Hit Target , why because Katie says so!

Head on over to "Because Katie Says So!" and enter to win a Gift Card to Target. Yes it says "Target" and who doesn't just love Target. I would love to win this because I really need a new coat but with the extra cost of the Holidays I just can't swing it right now. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed lol If you would like to enter too and you know you do just click the link below.
http://becausekatiesaysso.blogspot.com/

Sweets~

If you like to cook and you love sweets check out some of the sweets pictured and posted on this site and while your checking out the site enter the giveaway she is having at the same time just click the link below.
http://www.carriessweetlife.com/2008/12/blog-giveaway/#comment-1137

Sick Sick Sick

Well I was lucky enough to escape being in bed during Christmas due to being sick but I'm making up for it now. I have been in bed on and off since Friday with bronchitis,sinus infection, ear infection and high fevers. I'm so glad I made it until the 26th without being sick but I am suppose to take the kids to their grand parents which is a tradition we do every year. All the grand kids go to gram and gramps the Sunday following Christmas for a big get together and to have a tree there and yet I am so sick I haven't been up more than 2hrs at a time and I think the worse is yet to come. I am burning up with fever but yet shivering from being cold not to mention my head feels like it's going to explode any minute. It's definitely no fun. I am so dreading tomorrow. I may have to take them over drop them off and go home to bed and have them call when they want to come home. I don't want to expose everyone so they end up sick to not to mention we have a brand new grand baby that was born Dec 24th that will be there. I don't want that poor baby exposed to this. Scott was in his glory holding his first born grand baby. He looked scared holding her on the video but proud as a peacock at the same time~!

Wonderful White Gold~

I just came back from "An Ordinary Life" and what a great giveaway they are having for a pair of WHITE gold diamond earrings. I don't wear gold and to have an opportunity to enter to win a set of white gold diamond earring was just so exciting. You can check out the cool site and the giveaway below
http://www.aordinarylife.com/2008/12/every-girl-wants-little-ice.html
and also check out http://www.ice.com/?sourcecode=LIFE2

Secrets in the brew~

Do you want a great cup of Brew!?! You could have a chance to win Platinum Brewing System from Keurig's and Tiffany and Heather will be throwing in $50 towards an assortment of K-cups at "The Secret is in the Sauce". Skip on over and check out the site and enter to win while you are there. All you need to do is click the link below.
http://thesecretisinthesauce.blogspot.com/

Warm Little Mouse

I have R.A and with the cold weather here living in Maine is sure hard on my joints and I have no circulation in my hands and feet from R.A so I'm always cold. I have a heater under my PC desk to keep my feet warm but my hands are still always cold and they have a mouse that will keep your hand warm while surfing the web. This is the neatest idea and over at "Living Life One Day At A Time" they are having a giveaway for one of these hot little items~! Hop on over and check out her site and this giveaway by clicking the link below.
http://colleenstearns.blogspot.com/2008/12/warmme-warm-mouse-review-and-giveaway.html

Giving Back~

I just came back from reading a terrific blog at Jessica Knows. It's all about Giving Back and Paying it forward. What is a little ironic is one of my all time favorite movies is "Paying It Forward" And I always thought if the whole world thought like that what a wonderful place this would be. In my opinion there are takers and their are givers in this world and I'm glad I am a giver.This is my chance to pay it forward with the help from Jessica Knows and Libby's. They are having a wonderful giveaway for $300 which you can keep $150 and you get to pick what charity you would like to give the other $150 to. This is a great way to give back to your community or or to help a struggling charity. I live in a small town and unfortunately the down is 400,000 in debt and the school system and local food banks are struggling to keep going. My parents volunteer to pick up the food and transport it back to the local food bank and help deliver food to needy families and I have in the past been the volunteer treasurer until they could find someone more permanent. I work away from home and I'm gone 10hrs a day and with school functions with the kids I just don't have the time to volunteer any longer on a regular basis but this would give me a way to still help them out. I would love to donate the $150 to the local Tri Town Food Cupboard. If you would like to Pay It Forward to a charity check out Jessica Knows wonderful site by clicking on the link below. Hope this holiday found you and your family a healthy and happy holiday season~!
http://jessicaknows.com/2008/12/give-back-a-300-giveaway-day-8-of-15-days-of-new-years-resolutions/

