How fun is the Stack and Count Layer Cake ? This stackable treat makes early math a party! Each of the 10 layers features countable decorations and a different colored numeral (1-10) to support number sense, number recognition and sequencing. The Stack and Count Layer Cake has color-coded chocolate and vanilla layers and is an easy way to introduce odd and even numbers. This educational toy invites imaginative play with a fun party theme. The durable plastic layers wipe clean and nest for storage. Looking for something fun and entertaining for baby's first Christmas? Then check out the cute Bubbles the Rocking Fish .. Yes he is adorable! Bubbles the Rocking Fish was designed with toddlers in mind and makes a great first rocker. Bubbles has a soft plush body with brightly colored polka-dotted fabrics and a smiling friendly face that is sure to delight your little one. A sturdy solid wood base, wooden hand grips and low to the ground seat will give your toddler a safe and comfortable ride.

How fun does this fishie look? Makes you wish you were two again right?

Read Our Mommies Thoughts:
Christine's thoughts are coming soon!
Amanda loves the Blender.
Kristin featured them in her Holiday Gift Guide
Shanda's thoughts can be found here. Labels: Mega Review

Bambootiful is ecoTOOLS The ecoTOOLS Gentle Cleansing Natural Bath & Shower Mitt ($2.99) both exfoliates and cleanses with the ease of slipping the mitt on a hand, giving a good ole’ scrub down in a matter of seconds. The Bamboo Bristle Bath Brush ($5.99) also will make a busy mother’s life easier by paying close attention to the harder-to-reach places that are often overlooked. And for those tired feet at the end of the day, nothing is more indulgent than the Exfoliating and Smoothing Bamboo Foot File ($1.99), which feels like a spa pedicure--without the cost or hassle! ecoTOOLS makes it easier for families to “go green” by using recycled paper, sustainable materials, and offering a simple idea on the tag for the people who want to help the cause. ecoTOOLS understands that with small steps, families can make a big difference without compromising their quality of life. Busy moms can feel better about buying the products knowing that 1 percent of ecoTOOLS annual sales will be donated to the 1% For The Planet organization. Businesses are joining together to leverage their resources to create a healthier planet for everyone.

ecoTOOLS products can be found at select Walgreens, Kmart and Ulta stores, or visit http://www.parispresents.com/ to locate a store near you.

Amanda loves the loofah Land's End Giveaway

Yes us Mommies have another fantastic giveaway for our wonderful readers! This time Land's End is giving us the chance to giveaway the Wheeled Duffel Bag!

We are excited to share the Lighthouse Wheeled Duffel Bag with you!

Exclusive Lighthouse® luggage, designed to solve some of your worst travel headaches.

The bag comes in five colors, Bright Red, Dusk Black, Kelly Green, Light Sapphire and Pink Coral.

It retails for $149.50

To enter and win a Wheeled Duffel Bag from Lands' End, please visit landsend.com and in a comment tell us another great Dad item!

For extra entries you can do the following (please leave a different comment if you do the following):

This giveaway will end on December 12th Labels: contests, Holiday 2008

DYMO Caption Maker Contest!

DYMO is giving one lucky scrapbooker a chance to have their artwork featured in a future DYMO Caption Maker magazine ad. To win, use captions to create unique and inspiring personalized tags, borders and fonts on your scrapbook page. The new DYMO Caption Maker is an easy to use embossing tool that enables creative captioning, journaling and bordering through a variety of symbols, letters and fonts. It includes three interchangeable wheels - one for lowercase, one for uppercase and one with a script font.If you’d be interested in more information on the contest or on Caption Maker please let me know. For more information on the contest please feel free to visit the Web site: HERE

Think your scrapbook should be featured? Use creative and unique captioning and titling to help create your scrapbook and submit it here. Click to submit yours NOW! All entries must be submitted by 12/31/08.
» Submit Your Own Macy Believes.. Do you? Writing letters to Santa Claus is an age-old Christmas tradition for children all over the world. Macy’s is collecting these letters in a special Santa letterbox at all Macy’s stores. For each letter received, Macy’s will donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The Believe Meter will measure America’s belief, based on our collective spirit – including the amount of letters received and other current events that reflect the season’s generosity. Thursday Roundup Mommies United:

