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Nestle Family Prize Pack Giveaway {GIVEAWAY CLOSED}

January 1, 2010 By Mom Spark 463 Comments

::GIVEAWAY CLOSED::  Congrats to Kathy Pease!

As you all probably know, I love and support Nestle Family and their products, and today I am pleased to share an awesome giveaway with you all!

Before I get to our giveaway, I want to tell you about the Holiday Memories Photo Contest that Nestle Family is holding on their website.  You can enter to win a $500 gift card as well as other prizes!  There will be five grand prize winners who will receive a $500 gift card and then 45 winners of $50 gift cards.  No bad, eh?  The deadline is January 4th, 2010, so head on over there right now to enter!  ENTER HERE.

Also, make sure you check out www.nestlefamily.com for tons of recipes, ideas, and more information on Nestle Family and its brands. [Read more...]

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New Years Eve with the kids

December 31, 2009 By Donna Schuster 4 Comments

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We got sick of sitting around on New Years Eve since we had no one to watch our kids. Now that our kids are a bit older they can actually stay up with us! But when they couldn’t we opted to invite all our friends with kids over and set up pack and plays all over the house, and PARTIED!!

Now the kids are old enough they play all night!

Whatever stage of life you are in here are some fun ideas to have a fun party and/or just something fun to do with the kids!

  • A MUST: real or plastic champagne glasses.
  • Grape juice/7UP mix for the youngsters or the preggers.
  • Confetti!!! Kids can help make it…different colored construction paper cut or ripped up in bowls around the house or stuffed balloons for popping at midnight.
  • Sparkly stuff for decoration!! On tables, on clothing…etc.
  • Hats, you can get them cheap at Target and Walmart.
  • Noisemakers!!!!!! Buy them or have your kids make them! Some dried bean or rice in containers (try TP tubes decorated and sealed with duct tape on the ends-sealed with tape -use discretion with the ages of the kids)
  • FOOD…I have people bring appetizers or desserts, and I cook a ham…cheap and Oh so easy!)
  • Games…play lots of games!!

What do you do to make New Years Eve fun for everyone???

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Dos and Don’ts to Survive Thanksgiving and Other Holiday Family Gatherings

November 23, 2009 By Colleen Stout 10 Comments

1. Do sit at the kid’s table. They’re loud, they’re rowdy, and they don’t eat their sweet potatoes. But the kiddos will not look at your chest, then look at you and say, “Breastfeeding are you? Don’t worry Dear. Nothing a good bra can’t fix.”

2. Do blame it on your in-laws spoiling  your kids when they behave badly at your parent’s house.

3. Do blame it on your parents spoiling your kids when they behave badly at your inlaws’ house.

4. Don’t sit next to Uncle Alfred. He talks with his mouth full, and sometimes his dentures fall out.

5. Don’t load up your plate with cousin Ann’s “secret recipe” until you’ve tried it. If it’s bad you’ll spend all afternoon politely choking it down.

6. Do bring your laptop, Blackberry, iPhone so you can get a jump start on your online Christmas shopping after dinner while the guys fall asleep watching the Lions lose.

7. Don’t under any circumstances mention Twitter or anything that has to do with blogging or any kind of social media for that matter. You will spend the entire day trying to explain how you “know” people online even though you don’t really know them. And at least one relative will tell you that some crazy person from the Internet will hunt down your family and kill you all in your sleep. [Read more...]

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