Donation and Giveaway from Fiber Gummies

Pedia-Lax® Fiber Gummies, are a daily fiber supplement made just for kids by Fleet®, a company with over 100 years of experience. I have noticed a huge trend in the food industry to push Fiber on us. The reason is because our diets of fast food and pre-made meals lack the fiber our bodies need for proper digestion.

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In 2009 the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) significantly increased the recommended daily fiber intake standards, far above the previous "age plus five" rule. In fact, today’s updated guidelines recommend 25 grams of fiber per day for four-year-old children. But how do we meet these requirements and get our children to eat high in fiber foods?

Now there’s a delicious daily fiber supplement to help kids ages 2-11 maintain better digestive health and stay regular.* The penguin-shaped, great tasting Pedia-Lax Fiber Gummies are sugar-free, calorie-free, gluten-free and made with natural fruit flavors. With a recommended serving of three gummies every day, (equal to ½ cup of broccoli!), Fiber Gummies are a great way to supplement the fiber found in fruits, vegetables and other fiber-rich foods in your child’s daily diet. It’s a great solution to help bridge the gap between the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended amount of fiber and the fiber that kids actually consume in their daily diet.  Don’t forget to tell your readers that Fiber Gummies are dentist approved J.

Fiber. Now cleverly disguised as gummies.

 

Suggested retail price is $7.99 for a bottle of 60 gummies; available at Target and Walgreens, also online and other supermarkets and retailers nationwide.

You can also visit www.fibergummies.com to get a $1.00 off coupon  use the “store locator”, and find tips on how to get more fiber into your kids’ diet.

* This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

I have one 60 ct. bottle to giveaway to one of my readers. I also received to bottles of the Fiber Gummies at Blissdom at the Country Inn Party and received one sample from the Pedia-Lax company itself. I will be donating all three samples that I have because my kids already eat cereal with fiber added to it. Speak to a pediatrician before making any medical decisions.

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Donation and Giveaway from Jovan Satisfaction

If I told you that the first time I tried Jovan was almost 20 years ago exactly would you laugh at me? I loved it then and love it now, even though I’m not a really big perfume person. New Jovan Satisfaction is the first fragrance from Jovan in over a decade.

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Jovan Satisfaction is a sexy fragrance for men and women that guarantees to make a lasting impression. Jovan Satisfaction for Women combines sultry with sophisticated to create an alluring mix of exotic and sweet. This irresistible fragrance contains notes of sweet mango, lotus flower and warm vanilla to tantalize the senses and give your confidence a boost. Jovan Satisfaction for Men offers a bold and masculine scent that will bring a new level of “satisfaction” to your love life with notes of grapefruit, cardamom, cedarwood and amber.

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I somehow received samples at Blissdom and I also received some directly from them to use as a donation; which I’m very excited about. February 1, 2010 marked the date when Jovan Satisfaction became available retailing for $12 for a 0.5 oz Eau de Toilette spray and $18 for a 1.0 oz Eau de Toilette spray at stores like Wal-Mart, Target and CVS. Makes a great gift for someone of all ages. It has a sweet scent and I think just one spritz is plenty for a lasting effect. Since I ended up with four bottles of the stuff I’m going to keep just one for myself. All the rest are being donated.

I have a 0.5 oz bottle of both Jovan Satisfaction for Men and Jovan Satisfaction for Women (approx. value $24) to give to one lucky reader!

To Enter:

Visit www.JovanSatisfaction.com and tell me what your opinion of the advertisement is. You have to click on See Satisfaction Work for Him or See Satisfaction work for Her.

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Winners from Giveaways ending 2/16 @momstart

Seafood The Gorton’s Way Recipe Renovation #giveaway

 

michelle on January 28th, 2010 9:09 pm

I follow you on Twitter (pinkblush99)

Webkinz Jr Plush and Website Review and #giveaway

 

Kelly Ann T. on February 1st, 2010 4:10 pm

I like the parents area and I also like that I don’t have to worry about this site.

The Princess and the Frog Soundtrack #giveaway

 

Kathryn on February 3rd, 2010 12:11 pm

I blogged about this giveaway

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Caress Evenly Gorgeous Exfoliating Body Wash and Beauty Bar #giveaway

 

Ladytink_534 on February 7th, 2010 8:12 pm

I’d love to try the Tahitian Renewal

Family Party 30 Great Games Winter Fun Video Game for the Wii #giveaway

 

Tami on February 15th, 2010 10:25 am

Tweet.

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I’m a subscriber.

