April 29, 2009 at 1:20 pm · Filed under BlogHer Review, food and drink, giveaway, product review
***Winner is #116 (by Random.org) Nita!!***
**Update: Comments are being closed so a winner can be chosen. Thank you all for participating and good luck!**
“This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Capri-Sun.”
7:00 AM – start getting kids out of bed
7:15 AM – start hollering because kids either aren’t out of bed yet or are moving at a snail’s pace
7:30 AM – Activating the Mayhew Law of Leaving: The faster you need to get somewhere, the more likely the kids are to find eleventy-billion ways to putz around.
7:45 AM – start doing the last minute haranguing about shoes and confirmations that teeth have been brushed and backpacks are packed and are, in fact, on the backs.
7:55 AM – begin herding children out the door, knowing that one of them will freak out halfway down the driveway about something they’ve forgotten.
8:00 AM – breathe a sigh of relief that we are actually going to be at school on time!
8:01 AM – realize that no one ate a decent breakfast.
FAIL!
As much as I know the tried and true belief that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, my kids are much like me and just aren’t that into eating a big meal first thing in the morning. We rush around trying to get out the door and a breakfast including more than a handful of fruit or a breakfast bar is beyond our reach.
As I am always on the lookout for a way to make the morning scramble easier on all of us, I jumped on the chance to check out a new product, Capri-Sun Sunrise, a new wholesome morning drink for kids.
Capri-Sun is a brand well known in my house, something I know my kids enjoy and I can trust for taste and value. Finding out that they provide a good source of calcium, 100% of the daily value of Vitamin C in the easy-on-the-go pouch just really made it a no-brainer.
So, now I don’t feel like such a breakfast failure knowing that I’m providing something that’s quick and easy they can grab every morning, better preparing them for the day.
If you’re one of those moms that gets up an hour early to make some muffins from scratch and whose kids look confused at the thought of a Pop Tart, this may not be something relevant to you.
However, if you (like me) struggle to get your kids to even THINK about eating breakfast in the morning, let alone something that’s good for them, Capri-Sun Sunrise may be a shot for you to sneak in something a little healthier into their routine.
Contest Details:
Thanks to this compensated review from BlogHer and Capri-Sun Sunrise, you have the opportunity to win a $250 Visa Gift Card. There are seven more opportunities for you to enter and win by going to the BlogHer Review Roundup.
How to win:
• Please leave a comment below, and IF you have kids share YOUR struggles with the morning breakfast routine
• Additional entry for Tweeting this contest and leaving the link in a comment
• You may receive an additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments
Contest Rules
• No duplicate comments.
• This giveaway is open to US residents, over the age of 18.
• Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail.
• You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
• The contest dates are 4/29/09-7/8/09.
• Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct.
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February 21, 2009 at 7:00 am · Filed under BlogHer Review, contest, coupon, discount, giveaway, music, product review, sample, software, stuff for kids
***Updated to announce winner by Random.com is #10 Belinda. Belinda has 48 hours to respond by email or a new winner will be pulled. Thank you all for entering, I sure appreciate your participation. I hope that you all have a chance to use Norton’s awesome software and come back for the next contest.*
Norton software is pretty much synonymous with computer/internet security…and there is nothing I want safe more than my children.
I was once helping Nathaniel Google information for a project on Indian villages and one seemingly innocent click led us to a nasty porn site. I nearly knocked him out slapping my hand over his eyes as quickly as I could. I couldn’t believe it and was thoroughly horrified.
Norton has a fix for this kind of thing…built-in safety for YOUR family with Norton Online Family. We have two ancient desktop pc’s for our girls and a laptop for our son and there’s a lot of setup to cover every computer, but OH SO worth it.
Installing the program on their computers allows me to have one web interface that I can use to control all their web activity: websites, emails, IM’s, social media, and stuff they’re not even trying yet. I can see what they’ve been to, if they’ve tried to access inappropriate things and I can set up each child with different access according to age and maturity.
Click on picture to check out the interface
This past weekend, I was out of town at a conference and I was able to see what was going with my kids and their computer use…which, as far as I’m concerned, the more aware I am regarding their usage, the safer they are.
