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Looney Tunes Eating Right Kids – Week 1

August 31, 2009 By
Eating Right Kids

While I was at BlogHer, I spent a very pleasant evening in the company of some of my fellow Team  Mom bloggers, and in addition to being treated to a wonderful dinner, we were also introduced to a new line of better-for-you food products from Safeway Food Stores, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products.  I've now been hired by Warner Bros. to join a group of bloggers presenting five weeks of discussions and tips on healthy eating both at home and at school.  I was supposed to start on Aug. 24th, so I'm catching up on Week One's info before posting Week Two.  This is the basic info on the partnership: Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Safeway, Inc. have teamed up to create a better-for-you line of food products for children, uniting flavor and nutrition with the iconic Looney Tunes characters. The line includes categories such as breakfast foods, portable meals, dairy, snacks and beverages. Each product will feature such world-renowned Looney Tunes characters as Bugs … [Read more...]

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IZEAFest Winners

August 31, 2009 By
IZF Winner 1

I'm so excited to have my four winners of the free passes to IZEAFest! I used Random.org to randomize the total number of comments four times, and these are the four people who win free passes: Commenter #10, Adrienne from Adrienne's House, who I met at BlogHer in July. Glad we'll be hanging out again! Commenter #4, Quatro Mama from 4tunate, who has QUADRUPLETS, people. I've been a reader of her blog for I think a year now, popping over from time to time to see the latest photo of her four handsome boys. I'm glad she's getting this chance to get away and hang out with grownups! lol Commenter #24, 1stopmom whom I haven't met, but she's a stay at home Mom of four so I'm sure we'll have plenty of stories to swap! Commenter #22, Patrick O' Keefe, who tweeted the giveaway link every single day, therefore greatly increasing his chances to win. Thanks, Patrick! For those of you who were not chosen, I hope you do find a way to come to the conference anyway.  It … [Read more...]

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And Now, A Word From My Computer

August 28, 2009 By

Elizabeth recently gave herself a four year evaluation, and as her near-constant companion, I thought I'd add my thoughts on her progress. When Elizabeth started blogging, she was familiar with the Internet but knew nothing about code, like most beginning bloggers. She used the Blogspot publishing platform to create her blog posts, but I'll let you in on a secret- it took her MONTHS to figure out how to put links in her posts. The day she finally understand how to make an image link to a DIFFERENT LOCATION made her feel like she'd conquered the world. As she continued to improve and moved to a self-hosted blog, Elizabeth also learned how to take better care of her computer. I'm not her first laptop, but I am definitely reaping the benefits of her experience. See, Elizabeth likes to click links. And sometimes those links are for junky sites that take up a ton of space and slow down my overall processing speed. Over the years, those of us who have sat on Elizabeth's lap have had to … [Read more...]

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