GoodNites “Special Bedtime Moments” Contest And Giveaway

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This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the winner, comment #7 from Tiaras and Tantrums! Creating Special Bedtime Moments Ah, bedtime. It can be a struggle sometimes, but mostly it's a chance for parents and children to share treasured family moments together. Whether you follow the same exact routine every night or not, it's important to give kids a chance to wind down their busy little bodies and drift off to sleep feeling secure and loved. Unfortunately, bed-wetting problems can make that more difficult. Our oldest son had a medical condition that required us to get him up at least once and sometimes twice a night, every night, for YEARS, until our pediatrician found the right medication for him. We had him wear nighttime training pants for as long as we could, but once he grew out of the biggest size available at the time, there was nothing we could do but take turns staying up until midnight every night to wake him up. It disrupted his sleep and ours and was a source … [Read more...]

I’m just waiting on a fridge

I got picked by Mom Central to be on "Team Fridge", which means I'm getting a new Frigidaire Side-by-Side Refrigerator to review. Which, yay!  Friday afternoon I got a phone call from a man (whose name and phone number I of course forgot to take down) saying the fridge would be delivered yesterday by a local appliance store. He told me where on the appliance store's website to go to type in my invoice number and track my delivery. 8:00 AM Saturday- I get up, make coffee, boot up my laptop, go to the appliance store's website, type in my invoice number, and it tells me my fridge has not been loaded on a delivery truck yet.  No problem, it's early, right? There's a toll free number listed on the site, I call it.  Answering machine. "Please call back during regular business hours, Monday thru Friday 8-5."  Well that's just peachy. 10:00 AM Saturday- I woke up my husband and had him pull our fridge out from the wall so I could sweep and mop under it. Don't want the nice … [Read more...]

Ginormous STAR TREK DVD Review

For the past couple of weeks, I've been spending a lot of time in outer space. On spaceships. With aliens. And best of all, with my husband there too. It's been awesome. First, we watched STAR TREK: The Motion Picture Trilogy on Blu-Ray, thanks to Paramount Home Entertainment sending it to me for review. The trilogy skips the awful first movie and goes right to these three: STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME I have a confession-STAR TREK IV: The Voyage Home, which is also popularly known as STAR TREK: Save The Whales, I secretly kind of love it. It's just so cheesy and awesome. All three movies, both the Blu-Ray and DVD collections, have been digitally remastered with fantastic picture and sound quality, and The Wrath of Khan has been fully restored in high definition with brilliant picture quality and 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX. Both collections include 90 minutes of all-new special features plus over six … [Read more...]