Well Santa is just about here boys and girls, I've been watching the Santa Tracker all day. So he has little bit longer to check that naughty or nice list and I have one question to all of you.....

Have you been....

NAUGHTY or NICE?

Remember folks, Santa's watching!

Okay for those of you that know me, we've already opened all our presents and now the children are eagerly waiting for morning because they know any presents under the tree will be from Santa. They aren't 100% sure if they've been Naughty or Nice. I think I'll keep them in suspense.

Labels: naughty or nice, naughty or nice list, santa

With only hours to go before Santa arrives at your house I bet you are hearing all types of things from your kids.

Mom, was I good this year? How does Santa know if I'm still behaving? Where's Santa now mom?

Well for most of those you can have Santa email your kids a letter telling them they've behaved. Mine did and even told him what they wanted for Christmas and he's already sent back two letters. One was from and elf named Binky and one from the Old St. Nick himself.

As for behaving I guess you can always tell them that if they don't behave Santa will leave them coal in their stockings. hehe. That's what I told mine. But for those of you that have a child wanting to know where Santa is you can show them his location on the Norad Tracker, we've been watching him all morning and currently he's bouncing back and forth between Japan, Australia and Russia. Take a peek.

Labels: norad tracker, noradtracker, santa claus, santa clause, where is santa, www.noradtracker.com

Did you know Windows has a phone out? I had no clue but I guess these days it shouldn't be a surprise that computer programming companies are coming out with them. I mean even Google has a phone now. So what's the new phone?

Windows Mobile Smartphone, which you can currently purchase it through the link or one of three companies: VerizonWireless, AT&T or Sprint. The SmartPhone comes with:

Version 6.1, Microsoft Office Mobile, WindowsLive (which I LOVE), Windows Media Player, Voice Recognition, Non-touch Screen, tourch screen with stylus, QWERTY keyboard, 3G, WI-Fi, Internal GPS (never get lost)

This little guy will become your lifeline to just about everything and since you can access your email and make phone calls its that much easier to love. There are actually 38 devices (phones) to choose from, the newest one being a very sleek SamSung Omnia. I won't lie, I love the SamSung phone, something about it now I haven't tried this one but it looks very nice. The battery is even good for 5 hours of talking, hopefully you don't need that much in one call but ya never know.

Labels: smartphone, window mobile smartphone

11 & 91 were the winners in the Christmas (New & Old Classics) so would:

Leah- At the moment, The Santa Clause. I just watched it again and it's
cute.not.a.ship{at}gmail.com

Shelly- Elf cracks me up. And I love Joy to the World.

Please email me at homemom3@gmail.com with your address so I can get these sent to you. Thank you.

Homemom3 is giving away two different sets of movies, one is The Classic Christmas Movie Collection and the other is the NEW classic Christmas Movies. Now only two winners will get this so you have to get in on this now, oh and did I mention there is only one day to enter.

Okay, in my local paper I read how some people are actually trying to BAN Rudolph songs and others don't want their kids singing about Santa Clause. Why? Ruldolph teaches about how the other reindeer treated him bad. Santa breaks into your home from the chimney.

Umm, what about all the other stuff? I think it showed that no matter what he still found others that excepted him for who he was and later they'd all discover it. Santa was a very giving man, made toys all year and delivered. Come on! Well both are staying in my house and the songs will be song even after Christmas I'm sure.

Now who wants to win these movies? You will get: Gumby, Fat Albert, Casper, George of the Jungle (all the new ones) and Frosty, Rudolph, Santa Claus, etc.

To win: Leave a comment (WITH AN EMAIL) telling me your favorite Christmas carol/movie. You will need to respond to my email within 10 hours. Be ready! I'll announce a winner tomorrow night.

Labels: banning christmas, banning rudolph, banning santa, christmas classics giveaway, michelle markin, win

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
3

The LG Rumor in Blue it's perfect for me! I can email and it's blue! My daughter would love this finally she could have her own cell phone.
# posted by Taylor Blue : 3:14 PM

Congratulations! Please contact me by noon today or I'll have to draw another winner. homemom3@gmail.com (please folks leave email addresses)

A few weeks ago Momcentral teamed up with Baby Einstein and blessed this house with its very first Baby Einstein video, cd and book. I want to tell you I'm ashamed to state that and I wasn't blind to this company, in fact a very good friend in Sweden tells me all about these videos...I just hadn't bought them.

