$50 Spa Giveaway at 100s of locations nationwide

Who wants $50 for a Day at the Spa, which can be used at hundreds of locations nationwide?  Well, I'm giving away two of them!!  Okay, wait, let me back up...

My husband is convinced that I'm the only adult in America that is still drinking regular Coke.  Not Diet, not Coke Zero, regular Coke.  I love it.  I have one every single day.  It's like a special treat in the afternoon, to get me ready for a hectic afternoon/dinner/bedtime routine.  However, I have suddenly realized that I reached my unacceptable upper weight limit, so it's time for me to clamp down a bit and lose the weight I gained over the Holidays.  My husband assured me that Coke Zero tastes EXACTLY like regular Coke.  I trusted him and bought an entire case of it.  Unfortunately, he was wrong.  Very wrong.

So, when I was contacted to try the new Trop50 by Tropicana, I decided it was time.  Also, they're giving away two $50 Spa Giveaways to my readers!  Enter the Rafflecopter below to win $50 to a spa near you.  Visit SpaWeek for info...


Anyhoo, What is Trop50?   Well, it's a drink offered by Tropicana, which has 50% less sugar and calories and no artificial sweeteners.  




I'm going to give it a shot and see if I can replace my Coke addiction.  I plan to give it three weeks, so I'll check back in at the end of January and let you know the results.  In the meantime, enter the Giveaway to win a $50 Spa retreat!  I will notify the winners via email only and this giveaway is open to US Residents only, 18 and older.  Good luck!!

I received the product mentioned above free of charge for editorial consideration, and I’m also eligible for additional incentives. However, all opinions expressed are 100% my own.  

PS...what kind of Pop do you drink?  Take the poll to the left...I'll post results later.


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Easy Craft for Hungry Caterpillar Book

I have a friend who is a crafting genius.  Really she's like the Michelangelo of kiddie crafts.  Anyhoo, she recently shared with me something that has really changed our lives:  Kids get so much more out of crafts if they are based on a favorite book.  This may seem obvious to the savvy blogging world, but I maintain that most Moms aren't like my friend.  For example, when my daughter was little and just learning how to hold crayons, I had no clue what she was capable of so we didn't try anything new.  She would ask me to draw something and all I could muster up was a heart, a star, or if I was really lucky, a Mickey Mouse head.  Since then, I have dedicated myself to learning about ways to keep kids entertained, increase fine motor skills and foster creativity.  So, the in the spirit of my goals, for my next magic trick, we will create a caterpillar out of an egg carton, based on the book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
 

Don't Throw Away Holiday Cards

We tend to fight over who gets to check the mail during the magical month of December.  Well honestly I guess no one is competing except for me, but if Hubby dares to pick up the key to check the mail, I tend to tackle him and run out there myself.  I love getting Holiday Cards, sue me!  Anyway, when I was growing up, we always threw them away after New Year's and then later in life when I was an adult, one Christmas it occurred to me how fun it would be have been able to look back at all the cards my parents got when I was a kid. 

For about three years now, I have saved the Holiday Cards instead of throwing them away.  I put them with our photo albums and mementos and I'm so glad to have these cards.  It's so fun to look at kids as they grow up, as babies are born, and especially to read the Holiday letters.  It's like having old photo albums of all your friends and family!  So this year, do yourself a favor and get a manilla envelope and label it and load up all those Holiday Cards.  I bet you'll thank yourself later in life!



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Okay, I Admit I Lost My Ring I'm Only Human!!

It wasn't my wedding ring....but it was a fairly expensive ring that Hubby gave me for our last wedding anniversary.  I've been secretly looking for it for six months now and the other day I RIPPED our house apart looking for it.  I searched in every drawer, I took out all my jewelry, I searched under couches.  You get the picture.

I finally had to face the fact that it was gone.  My beautiful diamond ring that I love to wear for special occasions.  I couldn't face telling Hubby but I knew it would eventually come out and I was toying with pretending I was mugged, but that seemed a little extreme so I decided to keep brainstorming a good story.   

So imagine my surprise when I was drying my hair yesterday and Munchkin Girl was sitting on the bathtub, keeping me company, and I look over and see this:


See that fancy diamond ring she's wearing while she cuddles her doll?  Yep, that's the missing ring!  I rushed over there and thanked her and asked her where she found it.  She replied, "I keep it in my purple purse Mom."






Silly me for not looking in her purple purse!  She has about ten purses that she stores things in, and this is the smallest and I haven't seen her use it in months, but of COURSE she stores it in the purple purse!  She later told me that she was looking through my drawer one day and took out the ring.  I also found a few barrettes, a toothbrush tip holder, and an earring.

She was a little sad to lose her fancy ring, so I let her use one of my cheap dollar store rings instead and she was happy.


What a rascal!!  #atleastshe'shonest and #sheneverceasestoamazeme!