Give Me More~

Do you love Starbucks? I love Starbucks~! Give Me More~! lol I wish I had one right now. Since we are having another wintery storm right now I guess I'm not going to drive today so no Starbucks white chocolate mocha today Grrrr But the good news is they are having a great giveaway for Starbucks so if you like it as much as I do hop on over and enter by clicking the link below.
http://thevoiceofmom.com/2008/12/giveaway-starbucks-gift-basket/#comment-1502

Tranquility~

You want to relax and relieve some stress while playing your DS then you have to check out the great giveaway that accidental mommies is having at "What's that Smell" because they have a giveaway for one winner a copy of each of the two Zenses titles. I didn't know that they made such a thing. Go have a look around and enter while your there.
Just click the link below and it will take you to this great giveaway and site.
http://accidentalmommies.com/2008/12/escape-to-the-spa-with-zenses-for-nintendo-ds-giveaway/comment-page-3/#comment-40427

Somethings are not meant to be

I had such great plans for this weekend but somethings are just not meant to be. I had planned on finishing my Christmas Shopping on Saturday and wrap all day during the winter storm on Sunday. When I drove 45min to the nearest shopping centers in Waterville ME and bought one item and discovered that my debit card froze do to a limit of access that is a security feature I was unaware of. That was the end of my shopping. Now if I had realized that this security feature existed I would of drove to the bank that morning and did a withdrawal but who knew (not me obviously). I was really disappointed because I really wanted to finish the shopping since I knew I couldn't on Sunday do to the storm.( I should of know this was just the beginning of what was to come because that is just my kind of luck) What a horrible weekend we have had. First of all Remember the freezer full of nice Deer Meat I was so excited about having in my freezer from Octobers post, well it no longer exist. Last night at around 11pm I discovered the freezer had some how ended up unplugged. $600 of meat gone to waste and what a mess. We only get in the freezer about once a month to restock the freezer over the frig and it had been about 2 weeks since we last opened the freezer. The freezer is located in my laundry room and when I was getting ready for bed I went into the laundry room to put the dirty cloths in the laundry and noticed a fowl smell and I immediately knew what that smell was. I whirled around to look at the light on the front of the freezer and it was not on!!!!
I couldn't believe it. With the price of meat today this was a huge loss for my family. I have a relative in the meat business and he gave me a heads up that the meat prices were about to go through the roof and told me if I could I better stock up so that is exactly what we did. We ordered a huge meat package and he vacuumed sealed it all so nice so there would be no freezer burn waste. Then we got a deer in October so the freezer was full to the top. We were all set for the winter. Now I did save about $200 on the meat since 10 days after I bought it even hamburger jumped a $1 a pound. But now that we have lost it all. I ended up not only loosing all that I had invested but now I have to pay top dollar for my meat all winter. The freezer smelled so bad we had to remove it from the house. We cleaned and cleaned it but I think it is going to take some time to completely get rid of the smell. We removed the top door of the freezer and dumped 3 box's of baking soda in it and put it in the garage until spring.(Did you notice I kept saying we removed the freezer and we cleaned and cleaned the freezer well actually it was Scott doing all that while I was spending most of the time gagging in the bathroom) I am not going to even try to use it this winter. One, I can't afford to replace the meat especially at the prices today and two, it was such a job to get it to the garage to start with since we are in the mist of a blizzard of the century here in maine. My floors are a mess from tracking back and forth with bucket of hot water and soap and tracking the snowy shoes in and out. Not to mention in order to get the freezer out we had to remove the continents of the laundry room. I live in a small apartment and the freezer has been there for many years and the only way to get it out is to remove everything else in the room. So my kitchen was a
wreck , my living room couch was now a holding place for all the cloths on hangers and the recliner for holding the clean laundry that had just been washed and needed to be sorted and taken care of. My whole house was just a disaster area. After 8hrs of cleaning the freezer and the mess the house is almost put back together. The key word is almost. I still need to do all the floors. It isn't happening today because i have had it!!! And just think since we were in the middle of having what the weather man calls "The Storm of the Century" the worse blizzard in 10yrs or more and I had planned to wrap all day today and be ready for the holidays for the first time in years. Needless to say no wrapping is done and I'm in no mood to do it( I can't imagine why) lol lol All I can say is I hope everyones weekend was a lot better than mine. HO HO HO Happy Holidays (ya right)

Flipping Fun~

Over at "I Never Grew Up" you will find an awesome giveaway for Flip Video Camera.They are so small and sleek. I like the feature where you have a built in USB port and built in flash memory up to 60 minutes. So pop on over and enter just click the button below or copy and paste this link in your browser.
http://inevergrewup.net/giveaway-22-flip-ultra-video-camcorder/#comment-4617
Happy Holidays~!

