Posts Tagged Giveaway
Because Free Shoes = FREAKING AWESOME
Posted by Lotus, aka Sarcastic Mom in Giveaway on October 4, 2008
UPDATE!
WINNER HAS BEEN CHOSEN BY RANDOM.ORG
CONGRATULATIONS TO CONNIE!
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Are you sad because you missed your chance to win Monkey Toes shoes on my giveaway site, Who Doesn’t Like Free? last week? Well, I am bringing you another chance!
These shoes are adorable! Many people know about them because Suri Cruise wears the Ladybug MaryJanes. Personally, I just love a cute little kid’s shoe, no matter who wears it. 
From the site:
Monkey-Toes is a playful line of fun animal and insect themed footwear for children. Our original collection of hand-painted sneakers and matching socks is designed with both parents and kids in mind.
Just have a look around the site – there are several different adorable shoe designs to choose from, as well as socks and shirts!
For this giveaway, we’re focusing on your choice of one of these 2 designs:
Limited Edition Glow Bugs Tennis Shoes (only available until October 15th!)
(more styles available, see site)
(more styles available, see site)
You can be the winner of one pair, and you get to choose the style/size on the pair you win.
This giveaway contest will run from 12:01AM, CST October 4th, 2008 to 11:59PM, CST October 10th. The Winner will be randomly selected and announced on October 11th, 2008.
Add a comment to this post to enter – you can enter here up to seven times – but only once a day!
Each comment you leave on this post counts as an entry BUT YOU MAY ONLY ENTER ONCE A DAY.
Remember, you don’t have to have kids to enter! Everyone knows someone with kids, and you can always give your winning as a gift to a friend with a little cutie.
Definitely Good For The Kids
Posted by Lotus, aka Sarcastic Mom in Making A Difference on October 2, 2008
From time to time, I try to get involved in something that isn’t entirely self-absorbed. It’s really hard, because I’m a lazy, narcissistic douchebag most of the time.
Today, I’m going to step out of my Lotus Burrito (get it? I’m all wrapped up in ME!) for a few moments and talk about a Blogger Challenge designed to help raise money for public schools.
Deep South Moms has accepted the 2008 Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge.
I am fully supporting this, and I’d like to ask you for your support as well. You can see the widget on my left sidebar, and if you’d like to help, you can grab that widget, too. Just click HERE. Placing that widget on your sidebar, and especially posting about it, will help!
Of course, giving a donation to one of the proposals at the DSM Donors Choose Challenge page would be greatly appreciated. There is no donation too small or too big when we’re talking about supporting the education of our children.
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To motivate you to give, I’m teaming up with Good For The Kids to offer you a prize. You’ll have a chance to win a $40 Gift Certificate to Good For The Kids for helping out HERE with a donation.
Click through HERE, choose a proposal from that page, and make the donation of your choice. Afterwards, come back here and tell me you donated and you’ll be entered into the pool from which the winner will be drawn.
All who make a donation HERE in the next two weeks and comment here that that they have done so will be entered into the pool of possible winners. You have a chance to enter from now until 11:59PM, CST October 15th, 2008.
On October 16th, one entrant will be randomly drawn and will receive the $40 GFTK Gift Certificate.
If your name is drawn as the winner but you did not actually make a donation, we will draw another winner.
So, come on! Help Deep South Moms and me do something Good For The Kids!
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For more information about the Deep South Moms 2008 Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge, visit here.
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“Cock,” Xylophones, and Shower Tacos
Posted by Lotus, aka Sarcastic Mom in Miscellaneous Blabbering on September 25, 2008
Things I learned this week:
- Sometimes “Mommy” is much more capable of diagnosing and treating her kid than is “Dr.”
- There are some of you who find it HIGHLY DISGUSTING that I saved Braden’s Baby Jerky. But for some reason, hair seems acceptable to save. ?
- Young children are capable of breaking the sound barrier with nothing more than their very own lungs and vocal chords. And it hurts. Ohh, maaaan, it hurrrrrts.
- You could win free shoes over here.
- Sometimes it’s probably just best to keep your mouth shut. But it’s hard.
- Braden can finally say, “fan” instead of calling it, “esh-wheat,” which comes out sounding a lot like “oh shit.”
- But he still says, “cock” when he’s not sure if something is a “car” or a “truck.”
- I am going to be a panelist at Blissdom ‘08!
- My husband is a good xylophone player. (And Braden’s not half bad on drums.)
- My heels won’t stop drying out all disgustingly, and they have forced me to use a “foot rasp” on them.
- A foot rasp looks like a cheese grater. Using it on your feet is WEIRD. I feel like I’m about to garnish some type of weird shower tacos with my feet.
- Time just keeps moving on. Often much faster than you’d like.
- Braden is still amazing.
Fecal Matter Frustration and Hereditary Narcissism
Posted by Lotus, aka Sarcastic Mom in Poop/Farts on September 18, 2008
We’ve been on the potty-training roller coaster with Braden for some time now, and seriously, this experience has been enough to really not want any more kids. I’ve joked around about that before, but there are times when the whole thing really is just that frustrating. Fecal and Urinary Trickery and Frustration really can make you want to rip your own uterus out of its warm, abdominal resting place and shove it down into the sink garbage disposal.
“Poop!” he yells.
We go to the bathroom, he sits on the potty.
For a long time. And reads a book.
Then he’s “ah-dun!” and gets down.
No poop is in the potty.
But he delights greatly in telling me “Eh-Poop!” later, when it’s in his pants. Then he runs like mad to the bathroom so we can put it in the toilet and flush it, while he says, “Buh-byyyyeee, Puh-POOOOO!!!”
If he weren’t so cute, I’d shove him in with it.
I’ve even tried this great tip (is that not hilarious?) but I don’t think he really cares what the poop wants to do. It’s all about him, don’t you know!? (I have NO idea where he gets that from. *cough*)
He pees on the toilet more reliably, but by NO means all the time. And he has “accidents” on the carpet/floor/step stool in the bathroom which are not really accidents at all, if you ask me. I mean, when someone is just doing his thing, then he stops, take a stance that thrusts his crotch out, and smiles devilishly at you while he starts an incredibly healthy and strong stream of urine all over something you don’t particularly want urine on? IT’S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT’S AN EVIL DEED.
He has also become incredibly obsessed with running to the bathroom and climbing up on the step-stool I placed in front of the sink to make it possible for him to learn how to wash his hands. Does he want wash his hands very badly? No, he wants to flip the lights on and off (remember how he became obsessed with that a long time ago?) and “perform” in front of the mirror, with much silliness.
I’ve stopped him now by buying a cheapo wall mirror (about $4.75 for those of you taking detailed notice of what I spend around here) and hanging it at his level in the living room.
Now he dances and performs in front of it, or just stands there laughing and talking to himself.
So yes, it is official. Narcissism is quite hereditary.
*turns head, looks upwards, and starts whistling*
*walks away nonchalantly*
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