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I posted this giveaway to my facebook wall #6

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Laugh and Learn About Childbirth book review and trio #giveaway

 

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Hopscotch Tee’s Designs for kids and adults #giveaway

 

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Don’t Be an Asterisk, stay away from steroid use

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The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and the Ad Council announced a multi-year public awareness campaign focused on teen steroid use. The campaign is funded by U.S. Olympic Team sponsor Johnson & Johnson (one of my favorite companies to work with ;-) ). This is the first time that USOC and the Ad Council have joined forces to raise awareness about the national issue of illegal performance-enhancing drugs both within and outside of sport. We hear about athletes using drugs so often in the media that children and teenagers don’t think much about it. So it’s important to raise awareness.

"We know athletes and individuals who choose to engage in the destructive behavior of illegal steroid use live in fear of being found out,” said USOC Chief Executive Officer Jim Scherr. “This initiative is geared to show teens and other age groups that illegal steroid use can only lead to a harmful and embarrassing end. Additionally, teens need to fully understand the dangerous health risks associated with steroids and other performance-enhancing substances."

The campaign conveys the urgency of the abuse in an effort to shift teens’ perception and image around steroid use. All of the PSAs direct the audience to visit www.DontBeAnAsterisk.com to learn more about steroids, hear from professional athletes and find healthy alternatives to excel in athletics.

"We are proud to partner with the United States Olympic Committee, Johnson & Johnson and creative agency TBWA on this critical issue to help teenagers realize that steroids are socially unacceptable," said Peggy Conlon, President & CEO, the Ad Council. "The ads are engaging and memorable, while motivating, and I believe they will have a great impact on teens and parents in our country."

The funding from Johnson & Johnson will last at least three years. Johnson & Johnson has long been engaged in health awareness and education initiatives worldwide, and its support of the USOC and Ad Council’s anti-steroid message is a critical piece in the campaign’s ultimate success.

"Johnson & Johnson recognizes how important it is to educate teens about the appropriate use of all medications and the dangers associated with their misuse," said Brian Perkins, Corporate Vice President, Corporate Affairs. "The elements of this campaign should resonate as authentic with teens, and they are consistent with our philosophy of caring about people’s health and well-being in ways that are meaningful and impactful."

The campaign was created pro bono under the direction of TBWA\Chiat\Day, New York, a leading global advertising agency. Research conducted to help inform the campaign led TBWA\Chiat\Day to focus on the word and symbol of the "Asterisk – *" as the foundation for the campaign.

“Being caught with steroids comes with absolute penalties. You’re off the team. Your scholarship is gone. Your hopes of going pro are possibly out the window,” Gary Scheiner, Executive Creative Director, TBWA\Chiat\Day. “Our creative solution was to make teens understand that of all the outcomes of steroid use, fakeness is also considerably damaging. To illustrate this, we took a well-known icon already used in the world of sport, and turned it into our scarlet letter. The Asterisk.”

A link to the official Web site for the campaign – www.DontBeAnAsterisk.com – can be found on both the USOC and Ad Council Web sites – www.teamusa.org and www.adcouncil.org. You can also learn more on the facebook page for Don’t Be an Asterisk.

 

Enter to win an official Olympics coffee mug

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About the USOC
clip_image002The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the sole entity in the United States whose mission involves training, entering and underwriting the full expenses for the U.S. teams in the Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games. In addition to being the steward of the U.S. Olympic Movement, the USOC is the moving force for support of sports in the United States that are on the program of the Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games. Learn more about the U.S. Olympic Team and USOC at www.teamusa.org.

About the Ad Council

clip_image002[4]The Ad Council (www.adcouncil.org) is a private, non-profit organization that marshals talent from the advertising and communications industries, the facilities of the media, and the resources of the business and non-profit communities to produce, distribute and promote public service campaigns on behalf of non-profit organizations and government agencies in issue areas such as improving the quality of life for children, preventive health, education, community well-being, environmental preservation and strengthening families.

About Johnson & Johnson

Caring for the world … one person at a time, inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson (www.jnj.com). We embrace research and science — bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Our 120,200 employees at more than 250 Johnson & Johnson companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.

About TBWA\Chiat\Day

clip_image002[6]TBWA\Chiat\Day is part of TBWA Worldwide. TBWA Worldwide (www.tbwa.com) creates Disruptive ideas for global clients, including ABSOLUT, adidas, Apple, Beiersdorf, Henkel, Infiniti, Mars, McDonald’s, Michelin, Nissan, Pernod Ricard, Pioneer, Samsonite, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Airlines and Sony PlayStation. TBWA is one of the fastest-growing networks in the Top-Ten, and was named by ADWEEK as Global Agency Network of the Year and the most-awarded Agency Network by Creativity magazine in 2007. TBWA has 258 offices in 75 countries, and approximately 11,000 employees worldwide.