One project closer~!

One project closer is having an outrageous giveaway right now for a tool we could use desperately.I wish we had this 5yrs ago even because we are currently building a new home. We have been renting for the past 25yrs and it will be so nice to own our home. Scott is a carpenter by trade and I took 4yrs of industrial tech so we decided that a dream could come true with a lot of hard work and even more patience if we built it ourselves. We have been building for 5yrs buying materials each week with what ever we could afford out of our pay checks. We have the 2 1/2 story building shell completed and are now working on the inside. We just recently purchased a lift of V-Match which is expensive.We had to save for a few weeks in order to come up with the money for the lift but it will be worth it once we get it installed. Now the giveaway has a "Track Saw Combo Kit" they are giving away and the is a tool that takes the place of a table saw. It is the coolest little rig I have seen on the market for some time and it would of saved us a lot of time when we were constructing the shell of the house for sure. This Track Saw Combo Kit is put out by Dewalt and if you or a family member knows anything about tools you know that this is a great brand. This tool weights around 20lbs so this makes it easily portable compared to moving a table saw from one project to another. If you want to learn more about this tool go to this awesome site and check it out. Click on the title of this post and it will take you directly to the site or Just click the url below and it will take you to the site and giveaway.
http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/giveaways/giveaway-dewalt-track-saw-combo-kit-dws520sk-a-500-value/#comment-17785

Partylite giving by STL Mommy

What a wonderful site I just came from. Since the holidays I have been finding some great sites that I have been able to check out listed on other friends blogs. Don't I just love them buttons! One click and "poof" you arrive at a brand new site. This time I visited "STL Mommy" and she is having a giveaway. The site she is promoting and her giveaway is wonderful. If you like candles like tealights you will love her giveaway and the site she is promoting. Since I love Buttons I'll add her button below and just click and "poof" go~! lol

Oh So Cute`

One of my all time favorites is having such a cute giveaway right now. They are giving away a music learning pal and they are just adorable. If you have Lil` ones you should check it out. Just copy and paste the link below to check it out or click the button to go to her site.
http://accidentalmommies.com/2008/12/little-first-act-discovery-music-learning-pal-review-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-39693

Slippers with Headlights lol

Imagine this slippers with headlights lol That's exactly what I just saw at Mom Most Traveled site. She is having a giveaway for a pair of these and I got to tell ya they are too cool~! They are called BrightFeet. I have never seen anything like it. And if your anything like me when you wake up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night your groggy and stumbling in the dark trying to make it without breaking a toe or two.lol This is exactly what I need. Now you would think after doing this for years I would of thought to invent something like this. It is actually a no brainer and I'm surprised it took this long for some one smart to actually market them. Any how I thought I'd blog about them and leave a link to this way too cool giveaway. Just cut and paste the url in your browser or click the button to go to Mom Most Traveled. Happy Holidays everyone~!
http://mommosttraveled.com/brightfeet/#comment-19368

http://www.brightfeetslippers.com/store/

Bringing Back Memories~

Chris at "Geeks" has a wonderful article about some sharing they did and he didn't stop there. He is still giving by having an amazing giveaway. I won't tell you everything but it does involve $500 worth of great toys. After reading his article it brought back so many wonderful memories of my childhood. I had forgotten so many of them so I thank Chris for bringing them back and putting a smile on my face. Do you remember your favorite games as a child. I do, I just hadn't thought about it in a long long time. I'm having trouble making my links active so if this doesn't work just copy and paste the link below in your browser and go check them out at "Geeks"
http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/12/15/receiving-the-gift-of-giving/#comment-700239

Just Zap it~!

