Mega Bloks Playtime Construction Giveaway!

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Life With Two Boys and Mom to Bed by 8 

for teaming up to bring you this awesome 

Mega Bloks Playtime Construction Giveaway!

What a great giveaway this is! It's never too early to put toys away for Christmas!!

One lucky reader is going to win a super cool Mega Bloks prize pack that includes 3 Amazing Spider-Man sets for the big kids and a First Builders set for the little ones!

Amazing Spider-Man Bridge Showdown

Recreate the epic bridge battle between Spider-Man and Lizard with the Bridge Showdown by Mega Bloks! Spider-Man and his Spider Jeep square off against Lizard and his tentacle-enhanced Attack Walker with launcher. As both vehicles collide, Spider-Man and Lizard suffer from battle damage, but you decide who claims the victory!
Features:

• Buildable Spider-Man Jeep

• Buildable Lizard Attack Walker with working launcher

• Battle-damaged Spider-Man and Lizard buildable micro action figures!

• 250 pieces

Spider-Man Speeder

Speed to the scene in style with the Spider-Man Speeder by Mega Bloks! When Spider-Man isn'’t swinging past skyscrapers, he is driving around in this ultra-fast roadster. When sleek design is combined with high speed, Spider-Man is bound to succeed!
Features:

• Buildable Spider-Man Speeder

• Buildable Spider-Man micro action figure

• 80 pieces

Lizard Sewer Speeder

Lizard terrorizes the underground world with this Sewer Speeder from Mega Bloks! The Sewer Speeder allows Lizard to navigate quickly under city streets and over bodies of water. His latest target doesn'’t stand a chance as he speeds away without a trace!
Features:

• Buildable Lizard Sewer Speeder

• Buildable Lizard micro action figure

• 91 pieces

First Builders Big Building Bag

Build and stack for limitless fun with the award-winning First Builders Big Building Bag by Mega Bloks. These bright primary-colored blocks encourage hands-on exploration as children imagine and create. First Builders blocks are big and easy for little fingers to assemble. When playtime is over, zip the blocks up in an eco-friendly bag and stash them in the toy box until the next adventure.
Features:

• 80 First Builders blocks for hours of play

• Attachable wheelbase to create cars and trucks of all colors and sizes

• Compatible with all Mega Bloks First Builders sets for endless building possibilities

• Portable, PVC-free bag zips to store all pieces

Giveaway Open to: US only

The event dates: August 30- September 13

Enter using the Rafflecopter below. Good Luck!

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Win Some Fun Velcro Gutzy Gear Patches

I am so happy to share this fun giveaway with you!

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Gutzy Gear Review & Giveaway 

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Send your kids back to school in style with these fun Gutzy Gear velcro patches!

Gutzy Gear patches are aimed at children ages 6-12. 

 No need to break out your sewing machine, these are velcro! 

 You just wrap the straps around your backpack and attach the patches.

It's as easy as 1, 2, 3!

 

Not only are they easy for your little ones to move around, because of the velcro,but, they can always trade them with friends! There are tons of patches to choose from to suit any child's style! How fun for them to show off their personality!
The straps also offer additional shoulder padding. They are thick and well cushioned to protect your little munchkin's shoulders.

Winner receives a starter kit (2 straps +free patch) and 2 patch sets PLUS 2 additional starter kits to gift to 2 friends!!

Example Winners Prize pack (Patches will be randomly chosen by Gutzy Gear, picture is only to show how many of each item the winner will receive)

 

Enter below for your chance to win by completing the entries in the Rafflecopter below! You do not have to complete ALL entries to win, but if you are randomly chosen as the winner, 

your entry will be verified. 

 The more entries you complete, the better chance you have to win!

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Amazing Juno Lucina Signature Pendant Giveaway

So Stunningly Beautiful!

Please mention me so that I may win one too

Thanks to Emily at Baby Dickey

 for organizing this giveaway!

