Hope you're having a super 4th of July!!! How'd you like to celebrate with a new sleeping bag? Or, perhaps you could use $25 to spend at a favorite discount retailer? There's these and more in the giveaways I've found today. Check 'em out below:
I personally would LOVE to win this... be a Sea World Trainer for a day! ~ Contest hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom ~ Ends July 17 ~ Click here to go enter!
I don't know about you, but I'm having trouble keeping up with all these giveaways. Many of them, you can "tweet" daily for extra entries. So, I end up spending a lot of time on Twitter re-tweeting about giveaways. What about you? Do you like giveaways? Please comment and let me know!
Speaking of giveaways, here are a few more I've found that you might like to enter:
Win an autographed book, My Forever Dress by Harriet Ziefert, @ I Never Grew Up ~ No Ending Date is posted ~ Click here to go enter!
I Never Grew Up is also giving away a set of Summer Bridge Workbooks ~ No Ending Date given ~ Click here to go enter *AND* a set of Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems ~ Click here to go enter!
Lately, I've been entering all sorts of giveaways, and I've actually won a few things. (But, I'll have to save my "winnings" for another post.) Here are a few of the giveaways that I thought might interest you as well:
$25 Gift Card to the PaperDoll Store @ Annie's Home ~ HURRY!!! Ends July 2 ~ Click here to go enter.
I SPY products including a Wii Video Game ‘Ultimate I SPY’ @ 3 Kids & Us ~ HURRY!!! Ends June 30 ~ Click here to go enter.
Wonder Pets!: "Ollie's Slumber Party" DVD @ Mom Start ~ Ends July 20 ~ Click here to go enter.
Please let me know if any of the links don't work. I've tried to make every effort to ensure that they do work. Also, I'd love to know which of these you find interesting. Thank you for commenting!!!
MomDot is having a Free Ecards giveaway. I must have a certain number of words in my blog entry to be qualified. And, I'm supposed to be professional about it. Hmmm... As Winnie the Pooh would say, "Think, think, think!"
Here are three links to various free ecard services:
Now I know what you're thinking, "How can it be a 'free' giveaway? They're already free, right?!" Yes, the cards and ecards listed above are free, but the giveaway is for something besides an ecard. The giveaway is to help promote Free Ecards' website. In return, I hope to win something. To see what I might be able to win, you'll have to go check out MomDot's blog about it!
For several years, probably as long as we've been connected to the internet, I have enjoyed sending ecard messages as well as email messages to friends and family, especially on their "special" days like birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Valentine's Day and so on. How about you? Do you enjoy sending special messages to the loved ones in your life? Please tell me about it. I'd like to hear your stories... and not just so that I can get more comments.
Last week, I wrote about how my then 8 yo (she has since turned 9) niece was headed to the National Braille Challenge in California. I mentioned that she has just enough spunk to win the Challenge or at least to be in the top 10. Well, guess what?! She won first place in her category/age-group!!! (photo courtesy of the Braille Institute)
The Braille Institute has put together a video of the highlights from the Challenge. (Her group has on lime green T-shirts.) Here 'tis:
You can read a biography that the Institute wrote about Ahbee by clicking here.
Come see what others have for Show-n-Tell! Mary (Canada Girl) hosts this fun meme every Friday.
I found out about this via Twitter and this particular update. I think I'm addicted to it, Twitter, that is. Mommy Babble mentioned that Facebook frequently has these kinds of memes, so she thought she'd start one on her blog. (Click here to see her post.)
1. I’ve come to realize that my last kiss … was from my sweet 9 yo, just as shementions on her blog.
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Please pray for our troops...
* Scott Baisley (Iraq)
* Melissa Barrette (civilian volunteer - Iraq)
* Ben (Iraq)
* Keith Bishop (Marines - unsure of location)
* Chris (Iraq)
* Russ Brown
* Brian Burlingame
* Marshall Graham
* Benjamin Griffith (Iraq)
* Juliana Hartzell (Iraq)
* Jason (Iraq)
* Jason I.
* Don Morgan
* Nick (Kuwait)
* Rodney (Iraq)
* Rodney's wife (Saudi Arabia)
* Erik Simmler
* Fran Simmler
* Dennis Starr (Army - Kentucky)
* Daniel Stilwell
* Daniel Sultenfuss
* SPC Kevin Sultenfuss
* PFC Shaun Sultenfuss
* Tyler (Navy - Virginia)
* Gary Williams
* Michael Woods (Iraq)
If you would like me to add someone to this list, please
click here and leave a comment. I will do my best to update the list in a timely manner.
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-impromptu "experiments" and discussions in the kitchen, outside, etc.
-Internet (mainly Google searches and Wikipedia)
-a microscope which I won from Tami @ (Discount Homeschool Supplies)
-"living" books
-impromptu discussions about life, people, community, etc.
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Please let me know if any of the links don't work. I've tried to make every effort to ensure that they do work. Also, I'd love to know which of these you find interesting. Thank you for commenting!!!
ge-group!!! (photo courtesy of the 
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