mixing the cheese with olives and veggies and used it split length wise in 4 to fill celery sticks. Mmmm.

I received this product complimentary from Influenster. All opinions, thoughts and photos are my own and the review did not have to be positive. We just happen to love cheese.