We all know parents' luck. You settle in to watch a movie with your spouse. The kids wake up five minutes later. Try a night out on the town alone. The babysitter calls with news of a vomiting child as soon as you're seated at the restaurant.

Keeping any marriage healthy takes a lot of work. Add kids into the mix and what's a mom who's exhausted from chasing little ones around all day to do?

Finding the balance between children and marriage is a skill a lot of couples don't master until their children are grown and out of the house. Sometimes, not even then!

Take baby steps to savor the spice in your marriage. Make a plan to talk every day or spend an hour together without TV, computers and other gadgets interfering with your quality time. We might dream of a whirlwind romance like we see in the movies but, in reality, sometimes a simple email to say, "I love you," can make your honey blush.

What are some of your favorite ways to balance your marriage with family life? Share your secrets and read how other couples are staying connected to get new ideas for yourself.

Take 96 skating babies, a remix of the 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight" and hope that millions of people watch your commercial online. Mission accomplished for Evian Natural Spring Water but will moms, who make up one in five people online, respond to those chubby little cheeks and pudgy legs?

Watch the ad to decide if it makes you want to buy water for your family. No matter what, the commercial is getting noticed.

Viral Video Chart reports the Evian spot is number one on its top 20 list. The commercial has been viewed about 8 million times, over 700 people have put the video on their blogs and more than 7,000 comments have been posted worldwide.­

Evian's not the first company to center an ad campaign around computer-manipulated babies who aren't just selling baby products. Most everyone is familiar with eTrade's talking baby and Quiznos had a spokesbaby before that with Baby Bob.

Babies are often used as bait to reach moms. When you see babies in commercials, how likely are you to buy the product?

Stay-at-home mom Melissa d'Arabian has cooked her way into the top five of The Next Food Network Star. But this saucy mama is serving up more than leftover meatloaf. Week after week she's impressed show judges Bobby Flay, Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson with her culinary skills and on-camera improvements.

The road to the final five hasn't been easy for d'Arabian. Although she's consistently placed in the top of the elimination challenges, she's also taken flack from some of her professionally-trained chef competitors for "just" being a stay-at-home mom. When the smoke cleared from the kitchen, those critics were sent packing and d'Arabian remains in the running for her own Food Network show.

Stay-at-home moms can relate to d'Arabian's struggle to prove herself and we can celebrate her success. She's not afraid to cook the same recipes she prepares for her four daughters at home and serve them to Flay, Rachael Ray, Ina Garten and Food Network execs.

You expect people with culinary backgrounds to do well in a cooking competition but d'Arabian has shown good food doesn't have to be fancy. That's an element a lot of cooking shows are missing.

If d'Arabian becomes The Next Food Network Star, she tells the Dallas Observer she would like to host a cooking show for families, both SAHMs and working moms. This former career woman says her show would also concentrate on budgeting for meals.

In episode six, the finalists leave New York for Miami. Season five of The Next Food Network Star airs Sunday nights on Food Network.

Do you hold telemarketers captive on the phone for 15 minutes because you're desperate for adult conversation? Do you shave your legs because you consider an hour at the store a night out on the town? Do your two-minute showers usually have Peeping Toms wanting to know what you're doing in there?

We adore our children but there are times when a healthy sense of humor is all that gets any stay-at-home mom through the day. Share in the laughs with other moms who can relate:

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