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Leap Frog Back To School Review

August 22, 2009 By 1 Comment

leap-frog-lets-go-to-schoolLeapfrog has a new DVD out, just in time for back to school. This DVD will get your little ones ready to go back to school or just to go to school for the first time. In this new DVD, Tad and Lilly are back and getting ready to go to school. Leap gets them everything they need and then they realize, we’re going to school and they are afraid they aren’t ready.

The DVD titled Leap Frog: Let’s Go To School hit stores on August 18th, just in time for Lilly and Tad to help your preschoolers get over their nervousness of heading off to school themselves.

 

SYNOPSIS

School starts tomorrow, and Tad and Lily are nervous! Join Tad, Lily and their magical firefly Edison as he gives them a tour of the classroom and shows them that the classroom is more nervous than they are! As the twins reassure the blocks, globe, clock and more talking ³teachers,² they learn key lessons about phonics, counting, days of the week and animals.

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES *

· 5 Sing-along songs

· Interactive alphabet book

· A sneak peek at Math Adventure to the Moon *Subject to change

My daughter loves Leap Frog. She tells us all the time she wants to watch Leap Frog. I love it to because it has songs and everything in it is decent. She can learn how to count and how to read and her alphabet by watching Leap Frog. It’s not common anymore for children’s entertainment to be educational or completely appropriate. As my father would put it:

“Cartoons these days have scary looking characters and are just weird”

 

But he still loves to sit down with his grandchildren and watch whatever makes them smile.

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YoBaby Meals organic yogurt gift package #giveaway

August 21, 2009 By 119 Comments

I have been eating or serving Stonyfield Farm Organic Yogurt for over three years now. While I was pregnant I wanted chocolate in everything I ate. So my husband found the Stonyfield Chocolate yogurt. Oh man it was so good. It was like chocolate syrup in yogurt and just the right amount too. I wanted to lick the yogurt cup.

YoBabyYogurtThen when I had kids I served up yobaby to my daughter. It was before Yoplait had their version and it seemed like the healthiest option for her. Well, it didn’t seem like it it was and is in my opinion. Now, because we are on a budget we are using whatever I can get the cheapest for my children but I still really like how healthy and natural yobaby is. The DHA

 

YoBaby Meals

 

YB Meals Giveaway

I have the opportunity to review their new YoBaby Meals, but I’m in a small town right now and haven’t been able to find them to try them. We’re going to try them soon but I wanted to go ahead and get this giveaway going so one of my lucky readers can be on their way to trying it as well.

YoBaby has generously offered coupons, a reusable bag, an Eric Carl growth chart, bib, and a bowl.

YoBaby Meals are yogurt fruit and veggies. What? Sounds like an odd combination and I’m actually afraid to try it but I trust Stonyfield to do a good job. I mean jus looking at the options and it seems like they paired up some good combinations. Kids mix it all up anyways. My son is always wearing his food so one less container to work with will be helpful. He won’t even let me feed him anymore. If I try to take the spoon away he says no, no. And grabs tighter so I can’t take it away.

 

It’s another first from the mommy and daddy creators of YoBaby—Gary, our CE-Yo and his wife Meg. With YoBaby yogurt on top, and an ounce of fruit and veggie puree on the bottom, YoBaby Meals is an easy and delicious way to help ensure that your budding gourmet enjoys a combination of three important food groups at every meal.

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Kashi Heart to Heart Cereal Review and Coupons

August 21, 2009 By 2 Comments

 

So Kashi is a great company to work with on your blog. They are a great company to connect with on their own website. All you need to do is join the Kashi Community. By being a member of the community you might occasionally receive product samples to review. I’ve been a member for one year and was offered my first sample this month. It hasn’t come yet but I’m looking forward to it.

Heart To HeartHowever, Kashi did send me some cereal to review directly to my blog. Heart to Heart has been a big hit. My daughter was interested in eating it because there were hearts. I liked it because of the flavor and nutrition. We tried the Warm Cinnamon it was just right and sweet. I loved eating it dry without milk. My daughter’s favorite way was with a bowl of milk.

 

It felt very filling and wholesome. I’ll be buying it when I can find a good sale on Kashi.

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HTC Snap Winner

August 21, 2009 By 1 Comment
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    • Congrats to random number 22.

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    Walmart has affordable laptop choices

    August 21, 2009 By 1 Comment

     

    Toshiba 17" Satellite L355-S7915 Laptop PC with Intel Celeron 900 ProcessorToshiba Satellite L355-S7915 ($348) – a 17” laptop with 3GB memory and a 250GB hard drive – great for work, movie watching and PC gaming.

     

     

     

    Dell 15.6" Inspiron 1545 Laptop PC with Intel Celeron Dual Core T3000 Processor & Windows 7 Tech Guarantee UpgradeDell Inspiron I1440-3488 ($598) – a 14" Laptop with 4GB memory and a 500GB hard drive – a powerful notebook at a great price.

     

     

     

    image HP Pavilion Slimline s5123w-b Desktop Computer ($498) – this desktop computer with a 19” HP 21907 widescreen monitor has 3GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive, perfect for students who prefer to keep their computers in their dorm rooms.

     

    Visit Walmart’s blog Checkout for more ways to save money at Walmart.