Baby Casting Call, need crawlers in diapers for Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max

Pampers is an official sponsor of the Olympics. They are sponsoring two different proud parents but they still want to do more. They gave away a ton of free samples with a chance at a years worth of diapers. WOW, are they really trying to give back. Well, now they are looking for your Olympic Baby!

 

 

 

 

Did you know that a cruising baby in one day can take as many steps as a marathon runner in a race*, and a nine-month old baby can crawl up to 400 meters in 20 minutes**? It’s this active play that continually inspires the Pampers brand, and that’s why moms and dads are encouraged to log on to Pampers.com beginning February 15 to join in celebrating the development of their own best players. Parents can upload videos of their babies crawling to the world’s great baby relay on Pampers.com.  All videos featuring babies crawling from left to right that are uploaded by Feb. 20 will be included in a casting call for a commercial that will air on Feb. 28! 

Grab those video cameras and get to directing. See more details at Pampers.com

 

* O’Malley, M. "Normalization of temporal-distance parameter in pediatric gait" J. Biomechanics 29,629-625, 1996

** Learning to Keep Balance. Karen Adolph, Dept. of Psychology, New York University

Did I mention that I’m Back!

I announced on twitter earlier today that I’m back. I had quite the unexpected departure from the internet and I never let my blog go like that. It has been six days since I last posted. Can a blog survive that? I haven’t even looked at my stats since then, I’m too scared. I’m sure I have quite a few giveaways to put up to entice you all to come back. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have time to write up why I didn’t have any internet access now that is a story to tell. For now I’ll leave you with a photo of my daughter taken two years ago!

 

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The Installation of our Frigidaire Refrigerator

Right before I left to go to Blissdom our new Frigidaire Refrigerator arrived. I wasn’t expecting it until the end of the month but it came quickly and very painlessly. A local company moved our old refrigerator to the garage and installed the new one in the house. They hooked up the water that the home builders had already set up for us and we had running filtered water. The water is supposed to come out at a half gallon per minute but our water pressure in our house is very sad. So my husband said that our conversion is more like three minutes. So thanks to our refrigerator we will be calling our water company and finding out if there is a way to get our water pressure increased.

 

Refrigerator_Interior The first thing that really impressed my husband and I is the fact that our old freezer was so jam packed. We had the drawer and I thought I loved it. It’s just that after time I really got tired of bending over and searching for things. I mean for a month I wasn’t even able to bend over and look for things, my husband had to do it. It also was difficult to pack things in and I like to keep my freezer stocked up with lots of goodies for me to cook with. I wish I would have taken the pictures I told myself I was going to take but I was taken off guard with how fast it arrived.

 

Anyways, try to picture this. A drawer filled with frozen veggies in one side and meat, ice cream, and frozen meals in the other side, some tortillas frozen at the bottom of the drawer and not sure what else was hidden, other than some fruit that I forgot about because of the sheer amount of stuff in my freezer. So I ended up filling up three huge reusable bags with stuff from my freezer and when the new fridge was there I placed everything in my new freezer. The left side is the freezer and after everything was transferred we still had room. Yes the refrigerator is a little bit bigger in dimension but the space is used so much more efficiently. With the double doors instead of a drawer I am able to find more places to put things and still have room for an ice maker and filtered water.

 

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I’m very excited to be a part of Team Refrigerator and having a new fridge. I’m not even that upset about my water pressure and I’m ecstatic that it arrived early. I hope that my tone is not too negative because it is a pleasure for me to be able to write about a new appliance. Thank you Team Mom and Frigidaire.

 

 

“I wrote this review while participating in a Test Drive Campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Frigidaire and received a Frigidaire Refrigerator to facilitate my review.”

Purex 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets HE Review

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Purex. All opinions are 100% mine.

I’ve been a fan of the Purex 3-in-1 Laundry sheets since they first came out. I was one of the first to try them and was quite pleased. So before I get into the details of my new review I wanted to make sure that you sign up for your free sample.

Thanks to Purex I was able to receive the HE Purex Laundry sheets. I had no idea that they were going to be HE before they arrived at my house (i just assumed I was getting the same ones I got last time, crazy I know), and now that I have them at my house I noticed them at Target right next to the regular 3-in-1 sheets. They might have always been there, I just don’t usually notice something until I have the necessity for it.

