General Mills Cereal

General Mills has made a further commitment to reduce sugar in their cereals that are geared towards children under the age of 12. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! People who eat cereals that are ready to eat consume less fat, less cholesterol, and more fiber than non-cereal eaters.

You can visit this link on the General Mills site for more information about kids and cereals.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch is my absolute favorite cereal! I love it! I can eat it dry or with milk. My kids also love Lucky Charms and Cherrios. General Mills, in my opinion, has the best cereals to offer.

General Mills provided me with free product coupons and this information through MyBlogSpark

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Pepto-Bismol Sweepstakes plus GIVEAWAY

There is a new sweepstakes from Pepto-Bismol celebrating the InstaCool, chewable tablets that give an instant blast of cool to provide you with relief from nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach and diarrhea. If you write a short essay about a time when you could have used "cooling out", You could win a trip to Vancouver for the 2010 Vacouver Olympic Games.

Proctor & Gamble are sponsors of Team USA at the games in 2010. You can enter the sweepstakes here.

GIVEAWAY: One of my readers will win a sample of the Instacool, chewable tablets from Pepto-bismol and a Olympic Pin from the brand! This would be a great collectable!

To enter: Leave in a comment if you have ever tried the InstaCool chewable tablets or if you could use them!

Extra Entries:
Follow my blog (1 entry)
Enter the sweepstakes(5 entries)
Blog this giveaway(5 entries)
Enter my Cascade Action Pac giveaway(2 entries)

This contest will end January 16th at 9:00pm central time. I will pick one winner using random.org and I will notify the winner by email. The winner will then have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

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Cascade ActionPacs-Review and Giveaway

Actress Alyson Hannigan from American Pie and How I Met Your Mom has a series of videos on having a fully loaded life as a busy mom and actress. You can watch her video on Cascade ActionPacs here.

Cascade ActionPacs have the Grease fighting power of Dawn. You don't even have to unwrap the ActionPacs. You just stick them in the dishwasher for an easy clean wash! No pouring or unwrapping neccessary. I was sent a bag of the ActionPacs to review and I must say, they work wonderfully. Sometimes I have to wash my dishes more than once to get them clean. But with the Cascade ActionPacs, one wash and your done! I will definetly purchase these ActionPacs again.

Now for the best part: Two of my readers will get their very own bag of Cascade ActionPacs to try out for themselves. To enter: click the link above and watch the video Alyson made about the Cascade ActionPacs and tell me why you would like to try them out.

Extra Entries:
Follow my blog: 1 extra entry
Blog this giveaway: 5 extra entries

This giveaway will run until January 4th at 9:00pm. I will choose 2 winner via Random.org and I will email the winners. The winners will have 48 hours to reply or another winner will be chosen.

Thanks Cascade for this wonderful review opportunity!

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Keitha's Baby Shower

We had Keitha's baby shower and it went great! I do have pics and I will post them when I get them uploaded. For those of you who don't know, Keitha is my very best friend. She is due on the 23rd with her first baby. It's a boy and his name will be Cayden Jace! I can't wait either! I'm so excited for her. She has wanted a baby for as long as I've known her and I already have 4, so it's definitely her turn.

Keitha got lots of great stuff at her shower. A bunch of cute outfits and a couple of really cute Christmas ornaments. We are hoping that he arrives before Christmas! Jody's brothers' wife, Melissa is also having her first baby and it's a boy as well! She is Jan. 4th.(the day after my birthday!) I really don't think she will make it that far though. So, I will have to little babies to hold and love and then leave with Mama! This will be a change! I'm used to me being the one with the babies!

I can't wait to post pics from the showers and, of course of the sweet little boys when they arrive! I plan to be there for both, so I will be taking lots of pics.

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Crayola Holiday gifts-Review and GIVEAWAY

Crayola has many products out there this Holiday season for children of all ages that will spark their imagination. The first product I would like to discuss is the Color Me A Song. The Color Me A Song is reccommended for ages 24 months and up, which is perfect for my 2 year old! She already loves to try to play with her older sister and brothers toys, and this gave her an opportunity to have a "big" kid toy for her.
Here is some information about the Color Me A Song:
•The Crayola Beginnings Color Me A Song lets little ones draw to the beat of their own drum, trumpet, piano or guitar. This portable drawing and music creation station features a pressure-sensitive board that matches a melody to the artist´s pace. Draw fast, and the tempo picks up. Slow down, and so does the music. Four instrument buttons let kids pick their favorite sound. Color Me a Song was named a "Toy of the Year" by FamilyFun magazine and one of American Baby magazine´s picks for "Best Toys of the Year."
Sounds awesome right?! Well, it is! I've found myself tinkering with it.

Next up, is the Crayola Color Explosion Glow Dome. I had never heard of this particular Crayola product, so I was anxious to see what it was all about! The Glow Dome is reccomended for ages 6 and up, which is perfect for my 6 year old. Yay!! This is, by far, one of the neatest products I've ever seen! Kids can create their own artwork, put it in the color explosion glow dome and watch it as it spins around and glows! It has a two-layered dome of light and kids can control the motion. They can make it slow, medium, or warp speed to make their artwork into wild animations.
This is sure to be a much loved Christmas present for your child or someone you know.

