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MomDot- BP Day Eleven

November 26, 2008 By 10 Comments
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Day Eleven (November 26): Staci A, mommas gone over the wall
If you could only eat ONE food on Thanksgiving Day, what would it be? Do you have a home cooked meal for Thanksgiving or do you go out to eat? Does your family dress up?
I would love to eat Mexican food. We do this for Christmas at my grandmothers because by the time you have had four or five holidays (big family), everyone is tired of Turkey. Mexican food is my all time favorite food.
We’re going over to my MOMS Club. We always have a home cooked meal, although; last year since I was pregnant my husband wanted to take me out for dinner but I was too tired. So we had mac and cheese.
No, we don’t dress up. I do for Christmas though!
One more day to go!
Filed Under: blog party, Christmas, MomDot

MagnetStreet Baby cards, magnets, and more

November 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Patrick over at MagnetStreet Baby has offered a 50% discount to my readers and your readers and to anyone who would like to use it. You should use it ‘ SAVE50′.



I had the opportunity to review their product. I’m still waiting to get mine in the mail, it should be here today or tomorrow or some time very soon and then I’ll update my post with a picture of the sample I got.

I went to the site and found a birth anouncement magnet that was completely customizable. I changed it to be a Holiday greeting from my children to the family. It was so simple to do. The whole process took less than thirty minutes and it took that long because I was taking care of my kids and watching tv at the same time.



Photo upload is very fast and placement is very fast as well. I just can’t believe how easy it was. I also thought the pricing was really great. Especially since I picked out magnets. You can get cards, announcements and magnets. The magnets are 1.99 each and with this new discount they are going to be 1.00 each.

If you think about the price of magnets, they are usually 4 to 5 dollars a piece, well these are customized like you want them and 1.00 each for a limited time. Go, hurry, why are you still on my site?

Filed Under: announcements, card review, Christmas

Blog Party Day 10

November 25, 2008 By 10 Comments

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Day Ten (November 25): Kimberly, All about KimberlyDo you decorate for the Holidays? Do you have a themed Christmas tree? Share pics! Do you think there is such a thing as OVER decorating?

I don’t have any pictures of our tree because I was pregnant. I don’t think you can over decorate and my husband would love a yard to do a Griswald Christmas with blow up decorations and fill up the whole yard. We have candy cane lights to go up our side walk.

These are two pictures of my daughter last year around Christmas. This is her Christmas dress and coat. We must have been getting ready to go to church. I don’t look dressed up but I couldn’t fit into anything decent.

Filed Under: blog party, Christmas, MomDot

MomDot- BP Day Nine

November 24, 2008 By 7 Comments
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Day Nine (November 24): Trisha, Sweet N’ Sassy
Most unusual gift you have received? Best gift? Do you re-gift?

I usually don’t re-gift except for White Elephant gifts.

My best gift, was a cutting board my husband got me for my art. It is so easy to use and I can cut matts out to matt my art work. In college I majored in computer science but my emphasis was art. So I like to paint using water colors, oils, and acrylics. Oh wait.

Two years ago, we had a winter storm and we were without power for a week. I was 9 months pregnant and ready to burst. No shower, no heat, no light after four pm. I was miserable. When we called the power company they said we would be lucky to have power before Christmas. I was so depressed at the thought of spending Christmas in the dark. We got power back before Christmas. YEAH.

My most unusual gift. Nothing comes to mind.

Filed Under: blog party, Christmas, MomDot

MomDot Day 3 Christmas of Dreams

November 14, 2008 By 22 Comments

click the duck to get back to MomDot Oh and Don’t forget 10% off at My Bag www.kushies.com using ms10.

Welcome to Day 3

Sponsors: Hippos Toes, Appledonia and My Bag.

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When do you start shopping? What do you do for a budget and do you stick to your budget?

This is the first year that we have already started shopping for Christmas. This is also the first year that we have ever had a budget where we are keeping track of receipts and seeing if we are sticking to a budget. We have decided to start spending a little on Christmas every month since we made our budget last month.

Thanks to Costco, and Fred Meyer was are staying on budget and getting getting some money back. Both stores have a membership where you get a percentage back of what you spend. You have to spend it in their store but we will no problem. I get all of my fresh produce at Costco. Saving Saving Saving that is what I like to do.

I’m going to have this post at midnight, but it won’t have the sponsors or the link back to MomDot until I get up in the morning.

Filed Under: Christmas, giveaway, MomDot, save time

Child’s Wish List

November 14, 2008 By 2 Comments

I was just introduced to WishCove by the creator Richard Carroll. He has created a place for parents and children aged three and above to create a list (birthday, Christmas, any holiday or reason) of gifts that your child wants.

