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Fill the Backpack: Ziploc Celebrates Magnificent Moments of Mom
This week’s Fill the Backpack post is about our sponsor, Ziploc, who is celebrating Magnificent Moments of Mom that is a nod to the resourcefulness of mothers everywhere. My earth friendly practices take a back seat when it comes to my weakness for Ziploc bags. I love that Ziploc bags always keep me organized whether…
Paper Jamz: New Touch Sensor Guitar for Young Rockers
For Christmas, the only thing that Captain Computer wanted was a guitar. Trying to find a decent guitar for a 4 year old that wasn’t a ukelele proved to be a challenge. Thinking that we needed to preserve our eardrums and that perhaps it was a phase, Santa brought him something else. Fast forward 7…
Fill the Backpack: Great Giveaways for Students, Parents & Teachers to Start the School Year Off Right
As summer winds down and we anticipate the start of the new school year, I am not only excited about the start of a brand new school year but happy to be participating in the Fill the Backpack campaign where I’ll be giving away 2 backpacks filled with over $300 in fun products for back…
T-Mobile Garminfone Giveaway!!
The T-Mobile Garminfone giveaway is live! To enter, visit the T-Mobile BlogHer ’10 tab on your Facebook account and tell me what mobile applicaiton you can’t live with out in the Discussions section. The best answer wins! Good luck! For disclosure, please visit my previous post “T-Mobile BlogHer Memories & Garminfone Giveaway.” Thanks for reading…
T-Mobile BlogHer Memories & Garminfone Giveaway
I’m getting ready to attend my third BlogHer and feel like it wasn’t that long ago that I attended my very first conference in San Francisco in 2008. At the time I registered, I had only been blogging for a month and was still a newbie 6 months later. Needless to say I was nervous…
Percy Jackson & the Olympians Delights Readers & Viewers
The Percy Jackson series was a huge hit among the 5th graders at my school this year and left them wanting to know more about Greek gods and goddesses. It was absolutely amazing that they chose to research topics like Pandora, Aphrodite, Zeus, Kronos, and Artemis for their independent research topics. If your child is…
In the Air with our Sony PSP!
From long security lines, cancelled flights, weather delays, to antsy children, traveling can be quite trying but luckily our flight was a dream! Our carry-ons were packed full of gadgets and snacks to keep us entertained and well fed for the cross country flight. As you can see, the PSP was a huge hit! Little…
Tooth Fairy on the Sony PSP for Our Toothless Wonder!
Little Miss Techie’s first tooth fell out last week and just last night she lost another one! See those bottom front teeth coming in? We were calling her Shark Tooth because had a double row of teeth until she lost those baby teeth! Since she’s sporting a sort of toothless grin, I think I’ll let…
Scholastic’s Redesigned Harry Potter Site Introduces New Generation of Readers to Hogwarts
Congratulations to Lynette of PicPocketBooks for winning a copy of the 10th Anniversary hardcover edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone! While Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and may be a hot series, Harry Potter remains favorite among students even 12 years after Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone…
