Congrats Katie on winning the Hairbow-tique giveaway! If you are interested in getting some great holiday accessories for you or your little princess, head over to Hairbow-tique today and get your order in! I’m so excited to be a part of Handmade for the Holidays blog hop this year!  Handmade for the Holidays is an [...]

Congrats Katie for winning the “Family Flick Night” giveaway! I can confidently say that I will not be partaking in the Black Friday madness! For so many reasons. I’ve done it before. I’ve stood in lines.  I’ve scored some good deals.  Missed out on others.  But this year I’m 6 months pregnant.  I’m pretty sure [...]

Congratulations to Michele P. for winning the Agoo Leggings giveaway! Today is International Argyle Day! Seriously, I love these little celebratory days.  They just bring a little something extra to my otherwise mundane week.  And, Argyle?  Why not???? To celebrate International Argyle Day, Agoo Leggings is offering this amazing package of three argyle leggings at [...]

Congratulations to Kelly D. for winning the Method “Fight the Flu” kit! You can all win even more prizes tonight at the #ecowed Twitter party (10p-11p EST). Don’t forget to follow @MethodTweet and @TheSmartMama! Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Cleaning while pregnant? Who does that?  Sadly, unless you’re one of the lucky ones who [...]

Congratulations Laura! You are the winner of the iTunes Gift Card! You will be receiving an email from me shortly about claiming your prize. It’s like crack for babies and toddlers! Crack that envelopes all of their attention with it’s music and puppets and little toys dancing across the screen! It’s a beautiful, wonderful thing. [...]

Congratulations Ashely! You are the winner of the IntelliGender gift pack! You should have an email waiting from me about claiming your prize. When you were pregnant, did you have a feeling that you just knew the sex of that little child in you? There are lots of those old-wives tales about how to predict [...]

Tomorrow afternoon we go for our first ultrasound for this pregnancy. It’s weird to think that I’m already 20 weeks along. That means I’m half way through this pregnancy. If the remaining 20 (or so) weeks go as fast as the first 20 (which they undoubtedly will with the holidays mixed in there), this baby [...]

I had to laugh this morning as I watched Live with Regis & Kelly because Kelly was joking with special co-host Kyle MacLachlan (Desperate Housewives) about him being a year older than Fred Flintstone (who just turned 50)! That got me thinking….holy cow! I’m a year older than Strawberry Shortcake!!! I loved Strawberry Shortcake as [...]

Fall marks the return of a lot of things — school, cooler weather, apple crisp, and good tv! Usually there are at least one or two new Fall shows that I’m excited to see, but this year I’m left feeling a little disappointed. I haven’t seen anything that has me super excited this Fall…but I [...]

With all of this back-to-school excitement buzzing on blogs, Twitter, and Facebook, this weeks DVD is perfect for family movie night! Diary of a Wimpy Kid Based on the best-selling illustrated novel by Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid follows pre-teen Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) as he embarks on his first year of middle [...]