Thanks SO much for all of your help so far with Lotus/Sarcastic Mom and her financial & medical fights.

So far, through purchases made at Good for the Kids, these guys have donated $39.85!

I will be matching that amount (rounded up to 40) and Good for the Kids will be donating $80 to Lotus and the Family Carroll.

Please continue to help Lotus and her family by sending gift cards, donating through PayPal (see Lotus’ page for the link), or making purchases at Good for the Kids. Use code ~ LotusRocks ~ and 10% of your total order will be donated to Lotus and her family at the end of each month.

Rock the rack and love some Lotus!

People people people…

You’re ROCKING the Lotus Rack all around the internets! Brava!!!! Keep it up!

Just for a show of solidarity and lovin’ to my girl, Lotus (Sarcastic Mom), I’m now expanding the products in my store for which I will be donating a percentage of sales!

It’s not just stuff you can suck or stuff anymore - it’s toys, too!

Go to Good for the Kids, buy buy buy, and enter code “lotusrocks” in the coupon code box upon checkout. 20% of the purchase price of the items you buy that you can suck on*, stuff, or play with will go DIRECTLY to Ms. Lotus and her new MOVE! Don’t forget - she has MOUNDS of medical bills to catch up on, too.

In all, there are many ways to donate to Lotus and little man Braden:

1. Purchase at Good for the Kids (see above) through March 30th

2. Send in a gift card in any amount you’d like to a store she could use (Victoria’s Secret can count, too):
Lotus Carroll
c/o Angie Lynch
3564 Avalon Park Blvd East
Suite 1 #120
Orlando FL 32828

3. Donate via PayPal. Lotus has a link from her site directly to her PayPal acct for donations.

Donators will be posted on the Peeps Who Love Lotus page here. Let me know when you donate, and I’ll add you name. I’m sure you won’t be scamming us… I’m sure… Right???

Keep on rockin’ the rack and rockin’ the horns pics! Every little bit of info spread around helps! Comment here when you’ve posted the rack or horns banners, pretty please.

Gooooooooooo bloggers! (That’s my attempt at a pep talk.)

*Sorry, Nuby replacements and cups can’t count. Bah…

Proof below that it’s totally random that the person who won my giveaway is someone I know.

But, peeps, you can’t mess with statistics or we go into a time-space continuum where we lose consciousness, flash back to 8 years ago, and bleed out of our face. Or is that just on Lost?

Congrats to Dawn for winning the Good for the Kids giveaway hosted at A Whole Lot of Nothing for the 5 Minutes for Mom Blog Par-tay!

So yummy! So yummy!

Welcome fellow par-tay ladies from the 5 Minutes for Mom Blog Party! If you haven’t heard of the par-tay, stick around, grab some dip, and join in the fun. Well, as much fun as you can have typing away on your compy ignoring screaming kids.

I’ve been blogging here since mid-2007, and I have a review blog with Dawn from Mom2My6Pack/Because I Said So called Mamas Like. I spend most of my time working on my web store, Good for the Kids, where I offer products for babies, kids, and mamas. It keeps me way too busy, but it’s something I’ve always wanted to do and I think I’m pretty good at it. Check it out. All of my blog readers get a discount using coupon code 10offblog. Bonus!

A little about the “Me” who is typing: I enjoy TV, food, and my compy (oh, MacBook Pro, how I love thee). I’ve been married for 10 years this September - 8 years too long. I have webbed toes just bad enough to where I can’t wear toe socks, I enjoy crappy TV, I enjoy good TV, and I hate cooking. I also hate cleaning, laundry, and general housework. I am on a mission to find a housewife who will work for free. My husband thought he married one, but he was sorely mistaken. To be a good housewife, I’d have to be my mother, and that just wouldn’t be good. HockeyMan says he’d trade me in for her any day just to get her cooking and clean socks, but he was under the influence at the time I’m sure.

Oh yeah - I have 2 kiddos born 18 months apart. To me, better worse than twins because the older one teaches the younger how to plot against me. Their names are The Boss & Trouble. Just check their birth certificates. They are THE CUTEST kids on earth. DON’T even think of telling me that your kids are cuter. Cause they ain’t. And my kids are way smarter than yours.

Now to the good stuff. I have a prize available on the main 5 Minutes for Mom Blog Party, but I’m offering a prize here as well! Two prizes! What could be better?

Leave a comment here by March 14 at 11:59pm telling me how pretty I look today or how heeelarious you think I am (for serious - not required, but SO nice to hear!), sign the Mr. Linky (not required for the giveaway), and you’ll be automatically entered to win a $50 gift certificate to my online store, Good for the Kids. That’s 50 big ones to spend on your kids yourself just for leaving a comment and getting your bloggy par-tay on!

Go shop now because just for shiz and giggles, if you happen to be the big wiener winner, I’ll refund the amount of the gift certificate PLUS domestic shipping costs back to you. BONUS BONUS! You can thank me later.
The winner will be notified here, via email (no need to leave your email address in the comment, just in the form), and on Prizey.Fetch.

Thanks for stopping by! Please come back. I need the validation and attention.

The contest is now over, but feel free to leave comments. I’ll always need comment lovin’. 

I’m running a giveaway in my store, Good for the Kids.

You can win $50 in Melissa & Doug toys, puzzles, and games.

Yeah, I know. You’re welcome.

If you mention the giveaway on your blog or site, I’ll enter you 5 times. Just let me know you’ve posted the giveaway.

I have two giveaways up at running. We’re heading out of town (see Haiku), so check out the giveaways!

Mamas Like - The Safe Sippy cup

Good for the Kids - Set of 6 Ty Beanie Babies 2.0

Visit my online store, Good for the Kids, for some Valentine’s Day gifts for your Valentine or your kiddos.

I just read an article my mom showed me (BTW - I’m in the middle of spending 18 days - yes, 18 days - at my parent’s house - Hi, Ma!) that explains how by shopping online, you can make a dent in saving the earth.

It may be a little dent, but take it as an excuse to shop more online!
Where can you shop online?

*Shameless self-promotion alert*

Good for the Kids!

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Check out the review I posted today on Mamas Like!

Oh yeah, and that other site I work on 18 hours a day, Good for the Kids. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell your bloggers. Tell your message boarders. You can still order in time for Christmas delivery!

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I really don’t know what to think about all the “plastics” controversy. I tend to be an optimist with pessimistic tendencies, so I believe the best in people and things with hesitation. I’d like to think that the government protects us and our children from the hidden dangers found in food and products, but with the current *ahem* administration, my faith is all but gone. Recently, the plastics and lead controversies have entered my house and business. I have just added two safe products to my store: The Safe Sippy Cup and Green to Grow BPA-Free Bottles.

I’m not really writing for shameless self-promotion; I really do want to know the attraction that people have that makes them beg and plead to get these bottles.

Are the bottles and cups I use with my girls really going to give them cancer, stunt their growth, and lower their IQ? What and whom should I believe?

I’m so confused.

What do you think?

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