If you’d like to start keeping your family safe, you can download the Norton software and use promo code: ACC10. You won’t regret it.
Contest Details
Thanks to BlogHer and Norton, I’m able to give away one of these!
You covet? Me TOO!
How to win:
- To enter, please leave me a comment below. If you have kids, please include how you stay in the loop with your kids and whether this new software will help you.
- You may leave a link to your post, facebook update or twitter message about this contest in the comments for an additional entry.
- The contest will begin at 12:00 a.m. (PST) on Monday, February 23th and will end Monday, March 9th at 11:59 p.m. (PST).
- Make sure your email address is valid!
Rules:
No duplicate comments. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents. Winners will be selected by random draw10 more chances to win an Ipod Touch from the BlogHer Review Roundup! and will be notified by email. You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected. Enter for
See the official rules for details: http://www.blogher.com/official-rules-check-out-norton-online-family-software-and-enter-win-ipod-touch
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January 27, 2009 at 3:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized, contest, giveaway, inspiring creativity, product review, sample
I’ll go ahead and get this right out of the way now.
Should you ever need it, Hewlett-Packard has an awesome tech support team.
Ask for Gary, he’s nice.
*sigh*
BlogHer asked me if I’d like to do this review for the HP Photosmart All-In-One printer and I said, “Yeah!”
Then I found out I got to give one away…and I said “OH heck YEAH!”
“Oh, by the way, it’s a wireless printer.” I nearly died on the spot.
A wireless printer! In my happy, clammy little hands. It was almost too good to believe.
Because me and wires? We has a history.
It ain’t a pretty one.
I have cords from one end of my house to the other, straggling between rooms and around desks. With the sheer volume of electronics we power and network and recharge, my house is veritable MAZE of cords and wires. It’s a borderline safety hazard and drives me absolutely wild.
Do you see this? (And no, I’m not talking about my dusty file cabinet, thankyouverymuch!)
That one cord out the back of this printer is for power and that’s it. No more. NADA. ZILCH.
A beautiful thing.
Setting up this printer took all of ten minutes…and four of it was wrestling it out of the box. Nice job on the safe packaging there, HP. It does have USB hookup for those without a wireless router, but it was as simple as giving the printer the WEP password from the back of the router and the printer said, “RAWRR, look at what I can do!”
This is where I ran into issues…because, well, I’m ME. I spent the better part of the afternoon on the phone with tech support, where I developed a lasting friendship with Gary, trying to figure out why my shiny new printer would print from anything and everything BUT my laptop. After many hours of plugging, unplugging, rebooting and playing with cartridges it turned out to be a faulty disc with bad installation software.
Once the fix was made, I started having some fun with it!
From my living room.
I’m going to just go ahead and say that again for you…FROM my living room! Nowhere near the printer and without a single cord spanning the distance. *le sigh*
When they say “lab quality” printing, they aren’t kidding. You COULD NOT get better pictures from any photo development center…and most assuredly not as quickly or conveniently.
I might or might not have gone a little overboard.
But, clearly, you have never experienced this kind of technological goodness or you’d be going overboard as well.
OH wait! That’s right…you COULD!
Because thanks to the awesomeness that is HP and BlogHer, I get to give away one of these rock-on fabulous printers to one of you.
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ON TO THE GIVEAWAY!!
I am going to give you LOTS of chances to enter this contest!
1. Leave a comment below and tell me one awesome way this printer will make your life an easier place.
2. Leave a link to your post about this contest on your own blog.
3. Leave the link showing me you Twittered about this contest
4. Leave a link to a photo showing me your WORST cord/wire situation
Do any or all of the above and you get an entry to the contest for each one.
The contest will begin at 12:00 a.m. (PST) on Wednesday, January 28th, and will end Tuesday, February 3rd at 11:59 p.m (PST). Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct.
Rules:
- No duplicate comments.
- This giveaway is open to U.S. residents.
- Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
- You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
**Check out HP’s site for more information about their wireless printer products.
**You also have 7 more chances to win this same printer through BlogHer and 7 other awesome bloggers!