 You can read her personal review of the

 Juno Lucina pendant on her website Baby Dickey  

Juno Lucina has been the symbol of childbirth for over 1000 years. The Roman goddess of childbirth, she protects mothers and their newborn babies.
This pendant resembles Juno Lucina's hands that are cradling and protecting the heads of both the mother and child.
Check out their NEW website for more symbolic gifts, the story behind them, and a discount code! These make great "push presents" for the new mom in your life.

GIVEAWAY: one lucky winner will get the Juno Lucina Signature Pendant! This gorgeous piece is 14K white or yellow gold and has a total 1/5 carat weight with natural diamonds. Retail price is $499. Please use the form below to enter--Please make certain to say that you entered through Schmoozing With Betsy so I too may win one of these gorgeous pendants. This giveaway  Ends September 17th.
 -disclosure: I am not affiliated with Juno Lucina or Baby Dickey in any way, nor did I receive any product or compensation for this post.
By posting this, I am entering into a referral contest for my own pendant from Juno Lucina. a Rafflecopter giveaway

Simply Saturday

The morning fog hasn't quite burned off yet which tells me that the beginning of fall is in the air here in Maine. The mornings are getting cooler with nice warm afternoons and sleeping weather nights. 

The birds are still singing their happy to be alive songs that permeate the silence of my spot in the woods. The turkeys must be sleeping since they haven't excited the dogs yet and the deer is so quiet that she slipped by without them even waking. 

The leaves are still green since it is still early for them to start changing. The squirrels have pretty much filled their winter homes with all the acorns they could get. Hopefully, the lack of their presence, doesn't mean a rough and early winter. 

There is still new life popping up in the yard that I am always excited to see. Plants and flowers even weeds that I had never seen before, I look at with the wonderment from the child with in me. Even the insects that live around here, are strange but yet wonderful to watch as they go on with their busy little lives. 

I have seen some insects that I have never seen before and have no clue as to what they are. But, I can watch them for hours as long as they don't come near me. I am not so brave when one of those bugs come close to me. It makes me giggle sometimes, here I am, a giant to them, yet I am afraid of these tiny creatures.

I am so blessed to be here. My spot in the woods. My spot. In the woods. My ...spot. 

It should have been OUR spot. My husband Gilly, loved the woods of Maine. We would spend saturdays driving around, finding new spots to explore. Pulling off onto a dirt road and walking the paths into the woods. 

He knew the woods so well. He taught me so much. There actually is a difference between a moose track and a deer track. Turkeys sleep in trees, who knew! 

We would walk and talk and dream...some day, we would retire and buy a house in the woods. We would have a garden and I would bake and maybe even sell my breads...

We were supposed to grow old together in our spot in the woods. We were going to be that cute old couple that every one loved to see walking hand in hand. 

Our love is so,....was so special and strong that I still can feel it, even after 5 years. I feel it, I feel him. I can't seem to let go, I am not sure that I want to. 

Oh yes, my husband taught me so very much, but, he forgot to teach me one thing. He forgot to teach me how to live without him.

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Dr. Visit Gone Bad

I have a wonderful, compassionate, sensitive, concerned gp that I go to.  I never fear going to visit her, because, she always gives me and all her patients, 100% of her attention. She chose the right profession. She did it because she loves people and wants them to get the most of life and make sure they are healthy or on their way to being healthy. 

  She listens...intently to what you are saying and sometimes what you are not saying. She cares about you as a person and has even called me to make sure that I was okay if it had been a while.
Sadly, it seems as if people like her in the medical profession are sometimes hard to find.
Today, however, is not about her (Hey Marge! Nothing but love for you hun) I am going to go on a little bit of a rant.

Unfortunately, I have come across many unprofessional, unfriendly, uncaring, insensitive people in the medical field. I have fired nurses and doctors when I was caring for my folks. One nurse had the audacity to tell me that my mother's pain was in her head! My word for her...F-I-R-E-D! Oh yes, in no uncertain terms did I let her know that she was not to step foot in my mother's room again. That was the same day that I came into her room and saw her draped over the side rail of her bed! Sweet Lord, I can not begin to even describe my anger. My sweet sweet beautiful mom, had been ringing the bell to go to the bathroom, and no one came. Ohhhhh I was so angry that I fell it still as I write this. My mother, my dear sweet mom that I miss so much was being ignored! I started staying overnight with her in her room so that I could make certain she would get the help she needed. My brother would bring my dad in the morning and I would go home to bed. And so it went.

