Ball Park Franks Grilling Days of Summer Sweepstakes

Ball Park Franks Grilling Days of Summer

To celebrate the official kick off to summer, Ball Park Franks is hosting a “Grilling Days of Summer” Sweepstakes for Ball Park Facebook fans. By sharing a photo of family and friends grilling out and enjoying the warm weather along with a caption about how you celebrate the summer you could win The Ultimate 4th [...]

Baby Bunch Contest

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The Baby Bunch has the most ridiculously cute baby gifts I’ve ever seen. You can buy a whole layette outfit disguised as a pretty blooming flower pot. Their newest additions are adorable too – bodysuits wrapped up to look like cupcakes and lollipops! The Baby Bunch is currently running a contest on Facebook to give [...]

Munchkin Baby Safety Gates & Contest

Munchkin Safety Gate Contest

Baby gates are a necessity of life with little ones in our homes. My problem with safety gates is that so many of them are ugly and an eyesore when mixed with our home décor. I think we’ve had a safety gate in use for more days than not over the past four years. Munchkin [...]

Personalized Gift Cards from Home Depot

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Home Depot has unveiled a new line of gift cards this holiday season. The new cards allow customers to personalize their cards from purchase to delivery. There are three new ways to give gift cards. One of the most innovative is  the option to record a personalized video and upload it to an eGift card [...]

First Data eGift Social – Send Real Gifts, Real Easy

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While everyone loves a gift card because it’s a chance to shop for exactly what you want, I sometimes feel like I “cheated” when giving them. I always try to spruce them up a bit with. I’ve gone so far as wrapping a big box and in it is a smaller box, and on and [...]

My Favorite Tomato Recipe Fights Heart Disease

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One of my favorite things about summer is our vegetable garden. Tired Dad Dave loves to grow tomatoes and the past couple of years we’ve actually been overrun with them. So on a search to find any and all tomato recipes, I may have stumbled upon the perfect one – Double-Tomato Bruschetta. It’s such a [...]

Libman Company Money Mop Up Sweepstakes

This December, the Libman Company is giving away 25 Wonder Mops, 5 Freedom Spray Mops, a Grand Prize of $500 cash and a Libman product gift basket valued at $100 in their Money Mop Up Sweepstakes. Entering the contest is easy. Simply become a fan of Libman on Facebook and then fill out the entry [...]

Baileys Gives Away 250 Free Round-Trip Airline Tickets!

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Have you heard about the Baileys Brings You Home Project? Baileys Original Irish Cream is holding a Facebook contest awarding 250 consumers free round-trip tickets home to see there long-distance friends or relatives. Each ticket is worth $500 and good for any U.S. Domestic Flight. 25 winners are announced each week on Facebook through December [...]

Rescue My Appliances!

Sears Rescue My Appliances

Our kitchen is in desperate need of help. It’s all white (or at least it’s supposed to be!) – white tile, white counter, white cupboards. Seriously. Who can keep that all clean? Especially when it’s the most used room in the house. Partly because of it’s where the food is kept, partly because we hand [...]

Arm & Hammer Diaper Pail Giveaway: 5 Winners! – CLOSED

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This giveaway is now closed. And the Winners Are: Congratulations Melissa, Brandy, Angi, Katie, and Sherri! Thank you to everyone who entered and good luck next time! ****************************************************************** I’ve got a great giveaway below where 5 readers will win an Arm & Hammer Diaper Pail but before you scroll down, read about your Munchkin’s fun [...]

Crest Pro-Health Complete Rinse Test Drive Update

We’ve been a part of the Crest Pro-Health Complete Rinse Test Drive for a couple of weeks now and it’s time for our update. Tired Dad Dave and I were avid mouthwash users prior to this test drive and we are pleased with the results from Crest Pro-Health Complete Rinse. In the past, we normally [...]

High Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Corn Sugar

There’s been a lot of debate lately about the Corn Refiner’s Association petition to change the name of high fructose corn syrup to corn sugar. When I first heard about this I was suspicious. Hasn’t high fructose corn syrup been found to cause obesity and certain types of cancers? I’ve heard it’s being banned from [...]

September is National Coupon Month – MySavings.com

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Did you know that September is National Coupon Month? In honor of National Coupon Month, I’d like to introduce you to MySavings.com, an online community whose goal is to connect consumers and offer a place to share money saving tips and offers. What makes this site different from the hundreds of other coupon communities out [...]

Invisalign Teen – Win a VIP Trip for 4 to the Teen Choice Awards!

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As you probably remember from my bad paid for photos, I had braces growing up. It feels like I wore them for years and after I got them off I wore retainers. My teeth looked great for quite a while, but honestly I wasn’t as dedicated to wearing my retainers as I should have been. [...]

Pink Power Mom – Rewarding the Fight Against Breast Cancer

Since I signed up to walk in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure®, I’ve become more aware of all of the amazing campaigns there are fighting against breast cancer. Each year, Bright Starts™ honors and rewards eight women for their inspirational fight against breast cancer.  Not only have these women persevered through their [...]

Get Fit for Motherhood & Get a Baby Jogger City Mini Stroller

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of CryoCell International. All opinions are 100% mine. When I was pregnant with Kora, I worked in an office and we had a small gym in the building. I did my best to walk and lift a little on my lunch hours or after work. [...]

Buzzed Driving IS Drunk Driving – St. Patrick’s Day Edition

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As parents, most of us probably don’t have any big plans today for St. Patrick’s Day. However, if you do, please remember that Buzzed Driving IS Drunk Driving. If you’re like Tired Dad Dave and I, and are treating today like any other don’t forget that while we are out running errands with our children in tow, we may [...]

Don’t Forget: Children Count Too

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Did You Know: The first Census took place in 1790? The data from the Census is used to distribute $400 billion in federal funds each year to communities for establishing and improving schools, child care, health care, and hospitals? Many parents don’t the importance of accurately reporting the number of children in their family, including newborns? In 1980, [...]

Reading is Fundamental Program in Jeopardy

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In November of 1966 former teacher, Margaret McNamara, gathered volunteers and they started the book distribution and reading motivation program called Reading Is Fundamental. Today Reading is Fundamental Programs operate in all 50 states as well as in some countries outside the U.S. Reading is Fundamental helps children learn to read by delivering free books and  resources to children and families [...]

National Pancake Day!

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Did you know that Tuesday, February 23rd is National Pancake Day?! Shrove Tuesday (or as it’s more commonly called now – Fat Tuesday) precedes the season of Lent. Long ago, strict Lenten rules prohibited the eating of dairy products during Lent so pancakes were made to use up the supply of eggs, milk, butter, and other [...]