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Gettin’ Giddy with It! (and sharing the LOVE)

Emily and I are nearly GIDDY with excitement, which I must say, is unusual for a Monday morning. But it’s because we have something really exciting to share with you. And I think you’re gonna like the way we’re gonna share it!

Ok, I’ll quit beating around the bush. We have been planning for some time to attend the BlogHer conference in July, and today we are THRILLED to announce that we have a sponsor that is sending us to the conference. That sponsor is a little old clothing company you MAY have heard of called…LANDS’ END!!

We are so, so, SO honored & excited to be representing such a great company at BlogHer! Emily and I both big puffy HEART Lands’ End. So much so, that Emily recently wore Lands’ End to the very important occasion on which she rubbed elbows with Chip and Dale:

And I wear my super-cute Lands’ End denim capris several times a week, so I thought they were perfect to wear for my recent mom-friendly fashion shoot with the Dayton Daily News:

(Photo by Jim Witmer, Dayton Daily News)

Also, I may or may not have *ahem* spent the better part of last week on Skype bossing some of my fellow blogging moms around about which Lands’ End swim suits to buy! Because their swim wear is the BEST!

What I LOVE most about Lands’ End is that you can get clothes for the whole family from them. I have already purchased Joshua several uniform shirts for kindergarten next year from Lands’ End, and Sophie has the cutest Lands’ End swimsuit. The quality is awesome – you cannot go wrong!

Ok, so now you know, we LURVE Lands’ End and not just because they are sending us to BlogHer! But we also love YOU, dear readers, and Lands’ End loves you too! So much in fact, that to celebrate their sponsorship of us, they are giving us THREE, count ’em THREE $100 gift certificates to give away!! Yeee-ha!!! Are you excited?? I am! Emily is even cracking a SMILE!

Here’s how to enter to win one of the three $100 Lands’ End gift cards:

1) Leave us a comment on this post telling us your favorite Lands End product (I am torn between my swimsuit and my capris!)

2) Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter and leave a separate comment with your tweet URL. Make sure to follow and include @LandsEndChat in your tweet!

3) Subscribe to our feed & leave us a comment that you did so or already do.

4) Post on this contest on your blog and leave us a separate comment with your blog post URL.

YOU MUST LEAVE A SEPARATE COMMENT FOR EACH ENTRY!

THREE lucky winners will be selected this Saturday June 27th by random.org! Deadline to enter is Friday the 26th at 11:59 PM EST.

Good luck! Happy Entering! See you at BlogHer! And THANK YOU to Lands’ End!

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Well, who needs fanfare, anyway??

Last night I went to bed early (because, oh people, I LOVEZ MY BED! And sleeeep!) and when I awoke this morning I had a direct message from Emily on Twitter that said, “Did we have a blog-iversary we forgot about?” And I was like, “Well shoot my shorts, we sure did!”

Emily, whose brain isn’t quite as feeble as mine is, remembered just in the nick of time. Our second blog-iversary is actually TODAY!!

{Insert applause here}

I cannot believe it’s been two years since we started this mess glorious internet chronicle. Writing this blog together and sharing our lives with you has truly been a blessing. THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts for reading!

But just in case you missed anything, I thought I’d quickly recap the past twelve months of our lives for you. Here goes!

I had a brush with the law, played poop detective, outed Emily’s and my um, inbred lineage, weaned my toddler, got my eyebrows waxed, and went insane in the membrane.

Emily went back to work after baby, back to school, verbally spanked an old lady, verbally spanked a children’s retail outlet, exposed “balance” as a dirty, dirty lie, peed on a stick in a Target bathroom while wearing spanx, and fooled around at a resort with Mickey Mouse.

Together we went to a blogging conference, begged for new appliances, and made LOTS of new amazing friends.

Oh, and Emily turned 30!! Finally!!

Thanks for indulging us for the past two years. I hope you’ll stay with us for all the adventures yet to come!

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Better Living Through Email

Every day I get a pretty good amount of email. And because I am still 12, I LOVE getting email and check it obsessively about 783 times a day. Sadly, however, a good 50% of my emails are of the “spam” variety. Most of these my spam filter catches, but if it’s having an off day, I sometimes end up with little gems like “Aliens spotted” or “80% off the little blue pill” right in my inbox. Some of these email subject titles are so, um, creative, that I thought I’d share some with you, because really, it would be selfish of me to keep all these life-improving emails to myself! So, out of the goodness of my heart, I give you the contents of my spam folder (I am using some creative spelling on some of these words so as not to attract more spam comments to this blog!):

“Earn a Degree While You Work” – Emily has apparently already read this one.

“A Transg*ndered Life – Can You Imagine?” – Can I imagine having a fake p*nis? No, not really, to tell you the truth!

“Aca! Berry has saved lives – let it save yours! Get your free trial now!” – I’ve already got Emily and she’s all the Berry I can handle, thankyouverymuch. She’s never saved my life, though. Hmm.

“I found you a new job” – no thanks! I like being gainfully unemployed.

“Prove to your wife that there can still be a lot of p@ssion in your bedr00m” – duh, I don’t even HAVE a wife. Do your research, spammers!!

“2 inches off your waistline during the Holidays” – Holidays? I better bookmark that one. I hate that two inches I usually gain on the 4th of July.

“Bigger Your ShortP*nis” – once again, do your research, people! I am not a dude.

“Pillowcase that prevents fine lines and wrinkles” – call me when you’ve got one that also removes my eye makeup.

“Is it possible to make over $1 million a year from home?” – I don’t know, you tell me! Oh wait? Does it involve work? Or sending people sp@mmy emails all day like YOU do? No thanks.

“Luxury W@tches for people with average incomes” – I swear to you, I get as much spam about fake R0lex’s as I do about p*nis enlargement. Apparently if you have a fancy watch you can get away with having a tiny schl0ng.

and finally,

“The Secret to Immortality” – here’s a secret for YOU: I don’t want to live forever. Cause really, being 1,000 years old and still looking like I’m say, 31 (wink, wink) and having all my friends and family be, you know, DEAD and living it up in heaven without me while I eat freeze-dried food and watch whippersnappers zoom around in those newfangled spaceships all the kids are driving these days doesn’t really sound all that FUN.

Well, there ya go. Hopefully you have found a life-changing solution from the contents of my spam inbox! If not, I’ve got plenty more where that came from, so, you know…EMAIL me!!

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