Pur Giveaway @ Green & Clean Mom

Green and Clean Mom is offering a great giveaway for a Pur Water Filtration System! Pur is great.... Not only will you get your delicious water for less, but it also keeps disposable plastic water bottles out of landfills! Go over there and sign up today! What a great gift to your family!

Mother's Day Giveaway @ Tangled & True

Tangled and True is sponsoring a huge giveaway celebration for Mother's Day. Make sure you show up at their blog starting tomorrow May 5th for a chance to win!

Win an Autism Awareness Bracelet

LaLaGirl is giving away a beautiful Autism Awareness Bracelet! I would love to be able to give one of these bracelets to my sister Melissa whose son has Autism.

Scripture Sunday

She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.

She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her.

"Many women do noble things,
but you surpass them all."

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Proverbs 31: 25-30

KangarooBoo Giveaway by DK Mommy Spot

dkMommy Spot is having a giveaway! Enter to win a $25 dollar gift certificate to the adorable online toy store, KangarooBoo! They have the cutest toys at KangarooBoo! Good luck!

Hip Mama's Place Mother's Day Giveaway

Hip Mama's Place is having a huge giveaway event in honor of Mother's Day! How fun!!! Just CLICK HERE to participate and maybe... just maybe... you might get a little more spoiled this Mother's Day than you expected! Good luck!

If you're visiting, be sure to sign up for my contest! Just click on this button to see my post!

Win an Ergo Baby Carrier

Oh you know you want one... well so do I! That's why I'm putting this on my blog and letting you all know about it! I hope you all join the fun. Ergo makes the best carriers... seriously! Click Here to enter to win your own!

First Giveaway Coming Up!

I'm so excited to announce that my first giveaway is coming up! It will be on Monday May 5th! Be sure to come back here and check it out! (I'm keeping it a secret as to what it is... you'll have to come back to find out what it is!)

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month! Olay has teamed up with Dermatologists all over the country to offer free skin cancer screenings!
This is a very important issue in my family. My mom is fighting Melanoma on her face. She was just cleared by her doctor. She only has to wait a year for her next appointment. She had to have a big piece of Melanoma cancer on her face cut away. She nearly lost her right eye from it. She now has a big scar on her face and is missing part of her eyebrow. But she is alive! Thank you Jesus!
To have a free screening (even if you don't think you're at risk!) please Visit The Olay Website By Clicking Here to find the Dermatologist who is participating near you.

Did you know?

• One in 33 people will be diagnosed with
skin cancer in their lifetime.

• By the time an individual is 20 years old,
they have already exposed themselves to
80% of the sun damage they will have
during their lifetime.

• Young women between the ages of 20-29
are the fastest growing group of newly
diagnosed melanoma cancer patients.

• Sun damage makes an individual's skin
dry resulting in premature aging.

• One American dies of melanoma almost
every hour.

• 5 or more sunburns double your risk of
developing skin cancer.

• Skin cancer is visible and easy to detect.

• Skin cancer is PREVENTABLE if you protect
yourself from the sun.

Please visit: Skin Cancer Foundation, Skin Cancer Awareness Foundation, and Skin Cancer Takes Friends.

Thanks Chesapeake Ribbons!

I've won a set of their beautiful ribbons & bows and on top of that, I participated in the virtual baby shower that they threw and I won a set of Blessed Mom Baby Gear products! Thank you Chesapeake Ribbons (Gunning It)! Please feel free to stop by Chesapeake Ribbons. This blogger makes some of the most adorable handmade ribbons ever!

Baby Wearing Contest

Thank you once again to Sarah at Sassyfrazz who tipped me off to another fun Mother's Day game. There are so many Mom's Day events going on in the "blogosphere" that it's just keeping my blog hoppin'!

Baby Sling Blog is sponsoring a great game to share your baby wearing photos for a chance to win a cute pair of Baby Legs. So here is my baby wearing photo. I didn't get to use my sling much longer after this photo because I have a Miss Chubbs for a baby... which wouldn't be much of an issue if I wasn't just barely over 5 feet 1 inches! LOL!

Take Action on the EPIAA Bill!