My grandmother was just asking me and telling me that this is something that moms should be interested in, do you know of one. The only thing I could think of was that Amazon.com has a
wish list.
This is so much easier to use than Amazon (for a kid that is). They can look at pictures and find the one that matches their little heart’s desire. Setting up an account is easy and it is free. If you have any difficulty using it or if there are “technical” difficulties Richard is very quick at getting them fixed. He does have a full time job away from this snazzy creation, but I can tell that his heart is in this little project.
I went to WishCove and created a list for both of my children in a very short amount of time. Go sign up, use it. Share it.
Whomever you share the list with is then given the option to reserve and/or purchase the item for your child.

Click on the monkey to see a sample list.

I was very happy to share this with my readers. I also wanted to give you all a heads up on the discount side there is a new addition. Kushies has offered my readers a 10 % discount ordering directly from them. Have fun!!

Filed Under: Christmas, Kushes, Wish List, WishCove

Getting into Christmas

November 9, 2008 By 6 Comments


Do you find yourself having a hard time dealing with Christmas this year?

I am on a few frugal lists and freebie sites and people are depressed about Christmas. How are they going to buy their kids presents how are they going to keep everyone happy?

I don’t know how to answer all of these questions except by looking to my faith. We need to remember what Christmas is about, and not the commercialism. We need to remember family and others in need. Mostly, we need to remember the birth of Jesus. This is something that we do with our daughter and now that we have a son we will do it with him as well.

We will read the story of Christ’s birth. We have a touch and feel Christmas story book. This will be one of our family traditions and I can’t wait to build more.

I was reminded to look into the happiness of Christmas when I was given the opportunity to read and review the e-book Saving Christmas Magical Tips for creating lasting Christmas Memories through FaithApproved.

This e-book was put together by Denise Willms. Denise set out to create an e-book that would teach everyone how to save money and how to keep themselves sane during the Holidays. She asked her friends at WAHM-articles to help her with ideas and what she found turned into a compilation of Saving Christmas.

“By ghostwriting content moms like to read, Denise Willms helps gain exposure and build reputations for those who market to moms. Go to www.WAHMArticles.com/forum and sign up for your free account to learn more about writing WAHM Articles, and building your own relationship with the mom market.”

Denise organized her story and stories from the following group of people into an inspiring anecdote reminding us of what Christmas means and how we should treat family and how we should not let family treat us.

Dominique Goh

http://www.dominiquegoh.com

Sophia McIntyre

http://www.WorkAtHomeSpace.com

Stephanie Fish

http://www.buckeyeva.com

Tracey McBride

http://frugalluxuries.blogspot.com

Tammy Embrich

http://www.onestopwebemployment.com

Laurie Neumann

www.christianhomebusinessconnection.com

Deborah Allinder Lee

http://www.ourmusicalhome.com

Ada Lloyd
http://www.mastervisionscoaching.com/

Nina Newton

http://www.mamaslittletreasures.typepad.com

Jacquie Ross, Professional Organizer

http://www.castawaytheclutter.com

Jane Straus

http://www.StopEnduring.com

Nancy Fulton

http://www.nobetterfriendmovie.com

Filoiann Wiedenhoff

www.filoiannwiedenhoff.com

Denise Landers

www.KeyOrganization.com

Lesley Johnson

http://www.JFSMONEY.com

Adela Osmond

http://www.trainupchildren.com style="font-family:Arial;font-size:8px;color:blue;">

Ruth Willms

http://www.RuthWillms.com

Lucille Zimmerman

http://www.RumorsOfGlory.net/blog

Leisa Watkins

http://www.leisawatkins.com

Roxanne Weber

http://online-business-woman.com

Jane Euell, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst

http://drcofcolorado.com

Gina Bell, The Networking Maven

http://www.thenetworkingmasters.com

Corrie Petersen

http://www.virtualfreedom4you.com

Judy H. Wright

http://www.ArtichokePress.com

Teresa Steventon

www.WorkingFromHomeWorldwide.com

Lynn Menendez

http://completewellnesstoday.com

You can purchase your copy of Saving Christmas at WAHM-articles. I’m ready to put up my tree and get out all of the decorations. I can’t wait until the smell of pumpkin pie drifts from the kitchen. This is excellent at re-introducing us to Christmas. It reminds me of the song from The Grinch, sung by Faith Hill. “Where are you Christmas”.

Filed Under: Christmas, e-book, Faith Approved, review

Last contest for a little bit.

November 7, 2008 By 4 Comments

We’re sick again in my house so I haven’t had time to post anything. It started with my husband even though I think my daughter and I were the ones that picked up the germs. My son got sick after my husband. I was up all night one night with him, then the next night my daughter and my son were up. So that was two nights with limited sleep then yes, I got sick and boy am I sick.

I have it the worst out of all of us. Woes of a mommy.

Anyways for the giveaway.

I have been reading a lot of blogs and I’m on a lot of frugal lists. My heart breaks for all of the families out there that are barely getting by. I also feel so much for those of you that are having a hard time with Christmas.