I just came from a new site I had never been to before thanks to a friend who posted it on her blog site so I figured I'd do the same. They are having a great giveaway and thought it was a cool site. The wonderful item they are giving away is a microwave and some delicious bertolli. Now since my microwave is ancient this is something I could use desperately. I just entered so go check it out and enter too. Just cut and paste the link below in your browser or click on their button to go to "Petit Elephant" and enter.
http://petitelefant.blogspot.com/2008/12/12-days-of-christmas-giveaway.html

At Macy's

Did you all know that if you drop a letter off in the Santa Box at Macy's they will donate $1 for every letter dropped off to the Make a Wish Foundation. I read this on another blog site and I had no idea and kids love to write letters to Santa so it's a win win situation. If your planning on a trip to Macy's bring a letter from your child to Santa and drop it off and help the Make a Wish Foundation. Happy Holidays everyone~

High sport filming~

Ok if you are into action like snowmobiling, snowboarding,ATV Riding or Horse back riding this video camera is the bomb for sure! I can think of so many things I would love to tape with this. We love to go mud running with the ATV'S and this would be so cool and when we go Snowmobiling in the winter we could catch some great footage while Ice Fishing. The best part is they are giving one away at "Riding with no Hands"
just click the button below to check it out or copy and paste the link in your browser.
http://ridingwithnohands.com/atc2k-waterproof-action-cam/#comment-1318

Do you take a lot of pictures?

MommyDaddyBlog.com is giving away an HP Photosmart A826 Photo Printer as part of their Three Gs For The Holidays event! Click on over right now to get in on fun giveaways, get shopping ideas from their Gift Guide, and learn how you can help children in need this holiday season!

So Warm and Nice~

Mommy Daddy blog is at it again. I just love this site. I'm so glad I subscribed to their feed. She is having another giveaway.This time it's for a pair of PJ's , slippers and a slanket. (I never saw a slanket before entering her giveaway) One of the reasons I love this site is because you find out all kinds of new gidgets and gadgets available on the web. Today I learned what a Slanket was and they look so comfortable and warm. Being from Maine that's important. So if your cold and need some new comfy nite time garmets check out her giveaway. Copy and paste the link below or click on her button on my side bar.http://mommydaddyblog.com/2008/12/08/win-the-ultimate-lounge-around-prize-pack/#com
ment-16529

Ever wonder about the germs lerking in your toothbrush?

Frugal Mommy of 2 girls is having a giveaway for a toothbrush sanitizer and they are just awesome. I thought I'd post this since I have never seen or heard of this product before as I'm sure many others haven't either. Check it out~!
http://frugalmommyof2girls.blogspot.com/2008/12/zapi-toothbrush-sanitizer-giveaway.html

2 nights stay~

Frugal mom of 2 girls is having a giveaway for 2 nights stay at Nickelodeon Orlando Holiday Inn. This is awesome. Did you know they have a "Kid's Spa" Imagine that. They also have a state of the art Theater with live nightly entertainment. This is the place to take the kids for sure. Copy and Paste the URL in your browser or just click the button on my side bar and go enter for your chance to win. I did. Happy Holidays and good luck~!
http://frugalmommyof2girls.blogspot.com/2008/11/nickelodeon-hotel-2-night-giveaway.html

Game Night~

MommyDaddyBlog.com is giving away a tabletop games package (Clue, Operation, and KenKen) as part of their Three Gs For The Holidays event! Click on over right now to get in on fun giveaways, get shopping ideas from their Gift Guide, and learn how you can help children in need this holiday season!

Taste The Fizz~!

Oh my I just got to have this new invention. I just came from a cool site that is having a great giveaway for a Soda Machine. This thing is awesome. It saves you money. It saves the planet. It saves you space. It makes over 25 flavors~! My favorite is Cream Soda which I couldn't believe they even have my favorite since some stores don't even carry Cream Soda any more. If you like sparkling water they have that too. Diabetic no worries because Diet flavors are sugar-free and sweetened with Splenda® brand sweetener and contain no aspartame. I have to lug soda through the woods and up a mountain every weekend and it's heavy. This would solve my lugging problem for sure. Each economy-sized bottle of sodamix makes 12 liters of fresh soda and that's a lot of Soda. So is this awesome or what~! Want to check it out click on the button below to check out this fantastic site and giveaway.