Help Autism Speaks get House and Senate cosponsors for the Expanding the Promise for Individuals with Autism Act (H.R. 1881, S. 937), a bill that will provide $350 million in new money to the states to provide services for individuals with autism from childhood through adulthood.

Click this link to take action now!!

Thanks to Chesapeake Ribbons who posted this entry on her blog! Autism awareness is very important in my heart. As many of you know, my nephew suffers from a form of low-functioning Autism.

Favorite Foto Friday

FFF's theme this week is having a ball and it's all about our children doing what they love and learning new things! :D

I won a great BumGenius one-size-fits-all diaper from Macy Fron's blog. Thank you so much Macy! I love the diaper. I haven't seen such a cute diapered butt in so long! I am in love with BumGenius's diapers! They are soft and comfortable. They adjust to fit any size. And you never need a diaper cover... it's built in! The Absorbency on these diapers is excellent... but the thing that gets me most excited (especially if you know me!) is its cost efficiency. Not only do you not have to buy disposable diapers, but you can keep the same diapers throughout your child's diaper-wearing years... newborn through toddler-hood! My daughter is around 31-32 inches tall and is about... erm... 26 pounds-ish(???) I'm not sure. I know she's pretty tall and heavy, but they fit her perfectly! So mommy gets to learn something new! Yay!

In case you were wondering... she never leaves our phones alone! She loves electronics! (Daddy does a happy dance...)

I also added the last photo of my little girl drinking from a big girl cup! :D She just started drinking from a cup a couple of weeks ago with NO spills! I'm so proud of my munchkin!





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See Kiss the Frog 4 Me for more FFF posts!

Mother's Day Blog Bash

Mother's Day is coming up very soon and it seems like a lot of blogs are having awesome parties!
Notes From My Nest is having a huge blog bash to celebrate Mother's Day! To play along, I'm going to share what I've learned about Motherhood.

I think that the first thing that I learned within the first few days of my daughter's life was that I never knew what new levels of sleeplessness could exist!!! Seriously! I gave birth to my daughter 3 hours away from where we lived. On the drive home, I literally fell asleep while talking to my husband. I felt like I should try to talk to him so he could stay awake and before I knew it I was asleep and could hear myself talking slower and slower! It was pretty funny, but gosh I was so exhausted it wasn't even funny.

The main thing that made me so exhausted was that my daughter refused to sleep in her crib or bassinet. It didn't occur to me that I could sleep with her in the bed until I was laying in bed (all laid up from pain) and I woke up several minutes later with my daughter still in my arms AND SHE WAS SLEEPING and so was I!!! It was some sort of miracle! :D LOL! From that time on we co-slept with our little girl. She still co-sleeps with us and she hogs the bed like a 6 foot tall man!
I didn't know what kind of mom I would be until my daughter was born. I was frightened about how I could be a good mom. I soon figured out that motherhood comes naturally to most of us... including myself. My daughter was born and I did what came naturally, I nursed her. It was so wonderful... the bond. It is indescribable. It still makes me cry sometimes. Co-sleeping also came naturally. It made sense to us. My daughter hated her crib. She only slept in our arms. The bed worked for us. That was something I never thought I would do! I also carried her everywhere. She literally didn't nap in her crib or bassinet or couch (anywhere besides my arms) until she was 6 months old. I loved to hold her and keep her close to me. I wanted her close. I still do. I sometimes joke to myself that I'm an Attached Parent by accident... I don't like to associate myself that way, though. I just do what is natural to me. It doesn't work for all. Sometimes I find myself checking if she's breathing to this day. She is the most precious and amazing little person... I couldn't imagine not being a mother. I can't remember what I did before motherhood. How did I spend my day? What would fill the void that my daughter fills now? That void must've existed before her, right? She is my blessing. I am so blessed to be a mother. I couldn't imagine it any other way!

Easiest Contest Yet

This Full House is having a contest for a Target Bag full of Target Goodies! If anybody knows me well (and I'm sure I've said this before) then they know that I have had a love affair with my local Target for quite a long time. It's my favorite-est place in the world to find sweet deals! ;D To find out how to win this wonderful bag of goody goodness, then just click here!

(Meanwhile, Anna is holding up the cover of my Parenting Magazine and pointing at it saying, "Baby!" Where is the rest of that magazine, I ask? Where?)