Purex 3-in-1 Laundry Sheet. They are nice because you can use them to wash your clothes (they have laundry detergent built into them) and they are also the fabric softener so you can soften your clothes and they have anti-static that you put in the dryer. The sheet releases the detergent in the wash and then when you transfer all of your clothes, it goes with your clothing and becomes the dryer sheet. It simplifies life making it easy to wash clothes and keeping you from forgetting to put in the dryer sheet because it’s with all the wet clothes. I’m always forgetting the fabric softener and I hate static cling.

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Not only does it simplify your time while washing but also your time when your are shopping. You only need to remember to purchase one product. Cutting down on cost and size, it’s a lot easier to carry than a big jug.

 

 

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Curious George 2 Follow that monkey soundtrack and #giveaway

The soundtrack to the new movie, “CURIOUS GEORGE 2: FOLLOW THAT MONKEY” was sent to me to review. I want to be completely honest and say that I have not had the time to give it the attention that it deserves. But I will say,

With all things Curious George, we loved it. Curious George reminds me of my son, he’s always getting into something but can get out of trouble just by smiling and saying I’m sorry, well my son has the added effect of batting his eyes at you. The cuteness just melts your heart.

The world’s most beloved and inquisitive monkey is back in “CURIOUS GEORGE 2: FOLLOW THAT MONKEY,” the sequel to the 2006 animated hit movie.  The soundtrack to “CURIOUS GEORGE 2: FOLLOW THAT MONKEY” features the Rivieras hit “California Sun” performed by Brian Wilson as well as all new songs by Carbon Leaf, a special title track recorded by 429 Records’ artist Jackie Greene and an original score by Heitor Pereira.  

Movie Description:

Curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat set out on a madcap cross-country adventure to reunite Kayla, a homesick elephant, with her family.  This adventure features this unlikely trio  as they face all types of trouble (the funny trouble that Curious George is infamous for). The colorful characters in the end learn that with family, friends and determination you can achieve anything. Featuring the voices of Tim Curry, Matt Lauer, Jamie Kennedy and Jerry Lewis, CURIOUS GEORGE 2: FOLLOW THAT MONKEY, “proves that family, friends—and curiosity—are number one.” (Francine Brokaw, Los Angeles Family Magazine) The Soundtrack follows the story closely.

SoundTrack Listing

1)  “Life Less Ordinary”                Carbon Leaf
2)  “The Friendship”            Carbon Leaf
3)  “California Sun”            Brian Wilson
4)  “On A Roll”                 Carbon Leaf
5)  “Heart Of The Day”          Carbon Leaf
6)  “Let Your Troubles Roll By” Carbon Leaf
7)  “Walking In The Sun”                Carbon Leaf
8)  “Follow That Monkey”                Jackie Greene
9)  “Moon Man”                  Heitor Pereira
10)  “Going East”                       Heitor Pereira
11)  “Giving A Hand”            Heitor Pereira
12)  “Zoo”                      Heitor Pereira
13)  “Friendship”               Heitor Pereira

You can enter to win one for yourself.

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This post was written for Family Review Network as part of a program for 429 Records, who supplied the product for review and giveaway. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine.

Dove Men and Care are celebrating the Man in your life and his “Unsung Moments”

My husband has lots of moments, as do many men and we just don’t talk about them right? Oh wait, we’re supposed to be discussing the point at which a man officially grows up. Does that really happen? I mean, they graduate from high school, get a job or go to college and then get a job, then they get married or do a variation of these things and they are an adult right?

Grown up or not, I wouldn’t trade the fact that he knows how to get in the floor with the kids and be a silly dad. Dove recently came out with a line for men and my husband jumped right on the bandwagon of trying a new product made for men, I honestly at this time of night can’t remember what product it was that he tried but I know he uses it for moisturizing. I can just picture the dark Dove bottle on our armoire. 

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Dove developed MEN+CARE so men can literally be comfortable in their skin. Built on the Dove brand’s heritage in cleansing, moisturizing and care, the new MEN+CARE products offer great cleansing combined with Dove moisturizers to provide total skin comfort. Dove MEN+CARE is dermatologist recommended and clinically proven to fight skin dryness without irritation or tightness.

Here you can find a printable coupon for $1.00 off either one Dove Men + Care Body and Face Wash, one Body and Face Bar, or one Shower Tool. Dove invites you to celebrate your man’s unsung moments with a Dove Men + Care Contest hosted by Brickfish. You can win a backyard makeover.  What you need to do to enter is submit a story, photo, or video about a man in your life. Visit Brickfish.com to view the Celebrate Your Man’s Unsung Moments contest entries, or to submit your own entry, or to read the official contest rules. This contest ends on March 22, 2010.

But while you’re thinking about it here is a great video from Dove:

 

 

I will be receiving a Dove product for free from Dove for posting this information.