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A Deal to Share

Posted on November 15, 2010 | 1 comment

I follow a couple deal websites, my current favorite being Crazy Coupon Mommy. She sends out great stuff! She has found deals for just about everything. Pampers gift to grow codes (thank you mommy, I got a bunch off your master list this weekend), on-line deal websites, like Groupon where I also got some great deals this weekend thanks to Crazy Coupon Mommy and info on how to match up coupons with current deals at stores to get even more savings, like matching up a diaper coupon with the store who has them on the best sale. She really is amazing, I don’t know where she finds them all. And today I have found one to share with you…drumroll please…

Snapfish is offering 365 free prints if you purchase $10 in products by November 20, 11:59 Pacific Standard Time. The catch is, you have to order all 365 prints (4×6 size) when you make your $10 purchase. To get the deal use coupon code 2010MY365 at checkout. If you don’t need that many you can choose 100 prints (code 2010MY100) or 50 prints (2010MY50).

This is an awesome deal for scrapbookers. I’m scheming for some things I can do with that number of prints…hmmmm…I’ve got the girls ABC books to fill, maybe this year we could do our Christmas card as a 4×6. So many things to think about between now and November 20th!

What can you do with a deal like this? What pictures do you have tucked away in the digital world that need to come forth to have and to hold? Let me know if you can use this deal and how it worked out for you. Did you have all 365, 100, or 50?

I think this one needs to be printed

And most likely this one too!

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Boycotts, Do They Work?

Posted on November 11, 2010 | 1 comment

What do you think of boycotts? Do you think it matters to companies if you don’t buy their products? I do. I remember learning in high school economics class that each dollar I spend it a vote. A vote that I can give to one company or another, it is solely at my discretion. And that is before e-mail, social networking and blogging became such a big part of our everyday culture.

Yesterday, via Twitter, I heard about a grassroots effort to get Amazon.com to remove an offensive book for pedophiles from their website and sales. Within a few minutes of originally hearing about the book and the proposed boycott, I saw probably 10 more “tweets” about it, including information on how to contact the CEO by snail mail and e-mail to let him know what I thought of Amazon.com selling books “for” pedophiles. And believe me, I sent an e-mail right away.

It seems almost daily I receive an e-mail from a group asking me to boycott a particular company for what they do support or have refused to support. Some of them I agree with wholeheartedly, others I decide to, for lack of a better word, ignore.

But this Amazon.com one is one I am not going to let pass. I prefer to use other websites, including Christianbooks.com. Here is just one link you can use to search them right from my page:

keyword search

Others I have not let pass are when companies tell their employees not to say Merry Christmas or refer to Christmas Trees as Holiday Trees. I mean, come on, that is just ridiculous.

I know from, not only that long ago economics class, but also from my job, that what we do and say with our money speaks to companies. And this is one area too where what I say matters. People hear your complaints about a company much more loudly than your compliments, though, they do hear both.

So let your voice be heard, write those letters, e-mails and tweets; and make sure you cast your economic vote. Let a company know you will not support what they are doing by writing, then follow through by spending elsewhere until you see a change.

You may not be able to change the “whole” world, but you can influence your corner of it!

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A great giveaway on another blog

Posted on October 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

I found through someone else’s blog, this fun food blog called http://www.cookingforseven.com/. She shows beautiful pictures of food she makes. Sometimes with the recipe and sometimes without, but always breathtaking pictures.

She is currently hosting a giveaway for a great food scale that tells you the nutritional breakdown of the food. You should check out this giveaway. Click here to puruse the giveaway and enter if you wish.

My pictures will not be as lovely as hers, but I am thinking of making a blueberry pie today. IF I do and IF it turns out, I will come back and put up some pictures for you. While you are waiting for those pictures, check out these cuties…

First we picked the pumpkins (10/5/10)

Have fun!

How do I have time you ask?

Posted on October 12, 2010 | 2 comments

I am sure you are wondering how a mom with three kids, ages 4, almost 3 and 9 weeks has time to blog. Well, I will let you in on my secret…I got a cleaning lady…and she hates it when I interfere.

She declines my help, but loves the vaccuum!

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Should be…

Posted on July 26, 2010 | 2 comments

I should be doing so many things, because, if you notice my ticker on the bottom, baby 3 is due in 7 days. I did not quite go to 40 weeks with either of my girls, so you would think I would be doing those other things, but nope, I am blogging. Hmmmm…

What should I be doing:

Finishing sewing a valance for the girls new princess room
Getting the carseat washed up
Cleaning my house
Resting for the big day
Taking my blood pressure because I got a massive headache while outside with the girls

What I have done:

Put a princess dress on Caitlyn
Disappointed Sue by not being able to find her a princess dress to her liking

Taken girls outside to play for a few minutes

Yup, that is Sue in a winter hat.

Then made Sue’s day by bringing them inside and broke Caitlyn’s heart for doing the same. But this majorly preggo mama had to go potty!!!!!

We have managed to have some other fun this summer.

We recently went blueberry picking:

Which Caitlyn enjoyed more than Sue

And a few weeks before that, for 4th of July, we went to a local city park that has a lake and a picnic area

(Please note, it appears all dates on pictures are wrong…crazy…or maybe these last pictures are from a trip daddy did with them…I don’t know…)

There have been other doings, some of which have stretched us more than we desire, but those are for another day…

What have you done with your summer “vacation?”

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Not sure where to go from here…maybe Kenya?

Posted on March 9, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, I think one of the valuable things about blogging is the ability to connect us to each other for the spreading of the Lord’s work. Sometimes that is encouraging and sometimes that is uncomfortable and oft times, it is a bit of both. That is where I find myself as I read about MckMama’s experiences in Kenya.

The above link is just one of several days of blogging she has done from some very desolate areas in Kenya. I see her pictures of children and her pleas to have us join her in helping the children of Kenya by sponsorship through Compassion International. And so far I don’t know what my role is.

I have used my twitter and facebook accounts to retweet her updates on how many Kenyan children Compassion still needs sponsors for, and I am thrilled to see that number decreasing (most recent update was 750 children). But am I supposed to help that number decrease through signing up to support one of them? I don’t know.

I am no stranger to sponsorship. I sponsored a girl in China through World Vision for several years until she moved out of the program area. Before that I sponsored a children through Children International. I have also given many times to Feed the Children. And several other ministries.

But what about right now? What is my duty? What is the Lord asking me to do? I have NO idea. I really don’t. Is what we are giving to our church right now, the amount the Lord wants us to give? Are the occassional gifts we are giving what He is asking of us right now? Are the gifts in kind we give what He has in mind right now? Again, I have no idea.

I am scared to give more right now. I work in the auto industry. So far so good for me, but wow, the gloom there is just starting to lift, well maybe not even lift, maybe just thin. How do I take my eyes off that to see what else the Lord wants me to give? How do I teach my girls to be generous when I am too afraid to increase my own giving? I have no answers, just lots of questions that I ask myself on a daily basis. Am I hiding behind my questions? Maybe. Is asking them my way of claiming some action in my inaction? Maybe.

So for now, I continue to ask my questions, while asking you to visit MckMama’s blog to see even more what what she is sharing. Take a peak at the desolation and the hope. Please consider your role, whether it is in your own neighborhood or somewhere across the globe. And maybe together we will find our time and place to jump from doubt to action.