Congratulations to Leslie S., the winner of The $5 Dinner Mom Meal Cookbook!
Thank you to you all for participating.
I recommend you visit the $5 Dinners Mom website for great cooking tips and more opportunities to win the book.
Let’s end 2009 and begin 2010 with a giveaway!
How many of you are making a new year resolution to eat healthier? Or a resolution to keep a tighter budget? Or a resolution to eat out less?
To accomplish all those worthy goals, here is a book that is invaluable: The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook. Every [...]
Congratulations to Jenni for being picked by random.org as the winner of the Billy Fun Wheels!! (Maybe the randomizer was drawn to your toilet paper wrapped “baby Jesus”!)
Thank you to all who entered and told us about your Christmas traditions. You inspired me to give an extra ounce of effort at making Christmas a memorable [...]
I don’t do a lot of product reviews unless it’s
something really good.
Here is one that is really good, and you have a chance to win one too!
Billy Fun Wheels would make a great Christmas gift for children 2 years old and up. Well, the truth is, both my 14-year-old daughter and I had fun [...]
Last Sunday when I was teaching the children in Sunday School class, I was trying to delicately explain Rahab’s “profession”.
“Rahab did a lot of wrong things in her life. She was not a righteous person.” Before I had a chance to explain the word righteous, one of the children jumped in.
“What does righteous mean? She [...]
Are you having trouble getting your kids ready for school on time every morning?
Here is one creative way to do it. The ending is the best part. Enjoy!
Eating free samples at Costco is one of my favorite pastimes! I was at a Chinese market last week and they were handing out dumplings and herb tea samples too.
Now you can get some freebies, coupons and samples at LuckyFreebies.com. I just received a coupon for a free sammie from Quizonos (when you buy [...]
Need a good laugh?
I came across this hilarious post and just had to share it with you: What Kind of New Mother Stereotype Are You?
We’ve seen them all – the Can-Do Mom, the Know-It-All Mom, the Hysterical Mom, the Reluctant Mom, the Young Mom, the Old Mom.
I would add one more to the list: The [...]
Congratulations to Kim for winning the Digital Room poster print!
I am so glad to know that Kim will be putting it to good use by printing a picture of her new baby. God bless you, Kim, as God guides you in your adoption process.
(The winner was randomly picked by Random.org)
The great people at DigitalRoom.com are sponsoring a giveaway for my readers!
Have you ever taken a picture that you’re especially proud of? Maybe a family photo, or a fun picture of the kids, or a scenic shot while you were on vacation? Here’s your chance to have that picture enlarged into an 18″ x 24” [...]
CONGRATULATIONS to SMS for winning the ScanDigital giveaway!
If you have VHS tapes, 8mm, and photos lying around, you must check out ScanDigital . They offer excellent service in converting all those memoriies to easy to save digital format.
No money for a big vacation? No problem. Summer is still a great time to create some memorable time for your family. Pool parties, beach, sleepovers, camping – plan a summer that one day you will look back as the good ol’ days!
On a hot summer day, nothing beats hours of fun in the pool. [...]
Our old VCR just broke down. Are we the only ones who still own one of those dinosaurs? Ahhh…It has served us well, playing our collection of Disney Classics on VHS tapes – (Snow White, Fantasia, The Prince and the Pauper – I love those! Now that these are available on DVD, the tapes are [...]
Every summer, my kids and I set lofty goals. We vow to learn a new language, clean up the garage, clear up that closet, try new recipes, exercise more…
While we certainly never finish everything on our list, our attempts at our goals helped us accomplish more than if we didn’t set any goals.
This summer, I [...]
Thank you to all of you who entered to win postcards from UPrinting.
Congratulations to Divinia and Connie Walsh for being picked as the winners!
Check out UPrinting, they have great products, including color brochures, invitations, business cards, etc., all at very reasonable cost.
Just for fun, I have a giveaway sponsored by UPrinting, a company specializing in online printing for over 25 years. Two lucky readers will each win 500 personalized 4×6 postcards!
What can do you with 500 postcards?
I received a thank you card from my friend with her family photo on the front. It was unique, personal, [...]
Thank you all for participating my giveaway of activity toys and gift card sponsored by Subway, to encourage TV Turn-Off Week.
The winner chosen by Random.org is Rhonda Hoy!
I hope everyone is encouraged to participate in TV Turn-Off Week this week – April 20-26, 2009.
