To celebrate her blog’s 1st birthday, Char at Casual Keystrokes is giving away a MomAgenda Desktop Planner and Folio to one lucky winner. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on her post.

What are you waiting for, go on over and enter!

The folks at GoodyBlog are hosting a back to school shopping giveaway. By just leaving a comment on their post entitled Back to School Shopping Giveaway, you will be entered into a drawing for a free $100 gift certificate to Pure Boy Clothes. Apparently a mom, Ellen Wolpin, was having trouble finding cool clothes for her toddler son. So she started her own company, Pure Boy Clothes. She has quite a selection of fun clothes for boys.

Head on over to GoodyBlog and post your comment before midnight on Friday September 7th. You just might be the lucky winner!

I was tagged for a this meme today by Heather Masson at Home With Heather, a blog with great tips about working from home and blogging. Instead of another “10 Things you didn’t know about me”(although those are fun too), this one is a blogging tip meme.
Quite easy to participate in, and a chance to give some link love to your fellow bloggers.

-Start Copy-
It’s very simple. When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. (Check out especially the * starred ones.)
Add the next number (1. 2. 3. 4. 5., etc.) and write your own blogging tip for other bloggers.
Try to make your tip general.
After that, tag 10 other people. Link love some friends!
Just think– if 10 people start this, the 10 people pass it onto another 10 people, you have 100 links already!
1. Look, read, and learn. *****
-http://www.neonscent.com/
2. Be, EXCELLENT to each other. *****
-http://www.bushmackel.com/
3. Don’t let money change ya! ****
-http://www.therandomforest.info/
4. Always reply to your comments. *****
-http://chattiekat.com/
5. Spell check is your friend. ****
- http://thingsbymike.com/
6. Be the blog. ***
- http://www.meandmydrum.com/
7. Your readers are your treasure.**
- http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/
8. Learn From The Pros. **
-http://www.shaunlow.com/
9. Be creative and controversial*
- http://www.ahmadaffzan.com/
10. Use Trackbacks as a way to increase content and community. *
http://www.homewithheather.com/
11. Post on a regular and consistent basis.
- http://www.neenmachine.com/

-End Copy-

For this meme I’m tagging these great blogs…

My Mom Shops
All Tips and Tricks
Internet Duct Tape
taxgirl
Internet Safety Advisor
Babble Soft’s Blog
Mommybloggers
Creative Curio
Printables 4 Scrapbooking (a favorite new find of mine!)
Simplehelp

Thanks for the tag, Heather!

What happens if you have more than one webkinz?

My children used to have one webkinz each. That was enough for us. But last week as we entered one of our favorite stores, we were accosted by a huge Webkinz display that featured some of the cutest Webkinz ever - we could not resist. And so we entered the world of multiple Webkinz.

Each of my kids signed into their account and adopted their new Webkinz. This process effectively extended their memberships to Webkinz World to one year from the date of registration - ie July 2008. Great!

So now the kids sat down to play online with their new found pets. They assumed having two pets meant 2 gem hunts, 2 spins on the wheel of wow, 2 wishing wells, etc. Not so!!!!! The only benefit of the second pet is an extra room, welcome gift, and intial deposit of kinzcash.

This was quite a rude awakening. Even though you now have two pets to feed and care for, you still only get 1 of each of those priveleges. Hmmm. I was even surprised. Considering that I just paid full price for the second pet.

I couldn’t help but draw paralells to “real” life. For every extra child you have, you may get a few gifts to welcome the baby, but your current salary will now need to cover the expenses of the new family member.

Ultimately, the most cost effective strategy for Webkinz is to adopt your new pet at the time that your original pet’s contract expires. This translates to buying 1 Webkinz per year in order to renew your Webkinz World membership. But, in the meantime, you must resist the cuteness factor!

Exciting news!

I can now be found here AND at an easier to remember: www.neenmachine.com