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    The value of a penny

    August 20, 2009 By 2 Comments

    You know the saying, “a penny saved is a penny earned” well over and over I hear that pennies now have no value. Will our children even use coins or cash. So often now I find myself just using a debit, or credit card to pay for anything and everything. My 2 year old already knows what the plastic is for. So how do we go about teaching our children how to save money?

    Teaching my children now would be just in using toys, or most would think that only the pretend cash register and coins can teach them about money but I would have to say that you are wrong.

    My kids are already learning the value of paper and saving change here and there. Every Sunday, I have to go get a paper. My daughter knows this. So I take her with me. We drive over to Albertsons and buy a paper on Sundays. Then I clip coupons.

    You might give me an excuse and say that, I have to wait until the kids are napping or in bed. I know how children love to be under foot or want to be held when I’m not giving them my undivided attention? So the trick is to GET THEM INVOLVED.

    By letting my kids look at all of the ads I can sit at the kitchen table and get my coupons clipped. They feel like they are helping because I let them look at the ads. It’s also a great way for a toddler to look at the pictures and identify the grocery list. They know which products you purchase every time you go to the grocery store.

    Milk
    Cheese
    Bread
    Fruit
    Veggies
    Pop Tarts

    These are things my daughter looks for. Yes, she’s only two but she can find these things in the ad. Then we search for matching coupons to go with the sale ads that she identified by looking at the pictures.

    I’m not saying this magic happens all the time but it does happen and it saves me time, and we’re doing something together. Even my son likes to look, he still eats and destroys but he’s growing up quickly. By doing this with my daughter, one of her first words was coupon and she likes to carry the coupons that she wants to use. Her favorites used to be for Gerber products, now they are for purple products.

    All of this can be applied to going back to school and letting your children pick out what they need and finding the best sales in the Sunday paper or on-line.

    This post was written in participation with Parent Bloggers Network with Capital One to get the word out about the talking to kids about budgeting and finances. Capital One and national consumer advocacy group Consumer Action sponsor the Moneywi$e eLearning tool, which includes a section all about talking to kids about money.  Plus, check out @TeachingMoney on Twitter to get bite-sized family-focused financial tips.

    Capital One wants to help you teach your children to save.

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    Enter to Win a 500.00 Gift Card to Walmart for a Room Makeover

    August 20, 2009 By 7 Comments

    When the dust settles next month or the next. Which children and the economy you never know what’s going to happen right?

    Well, I would love to decorate my kids’ bedrooms. They are the colors that they are but they need more of a character. You know, the character that my kids illustrate.

    KILZ and Lisa LaPorta (from HGTV) are giving away a 500.00 Gift Certificate to Walmart. This gift certificate is to be used for a Room Make over.

     

     

     

    Anyone can enter the contest by:

    § Visiting www.KILZCleanStart.com and browsing Lisa’s project tips to help pick the room they want to enter for a makeover.

    § Click on the “WIN” tab to enter the contest in a matter of minutes –

    I tested it out, it’s very easy to do. Then you can have the option to:

    1. Tweet you message on Twitter, and/or

    2. Post your message on a mommy blogger’s comments page

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    Freebie Friday

    August 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

    Free Recipes – Pork Chop Recipes eCookBook

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    Free Crafts – 39 Low-Cost Kitchen Crafts

    Decorating the kitchen does not have to be expensive. Get this Free 39 Low-Cost Kitchen Crafts eBook.

    Venom – Buy one get one free coupon

    Print a coupon for a free bottle of Venom energy drink.

    Samples and Coupons are the best way to start saving money.

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    Hellmann’s and Billy Ray Cyrus are Feeding America and we can help with our Facebook accounts

    August 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

    Feeding America

    Feeding America is one of my favorite charities because no one should have to go hungry. Today I’m writing to you to tell you about a program that Billy Ray Cyrus and Hellmann’s are teaming up. Mom Select told me about this opportunity.

    As moms, we know that no matter what lunch we prepare for our kids, they always seem to want to swap sandwiches with their friends once they get to the cafeteria at school!  Which you can fight with some creativity but that’s another post all in itself. This post is about swapping sandwiches.

    Hellmann's

    When it comes to the time-honored tradition of swapping sandwiches, kids will do what kids will do. Thank Goodness, Hellmann’s® and Best Foods® Mayonnaise has teamed up with musician and actor Billy Ray Cyrus to encourage people of all ages to celebrate their favorite childhood ritual and join the virtual Sandwich Swap ‘n’ Share program to raise money for Feeding America®, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity.

    How To Help:

    For every sandwich created as part of the virtual Sandwich Swap ‘n’ Share program on Facebook.com/hellmanns, Hellmann’s® and Best Foods® will donate 7 lunches[1] to Feeding America®. 

    So go to facebook and create a sandwich.

    What you can get out of it:

    If that isn’t enough to get you to click over right now, you just might win a $250 grocery store gift certificate.

    Then get more donations

    And for every friend on Facebook® that you share your sandwich with, Hellmann’s Facebook and Best Foods® will donate an additional 7 lunches to the charity.

    So just by making a sandwich, and sending to four friends on the first day, 35 lunches will be donated.

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    Aloha Friday – Back To School Tax Free

    August 20, 2009 By 15 Comments

    alohafriday5 Kailani says “In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that they take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response”. You should go to Kailani’s site and link up with Mr. Linky/Mk Linky, but be sure and answer her question.

     

    So my question for today is

    Do you know of any back to school sales we need to know about?

    One biggie I wanted to share is that this weekend is the Tax Free weekend in the state of Texas.

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