What do you do when the children says, “I’m bored!” ?
Here are [...]
Interesting Facts:
Number of 30-second commercials seen in a year by an average child: 20,000
Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 38.5
Number of minutes per week that the average child watches television: 1,680
Percentage of children ages 6-17 who have TV’s [...]
I’m rather health conscious when it comes to snacks. We don’t eat chips or cookies or candy. Hot dogs and donuts are 2 main culprits I keep out of my house (but I admit, they taste good and we splurge once a year!)
Now I just discovered pistachios as a healthy snack with lots of nutritional [...]
Thanks to Mary Ward for reviewing my site on DoYouDiggit.com.
She did a better job describing my site than I did myself! Thanks, Mary.
The winners of the High School Musical Ice Show tickets are LW, SMS and Heidi Gallegos!
I know you’ll enjoy the show, and maybe I’ll even see you there.
Thank you all for participating.
(Winners were chosen at random by random.org)
I am so excited! Tomorrow my daughter will be coming home from college for 3 weeks of Christmas vacation!
Christmas holidays gives many natural opportunities to spend time together with our children. My younger daughter and I went Christmas shopping for her friends today. We wrapped Christmas presents together with Christmas music in the background. Decorating [...]
Any of you planning to be in So Cal for the Christmas holidays?
If you are, I’ve got a present for you!
High School Musical On Ice will be here at the Staples Center, Honda Center, and the Long Beach Arena, and I have 3 sets of 4 tickets* to give away, valued at $100.
Since the location [...]
5 Minutes for Mom is one of my favorite sites. Janice and Susan (identical twins, isn’t that cute?), founders of the site, offer a place for moms to network. They share their lives with us and even offers some fun contests along the way.
I was interviewed for their blog directory. You can read that interview [...]
CONGRATULATIONS to Elizabeth M., the winner of a cool Living The Dream t-shirt!
Thank you to all of you for participating! And thank you to LTDChix for sponsoring the giveaway. If you don’t already have one of these great shirts from LTDChix, they are definitely worth the money.
(The winner was chosen by randomizer.)
Did you ever “dream” life of being a mom would be like this?
Nina Frye and Cindi Schmitzer are two moms who are Living The Dream!
And they designed these cute shirts to show what that dream life is REALLY like – buried in laundry, managing the chaos of grocery shopping [...]
I recorded 6 toothpick puzzles, just for fun. These puzzles are great for stimulating your mind and practice thinking out of the box.
Try them out with your children. Don’t forward too quickly to the solution.
Here is the first puzzle. Click here to see the other 5 puzzles. Forward it to your friends and see if [...]
Thank you to all of you who participated in my first contest giveaway!
The winner has been chosen randomly.
Congratulations LINDA F for winning the Frownies and AminoGenesis skin products!
All the participants asked some great questions about raising good kids. I will be addressing those issues in upcoming posts and invite you all to participate in the [...]
To celebrate my new theme, I am doing my first Giveaway. I am so excited!
One of the most important aspect of being a good parent in raising good kids is to keep ourselves in good spirits.
For this contest, AminoGenesis and Frownies are providing products that help us moms rejuvenate our skin. Looking and feeling better [...]
I’m really bad at it, but it’s great exercise and it gets me sweating.
I’m talking about Dance Dance Revolution. We play the Mario version on our Game Cube.
But Becki said it right on that the music of these types of games is not very uplifting. The Mario version is not bad, but the Guitar Hero [...]
“I feel left out when you guys talk. I don’t know what you are talking about.”
As the third and youngest child, my daughter is 6 years behind our second child and 7 1/2 years behind her older brother. At the dinner table, we would be talking about getting ready for college when she is [...]
I was presented with the honor of this award by Dance of Motherhood! What a great feeling to know that I made someone’s day!
The rules for the “You Make My Day” award are to re-present it to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blog land. Let [...]
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We are exactly like that!
When we look at this, we realize how ridiculous us moms can be! It’s a wonder our kids listen to us at all! We have to laugh at ourselves more often. It puts everything into perspective.
Fifth graders were talking in my class today:
Student A: I’m going to do my state report on New York. I went there last summer.
Student B: I’m going to do my state report on New Mexico. I’ve never been there, but it seems like a good state.
Student C: I’m going to do my state report on [...]
As a parent, we give more than we get.
But FreeBirthdayTreats.com offers something special for your birthday. Check it out! There are FREE birthday presents for us! There is no catch.
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