Best Bottom Birthday Bash: Sign Ups Now Open

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Best Bottom Birthday Bash: Sign Ups Now Open

Our friends from The Parenting Patch is excited to announce that sign ups are now open for the Best Bottom Birthday Bash. April means that Heather of The Parenting Patch is another year older!! YAY!!! 

To help celebrate her birthday, The Parenting Patch is giving away a Best Bottom Diapers cloth diaper prize pack to one lucky winner!!! Also along with other friendly bloggers, Shannon's Tales of Motherhood will be participating as well!!

Sign ups for the Best Bottom Birthday Bash begin today and continue until March 13, 2013. 

The Best Bottom Birthday Bash begins on April 3, 2013 and ends on April 17, 2013.

For more fun details & sign ups about the Best Bottom Birthday Bash please click here. 

Purell - Keeping Kids Happy and Healthy

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Purell - Keeping Kids Happy and Healthy

Our friends at SocialMoms and Purell has teamed up together to bring another fun blogging program for the back-to-school season to talk about keeping our kids happy and healthy going back to class. I have been asked to talk about this as a member of SocialMoms. 

With so many things to do such as shopping for school clothes, meeting the new teachers, making sure your children has their pens/pencils, just checking off the list as the days are counting down it can be easy to forget about "germs". Teaching our kids to cover their mouths when they cough to wiping their nose with soft tissue and always keeping hats with gloves on in the cold weather can be so helpful. Even being around other children who are sick with colds it can be easy to spread germs. We can often forget to remind them to keep their hands clean and sanitized at all times.

Who wants to be going back and fourth to the doctors having to pay high medical bills when all this can be prevented? Attendance is so important for our children, missing days due to colds and coughs can be very hard on their grades.

This is where Purell comes into play to save the day! Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer is preferred by many leading health professions. Our kids can just dab a little drop on their hands, rub it in and go back to learning. They don't have to leave the classroom to go wash their hands and miss any studies! You can find Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer at many stores such as walmart, riteaid, cvs, giants, walgreens and more.

 To celebrate, Purell and SocialMoms also have  sharable coupons for you to get a discount on the most popular PURELL® Hand Sanitizer products! How cool is that!!!

So, what are some helpful ideas to help your children go back to school with a smile and be healthy? Please comment below as I'd love to know your ideas!

About PURELL® Hand Sanitizer

Formulation matters. New PURELL® Advanced Hand Sanitizer is scientifically formulated to kill the most germs. Independent tests using FDA methods prove it. Just 1 squirt of PURELL® Advanced Hand Sanitizer kills as many germs as two squirts of any other national brand.* This breakthrough formulation also includes four different skin conditioners that make PURELL® Advanced Hand Sanitizer that will help soothe your skin and maintain moisture – no matter how often you use it. More info on PURELL Advanced Hand Sanitizer: http://purell.com/purell-advanced.aspx

The Science Behind the Breakthrough.

New PURELL® Advanced Hand Sanitizer offers enhanced bacteria killing power in a formulation that makes it mild and soothing on the skin. The scientists at GOJO, backed by their 65 years in skin health and hand hygiene innovation, were able to develop a formulation that maximizes the impact of alcohol on bacteria. This new family of products works by penetrating the membrane of the germ cell more effectively, maximizing the germ-destroying power of the alcohol. As a result, PURELL® Advanced Hand Sanitizer is proven to kill more than 99.99% of the germs on hands. The innovation that became new PURELL® Advanced Hand Sanitizer was so well received by the scientific community that GOJO won the respected APIC 2011 Rutala Award for a paper devoted to the subject. And now we hand the breakthrough to you.

* Ounce for ounce kills more germs on hands than other national brands. Based on comparative study of average pump bottles using FDA Healthcare Personnel Handwash guidelines. National brands based on 52-week IRI scan data.

More info on PURELL® Hand Sanitizer: http://www.purell.com/

Follow PURELL® Hand Sanitizer on Twitter: @Purell

PURELL® Hand Sanitizer on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/purell

Be sure to check out Purell on facebook, you can "like" their page as well to keep up with all of their fun updates! 
I wrote this blog post while participating in the SocialMoms and PURELL® Hand Sanitizer blogging program, to earn My SocialMoms Rewards Points. The opinions and ideas expressed here are my own. To read more posts on this topic, click here

Cottonelle - Fresh Care Routine

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Cottonelle - Fresh Care Routine

In honor of the Cottonelle Ultra Comfort Care Toilet Paper and Cottonelle Fresh Care Flushable Wipes, SocialMoms has teamed up with Cottonelle and asked for me to share this new blogging program!

