We know you’ve been focusing on the other people in your life this holiday season, so we wanted to do a giveaway that’s all about you! This week’s giveaway is packed with things to make Mom’s life a little easier and more luxurious. Take a look at the great stuff that one lucky winner will receive!

The BusyBodyBook

Start the year off organized with the BusyBodyBook! BusyBodyBook family calendars provide each family member with their own column to organize and track their schedules and activities while coordinating with each other side by side. The BBB GRID format provides the clearest view of your daily & weekly schedules and activities helping you stay organized, focused and on track.
They’re versatile – assign spare columns to household projects, babysitter instructions, meal planning, personal goals, holiday or vacation preparations, important clients, kids’ school subjects and extracurricular activities.

Calorie Smart Mini

Stick to your New Year’s resolution with the Calorie Smart Mini! This tiny nutrition calculator lets you take your health goals to-go with on the spot nutrition details. You can look up nutrition details for 50,000 foods and over 250 restaurants! The Calorie Smart Mini is going to be a very useful tool for me for counting Weight Watchers points (starting January 1. For sure.), but it is great for my husband as well. He’s never counted the first calorie, but he does have type 1 diabetes, so having accurate carbohydrate counts at his fingertips is an outstanding tool!

Carry and Tuck

The carrie and tuck notetote is a stylish and functional tote created specifically for “note writing on the go.” It comes filled with coordinating stationery, a clipboard, and signature pen, so you can use it anywhere from the beach to the carpool line!

EcoGear

Ecogear bags are made of organic cotton, non-toxic dyes, sustainable wood and organically-grown accessories, and they feature zippered internal organizer pockets, dual side pockets and adjustable shoulder straps. Ecogear bags are named for endangered animals and are made through planet-friendly practices. Our winner will enjoy the Lynx, an organic cotton messenger style bag. The able-bodied Lynx can even fit a laptop in a padded case (I’ve been carrying my MacBook around in it for weeks!). Also, the child in our winner’s life will love the Ecozoo Puppy! It’s part pet, part toy and actually function as a bag for kids of all ages. It is an adorable bag, and one you can feel good about your child carrying!

Wear Clean Underwear

Let me just tell you how much I need this book. When Kate was four months old, we met with an attorney to plan our will. To this day, it remains unfinished. It is seriously something that weighs on me daily! Preparing for our children is one of the most important – and scariest – things I can think of. This book is a MUST READ! Wear Clean Underwear takes you on a journey to discover in fast, simple-to-understand terms exactly what will happen based on your current plan, and what happens if you don’t have a plan. Showing you how to avoid unnecessary taxes and a broken-down court system, the book guides you to transfer your values, love, and support to your children and loved ones with ease.

Perlabella PureDose Pearls

As my 30th birthday rapidly approaches, I am finding myself in more and more need of anti-aging products, and this one definitely fits the bill! Perlabella originated in Italy and is just being introduced to the U.S. The effectiveness of any anti-aging product depends on the integrity and purity of its ingredients. Perlabella PureDose Pearls are unique because, unlike most other anti-aging products, they are airtight, making it impossible for water, air or preservatives to compromise the integrity of their ingredients.

Goody Green Bag

One of the easiest things we can all do to become more green is to buy reusable shopping bags, and I love the Goody Green Bags. Goody Green Bags are eco-trendy reusable bags for the style conscious and environmentally friendly shopper. The bags are made from non-woven polypropylene – a coated, water resistant material that is light-weight, durable, fire resistant and washable. Not only are they super-stylish (and they don’t have a store’s garish logo all over them), they fold up small enough to throw in your purse, so you always have one handy! That is great for me, because despite my best intentions, my reusable bags are generally in the trunk of my car when I am checking out!

The Healthy Woman: A Complete Guide for All Ages

Created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health, this book empowers women to recognize signs of heart attack and stroke, learn the risks for type 2 diabetes and how to manage it, deal with the diagnosis of an autoimmune disease, understand the impact of chronic pain, care for their mental health, prepare their body for pregnancy and delivery, and request a second opinion when they feel it’s necessary. A great resource for every woman!

Do Something Daily Perpetual Calendar

We all know how important it is to spend time with our kids, but sometimes it’s hard to think of exactly what to do. That’s where the Do Something Daily calendar comes in! The calendar offers a daily dose of inspiration and ideas for spending time together—whether you have 60 seconds or 60 minutes. The truth is it doesn’t matter whether you spend a little time or a lot, the best memories often happen on the days you do something ordinary in a special way. Even doing the dishes together can work wonders if she has your interest and attention while you do it.

