Archive for June, 2010
Sears is having a baby story contest. What you have to do to enter is log in to your online sears account (create one if you do not have one). The tell your story about what helped you the most during your first year with your baby.
There are over $10,000 in prizes to be won. The grand prize is a kid's room makeover (values at almost $8000) and 2 years of maid service. Oh how I would love the maid service for two years!
Suggestions on ways to make your story stand out is to include photos, video and to send it to friends, family, twitter and Facebook so people read and rate it.
For more details take a look at the following pages:
Tomorrow June 20th, 2010 is Father's Day. With the change over time in the structure of families, not every child has a father or mother present in their family. In these times, some families have one mother, or a father, step mothers, step fathers, two mothers, two fathers and the combination can go on and on.
No matter what your family structure looks like, we hope that you find a way to celebrate tomorrow. Celebrate your parents. Celebrate your family.
Happy parent's day, father's day and Happy Family Day to everyone for tomorrow. For those who might not have a father, don't focus on what you do not have, Celebrate the family and support that you do have.
Here is a video that is done by a youngster and is pretty popular. It illustrates my point. There are kids out there who do not have a father around for whatever reason. Maybe they passed away, maybe they were just never known. Remember to celebrate what you have.
I still have my dad, so tomorrow I will be calling him to let him know just how important he is to me. My little one does not have a dad, so tomorrow we will be celebrating having parents. Make tomorrow a day to treasure what you have.
I found this amazing photo contest that you have to check out. The yearly contest prize is a $25,000 college fund. How amazing is that as a grand prize! It is free to join and enter online. Some of the kids that were entered in past contests via this website have gone on to be seen in Sesame Street, Fisher Price, Disney and Sears ads. You have to check this out for yourself.
There are also monthly contests that you can enter under various categories. I will post a few of the categories here but you can browse them all on the website.
MONTHLY CONTEST
TWINS AND MULTIPLES CONTEST
NOSE PICKERS
CuteKid nose pickers
SUPER CUTE KID
Good luck.
Mandi Schwartz, a 22-year old member of the Yale women’s ice hockey team, has recently been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia for the second time. She is currently back home in Saskatchewan, Canada undergoing chemotherapy, and within the next 30-45 days she will have to have a stem cell transplant to survive. We have not yet located a donor who is a perfect match.
Under the leadership of Dr. Tedd Collins, a New Haven-based clinical immunologist, we are undertaking a world-wide search for cord blood and bone marrow donors. In addition to helping Mandi, these donors could also save the lives of many others with life-threatening illnesses. Dr. Collins has launched the “Become Mandi’s Hero” campaign to coordinate our efforts to find donors. The process of donating a newborn baby's cord blood is free & harmless for all involved, and it could save a life. In many cases the umbilical cords that could save someone like Mandi’s life wind up getting thrown away.
Dr. Collins will send cord blood collection kits to people who request them free of charge & will even pay for return postage (a cost that is usually in the $1000s). Expectant mothers can visit www.BecomeMandisHero.org to learn more about the cord blood donation process. Attached is a brochure that explains how to get a kit from Dr. Collins if you are an expectant mother.
There is also a $1,000 reward to the mother with a successful match. Those of German, Russian, and Ukranian ancestry are strongly encouraged to donate, however, a cord blood donation of any ancestry can obviously still impact someone's life.
By helping Mandi you will be giving birth to two lives at once.
Thank you!
The other day my kids were watching a bit of television, when all the sudden a commercial for Kellogg's came on. Next thing I knew, I heard my youngest saying, "Mom, I want all those shirts please." That caught my attention and I looked up to see about this new Kellogg's Promotion.
The promotion is running from May 10th, 2010 to August 10th, 2010. What it is all about is these awesome free Adidas sport shirts that are free when you purchase a specially marked box of certain Kellogg"s cereals. These specially marked boxes have a code inside and the code is used to obtain your FREE shirt. And yes, I do me free because for this promotion even shipping and handling is FREE. From my experience, most promotions you have to pay for shipping and handling, but not with this Kellogg's Promotion.
So here is what you have to do to get your free Adidas shirt.
1. Buy a specially marked box of Kellogg's cereal.
2. Look inside the box, on the box itself for your special code.
3. Go to the Kellogg's / Adidas promotion website and enter your code. Then pick the shirt of your choice, size and give them your address.
4. Wait for 6 - 10 weeks and your shirt should be in the mail.
Here are the products that are specially marked for this promotion:
* Corn Pops* cereal: 515 g
* Froot Loops* cereal: 580 g
* Kellogg's Frosted Flakes* cereal: 680g
* Mini-Wheats* Brown Sugar Flavour cereal: 850 g
* Rice Krispies* cereal: 700 g
* Mini-Wheats* Original cereal: 850 g
Here are the shirts that are available:
Sizes are available in small, medium, and large.
Four designs to choose from:
- 'Soccer' Toucan Sam* print.
- 'Soccer' Snap!*, Crackle!* and Pop!* print.
- 'Soccer' Tony the Tiger* print.
- Adidas branded Soccer shirt.
There are some Legal Disclaimers of course that deal with the fact that there are limited quantities. So remember that the offer is only good while supplies last. There are apparently a of 175,000 Adidas Soccer Tees available. And the offer is for Canadian shipping addresses only.
Remember not to save up the codes and wait to enter them. You could find that there are no more shirts available. You also have to enter your codes by August 10th, 2010 in or they are not valid anymore.
I ordered three shirts tonight. My little one is going to be so happy.