I have coupons to give, I know I have been giving a ton of coupons away lately, but one person will get my stuffed envelope of coupons.

I have been going through all of them. I have a couple for pantyhose, and some for board games.
I just have tons to give away. You have one week to enter. The contest ends on November 14th. The envelope is already full it’s just waiting for a winner.

So leave a comment with your e-mail address. If there is no e-mail address I won’t be able to contact you.

Filed Under: Christmas, contest, coupons, giveaway

Christmas of Dreams

November 4, 2008 By 1 Comment

I wanted to let everyone know that there is a HUGE contest over at MomDot. It is a blogging party so you do have to be a blogger to participate.

From November 12 – 27th You can participate in the party.

MomDot Blog Party!”/

The sponser list is so long:


Dyson

BabyPop

The Shrunks

Soda Club

Kadi Prescott

Uncommonly Cute

Lollipop Book Club

Kuster

Silly Monkeez

LA Plates

Natitys Design

Little Black Box

Koshas

Kidz Sunglasses

JAS Creations

Appledonia

LeapFrog

Mutsy

Kushies

Huddy Buddy

Mimsi-Bags

BottleWise

Lets Go Strolling

DaBib

Sassy Baby

Baby Legs

Scentsy

FeeFiFoto

Randi100

Organic Blankees

Shi Shu Style

Georgie Tees

I have to answer the question, “Why do I deserve to win?”

INTRO


What makes me special, what makes me stand out from other mom bloggers. I have two children, no; I think there are moms out there that have many more children than just two. We need this, well, no, do I want to win yes.

I asked my husband to answer this question and he flat out said, we don’t deserve to win. Well I suppose that is true, but I am going to tell you my story anyways.

STORY

My daughter was born Jan 1 2007. My stepmom came up a few days after she was born and helped out for a few days. Then my mom came after a few more days and hung out with us. I wanted my dad to meet my daughter so I took her down to see him. I got pregnant (didn’t expect it to happen so fast). We went to visit my family. Oh yeah, my dad and stepmom live in Texas, I live in WA. My mom and stepdad live in Florida. I MISS MY FAMILY!

I told my dad and stepmom I was pregnant and we had some laughs and it was back to WA. I had my son in March of this year and I didn’t have any help. My husband couldn’t even take off of work at the time. He was leading a project. So I was so ALONE with two kids I mean two babies. I got depressed and couldn’t breastfeed and I got more depressed. Well, my mom and grandmother came up to visit, so I put my depression aside and spent a few days with them.

Well, I’m not depressed anymore. I found a MOMS Club in my area and made some really great friends. I have found the blogging community and I stay really busy and active now. My only problem is and this is why I want to win. My dad still hasn’t seen his grandson. I would give anything for him to meet his grandson for Christmas. I can’t fit it into the budget to buy all of us tickets, that and the idea of traveling by myself during the holidays with two kids, two car seats and a bunch of grumpy passengers is not something high on my list. I would love to fly them up here.

My husband and I made a budget last month. We are not going to be putting anything extra on the credit cards this year. We had no idea how hard it was to stay on a budget. Nor did we have any idea how expensive kids are. We aren’t in an economic crunch like a lot of families are but we do see how important it is to stretch the value of a dollar.

CONCLUSION

When you add up the mom things I do: play dates, fundraising, blogging, reviewing; I feel like the average underachieving mom. Boy, moms sure are hard on themselves. J I’m nothing special, just a mom, a wife, and a daughter who would like her father to meet his grandson. That would be my Christmas dream.

Thanks for having this contest. If I win or not it was GREAT to get this out off of my chest.

Filed Under: Christmas, contest, MomDot

Simple Salutations

October 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Simple Salutations is a business run by two mothers. One of them used to work for Disney Animation and the other worked for the American Red Cross.

They are both now running this business and taking care of kids. I just love how moms have the ability to do so much. I have enough trouble finding my kids socks. Where do they go? I think because they are so small the washing machine eats them.

Kris and Shea have offered us a 10% discount using the code ‘Momstart’. How wonderful and generous of them. I have looked at their cards and they are really nice. The best part of the process is that everything is fully customizable…

FOR FREE!!!!!!!

I didn’t really understand what this meant so I had to ask for further explanation. This is what Kris told me:

“We customize each product. I personally designed each card so I can change whatever on each item. That is one thing that we like to offer at no additional cost is the ability to completely customize the card, from changing a color to adding more or less pictures. So once someone places and order then we discuss with the customer how to customize their product to fit their needs. We have changed bridesmaid dress colors and added more pictures and so on.”

So, you pick the card.

You pick how many you want, and then what do you want the card to say? What pictures do you want on the card? what color do you want the card. What color do you want the text to be? So many options.

Filed Under: cards, Christmas, review, Simple Salutations
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