The Rookie Moms Handbook

The Rookie Mom’s Handbook is the first designed exclusively for first-time mothers. It includes 250 enjoyable activities to help rookie moms maintain their individuality and boost their confidence about leaving the house, socializing, and doing things they’ve always liked to do—either with or without baby. This is a book that came from a blog – how cool is that?

Family Tags from Amy Peters Studio

When people think of Amy Peters’ Studio, they think mom-a-preneur, unique word jewelry, and personalized designs. All of Peters’ personalized designs, specifically her Family Tags line, are hand stamped by Peters herself in her studio specifically to order. The designs end up as unique as your family is. (Note to my husband: I WANT THESE!)

How about that for a great giveaway! Winning all this great stuff would be a wonderful start to the new year.

To enter, just leave a comment on this post telling us which of the above products you’re most excited about. If you’d like an extra entry, tweat a link to the contest on Twitter, and then leave another comment on this post with the link to your tweat. The deadline for entry is Friday, January 9 at 5:00 p.m. and the winner will be chosen by random.org.

Thanks and good luck!!!

P.S. We also have TWO giveaways going on at Reviewin’ It Up! this week! Get on over there and enter!

Yesterday I did surprisingly well in my quest to give up the sauce (which for me is Mountain Dew). I got my hair cut, my brows waxed (again, I am now an eyebrow whore), had coffee and water, and was generally ok.

Today, however has been a different story. I started off my day by weighing myself for motivation. I haven’t weighed myself in like, well, forever. It’s been a long time. At least six months, I’d say, but probably more than that. I was not surprised, but I was disappointed to see that I’ve gained six pounds since the last time I weighed in. So…that was good motivation for me to keep going. I did Pilates this morning for the first time in over a year (I know, I am TERRIBLE!) and I was humbled by not being able to properly do exercises that used to be quite simple for me. Let’s just say I am feeling my core! I was reminded that I really actually like Pilates (as much as it is possible for me to like exercise) so that was good.

So, anyhoo, I was doing fine, until after lunch when Joshua announced, “MOM! Sophie smells like POOP!” I chased her down and laid her on the floor to change her…and when I pulled off her pants, somehow my right leg became COVERED in poop from knee to ankle. It. was. SO. GROSS. Needless to say, Soph was also a huge mess. It took me like 27 wipes to clean her up. And Joshua kept asking me questions about his train track the entire time until I had to SCREAM at him, which I love doing, to get him to stop. I promise you I asked him nicely at least twice to shut it until I was done de-turding his sister. You’ll just have to believe me.

Anyways, after disposing of the mound of diaper/wipes/poop, putting my clothes and Soph’s in the washer, running around my house pantsless, and getting new clothes for both of us, I REALLY wanted a Mountain Dew.

I had to settle for a Diet Sunkist. Didn’t *quite* do the trick. So I’m jonesing…but I wasn’t about to put the kids in the car to go get a Dew, so I guess I am not too desperate…yet.

(Oh! PS! I posted a new giveaway on Reviewin’ It Up! today. It’s a small one but very fun! Go check it out! And keep checking back because we will have giveaways there almost every week!)

I am out of Mountain Dew. Usually, thanks to CVS, I keep my kitchen stocked with Dew. We have a fridge pack in the fridge at all times and usually three or four waiting in the wings. But tonight, I drank my last one, and I have no more.

And I’m scared, because I am seriously addicted to the stuff. I start to twitch for it when I get out of the shower in the morning. As soon as I’m dressed, I run to the fridge and pop one open. The green, sugary, cold goodness makes me happy and soothes my nerves.

Then around 5 or so, I’m itching for another, if I haven’t gotten stressed out and had one in the afternoon. I try to limit myself to two a day, but a lot of times, I drink three a day.

But now that I’ve weaned Sophie, I’m not burning those good ol’ nursing calories anymore, and all that sugary, calorie-rich Dew is going straight to my love handles. I’ve got to appear at BlissDom in 5 weeks and I don’t want to look all jiggly. So, I’m hitting Pilates and giving up Dew.

But can I DO (and not Dew) it!? I don’t know! I’ve never had a lot of willpower. And…I don’t really WANT to quit. I want to drink it all day long and have it be good for me. But it’s not.

Crap. Its after midnight, so today is my first Dew-less day. I feel very sorry for my poor children and my husband. I am afraid this is gonna get ugly…but hopefully my body will get prettier!

As I write this, I am getting the shakes just thinking about it going without mah DEW. Gotta go program the coffee maker so I can at least have some caffeine…even if it’s not cold, green and sugary. *Sigh*.