Last, but not least, is the Crayola Glow Station. Now this one, I had heard of, but have not had one of my kids before now. The Glow station is a large canvas that glows in the dark. The glow station comes with a light wand in which the children can draw free hand or with provided stencils and textured sheets to create more realistic drawings. You can even attach a diamond shaped tip to the wand to create starbursts on the canvas. The images disappear after awhile or they can be erased which provide hours upon hours of fun, creative play for children.
This product is also reccomended for children ages 6 and up.

All three of these products were a huge hit in my house and I would reccomend any of them to anyone who has kids within the age ranges.

Crayola is also having a Give the gift of creativity sweepstakes, where you can enter to win a 7-night Caribbean cruise for a family of 4 on Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas. All you have to do to enter is visit http://www.crayola.com/gifts/vacation and create a Crayola wish list for you child or children. You can choose from fun products like Star Skateboarding, Martian Sleepovers, and Boogie Woogie. Crayola will then recommend an item from their Holiday Gift Guide that corresponds to the wish. You can enter once a day, and an extra entry is also available for those who share the wish list on Facebook.

Now, for the best part! One of my readers will win their very own Crayola Color Explosion Glow Dome! A $29.99 suggested value! Here are the rules to enter the giveaway:

Mandatory entry: Tell me one product you would put on your child's wish list from the Give the gift of creativity sweepstakes list.(found at the link above)

Extra entries:
Follow my blog-1 entry
Enter any of my other giveaways-1 entry for each giveaway entered
Blog this giveaway and leave the link-5 entries

Please leave a separate comment for each entry so they will all count. Also, be sure to leave me a way to contact you if it is not visible in your profile. This giveaway will run until December 5th and I will choose one winner by using random.org. I will then email the winner and they will have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be selected.

Crayola provided me with the free Beginnings Color Me A Song, Color Explosion Glow Dome, and Glow Station, in addition to the information, and Color Explosion Glow Dome to give away through MyBlogSparkTM free of charge in hopes that I would share the review and giveaway with my readers.

Thank you Crayola and MyBlogSpark for this wonderful review and giveaway opportunity!

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Sprout Baby review and giveaway!!

From their website: We provide a select offering of healthy, eco-conscious products, based on extensive research and recommendations. It’s our opinion that many parents, given enough information and access, would gladly choose products that are as healthy for their children as they are good for the earth; and we don’t think this should be a compromise. We think making healthy choices should be easy, that’s why we have exceptional products that are both healthy and environmentally-friendly. We want to support parents and children, and we do that by making available authentically good products that meet our rigorous standards, are tested and approved by parents and foster the growth and development of your children while also treading lightly on the planet. It’s a tall order, and we are up for the challenge.

Sprout baby has many products for moms-to-be, new moms, babies. Sproutbaby also has products for home care, like laundry, dishwashing, and cleaning products
One of the products that I would like to try is the BabyGanics Essentials Kit which includes 32oz All Purpose Cleaner, Air Freshener, Foaming Dish and Bottle Soap, Foaming Hand Sanitizer (50ml) and BONUS All Purpose Cleaner Wipes (25ct) which is pictured below.

The first item we were sent to review was the Nature BabyCare Diapers. My daughter is in a size 4(which she should be pottytrained, but that's a whole other post!)
From their site: Nature Babycare Diapers are the first award winning Eco-Friendly high-performance disposable diapers based on new green technology.These diapers are breathable and chlorine-free and made with natural based material.

I personally give these diapers a thumbs up! They fit comfortably, don't irritate my babies bottom, and best of all they don't leak! I would definetly use them again!



The next product we reviewed were the Bum Boosa™ Bamboo Baby Wipes 80 count. The wipes are made from renewable bamboo, are soft, absorbent and naturally scented with lavender and sweet orange essential oils. The Bum Boosa wipes smell great! They don't tear while using them, which is a huge plus for me! I can't stand when a wipe tears and, well, you know what happens when the wipe tears during diaper changes!


Now for the best part!! Sproutbaby is giving one of my readers a $25 gift certificate to use on anything in their store!! They are also giving you 15% off
your order by using the code SBBL105. And from now until December 15th, every order you place gives you an entry in their $2500 cash giveaway!! Wow!! Wouldn't that be wonderful! This is in celebration of their 1st birthday!

To enter to win the $25 gift certificate to Sproutbaby, you must do the following:

Mandatory entry: Go to SproutBaby and tell me one thing you might like to buy with the gift certificate if you win. Don't worry, you can change you mind later.

Extra Entries:
Follow my blog: 1 extra entry
Enter any other giveaways I have going: 1 entry for each giveaway entered
Blog about this giveaway and leave the link: 5 extra entries

This giveaway will end on December 4th at 9:00 pm. I will choose one winner using Random.org and I will email the winner. The winner will then have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. Thanks for entering and Good Luck!

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Christmas Giveaway 2009 at 5 Minutes for Mom

It's time again for the Christmas giveaway at 5 minutes for mom. Along with giving away fabulous prizes to the readers, the companies also donate each prize to families in need with the Under the tree program. It's a great program that was very successful last year. So check it out here!

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