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‘Tis the Season to be Greedy

Yesterday, as I do every day after preschool pick-up, I got the mail out of the mailbox on the way into the house.  Unfortunately, in that pile of mail was the Toys ‘R Us holiday toy catalog (first onslaught, I’m sure!) and Sophie saw it before I could hide or destroy it.  Now the Soph has a birthday coming up in 20 days (but who’s counting?) so she was suuuper-jazzed to see that catalog.  She immediately started going thru it and saying “IWantThisformyBirthdayIWantThisformyBirthdayIWantThisformyBirthday”.  And then, after I told her, “well, you might have to wait for Christmas for that…” it became alternating, “I want this for my birthday and this for Christmas…”

Then, after Joshua came home from school, she couldn’t wait to show him the plethora of pages full of the objects of her desire.  And of course, he too, found a few million things he wanted for Christmas.  These two were so into that catalog that I could barely tear them away from it when it was time for us to go have a playdate at Sonic with some friends!  You know you’re in trouble with instant slushie gratification doesn’t compare with toys you MIGHT get 8 weeks from now. Uh…

Anypoops, I’m totally burning the catalog, but before bed the kids had one last (really long) look and made up their lists.  Which, I am sure (at least in Sophie’s case) were just part 1 of 100. So here they are:

Sophie's Wish List. She got tired of writing.
Joshua's list. First draft!

Sophie’s most excited about the Dora kitchen, but sadly (for her) I’ve already purchased ALL her birthday presents so she’s gonna have to wait and see on that one.  As for Joshua’s list, Bobby and I were already thinking about getting him some of the MarioKart K’nex – do any of you have any of these?  All of the other Mario toys (or Sonic toys) we’ve bought him have been really poor quality, but I am hoping these are better since they are K’nex – thoughts?

So anyhoo, the greedy little boogers are ready for the season!  Good thing I have some activities planned to help them learn the joy of giving!

What toys are your kids gunning for this season?

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Lands’ End Starfish Collection Giveaway #4!

The winner of our third Lands’ End Starfish Collection giveaway is Samantha! She gets to pick five, count ’em FIVE pieces of the Starfish Collection to wear every day for the rest of her life enjoy!

Lands’ End is keeping the Starfish looove alive by adding even MORE AWESOME PIECES to the collection!  Here are a couple of my faves:

Starfish Drawstring Cowlneck Tunic
Starfish leggings. So awesome they about make me weep.

And here’s me showing you how they look on and blabbering about how much I looooooooooooove them (because, seriously! The leggings? Tears of joy.)

Ok, here’s how to enter to win!  And don’t forget the winner gets to pick FIVE pieces from the Starfish Collection!

1) Go check out the Starfish Collection and leave me a comment letting me know which piece you think looks the best. If you can’t pick one, that’s ok, just tell me what you love!

2) “Like” our facebook page and leave us a comment on this post telling us you did our already do

3) Tweet about this giveaway “Win 5 pieces of the #landsend Starfish Collection from @jennyitup & @momminitup http://bit.ly/vFobVR” then leave us a comment with your tweet URL.

4) Subscribe to our feed, then leave us a comment on this post letting us know you did or already do.

This giveaway ends at 6pm EST on Monday, October 31st. That’s right it’s a short one for all you DIE-HARD readers!! SO get entering!!

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OM4G!

What you are looking at ladies and gentlemen, (or should I say ladies and Uncle Paul?) is a true WONDER – see those two digits there – a letter and a number actually – 4G? That small little moniker has made a HUGE difference in my Xoom experience. The Xoom got upgraded to 4G speeds this week and *Wow* I honestly could not even have imagined how fast the internet is on this device in 4G! It is much faster than my home internet for sure. Practically breakneck!

I struggle to find words to even describe how screaming spedy 4G is.  I loved the Xoom before, but now with 4G I am ready to exchange RINGS with it, it’s so amazing!  If you regularly use a smartphone or tablet, you need to get Verizon’s 4G! Your productivity will go through the roof!

I’m writing this sitting at a Panera Bread where I’ve escaped for a couple hours to finish up some writing work, and I’m using the Xoom as a Wi-Fi hotspot for my laptop so I don’t have to share the Panera (slow) Wi-Fi with everyone else. It’s amazing.  This device is truly a wonder!  With all the great Android apps available and the super-long battery life, I could be gone all day and get tons of work done and never even have to plug in.  (Not that I get to be gone ALL DAY…but I COULD, and the Xoom would outlast me, I think!)

I can’t wait to see all the great things I can do with my Xoom in 4G. I’ll report back!

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As part of Verizon Wireless’ Midwest Moms, I was provided with a Xoom and six months of service so I can tell you about my experience.

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