The first thing that Little A grabbed was the book, "boook." He begain right away looking at it and of course his older sister, BalletGirl tried reading to him. But she had to wait for him to put the book down before she could finish the story. His book was the touch and feel Farm animals and he definitely knows the cow. He felt the cows nose, velvety and then said, "Cow..Moo." He did however refuse to pet the lamb on the inside page, he insisted the book had to be closed to pet it. I'm guessing since when you look at it that is the part sticking out.

The video is Baby Mozart and for him it is only good during certain parts. He wouldn't sit long enough, but he did enjoy the Lullaby Classics CD. He even bopped his head back and forth in a swaying position. To me the video was perfect for a calming afternoon, since everything is quiet and soothing. It was his sister, Babygirl (age 5) that seemed to enjoy the movie. For those that have never seen it there are real-life pictures that go with the theme. There's even a tiny puppet show.

Thanks Baby Einstein and Momcentral for giving me something besides Barney for a little while.

Labels: baby einstein, momcentral

Here are a few giveaways I'm having soon:
- Lands' End Winter Surprise
- Teens Talk
- Christmas Movie Classics

Other upcoming ones:
- Smart Shopper

Babylune:
Christmas Movie Classics- Two collections for 3 winners each. What's your favorite holiday movie? Deadline December 18th
Vivabox- Coffee in a box, what would you want? Deadline December 18th.
Scooterbees- what pic would you like on them? Deadline Dec 20th
$20 Macy's GC- favorite holiday memory. Deadline Dec 27th

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:

64
Timestamp: 2008-12-16 00:17:22 UTC

I like the Sanyo Katana II (Black)
# posted by Becca : 11:08 PM

Becca make sure to email me homemom3@gmail.com I will give this to the next winner if I don't hear back. :)

For those that did not win:

**If you didn't win the Kajeet, you can purchase them online now. For a limited time, you can take 15% off the kajeet purchase. (Promo code: homemom3)Plus, get $10 additional airtime when you activate your phone!(Enter: BONUS10 at activation)**

Labels: kajeet cell phone, kajeet winner

The winner of the Busy Ball-Tivity Center goes to....

Hey, I just put this on our Christmas wish list earlier! LOL!We were talking
about GloWorms this week. DH didn't know what they were! I remember having one
as a little girl. I vaguely remember a cartoon and all (he doesn't) The Rose
Petal stuff is darling.
#
posted by Storm, The Psychotic Housewife

Email was already sent out. Congrats again. For those still wanting
one you can buy Playskool
Busy Ball-Tivity Center for $8.99 instead of the 34.99. Cheaper right now and get it before Christmas if you order byt he 17th.

Labels: busy ball-tivity centre

Using Random number generator the lucky winner of the Hannah Montana backstage pass is...

Both her brother and sister starred in one of Hanna Montanna's music videos. (that's from my dd!) And yes she'd scream too if she got this book. LOLBrain Foggleshttp://brainfoggles.com
# posted by ConnieFoggles

please email me at homemom3@gmail.com with your address. Now your daughter gets to scream too.

Man I hate having no voice, but seems like that sore throat and fever has taken away my voice yet again. This time I think I hurt it more last week when it first started, I ate a pizza and think I ripped part of the inside of my throat. (had some small evidence)

Anyways now it is super sore and hurts to talk so looks like once again I have laringitis (not sure of the spelling). Kids are just loving this, they even told me to hush and handed me a piece of paper and a pen. UGH!

How many of you have dealt with this? Any remedies... BESIDES NOT TALKING.

Labels: laringitis, no voice, sore throat

On Friday Morning I had a weird number show up on my phone, so what does one do that loves the internet? I googled it, saw it was in the area and did a research search. I still wasn't sure, so finally I called it back but not before hearing my kid on my answering machine and then another followed up, "Can we adopt your kids for the weekend?" Now I knew no one literally wanted to adopt them but what did they do so well or need them for. I called.

Teacher told me they wanted to pick SoccerBoy for a shopping spree. ??? A what? Well, he doesn't need it. They told me only so many are picked from each school and he was one of them. I made a few calls, got him a ride down there and called school box stating yes. This would be the first time we have ever allowed any of our kids to go anywhere like this, especially on a weekend.

So the deal was done, SoccerBoy would show up at Sears Grand at 7 a.m. to go shopping with an Elk (no not a deer). They let him spend $200 on whatever, unlike most kids he decided to have fun with it and shop for everyone in the family, plus something for Toys For Tots. He got some really nice gifts too, but as the teacher told me later, he KNOWS how to shop and gets TONS for so little. They were amazed as the other kids got $185 iPods or $40 snowboards and he got two large garbage bags full of presents for not just him but everyone in the family (at least 2 each).

