The Baby Buggy Boutique Review & Giveaway Mother's Day - Day 6

I really try not to talk in absolutes because you never know when you'll find that next best thing, but I can say that up to this point, on this day, the basket I received from The Baby Buggy Boutique is the most adorable basket that I've ever seen!
I opened the box and there was this gorgeous basket inside packed with organic clothing, a super-soft polar fleece blanket, and beautifully hand-crafted and hand-painted clothes hangers, a door sign that says "Nap Time" and picture frame...all coordinating in the "Giraffe Safari" theme. The Giraffe Safari basket has a retail value of $59.99. The Giraffe Safari line is brand new and isn't even on their website yet, so I got a lucky sneak peek!

The soft little onesie and cap are both 100% Certified Organic Cotton. This is comforting because I try to buy organic when I can and I know that today, many mothers are doing the same. You can get onesies in sizes newborn through 12 months, so this fabulous gift isn't limited to baby showers or brand new mommies!
I noticed on The Baby Buggy Boutique's website that they also make and send the ever-popular shower or new baby gift, the Diaper Cake, and you can even request your Baby Buggy Boutique Diaper Cake with Seventh Generation Natural Diapers! Now THAT is a Diaper Cake that even your "crunchy" friends will appreciate!

I know that you want to win one of these baskets and they are giving away the basket of your choice to one lucky ThingsMomsLike winner, so I'm going to tell you how to enter to win!

Initial Entry: Visit The Baby Buggy Boutique's website and tell us which of their baskets is your favorite and who you would give it to (or if you'd keep it for yourself!)

Extra Entry: Add ThingsMomsLike on Twitter and Tweet about this giveaway--post a link to your tweet here.

Extra Entry: Add The Baby Buggy Boutique as a Twitter friend and post the url to your Tweet here.

Extra Entry: Add my button in the right column to your blog or website -post the link to your website here

Extra Entry: Join my Facebook Group

THREE Extra Entries: If you Blog about this contest and post a link to the blog post here

You must make a separate comment for each of your entries Ends 11:59pm on May 19th

I'm also excited to be participating in MomDot's 31 Blogs in 31 Days Birthday Bash!! Go check it out!

What's on your Mother's Day Wish List?

Invariably, when you ask a group of mothers what is on their Mother's Day wish list, you will get a different answer from each. For some, it's their favorite perfume because they'd never splurge to buy it for themselves. For others, it's yummy-smelling bath products and a few minutes to use them in a bubbly bathtub. And I am sure that we can ALL empathize with the mother who JUST wants some peace and quiet. Maybe for dad or grandma to take the kids to a movie and the park for the afternoon while she curls up with a book she's been meaning to read for like a year.

What is on YOUR Mother's Day wish list?

Vera Wang Lavender Stationery Mother's Day Giveaway Day 5

Invitation Consultants, a company that specializes in Stationery, Wedding and Party Invitations and party favors is offering a beautiful set of Vera Wang Lavender Hand-Bordered Stationery ($24.00 value) to a lucky ThingsMomsLike reader! The notecards are a heavy-weight flat ecru and the envelopes are hand-lined. This set consists of a box of ten notecards and ten envelopes. These are perfect for invitations, thank you notes or saying hello to a friend. They would also make a wonderful gift!

Now you want to know how you can get your very own set of this gorgeous stationery and I'm about to tell you!

Initial Entry: Visit the Invitation Consultants website and tell us which of their designs would work best for an event that you have coming up (besides the featured product).

Extra Entry: Add ThingsMomsLike on Twitter and Tweet about this giveaway--post a link to your tweet here.

Extra Entry: Add Alison at Invitation Consultants as a Twitter friend and Tweet your Twitter name here when it's done

Extra Entry: Add my button in the right column to your blog or website -post the link here

Extra Entry: Join my Facebook Group

THREE Extra Entries: If you Blog about this contest and post a link to your post here

You must make a separate comment for each of the above in order to get the extra entries.