I think what happens sometimes, is that they lose their compassion and forgot why they went into that profession in the first place. Sometimes, they just need to be reminded and other times,they need to find a job that they would like more. Be that as it may, in my personal opinion, never never never should a Doctor, or nurse or anyone else for that matter ever belittle you and make you feel ashamed.
 I don't care what size you are, what color, religion, education or lack of, what type of work you do, where you have  piercings, or how many, if any, tatoos you have,  you will be treated with compassion by me and certainly should by every one else. Especially, if these people deal with the public.

Going to have a physical is pretty embarrassing. It can make you feel nervous and embarrassed and downright frightened. In my belief however, never ever EVER, should you be made to feel belittled and humiliated. 

When you leave the office, you should feel hopeful and encouraged. When asked about concerns you may have, they should never be scoffed at or make you feel ashamed. We all struggle with something. 

My poor daughter was made to feel all of those negative feelings at her first visit to the company allowed dr.  She was made to feel humiliated from the get go. First they saw her tatoos and sentenced her by thinking she must be a delinquent. She is not and never has been. Her tatoos are memorials to her dad and grandparents who we lost in a six month period. All this and more happened while she was also trying to graduate from college, which she did!

My daughter is strong,  she very hardly ever crys, unlike me. But, after leaving this office, she drove to a nearby parking lot and broke down.  From the moment she followed the assist  into the room, she was made to feel embarrassed.

They half listened to what her concerns were and decided to send her to a specialist. I am glad that they did  recommend a specialist because maybe they will treat her as she should be treated.  

The hardest thing when  your children grow-up is when someone hurts them and you want to totally go superhero and b*tch slap those jerks.  

So, for now, I will sit back and listen and try to comfort my daughter, but, in my head, I am rocking my best elastic girl moves!!

WIN a Cinch Starter Kit

Are you on a diet roller coaster? Tired of getting going and then Wham! You just give up either because you don't see the results of your hard work, or the dieting has made you lose muscle and you are so tired you can barely make through the day? Well, we might just have something to help you 

break that cycle!

Welcome to the Cinch Starter Kit Giveaway!

Hosted by Baby Costcutters

About Our Sponsor: Shaklee Cinch Inch Loss Plan

The Cinch Inch Loss Plan is Powered by Leucine and specially formulated to help you break the diet cycle, so you keep muscle you have, burn fat you don't need, and lose inches you don't want! 

Baby Costcutters is a #Cinchspiration Blogger ~ which means she gets the products for free and in return she blogs about them :) She has lost a total of 13 lbs so far and a total of 15 inches in two months!!!! You can read all about her journey here.

Now you can start the Cinch Inch Loss Plan! You can enter to win a Cinch Starter Kit rv$228.00Your Cinch Starter Kit includes:

• Vanilla shake mix canister (15 servings)
• Assorted Cinch shake packets (14 packets)
• 3-in-1 boost™(42 count)
• Assortment pack snack bars (10 count)
• Energy tea mix (28 sticks)
• Daily journals (2)
• Cinch program guide
• Cinch logo shaker cup
• Cinch pedometer
• Cinch tape measure

You must be 18+ to enter. Open to US only. Ends Sept. 5, 2012 at 11:59pm est
Before you enter I do want to say something about the rafflecopter form. Most forms usually have several points per entry however, the sponsor would like to know the correct actually number of entries on this giveaway. Also, they only wanted 5 entries........Therefore, each entry is only worth one point and there is not a daily tweet only a one time tweet. Normally I give more points for the facebook and twitter follows but, please understand my hands are tied. So please make sure to get your 5 entries in :)

Good Luck!

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