Later today we'll take him down to drop off his toy for tots. He's so proud of it, but I'm just boiling over with pride for him. I'll update ya later on what all he got, I just had to share this with my readers.

Labels: shopping spree, soccerboy goes on a shopping spree

Woo hoo, found out that SoccerBoy made the paper. First, I wasn't very pleased as we did sign a piece of paper stating our kids were NOT to be in the media/paper/anything at the beginning of the school year.

But I got a note that came home the other day with him, he was so excited and first thing out of his mouth was "Mom, you are going to be mad and happy." My first thought was okay how do I respond to this. "Why?"

He tossed the note to me with a somewhat cheesy grin, "I didn't say anything bad." Now I'm quickly opening this note thinking back to the days at the other school when I'd get a note like this. Please no, let it be good.

"We'd like to inform you that your son, Soccerboy, will be in the newspaper on Saturday, December 13. We are letting you know in case you wanted to get a few copies. Soccerboy was picked to be the Cougar of the Month."

In the paper....yes, of course I grabbed it. Had hubby grab 4 copies, he grabbed more. I figure, one for self, one he takes to work, one Soccerboy will save and one for the family that asks. lol. Now we have more copies. It was a nice write up, granted I do wish I was informed, we could've totally styled his hair. We were allowing it to grow out until end of winter so it is shaggy looking right now. But he didn't care, which is all that matters. If I can find a link I'll show ya'll. But he did great, if you want to congratulate him you can leave a comment and I'll show him later today. Yes, I'm a very proud mommy at the moment and have even more to share in a moment.

Labels: Cougar of the Month, newspaper, soccerboy in the paper

We are no longer in the military but I found a site that would be great if we were. The site is called Tok Box and basically what you do is chat live in a little box on the top of your screen. I'm loving this and am going to actually do this as a Christmas Morning Greeting for the entire family on the west coast.

The family doesn't get to see the kids much, never did when we were in the military as we were always moving from one place or another or the opposite side of the states. Now we are stuck in the center and still a bit too far, with the economy and all. Not something we can just take a vacation for with four kids and our pocketbooks and vise versa. We do use the phone and I tend to use myspace a ton for pictures, so the family sees us through these avenues.

However with Tok Box, you sign up for a free account and you don't have to download everything. If you are like me you are very hesitant when it comes to that last part. Now one thing I do wish is that they had it so you could do this using skype, right now you can use it with AIM, yahoo messenger, msn and google. Once you choose which one you want to use you can quickly upload your video and click send. This will give you a link and you can send it to your friends, when they click the link it'll give them a pop up of you and they can not only see you but hear you as well. (great for grandparents seeing the grandkids that can't yet talk or those deployed overseas)

I plan on using this even more if the hubby does get sent overseas. Didn't I tell ya.... he re-enlisted, well he's not in the Marine Corp (like he'd love to be) but he is in the Army Reserves. I think he'd just love this feature. I will be using it a lot more now though, once the kids see this they'll probably want to call their Aunt J, cousins and grandparents. Another thing I love....it is FREE, no long distance bills for anyone.

Thanks to MomCentral for pointing me towards TokBox and I'll be sending everyone a video very soon. It's pretty easy to use. One more thing, there is a public area everyone can just leave their links (reminds me of a chatroom that everyone can see you) but I am skiddish on those so I didn't leave mine. However I did look at a few just to see what it was like. So I can see this becoming a thing teens would like, but as a parent you can control it too.

Labels: momcentral, tokbox

Labels: busy ball-tivity centre, busy ball-tivity centre giveaway, Playskool

Ya'll know BabyGirl (age 5) has been wanting a dog forever, she even pretends to have an invisible one. Thanks to Shannon for sending this our way. As you can see by the picture she just loves this dog, in fact she took it everywhere with us. We did have to explain why she couldn't take her dog inside the store or restaurants.

Labels: furreal friends, tumbles, tumbles roll over pup

Baby Alive Learns to Potty has made one little girl very happy in this house. Yes, I know I said I'd never allow her but she made her squeal. The Baby Alive Doll is learning to potty and I've actually discovered there are a few great things that come with having her here. First the doll says a few phrases like:

- I made a stinky.
- Tinkle Tinkle, Tinkle (then she pees)
- Lets play...boo
- it laughs
- I'm hungry
- I love you mommy

The Baby Alive Learns to Potty comes with two diapers, two packets of food, wipes and a baby bottle. By the way, yes the baby really does pee. The diaper gets wet and all. The kids will love this doll, however mom and dad be prepared to buy more diapers. The kids plan on potty training her next. Oh and since we are in the process Little A knows what the potty is...he tried going on her potty.