Stay tuned for some amazing giveaways coming up like Belisi and baby Faces AMANDA at mommymandy.com :

SOTHYS & Bruno Jamais Restaurant Giveaway
One winner will receive a $50 dollar gift card to Bruno Jamais Restaurant and the winner will also receive one (1) of the SOTHYS Spa Kits (winner will get to choose which Kit between the three they would like)
ENDS: Nov. 13th

Hello Kitty MP3 Player Giveaway
WIN: A Hello Kitty MP3 Player

Thomas & Friends™: Thomas’ Great Race Giveaway
WIN: A Thomas’s Great Race Game
ENDS: Nov. 14th

Shaun the Sheep: Off the Baa Giveaway
WIN: one of three copies

Lexmark X3650 All-in-One Giveaway
WIN: a Lexmark X3650 all in one printer
ENDS: Nov. 15th

Keurig Platinum B70 K Cup Single-Cup Brewer Giveaway
WIN: a Keurig
ENDS: Nov. 17th

Lands' End Women's Sherpa Fleece Giveaway
WIN: a Land's End womens sherpa fleece
ENDS: Nov. 18th

Olive Kids Giveaway
WIN: a floor pillow

Build-A-Bear For the Holidays Giveaway
WIN: a 10 dollar GC to Build a Bear

Dirt Devil KRUZ Vacuum Giveaway
WIN: a Dirt Devil KRUZ
ENDS: Nov. 19th

Something to Brag About Giveaway
WIN:Dancing Pearl Photo Charm Necklace.
ENDS: Nov. 20th

Shrek The Halls Giveaway
WIN: one of two copies of this DVD
ENDS: Nov. 21st

Briarpatch's Fancy Nancy Posh Bedroom Board Game Giveaway
WIN: a Posh BEdroom Game

See kai Run Shoe Giveaway
ENDS: Nov. 22nd

Too Hot Tot Bling Giveaway
WIN:A custom onesie of your choice. (Winner will be able to choose from a long list of onesies ranging in both short sleeved and long sleeved)
ENDS: Nov. 23rd

Polly Pocket Mega Mall
WIN: a Polly Pocket Mega Mall

Tooth Tunes & Turbo Tooth Tunes
One winner will receive a Turbo Tooth Tunes
One winner will receive a Tooth Tunes Junior
ENDS: Nov. 24th

Bugaloo Soft Soled Baby Shoes & Giveaway
WIN: one pair of Bugaloo shoes

Kung Fu Panda & Secrets of the Furious Five Giveaway
WIN: Two winners will each receive a set of the Kung Fo Panda & Secrets of the Furious Five DVD

POM Wonderful Contest & Giveaway HERE!
WIN: TEN (10) Coupons for either a free POM Tea or POM Wonderful (both are for a 16 oz. drink).
ENDS: Nov. 25th

Homemade Presents That Come From The Heart Wow Every Time!
WIN: Two winners will each receive any e-book (up to 20 dollars) they want

Little Jet Set for Your Holiday Travels
WIN: One winner will receive any of the eeboo Lacing Cards
ENDS: Nov. 26th

Great Games & Giveaway
WIN: an UNO Flash Game

FurReal Friends Giveaway
WIN:One FurReal Friends Tumbles My Roll Over Pup
ENDS: Nov. 27th

FLOR Holiday Rugs
WIN: A Ho Ho Holiday Rug
ENDS: Nov. 30th

All of Amanda's giveawys can be found here. CHRISTINE at From Dates To Diapers and Beyond :
Meet A Cowboy's Wife
WIN: FIVE coupons, good for a free block of cheese
Win a $50 Walmart gift card
Win a "Savoring the Moment" gift bag
Win a Momma's Tantrum Apron
Send out those Christmas cards, but don't forget the Thank You's! (A Giveaway)
WIN: win 50 free holiday cards and address labels:
What are the holidays with out a whole lot of baking? (A Giveaway)
WIN: one of five gift baskets
Pondering the Miracle (while snug in your PJs) on Christmas Eve (Lands' End Giveaway!)
WIN: win a pair of Women's Regular Terry Travel Slippers with Bag, a pair of Men's Regular Low Shearling Moc Slippers, OR a Child's Fleece Pajama Set from Lands' End
Too Hot Tot Bling (A Giveaway!)
WIN: a custom onesie