Giveaway ends 11:59pm on May 19th

I'm also excited to be participating in MomDot's 31 Blogs in 31 Days Birthday Bash!! Go check it out!

I'm also participating in the Give It Away Now Blog Carnival! Stop by MomMostTraveled.com and check it out!

Book Review: Attached at the Heart -Barbara Nicholson & Lysa Parker

I just finished reading Attached at the Heart by Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker, co-Founders of Attachment Parenting International, and I have to say that I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book! FINALLY we have some solid evidence and stories to back up what many of us have known for years about Attachment Parenting and staying close to our children. The best thing, perhaps, about this book is that there aren't any definitive "you must do this to be a good parent" messages in this book, as you find with so many other "parenting" books.

Even if you don't completely identify with or label yourself as "Attachment Parenting", this book offers tons of wonderful stories from parents and the message throughout the book is to trust yourself as a parent and remember that you know your babies and children better than anyone else and that YOU know instinctively what they need and when you follow your instincts, you become more connected to your children throughout their lives. This book is a must-read for anyone even thinking about having children. I actually found it quite relevent even to parenting my teenager, so this is not just a book for those practicing the "7 Baby B's", but for parents with children of all ages. You can get this in paperback AND Kindle (links below).

KINDLE VERSION

Soy Spacasso Mango Papaya Silk Body Essence Spray Giveaway! Mother's Day -Day 4

Soy Spacasso is an environmentally-friendly company offering the finest in beauty and skincare products. They offer natural, soy-based skin care, candles and fragrances. The product that they are giving away to one lucky ThingsMomsLike winner is the Mango Papaya Silk Body Essence Spray, which is one of their hottest sellers! This Essence Spray is 100% botanical, and will leave your skin feeling silky and smelling good without feeling oily at all.


Initial Entry: Visit the Soy Spacasso website and find the "Sign Up For The Spacasso Newsletter" on their home page and enter THERE for a chance to win a Mother's Day Gift Basket FULL of Soy Spacasso Goodies. Look around their website and comment HERE with the email address you used to sign up for the newsletter and tell me which product on their site (besides the giveaway item) you would love to have.

2. You get an extra entry if you follow Soy Spacasso on Twitter

3. You get an extra entry if you "Follow Me" on Twitter

4. Additional entry if you TWEET about this giveaway. Post a link to the Tweet here. You can Tweet this contest for an entry ONCE A DAY to increase your chances!

5. Additional entry if you join my FACEBOOK GROUP

6. Another extra entry if you "Grab My Button" in the right sidebar and put it on your website.

7. If you're a blogger, yet ANOTHER entry if you BLOG this Giveaway and post a link to the post here.

Ends 11:59pm on May 15th.

I'm excited to be participating in MomDot's 31 Blogs in 31 Days Birthday Bash!! Go check it out!

I'm also participating in the Give It Away Now Blog Carnival! Stop by MomMostTraveled.com and check it out!

Femeeze Activewear Giveaway! Mother's Day Giveaway 3

Femeeze Activewear is on to something! Their cute, comfy tees use X-Cool technology to keep you dry and UVB protection to protect your skin from sun damage. That means that they are perfect for that morning run or working out in the garden...even on the sunniest of days! These shirts come in a variety of styles and two colors.


And let's talk about their panties. Let's face it, as we get a little older, maybe we have children or our muscles begin to relax a little, we can find that an unexpected sneeze or cough can yield rather uncomfortable results! Yeah...if you didn't realize it, LOTS of women experience this, so you aren't alone. You should have asked sooner, your girlfriends should have told you this! What's the solution? Femeeze beautiful, French cut underwear, briefs or thongs with a discreet absorbent lining. No more worries about the occasional leak with these comfy panties! Femeeze panties com in white and black and you'll want a pair in each style!

WIN!
There are several ways that you can enter to win a Femeeze T-shirt and panty set -approximate retail value $62.00!

YOU CAN ENTER UP TO EIGHT WAYS and even enter daily if you are a Twitter-er!