We also got to try a few other items out, the Poneyville from My Little Ponies, Giggle Balls, Busy Playskool Busy Ball-Tivity Center and FurReal Friends Tumbles. We will be giving two of these items away, read the reviews coming up to find out which ones.

Labels: baby alive, baby alive doll, baby alive learns to potty, baby alive review

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Like many blogs online, MomCentral has decided to make their very own MomCentral Holiday Gift Guide. This is the first Holiday Guide they've created and it covers every age, sex and hobby. You'll find stuff for boys and girls, babies, children of all ages, the man, woman and even pets.

One thing that not many know is you can even enter GIVEAWAYS and ya'll know how much I love those. In this giveaway a new name is drawn every day until the 18th, hurry and sign up. These are nice packages that can be won too, not just one item per person. For instance if you would have signed up yesterday this is what you could've won:

baby Package -

Labels: holiday gift guide, momcentral, momcentral gift guide, momcentral giveaway, momcentral holiday gift guide

The winner of the Teen Talk: Relationships is the mother of two teens: SHARON at www.MidleAgedMama.blogspot.com

would LOVE to win this...am mom to 2 teens. My most recent issue is getting in order to get his license, my son needs to get a job...we simply cannot afford it all...and he has little motivation...so that is what we are working on...thanks
# posted by Sharon : 12:59 PM

Congratulations, email me at homemom3@gmail.com with your address.

Labels: chicken soup for the soul, jack canfield, teens talk, teens talk relationships

All I can say is when this book arrived and it was taken out of the package, she had no clue what was in the box. As I pulled out the book, it couldn't be hidden, she (BalletGirl, age 8) knew what it was....SCCRRREEEAAAAMMMMMMS! Yep, you guessed it, it was something HANNAH MONTANA.

I explained it wasn't a doll, movie, or even a video game but she didn't care. She impatiently waited for me to hand it over and sat promptly down absorbing everything inside. Course, I was showed EVERYTHING inside, this is like a fan's favorite book. That's what I think it should've been called, "Everything a Hannah Montana Fan would Want."

A few things inside the book:
- 6 photos
- backstage pass
- concert program
- a guitar pic (that's already being used on her brother's guitar, she said she just has to use it)

More book details:
Hannah Montana Backstage Pass
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Disney Press (October 14, 2008)

RULES: Want to win a copy of your own Hannah Montana Backstage Pass? Leave a comment with a fact on Hannah Montana or your favorite Hannah Montana episode.

Deadline: Decemeber 13th, I'll announce the winner on the 14th. You will have 24 hours to respond to the winner post. Good luck!

Labels: hannah montana, hannah montana backstage pass, review hannah montana backstage pass

To the Joe's Jeans winners, I need the following two to email me by noon Pacific Time (California time) If I do not hear from you by then I will draw a new name.

Kanthony25 and ehager79@yahoo.com (Elizabeth)

Hurry there isn't much time. I've sent out emails you can drop me an email at homemom3@gmail.com

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To the winners of the Joe's Jeans Giveaway please email me at homemom3@gmail.com with your mailing address so I can send this over to Joe's. :) Have a great day and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!


Kanthony25 said...
My favorite jeans memory is buying my first pair of expensive jeans. I was so shocked at how well they fit, and how it was almost like they were cut just for me. I love Joes Jeans and I hope I win!!Thanks so much for the contest.

Elizabeth said...
I will always remember buying my first pair of designer jeans and how good I felt when I wore them!I love jeans.....especially Joes jeans :-) Thanks for the contest!!ehager79@yahoo.com

sweetsue said...
My favorite memory of jeans is the size I wore in highschool-a size 5! I don't want to say what size I wear now!smchester at gmail dot com

