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“Get Out” with Tide Stain Release

As you may have noticed, Jenny and I love us some Tide. In fact, I just searched our site and came up with 27 posts in which we mention Tide. We love working with the brand, but we also just love the products and use them all the time. I mean, Jenny buys Tide as opposed to whatever detergent she can get for 67 cents with a coupon, so you know how serious it is.

(And also, we love hanging out with Tim Gunn.)

One of our favorite Tide products, though, is Tide Stain Release.

I wrote a post about a year and a half ago that involved a crayon, the dryer, and an entire load of laundry – and Tide Stain Release came to the rescue.

Re-reading that post reminded me of something – a little secret about me and Tide Stain Release. For the first… I don’t know… month I used it, I didn’t realize that I was supposed to add it to the washer in addition to detergent. I thought it was more of an “instead of” proposition. Finally one day I happened to actually read the directions and found out otherwise, but it got the clothes so clean I would have never noticed!

My goodness, I am REALLY rambling… let me get to the point of this post!

Tide Stain Release has a great challenge and Sweepstakes coming up on their Facebook page starting March 28th!  You could win a year’s supply of Tide Stain Release or an HE washer and dryer!!!  To help get the challenge kicked off, Jenny took the “get out” challenge and caught it on video for us:

Wasn’t that amazing?  You do NOT want to miss this great challenge! Here’s how you can keep in the loop! First, go “like” Tide’s facebook page. Then, starting March 28th, visit the Tide Stain Release Challenge tab on Tide’s Facebook page and click the “Take the Challenge” button. The first 100,000 registered participants will get a free sample for themselves, as well as three extras to share with Facebook friends, so they too can take the Challenge. Any registrants thereafter will receive a coupon for Tide Stain Release.

– Increase your odds of winning by sharing feedback (good or bad) about Tide Stain Release on the Challenge page, once you’ve tried it. Here, there’s also a chance to have feedback included in a Tide Stain Release advertisement!

– Increase your chances of winning even more by taking a poll about Tide Stain Release on the Challenge page.

We can’t wait for this great challenge to begin, and we’ll have more exciting Tide Stain Release news next month as well. We hope you’ll head over to Tide’s Facebook page to take the chance to “Get Out!”

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On Lent

Lent kind of snuck up on me this year. Actually I don’t think it had actually occurred to me at all until I started to see Facebook updates about what people are and aren’t giving up this season.

Audrey said she is giving up soda and chocolate… Katie isn’t sure but is considering queso dip… and Marianne hasn’t announced it on FB but I know that each year she swears off sweets.

Like I said, I haven’t given it any thought at all, but now I’m wondering if I shouldn’t think something up real quick. Last year we (as a family) gave up fast food, which was actually pretty successful. We talked about giving up eating out all together, but decided that was not likely to happen. Maybe we should do fast food again, I don’t know. Unless Chipotle qualifies, then I am out.

One year Andy gave up beer. We both hope to never go through that again.

What is Lent, anyway? Wikipedia says:
Lent in the Christian tradition, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. Lent is a time of sacrifice for Jesus. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, repentance, almsgiving and self-denial — for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

But really, I go back and forth on the idea of giving something up – is it really used as a time of sacrifice and preparation for some spiritual end, or is it more of a starting-over-because-I-screwed-up-my-New-Year’s-resolutions-two-months-ago kind of thing?

I’m not sure. I suppose it could go either way. And, of course, I am easily influenced and could go either way as well – so convince me people… what, if anything, do you do (or not do!) during Lent?

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The Nerd is Strong with This One

One of my mom’s closest friends once said to me, “You know, your mom and I used to talk about how we hoped our kids would be just *slightly* nerdy.”

At the time I was in high school and thought that was a classic case of “be careful what you wish for.” I mean, I was more than slightly nerdy. I was the president of the marching band, for the love of God.

Now, though, I have a different perspective and completely understand where they were coming from. Being popular or in the in-crowd is a pretty loaded proposition and comes with a lot of pressure. (Or so I’ve heard.)

Her words stuck with me and I now share that wish for my own kids. However, for the last few years I’ve had the nagging feeling that maybe the dorkiness thing wouldn’t work out for Kate. I worried that because she is so pretty, so smart, and so outgoing, that – despite family tradition and a strong genetic predisposition – she might not have any nerd in her.

I was wrong.

My first hint that things might be going my way happened the other night when I walked in her room to find her reading a bedtime story and marking typos with a red pen.

Tears of pride, people. Tears of pride.

But I have to tip my hat to my husband, who recently solidified her membership into the dork club for life.

He made her a Star Wars fan.

It all started about a month ago, when Andy was home with the kids on what seemed like an endless run of snow days. They were all bored, so he took the opportunity to introduce the kids to Star Wars movies, and when that went well he brought out the big guns – the boxes (and boxes and boxes) of Star Wars paraphernalia (1976-present) that had been living in our garage (and now live in our basement. yay.).

The kids are hooked.

Now I am constantly getting hit with light sabers and hearing fascinating conversations that start out “Daddy, who was See See Tin’s padawan?” It is seriously all I can do not to yell out “WHO CARES???”

My eyes are sore from all the rolling.

My worries about Kate not being dorky enough??

Gone.

Frankly, “band nerd” is the best-case scenario at this point.

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