1. For your initial entry, visit the Femeeze website and tell us which style of Femeeze T-shirt you'd like to own most.

2. You get an extra entry if you Follow Femeeze on Twitter

3. You get an extra entry if you Join the Femeeze Facebook Group

4. You get an extra entry if you "Follow Me" on Twitter

5. Additional entry if you TWEET about this giveaway. Post a link to the Tweet here. You can Tweet this contest for an entry ONCE A DAY for more chances!

6. Additional entry if you join my FACEBOOK GROUP

7. Another extra entry if you "Grab My Button" in the right sidebar and put it on your website.

8. If you're a blogger, yet ANOTHER entry if you BLOG this Giveaway and post a link to the post here.

Ends 11:59pm on May 19th

I'm also excited to be participating in MomDot's 31 Blogs in 31 Days Birthday Bash!! Go check it out!

BRIDE WARS DVD & Paper Shouts $25 GC Giveaway! DAY 2

I am moving this up to Mother's Day Giveaway Day TWO because this is the PERFECT gift for you or a mother in your life. This movie is fabulous and moms LOVE custom stationery!!!!

My daughter and I went to the theater to see BRIDE WARS. We both loved this movie and JUST the beautiful dresses are reason enough to watch this movie, in my opinion! I found the pairing of Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson an act of genius! Anne Hathaway plays Emma, the sweet, practical, responsible, conservative teacher and Kate Hudson plays her best friend Liv, a high-powered attorney who is aggressive and goes after what she wants.

They've thought of their perfect wedding day since they were little girls.

When their dream weddings are double-booked, their friendship (and sanity) is tested. The best friends find themselves competing for the wedding venue, guests and the perfect wedding that they've dreamt of since they were children.

This tale of friendship and sabotage is a must-see. It will make you laugh and maybe even shed a little tear. See it with your best friend. Or as in my case, your daughter.

Paper Shouts and 20th Century Fox have teamed up to offer an amazing giveaway package for you! This prize package includes a BRIDE WARS DVD (release date April 28th) and a $25 Paper Shouts Gift Certificate!

Paper Shouts offers fabulous cards for all occasions on recycled paper. Make an impression with their beautiful, unique designs! They have engagement announcements, wedding invitations, birth announcements, party invitations, graduation announcements, thank you cards and anything else you can think to send a card or a note for.





Paper Shouts is also offering a 15% discount for my readers. Just enter MomLikes as your promo code at checkout for this great deal!

TO ENTER,

1. visit the Paper Shouts website and come back and tell us which card from the Bridal Shouts section is your favorite. In the same post, tell us which character's style you relate to more --Emma's traditional, romantic style or Liv's couture "on the best" approach?

2. You get an extra entry if you "Follow Me" on Twitter and post a tweet about the contest. Link me to the tweet in a comment. You can Tweet this contest for an entry ONCE A DAY for more chances!

3. Additional entry if you join my FACEBOOK GROUP

4. Another extra entry if you Grab My Button and put it in the sidebar on your website.

5. And yet ANOTHER entry if you link to me on your blog (please post a link to this).

Be sure to create individual comments for each of the above that you've done.

In addition to winning the BRIDE WARS DVD (release date April 28th) and a $25 Paper Shouts Gift Certificate, the winner will be entered in the Grand Prize drawing.

Grand Prize Drawing prizes include:

• Grand Prize: 6 nights at the CasaMagna Marriott Cancun Resort and airfare for 2 on AirTran airlines.
• 1st prize: Sunglasses Worn by Kate Hudson in BRIDE WARS movie and $100 Paper Shouts Gift Certificate.
• 2nd Prize: BRIDE WARS one-sheet signed by Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway and $50 Paper Shouts gift certificate.

This giveaway is open only to U.S. Residents and will end at 11:59pm on May 8th and the winner will be chosen on May 10th. The Grand Prize winner will be chosen by Paper Shouts and notified by May 31st.

You can check out the Bride Wars website to see previews, downloads, photo gallery and even a Bridal Beatdown Game!

GOOD LUCK!