Erica said...
One of the best jean memories I have is one night I had no "cool" jeans to go out in. When I say go out I mean like to a night club with my friends. So yeah, I had nothing to wear, although ladies say that with a closet full of clothes.LOL..Well, since "i had nothing to wear" I went into my little sisters room and snagged a few of her jeans(sz.5). Mind you, she is way smaller then I am and I just knew that her jeans wouldn't fit. But I tried anyway and I slipped right in to them!! I was so shocked but I loved it beacause they fit just right. :) That wont happen now for sure though since she's a size freakin 0!! ugh I hate her!! LOL She has NO KIDS btw..LOL

joannaonthelake said...
One of my perhaps less finer moments when it comes to jeans was back about 11 years ago when I was in High School. I always loved to wear really cool hot looking jeans. My parents wouldn't allow me to wear them to school, so like the determine young girl that I was I snuck them in my backpack and would change into them once I got to school. This one day I was wearing (apparently) a pair of jeans that my French Teacher, who was actually German, thought were a little too low rise, and a little too tight, and when I walked into the classroom with them on he started yelling at me in half English half German about how awful the jeans were and how I should not be allowed to wear them! Can you imagine my shock, disbelief, and not really embarassment, but more sort of laughing at him because what the heck, I didn't speak German, it was French class for heavens sake! The kids in the class started laughing too, not at me, but at him. It was sort of a joke around school that day, but for some reason, I never wore those jeans to school again! I guess something deep inside me felt a little guilty for wearing them in the first place against my parents rules! See, I wasn't such a bad kid afterall! I wonder what my French teacher would think about Joe's Jeans??? I know one thing, I have always wanted to own a pair of Joe Jeans. They have so many really cool pairs and designs. It would become my dream pair of jeans! I still live in jeans so I know I would wear them all the time. Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter and share my story!joannaonthelake@gmail.com

Labels: joes jeans winners, Joes's Jeans, joesjeans giveaway

Keep watch as you'll like the next giveaway, especially if ya love books and LOVE Hannah Montana! Okay back to my chores. Later folks. Don't forget to sign up for my Joe's Jeans Giveaway, it ends when I announce the winner at 8 p.m. Central Time.

Labels: giveaway, joe's jeans giveaway, Joes's Jeans

We've been trying out a very soft and comfy sleeping bag from Lands' End and so far it has been passed around. This sleeping bag is suppose to be for a "child" however I must say that in order to be fair I just had to test it out as well. I mean how could I ever do a review of it if I didn't, hey had to think of something to tell SoccerBoy. The outside is a light blue and on the inside pattern is stripes in blue, white, black and light brown. The sleeping bag is stuffed full of soft cotton, which as you may know, makes it really soft and comfortable. So much that it puts you to sleep.

Labels: kids' sleepingbag, lands' end, lands' end sleeping bag, review lands' end

Ya'll already know how I feel towards my Kajeet, I totally love my phone. Well, I am now able to give one lucky winner a phone of their own too. Want one? The rules won't be that hard but you will have to hunt around for the answers. Not like that'll be hard either though.

Here's some facts for you:

- There are no contracts. After one month you can stop using it, or after 2 years and 5 months. There are no penalties.
- Your child can text, send pictures, play and talk on the phone.
- Mom and dad can find out who they've been calling and block certain numbers.
- There is a GPS locator on it that you can get online and find the location of the last call.
- You can add or subtract money from their account. Which means if they start getting "F"s you can actually limit their calls. Or reward them.
- Cell phone plans as low as $4.99
- $10 pay as you go plans
- $29.99 highest plan

Rules: Visit Kajeet and tell me which Kajeet phone you'd really want, besides the one I'm currently giving away.

Extra entries for those that blog it (but you must come back here and post a new comment telling me you've done it with a link). Extra entries for a twitter as well.

The Prize: One Samsung m300 Kajeet phone.

Deadline: December 14th, I'll announce the winner, Monday December 15th. But you do have to email me at homemom3@gmail.com within 24 hours.

**If you don't want to wait until the end to find out if you win a Kajeet, you can purchase them online now. For a limited time, you can take 15% off the kajeet purchase. (Promo code: homemom3)Plus, get $10 additional airtime when you activate your phone!(Enter: BONUS10 at activation)**

Labels: kajeet cell phone, kajeet for kids, kajeet phone giveaway

The Kids in snow action. Yep, it snowed here and all four got to play in it. If you look close enough you can see they are in action (throwing snowballs). Happy WW! By the way, don't forget to sign up for all my giveaways I'm having this week. Chicken Soup for the Soul Teen Talks, a Kajeet phone and many more fun items.

Labels: first snowfall, wordless wednesday

A teacher that needed a bit more money, as we know they don't get paid really well as it is, tried making a bit of extra cash this holiday season by selling ad space on his tests. Yes, tests as in those things you give students. I guess this is one way to not only advertise but make sure you aren't waisting total white space.

