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*UPDATED* with Winners! Congrats to reader Melissa R (I emailed you!), Jen and Juice and Corinna of My Scrapbook Life!
Thank you so much for entering ladies! Yay! Thanks Eden Home!
My baby is going to be three in fifty days. FIFTY DAYS. Three years old.
I spent last week boxing up a couple of her baby toys-some to keep and some to giveaway.
And she wants a bike for her birthday, with a helmet, please.
My baby is growing up.
I’ve been looking at big girl toys, so when Eden Home asked her to review their Organic Rubberwood Animal Memory Game (from Plan Toys® ) she said yes.
She’s nice like that.
Product Info:
Plan Toys ® uses only wood that has been grown without fertilizers and chemicals and then makes their toys with non-formaldehyde glue and non-toxic, water based dyes so you can be sure that they are lead-free, BPA-free, chemical-free and basically as natural as can be.
Plan Toys® Com
bines learning with fun! Their toys are specially designed to enhance a child’s physical, mental and creative development without compromising safety for your child and the memory game is no exception. Consisting of 24 wooden pictures tiles with 12 different kinds of animals this great memory game tests a child’s memory to find the most animal pairs successfully to win the game. It’s great for 2-4 players and there are a variety of ways parents can use the toy with their child to learn.
My little girl loved this little bag of wooden memory pieces! I showed her how to play. She clapped when she got her a match (she cheated a little, but since she’s still two, I let her).
Then she lined up the pieces and made a “train” with them. (And I got to blow dry my hair without stopping!)
I love that these high quality wooden pieces are organic and offer hours of fun!
Eden Home offers a huge variety of products in dozens of categories, including toys. Here are some of my favorites:
Just in time for Christmas shopping, Eden Home is giving away THREE $30 gift certificates. Tell me what you like and you’ll be entered.
This giveaway ends on Thursday.
We’ve been having pumpkin fun all month! And later today, we’re heading out to our church’s annual fall festival. I love October.
Preheat oven to 350.. Grease and flour four (1-pound) coffee cans
In a mixing bowl, combine oil, eggs, water and pumpkin.
In another bowl, sift together flour, salt, nutmeg, baking soda, cinnamon and sugar. Blend together until dry ingredients are moist. Bake 1 hour and 20 minutes. We leave them in the cans and cover them with the lids after they’ve cooled.
I wanted to share a doozy of a story with you that would leave NO DOUBT that we are in fact THAT family…you know the ones. But, my life has been strangely normal lately.
Whew! Happy 2nd blogging day to me! (MckLinky will close at midnight Thursday night and all winners will be announced on Friday! Make sure you check back in!)
(I’m celebrating my 2nd year of blogging with a carnival tomorrow. You can read about it here. There will be more than TEN amazing prizes for participants! I hope you’ll join me!)
Since I’m celebrating my 2nd year of blogging this week, I have all kinds of tricks up my sleeve, including a SECRET contest going on right now. (Hint:Hint: if you read my forum, you already know it has to do with comments!)
*UPDATED with WINNERS* Congratulations to Let’s Make a Difference and Stephanie of Team Babetz
Picture of the Week:
The Week in Review: Sibling rivalry, who us?
Introduction into The Society:The Miller Mix!
I think I was born into THAT family, but I knew starting my own branch was inevitable when I was in grad school and decided to return to the south to raise my sister’s child while she recovered from a serious substance addiction. Then I fell for the best friend of my ex (and cousin to my sister’s ex/the father of my newly adopted baby) when he returned from living on the side of a mountain in east Tennessee. I really had no hope for a family other than THAT one, did I? Some might call us Jerry Springer, but we’re just THAT family.
the author Kevin Leman, suggests letting your kids fight because they are actually learning to cooperate with each other. He suggests sending them outside if you can’t stand the racket and instructing them to fight. Usually they just stand there without much to say. He also explains, it can become a screaming match and maybe even physical but kids will learn quickly that fighting doesn’t pay off, there will be consequences and that it hurts to fight.
we love this new necklace! sturdy with a touch of whimsy, the crest is hand-stamped onto a 1 1/4″ sterling pendant and strung from sterling chain. customize the necklace with your initial and wear with pride.
Her other new design is so adorable!! It’s called The Laundry Line and it makes me smile. (Which is saying a lot considering the word laundry is in there)
this must be the sweetest way to capture each person in your family! each name is hand-stamped under a piece of laundry and strung on sterling chain. whimsical and so fun!!
laundry line necklace $59
So. Do you want to win one of them??
Picture of the Week:
The Week in Review:We had a great visit with grandparents! We spent a big part of Saturday putting the world back together. It was a tough job, but somebody had to do it!
Introduction into The Society: Good, True and Beautiful–WELCOME to the fam!
1. Tell us a little about your blog (name/reason why you blog):
My name is Sharon and I blog at ="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- line-height: 1.2em; color:initial;">Good, True and Beautiful, a small corner of the blogosphere that captures the crazy thoughts that run through my mind. It was gonna be either blogging or therapy, and blogging was cheaper. When I think about it, I’m amazed at how sharing little pieces of my life leads to friendships and buddies all around the internet. So, now I’m addicted to blogging — guess I’ll need that therapy after all.
2. How long have you blogging?
I wrote my first post on Feb 3, 2009 (that also happens to be my husband’s birthday – it’s the gift that keeps on giving). Initially I started a blog thinking that it might be a way to make extra money for our family – since I’m now consistently earning in the low double-digits, we can all agree that it was a real savvy business move. I’m good like that.
3. How would you define THAT family?
THAT family has the ability to laugh at itself. I think there is something contagious about not taking yourself too seriously. It certainly has helped me get through some of the rough patches of motherhood. I mean, no one tells you about the re-hydrating power of raisins – you just have to realize that joy for yourself.
4. When did you discover you were a part of THAT family?
I started getting a suspicious on the day when our hot water heater broke and I had to prepare for lunch with my pastor. And my thoughts drifted here a time or two as I was watching an episode of The Waltons while eating my chocolate ice cream (with rainbow sprinkles). But the truth was undeniable when I had to confront the
5. Where can we find your blog?
Head on over to Good, True and Beautiful but be warned: my impeccable sense of fashion might be a bit overwhelming.
