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Dayton Ladies: An Event You Don’t Want to Miss

So, my friend Emily (not my cousin Emily of co-bloggy fame) is kind of stealing my thunder, but I will let her!  Beacuse it’s for a good cause. You see, October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month and I looooves me some people with Down Syndrome! So I was going to do a big post about it. And I still will. But in the meantime, my friend Emily is having a fundraising open house here in Dayton and is giving the proceeds to the Miami Valley Down Syndrome Association and the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk.  She’s such a DO-gooder!!

Emily is a director with Thirty-One gifts and she’s having a big ol’ open house at her place this Saturday and donating ALL her commission to the two above-mentioned organizations.  When she told me the MVDSA was benefiting, I HAD to help spread the word! Here are all the details:

Thirty-One Customer Appreciation Open House

Saturday, October 20, 2012

10:00AM-1:00PM

-See brand new Fall Product!

-Door prizes with many ways to get entries!

-Extra goodies for hosting your own party.

(Don’t forget only $200 in orders counts you as a party and gets you FREE and ½ price product!)

-As always there will be snacks!

Emily Overturf

2407 Springmont Ave.

Dayton, OH 45420

937-604-8208

EmilyO.31Gifts@gmail.com

October Special: Get ½ off a Retro Metro Bag, Retro Metro Tote, NEW Super Organizing Tote, or the Organizing Utility Tote with every $31 you spend!

 Emily is super excited to be donating all of my commission to these two wonderful organizations! So  25% of the cost of everything you purchase will go directly to the Miami Valley Down Syndrome Association and the American Cancer Society: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

If you are unable to attend, but still want to help out these great organizations you can make your purchase with the link below and Emily will pay the direct shipping to you and your purchase will still benefit the MVDSA and the ACS Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk!!

You can order online here!

I know I will be helping out these great organizations and doing a little Christmas shopping at Emily’s open house, and I hope you will be too! Feel free to call or email her with questions, and happy shopping!

 

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Pause.

Remember the 80s sitcom “Out of this World“? Evie was half-teenager and half-alien, and had some sweet super powers – not the least of which was pausing time. With one little hand gesture, she could freeze the world around her while she went about her business. I remember wishing I had that power as well – mostly for the ability to get another few hours of sleep before school in the mornings – but, man, what I could do with that ability now.

Imagine all the things that would be possible. I mean, I might finally be able to get my shit together.

There are so many things I want to do – so many books I want to read, so many things around my house I’d like to get done, so many Pinterest pins to get around to. Except with the frenzy that is life – commuting, working, homework helping, lunch packing, dinner making, dish washing, facebooking (let’s be serious) – there is just not enough time in the day.

If only I were Evie and could stop time. I could get all that done – become a better me – and then hit play.

If only.

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Giveaway! Blue Manatee Books Unplugged Box

If you’re a regular reader here, you know that Emily and I both loooove to read.  And of course, we love to read to our kids.  It has been a great joy watching my kids learn to read and learn to love books.  Jonah, like his siblings before him, also loooves books. He loves to be read to and to sit and turn the pages on his own. He also loves to make a big mess of his books in the living room every day. Books are so multi-purpose!

When Blue Manatee Books, a super cool kids’ bookstore and de-cafe asked me if I’d like to review one of their special boxes of books, it was a total no-brainer!  I got to pick out a 3-book Baby Unplugged box of books. It was so fun selecting books for Jonah. There were really just TOO many good choices. In the end I went with these three: Baby Unplugged: Ball, Baby Bear, Baby Bear What do You See? by Eric Carle, and Bugs which is a fabulous touchy-feely book.

Here’s Jonah enjoying Baby Unplugged: Ball. It’s such a cute book and is great for vocabulary building! There is a whole Baby Unplugged series and I definitely want to get more of them!

Blue Manatee boxes make great gifts because you can customize the box with any books you want to! It comes it awesome, re-usable eco-friendly packaging (complete with play ideas for the box!) and a custom gift message.

I love getting and giving books at the holidays! And I love when my kids get them too.

Wanna try a blue manatee box for yourself? You can win one 3-book Baby Unplugged box! Here’s how to enter!

1) Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite children’s book

2) Like Blue Manatee Boxes on Facebook and then come back here and leave a comment letting me know you did

3) Like Mommin’ It Up on Facebook and then come back here and leave me a comment letting me know you did

The winner will be chosen at random on Thursday October 18th at 6 pm. GOOD LUCK! May the best book-lover win!

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Blue Manatee provided me with a 3-book box to facilitate my review. All opinions are my own.

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