"Tough times call for tough actions," he says. So he started selling ads on
his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, $30 for a semester
final.

What's your opinion? Should this teacher be making money on the side while teacher the kids? Course you could look at it as he'll be placing this back in the class for supplies needed since the school only alloted him $120 for the school year for class paper. All I can say is he sure knows how to rake in the dough. Who's up for a pop quiz, I need diapers.

Labels: teacher sells ad space, teacher test

Little A experienced his first snowball this year, as you can tell by the picture he simply loved it. Only thing is he doesn't realize when his fingers are too cold. You can see where he begins to want in but since it is so much fun outside he just doesn't want to be left without the snow.

Got any pictures to share of your snow babies? I have another shot of him at www.babylune.com.

Labels: first snow, first snowfall, snowball, snowfall

First book giveaway is going to be Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Relationships: Stories about Family, Friends, and Love (Chicken Soup for the Soul). I think this is one of those books every teen needs to read, with stories of loves lost, finding a love to friendships it really has a special place in all their hearts. (Pictures coming once I have the pop up working again.)


Stories I loved reading:
- Michele on Missing the Dance- talk about your heroes, this guy was a gem.
- Renee Simmons on No Time to Say I Love You- reminds you of just how important it is to stop and say those three little words.
- Ron Cheng on First Kiss- come one we all remember our first kiss, even if it was behind the gym right after he dipped. (ikk)

Contest rules:
To enter the contest simply leave a comment on this post. One comment entry per person. Since we are talking Teens and relationships think about the last relationship issue you had with your teen. Was it boys? Friends, a parent, etc? Talk about it. Or if you haven't dealt with it yet, think back to your own teenage years and remember a relationship you had with someone. This can be a teacher, parent, friendship or the opposite sex.

The contest will run until midnight EST on December 8th.

Open to US residents only.

You are required to respond within 24 hours of my announcement, or you will forfeit the prize.

You may earn additional an additional entry by blogging about this contest. Please leave a separate comment with a link to the entry that mentions this contest.

Good luck!

Labels: chicken soup for the soul, first kiss, first loves, relationships, teens talk, teens talk relationships

I got a few books from Chicken Soup for the Soul this past week to hand out to some lucky readers. Want to know a bit about them? First off they are all part of the Chicken Soup for the Soul's Teens Talk.




• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Growing Up
• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Relationships
• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Tough Times
• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Preteens Talk
• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Getting In...to College
• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High School
• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School

But I'm going to do each one with their ownn individual contest/giveaway. This way we can talk more about them.

Please don't comment on this post that you want to win, this is not it. However you can comment if you've read the book, what you thought about it and what your favorite story was.


I will post pics as soon as that function works on blogger again.

Labels: chicken soup for the soul, preteens talk, teens talk

Hey, you can't blame me for going out on Black Friday now can ya? What? Oh of course I did, a girl has to shop even if she doesn't normally. I mean when deals are slashed and you can get all those holiday gifts at lower prices then one can't really argue. I went with the two boys to Wal-Mart and the hubby took the two girls to Kohl's.

As we arrived at Wal-Mart we were amazed that there was no line. Why was there no line? They were letting people in as long as they didn't put in their carts or touch the items. That's right there was an invisible line around everything. Only problem was they didn't tell me. Imagine how embarassed I was when I got scolded by a worker. :( Instead of going back and putting it all up I put it all on a stack of dolls and parked my cart. While I waited by my precious stack for over 35 minutes I got called by the hubby.

Guess what? He was at Kohl's, he said inside was already wrapped around and that was for the check out line. Forget it, he was checking out Target. Course Target was outside but they decided to stick it out. He did get some great finds, but nothing off the Black Friday list. hehe.

In the end Wal-mart got crazy and it ended up being line to line or should that be cart to cart. It took over an hour to get through the line and we were one of the first. Did you do any black friday shopping? In our area two black friday shoppers were hit by a car. They are fine but still. WOW.

Today is Cyber Monday, I won't say what I bought as I have eyes near me. Maybe tomorrow, but I will say it was more tahn $50 and less than $100. Plus a bunch of movies that we'll be watching. Hopefully it gets here before Christmas. Did you find any Cyber Monday Deals? Stick around I'm going to be posting giveaways all week. Hope ya like.

Labels: amazon black friday, black friday, black friday ads, cyber monday, cyber monday deals