Kids are so precious and so cute to watch grow up, as they grow they look to us as their parents to guide them and teach them how to stay healthy and clean. It can be such a pain to constantly repeat myself to my kids to flush the toilet, wipe the seat if you tinkled on it, wash your hands after using the potty, put the seat down, make sure you wipe yourself properly. It never fails in my house to see the toothpaste tube squeezed everywhere besides the bottom of the tube, instead it's twisted all up every which way and toothpaste all out of it with the cap no where in sight!! The soap is always shrinking during showers from being left in their bath water. It can be such a headache to keep up with the kids but at the end of the day I smile because I'm so happy to have been blessed with them. 

It is my pleasure to share with you Cottonelle Ultra Comfort Care Toilet Paper and Cottonelle Fresh Care Flushable Wipes! 

To get that extra touch of cleanliness use Cottonelle Ultra Comfort Care Toilet Paper then use the Cottonelle Fresh Care Flushable Wipes!! The fresh feeling will blow you off of your feet! I can't imagine not using both of these. It feels like just stepping out of the shower.

Here's the fun part, this process has to have a name, is there a name you would like to name it?? How about having a chance to win some awesome prizes for a name? 

To qualify for the year’s supply of Cottonelle Ultra Comfort Care and Cottonelle Fresh Care, entrants must create a name through The Customizer on Cottonelle Brand’s Facebook Page between June 12, 2012, and February 28, 2013. Winners will be selected in a random drawing on a weekly basis. There is a limit of one prize per person. See full terms and conditions on Cottonelle Brand’s Facebook Page or Cottonelle.com.

 About Cottonelle Brand:

The Cottonelle brand provides innovative comfort solutions for perineal personal care. Cottonelle toilet paper is available in three forms: Cottonelle Ultra Comfort Care, Cottonelle Gentle Care, and Cottonelle Clean Care. To help people feel cleaner and fresher than with toilet paper alone, the brand offers Cottonelle Fresh Care Flushable Wipes and Cottonelle Gentle Care Flushable Wipes enriched with Aloe & E. For the latest product information, visit Cottonelle.com.

Follow Cottonelle on Twitter: @Cottonelle

Cottonelle on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cottonelle 

*I was compensated for this post. The opinions and ideas expressed here are my own*

Seattle - Sights of Your Life

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Seattle - Sights of Your Life

Transitions Lenses and SocialMoms has partnered together in honor of the Transitions Lenses Sightseeing City Tour stop in Seattle at the Washington Brewers Festival and asked if I could help promote this event as well as share my most cherished sights in my life with you!

I think sometimes without realizing it we can take things for granted easily. Our vision is something so important and needed in our life's. Being able to watch the sun set or seeing flowers growing is so awesome.
We have such a beautiful world with so many things to see and nature makes it all possible. It's amazing how we see the color of things such as grass, tree's and animals. Just seeing the sky, the moon and stars is wonderful. Being able to see our children walk and run having fun is a great site to see.

As I type this post I'm remembering a few memorable sites I have experienced as a little girl. One of my most favorite would be when my parents would take me to Long's Park to feed the ducks.  I would sit along side of the water watching the ducks swim all in a row. The mama duck would have her baby ducks following her peacefully. I'd look around and see all of the trees and be amazed how pretty they were. The sun would be bright and I would just be in my own little world. Now that I have kids I take them to the same spot and I watch them enjoy feeding the ducks and being able to experience that great feeling. Without a healthy vision we wouldn't be able to experience these things.
Growing up my mother would always tell me how important our vision is and to appreciate it. I have learned from her by keeping up with eye exams on a regular basis for my children as well. My son and I wear glasses, I make sure we wear them as directed especially when reading. It can be a pain having to clean them sometimes but it's way worth being able to see.

So tell me how does a healthy sight play a role in your family's life? Please feel free to share by commenting below.

For the good news: Transitions lenses, in partnership with Pearle Vision will be in Seattle at the Washington Brewers Festival June 15- 17th 2012. Visit their booth because their offering free vision screenings for the whole family and the opportunity to have your photo taken in front of a scenic backdrop! To read more about this click here.

About Transitions Optical, Inc.

Transitions Optical is a joint venture of PPG Industries, Inc. and Essilor International. The first to successfully commercialize a plastic photochromic lens in 1990, today the company is a leading provider of photochromics to optical manufacturers worldwide. Transitions Optical offers the most advanced photochromic technology in the widest selection of lens designs, materials and brand names.

As the Official Sponsor of Sightseeing™ Transitions lenses help you see the world the way it’s meant to be seen. By continually adapting to changing lighting conditions, Transitions lenses enhance your everyday moments so your experiences are more vivid, more vibrant, more true.

