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  • CWDKids Winner

    Thanks so much for all the entries for the CWDKids gift certificate giveaway. I loved reading about everyone’s favorite things and added a few things to my wish list for Caroline.

    Oh, the shopping. I do love it.

    Anyone, we have a winner.

    Random Integer Generator

    Here are your random numbers:

    155
    Timestamp: 2008-11-15 16:33:06 UTC

    The winner is Shana at Our Farmer’s Almanac.

    Congratulations! And have fun shopping!

    If you liked the stuff at CWDKids, you can also check out their blog, Kidbits. It’s a great place to get the scoop on sales and special offers.

  • A little pre-holiday treat

    A few weeks ago the nice people at CWDKids emailed me and asked me if I’d like to give my readers a chance to win a $100 gift certificate.

    Umm, yeah.

    Then they asked me if I could start the giveaway on Monday, November 10th. A quick look at my calendar told me that would be the Monday after I got home from the Dominican. I figured I would be emotionally and physically exhausted.

    Turns out I was right.

    I hate to admit it publicly, but the laundry has beat me. I have one pair of jeans in particular that probably never should have come back to U.S. soil.

    But enough about my problems.

    This is your big moment. You have a chance to win a $100.00 gift certificate from CWDKids. All you have to do is go visit their site by clicking here or on the graphic above, then come back and leave me a comment about which outfit you loved.

    Because I like to share with the group, I will tell you that I particularly love this outfit and also this outfit. And, oh what I wouldn’t give for Caroline to have this nightgown for Christmas morning because, HELLO, flashback to my 1970’s childhood.

    I’ll leave comments open until Friday evening and pick the winner on Saturday morning using my friend the Random Number generator.

    Have fun!

    ***Only one entry per person please!***

  • The winner of 42 DVDs

    Okay, I have been a little busy packing and unpacking and re-packing as I try to figure out what I need to bring and what can stay home in Texas.

    But I finally used my old friend Random.org to pick a winner.

    Random Integer Generator

    Here are your random numbers:

    94
    Timestamp: 2008-11-02 02:40:50 UTC

    The lucky number is 94, also known as Bev from Life Of Grits, which kind of tickles me because Bev’s blog was one of the first ones I ever read.

    Congratulations, Bev. I will get your Dr. Quinn DVDs in the mail as soon as I get home from my trip!

  • And, oh, that Nellie Olsen can still make me angry

    I am going to make a confession.

    I have always been a huge fan of “Little House on the Prairie”. To this day if I am flipping through the channels and see one of the “Little House” episodes where Laura and Almanzo fall in love, I will totally stop what I’m doing and watch it. I may even record it on my DVR to watch it again later when P isn’t around to mock me.

    In fact, one of my earliest memories is crawling under the covers when I was five years old and pretending that I was in a covered wagon just like Laura Ingalls. I truly wanted to live in a little house on the prairie.

    Of course that’s before I was old enough to realize that they didn’t have air-conditioning or a television.

    So, considering my love of T.V. shows set in ye olden times, it should come as no surprise that I have also been known to enjoy “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”. I didn’t actually watch it when they were airing new episodes because I was in college and most of my television watching was restricted to quality programming such as “Days of Our Lives” and “Beverly Hills 90210”, but the summer I was pregnant with Caroline I discovered “Dr. Quinn” reruns and became addicted.

    Honestly, I watched so many episodes that Caroline might have come out of the womb expecting her mother to be Jane Seymour.

    And here’s the good news, the entire series of “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” was released on DVD this past Tuesday and I have the complete boxed set of all six seasons to give away.

    All you have to do to be eligible to win is leave me a comment and I’d love it if you’d share a T.V. show from your childhood that you’ll still stop and watch if it happens to be on.

    Bonus points if it was “Diff’rent Strokes”!

    I’m totally kidding. There are no bonus points, only the drawing of a random number.

    I’ll leave comments open until Friday night and announce the winner on Saturday. I’m really hoping that this time a giveaway doesn’t make my blog explode.

  • Behind the blog

    Oh, by the way I’m going to join Melanie and Karen as a guest on their online show Behind the Blog. It airs tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12 noon CST, and you can click here to listen. You can call in with your blogging questions or listen later to the podcast version.

    I have no idea what I’m going to say, but let’s hope I don’t embarrass the family.