You can find all of Christine's giveaways here. KRISTIN at An Ordinary Life :
Step2 Makes Christmas Special This Year
WIN: LifeStyle Custom Kitchen
Great Stocking Stuffer Ideas
WIN: one of three copies of KUNG FU PANDA and SECRETS OF THE FURIOUS FIVE DVD set
ENDS: Dec. 5th
Hostess Gifts and Christmas Entertaining
WIN: a Pillsbury Savorings Gift Bag
WIN: one of three copies of the DVD
It's Feeding Time!
WIN: a feeding set
ENDS: Dec. 1st
Indulge Yourself with Chex Mix Bars
WIN: one of three baskets
Safe and Practical Gifts for Christmas
WIN: Symphony™ featuring SureLatch™ All-In-One Car Seat
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Now On DVD!
Land's End Offers Great Clothes This Winter
Win one Women's Sherpa Fleece Katja from Skimbaco Lifestyle
50$ Walmart Gift Certificate Giveaway Labels: TR

High School Musical Bear at Build A Bear One thing all of our children love is stuffed animals. They all also love visiting Build A Bear Workshop as well. All the boys and girls loved that they could pick out any animal they liked and watch it get brought to "life".

Each of received one of the new High School Musical Bear. Our girls were very excited to receive this cute bear dressed up in a Wild Cats basketball sweat suit.

If your child has a High School Musical Bear, head on over to their Flickr Group and post a picture. You can build your own bear (or bunny, monkey, dog, cat, dinosaur, etc.) at Build-A-Bear Workshops throughout the country or at their Online store .

Don't forget to check out the adorable Holiday critters now available. One of our favorites is the Hal & Holly Moose™ Deluxe Storybook Gift Set. Start a new holiday tradition this year with the adorable Hal & Holly Moose. This pawsome gift set includes both moose dressed in cheerful holiday style, a $10 Bear Buck$® gift card and their book: Holly and Hal Moose: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure, at a beary special price!

Amanda's daughter Sam is in love with her Bear.
Shanda's daughter wants to make 100 more friends for her bear.
Kristin shares with us one of the animals she bought Kai and about it's Worldly Travels In Time for The Holidays WINNER Thank you to everyone who entered. We had fun reading your comments.

The winner of the In time for the Holidays Giveaway is:

The snowy trees is my favorite but I really like the idea of having a picture of my family on the stamp!

Congratulations Abby, you should be receiving an email from us soon! Labels: winners

Changes Are Coming!

We just want to thank everyone who still drops by to check up on us.
If you've noticed we added a new Mommie and we couldn't be more excited about it! We will all start getting some new and exciting things up soon. So hang in there.

Check our Kristin's Interview
With Amy Roloff from Little People, Big World while you are waiting. And
Katja just posted a fabulous giveaway for Wal-Mart. Christine and Kristin will be launching their Christmas Gift Guides soon, and Amanda has hers up and running.

We promise to be back soon with tons of new content, if you have any suggestions please submit them. Meet Katja Katja is a fashion-freak-former model, a cinnamon-bun-baking-housewife, a marketing-loving-mompreneur and a "let's-jump-some-more-on-the couch-kids"-mother. She is a mother of three and is married to her Prince Charming, and currently they live in the New York City area. Katja is passionate about helping people to connect at Twitter and she blogs about marketing for women at Ladybug Landings. In her personal blog Skimbaco Lifestyle Katja shares her product finds, parenting tips and her life as a mompreneur. Labels: about MU

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce, when us Mommies think of this sauce all we think about is "mmmmmm". We were all completely impressed at the quality and the taste of this delicious sauce.

Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce can be used on all sorts of food, from chicken to steak, hamburger even fish. Country Bob’s All Purpose Sauce is in a class by itself. It is more than a steak sauce, because of its unique flavor and the variety of uses. You can grill, cook, and marinate with it, or put it in your soups, stews, baked beans, and your other favorite dishes. Experience the Taste!

Along with our All Purpose Sauce we
have expanded our product line to include BBQ Sauce, Seasoning Salt and Spicy
All Purpose Sauce. With our fully automated bottling line we also have the
capability of producing Private Label products
for stores or restaurants.

Amanda loved using the sauce during her BBQ
All Shanda could say was YUMMY!
Christine's thoughts can be found here.
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