More info on Transitions lenses: en-us.transitions.com,

http://seemoresights.com/

Transitions lenses on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/transitionsslenses

Follow @transitions on Twitter

Sight of the Day Photo Contest:

Capturing everyday moments through photography gives you the opportunity to cherish memories for a lifetime. Enter the Official Sponsor of Sightseeing™ Sight of the Day Photo Contest for your chance to win the Ultimate Sightseeing Dream Vacation! Learn more here.

I received compensation to participate in a SocialMoms and Transitions lenses blogging program. The opinions and ideas expressed here are my own. To read more posts on this topic, click here.

A Very Green Back to School & Giveaway Hop Blogger Sign-Ups

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A Very Green Back to School: (Giveaway Hop Blogger Sign-Ups)

Don't miss out on  A Very Green Back to School coming August 22nd - 30th. Hosted by Simple City Life and Mommy's Favorite Things! With school just around the corner this would be the perfect time to step-up and help make the world a more friendly environment by purchasing Eco-friendly supplies or help spread the word to others about making a difference in our beautiful world! 

While preparing for our kids to go back to school why not enter to win some cool back to school green prizes in this giveaway hop! Many blogs including Shannon's Tales of Motherhood will be participating in the wonderful event. So mark your calendars for A Very Green Back to School and be sure to tell your friends!

If you would like to participate in A Very Green Back to School  Blogger sign-ups are being accepted now. For more information and to sign-up please click here.

Summer Sizzle - Wham-O Slip 'N Slide Triple Racer Giveaway

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Wham-O Slip 'N Slide Triple Racer Giveaway

                                                Winner is Rich H. and has been contacted!!!! Thanks to everyone participating!

Welcome to the Summer Sizzle Giveaway Hop hosted by Mom with a dot com!

Along with many other wonderful blogs Shannon's Tales of Motherhood is participating in this event to feature a variety of giveaways with some really cool prizes! All prizes are family friendly and you will have many chances of winning! Be sure to make your way through all the blogs below as well for your chance to win many fun prizes!!

Keep reading to see what prize Shannon's Tales of Motherhood is giving to one of my lucky readers for this Summer Sizzle Giveaway:

Summer is here and I know it's hot so I wanted to help cool off  this Summer Sizzle giveaway with a Wham-O Slip 'N Slide Triple Racer for one lucky reader to win!

If you have children or know anyone who does then the Wham-O Slip 'N Slide Triple Racer will be  perfect to help keep them cool for the summer heat!! With 3 inflatable slide boogies included more then one person can have fun at the same time. No more waiting in line!

I like the Wham-O Slip 'N Slide Triple Racer because not only does it keep the kids entertained but it won't wear a groove in your lawn. The water pressure is good so all lanes receive ample water sprinkle for maximum slippage. This would be perfect for a birthday party or a cookout. It can be used daily and it holds up very well. My kids had one for a few summers now and I can honestly say I'm a fan!

Here is your lucky day to win a Wham-O Slip 'N Slide Triple Racer:

Giveaway Details:

• Dates / June 24 - Jun 30, 2012 11:59pm est.
• Must be 18+ to enter
• US entries only (due to shipping)
• Entries completed and winner chosen via Rafflecopter, winner will be notified by email and announced on Shannon's Tales of Motherhood, winner must respond to winning notification email within 72hrs. or another winner will be chosen.

Please enter through the Rafflecopter form below! For more chances to win more prizes don't forget to stop by the blogs listed below!!  Good luck!!
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Children are a Blessing

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Children are a Blessing

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

Copyright © 1972 by Dorothy Law Nolte

As parents sometimes we can get so side tracked in life with working, household chores, budgets and what ever else is going on in our daily life's. Things can become very overwhelming especially when time doesn't seem to be long enough in a day. We can get so focused on these things and don't realize that our children can use a extra hug, maybe some words of encouragement or to be told "I love you".

I love the above poem as the words are so true. Our children grow up and become their own person and have their own personalities but I truely believe a huge part of who they become will have so much to do with how their raised, how they were loved, what they see and hear in their young life's.

We can be great parents but there is always something extra we can say or do to show our children more love. Children are such a blessing in this world. I'm sure we all would be so lost without them. Many people would love to be parents but unfortunately for some reason some can't. Some can have medical problems or for whatever reason they just can't have kids. For this reason I thank God everyday for blessing me with my 4 children. I'm not sure where I'd be in my life without them.

Our children are a blessing,

Please feel free to share with us by commenting below with the ways your child/children make you proud and what we can all do to help them mature into young respectful adults. I'd love to read your tips, suggestions and responses.