Archive for the 'Giveaways' Category

BlogHer 2008 Goody Bag Winners, Newsletter Sign-up Winners, and a New Baby (Oh My!)

We’ll be updating this blog with recaps from BlogHer 2008 along with our Blog Blast with Hasbro (did you see the prizes!) this coming weekend, but while Julie and I recover from lack of sleep and jet lag, we wanted to announce the lucky winners of our Super Duper Goody Bag Giveaway.
Congrats to:
Heather Flett, from [...]

The Parent Bloggers Network Super-Duper, Extra-Special Goody Bag Giveaway at BlogHer

If you’re attending the BlogHer Conference this weekend, we’ve got an extra special incentive for you to track us down (believe me, it won’t be hard to find us thanks to Kristen’s ever growing belly and Julie’s cute son Oliver slung over her shoulder), other than learning more about the fantastic bloggers of our network [...]

My Fruit Roll-Ups - Campaign Launch (Plus winners! And babies!)

Did your mother pack your lunch in a Strawberry Shortcake or Incredible Hulk lunch box back in the 1980s? If so, I’m betting that she tucked a Fruit Roll-Up in there along with your napkin. And while you probably threw the napkin in the trash (unused, of course), I’m sure you ate that Fruit Roll-Up.
Twenty-five [...]

Blog Blast - Be the first one in the pool with Huggies Little Swimmers!

It’s Memorial Day weekend, better known as summer kick-off and the day the pool finally opens. Summer is always a magical time of year for kids - a seemingly endless stretch of long hot days just made for playing.
For this week’s Blog Blast, we’ve teamed up with Huggies® Little Swimmers® disposable swim pants, and we [...]

We’ve got a couple of winners and a new baby to announce!

Thanks to everyone who participated in Friday’s Blog Blast - “What Makes a Gift Memorable?” - sponsored by Excitations. The randomly drawn winner is Robin of My Life As It Is, with her post “The Gift of Time”. She’s won $250 worth of experience gifts of her choice!
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And thanks to everyone who signed [...]

Beauty Confidential Blog Blast - Even Beauty Experts Make Mistakes

If you’ve ever wound your bangs around a curling iron, then sprayed the hot iron and your hair with Aqua Net hairspray to create a perfect pouf, raise your hand. Come on, admit it. Even the hippest among us did it.
What about Sea Breeze? Remember dousing cotton balls with that harsh potion in hopes that [...]

Deceptively Delicious Blog Blast Winner (and Another Blast You Won’t Want to Miss!)

Congratulations to Laura, author of You Are What You Eat - the winner of the Deceptively Delicious Blog Blast! She’ll receive a $250 gift card for Williams Sonoma.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Blast!
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Beauty products can make you look like a goddess, or they can make you look like a goofball. [...]

Deceptively Delicious Blog Blast - Just Eat It!

One of the many universal struggles in parenting concerns mealtime. We’ve got our ideas about what kids ought to eat, they’ve got theirs, and we’re lucky if we meet in the middle now and then.
Parents have different ideas as to how to achieve that consensus, and we love to share those ideas with fellow [...]

Scholastic.com Parents Blog Blast Winner!

The winning post is Learning to Love Learning from the blog @ Home in the World - congratulations! You’ve got $100 to spend as you please in the Scholastic.com store.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Blast! Don’t forget about the Scholastic.com store coupon code for everyone’s use - 10% off purchases of [...]

Scholastic.com Parents Blog Blast: What Are Your Kids Learning in School?

I once heard my older daughter call my younger daughter a name - a word that we don’t use at home (but that’s not to say that our language is completely clean). And I knew exactly where she’d learned it and from whom.
I also once heard my older daughter refer to the “author” and [...]