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Monday Giveaway! Girls Crochet Headbands

Did your uterus just skip a beat?

Happy Monday! It’s a shiny new week and I’ve got a sparkly giveaway for you! It’s been a long time since we’ve had a good old-fashioned giveaway so this will be fun.  Recently, I’ve started working part-time from home managing social media projects for an awesome agency and my first client is a great girls accessories company called Girls Crochet Headbands.  As soon as I started, I ordered some of their products for Sophie so I could experience them for myself.  GCH makes headbands, hair bows and flower hair clips, and suuuuuper-cute lace baby rompers and ruffley baby bloomers.  They even have leg warmers, lace leggings, and tutus.  And their stuff is SUPER-affordable!  Like, the headbands start at 38 cents and the lace rompers at just $8.99. (And you know I loves me a deal!) Here’s what I bought:

I ordered all of these for Sophie for about $20 shipped. Ok, FINE, the gold one at the bottom is for ME.

And here’s Sophie in her GCH finery:

Sophie’s first day of kindergarten
She wanted to make sure you could see the Dora on her flower.

Isn’t she adorable?  She loves her clips and they stay in REALLY well.  I am so thankful every day when she comes home from school with them still firmly attached.

Now, if you have a wee baby girl or toddler, you are going to D-I-E at some of the cute stuff GCH has for the little ones!  Sometimes when I’m looking at the website, I wish Jonah was a GIRL.  (Um, don’t tell, k? I WAS gonna name him Joanna if he was a girl which is really similar…just sayin’!)

Just look at these bloomers!

$6.99, people! Seriously!

The lace baby rompers are the cutest ev-ah. Check out some of these cute pictures fans have posted of their kids in GCH gear over at GCH’s Facebook page.

I also adore their leg warmers – even tomboy mamas will love their soccer ball and football leg warmers.

But anyways, let’s get down to the giveaway part! One of the fun parts about working for GCH is that I get to give away some of this great stuff! One lucky winner gets to pick any five items of their choice from the Girls Crochet Headbands website!  Who wouldn’t want to win that?  Here’s how to enter:

1) Mandatory: Head over to the Girls Crochet Headbands website and look around.  Then come back here and leave a comment telling me what your favorite GCH item is.  For extra entries you can also:

2) “Like”GCH on Facebook, then leave a comment letting me know you did.

3) Follow GCH on Pinterest (we’re pinning so many awesome things!) and leave me a comment letting me know you did.

4) Follow GCH on Twitter and leave me a comment letting me know you did.

One SUPER-LUCKY winner will be chosen at random and notified by email.  This giveaway will close on Monday, September 3 at 5 p.m. EST.

Good luck!

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As I stated earlier, I am TOTALLY working for Girls Crochet Headbands.  But I TOTALLY bought the GCH product I own with my own money.  And my opinions about the products are all my own.

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The One-Dollar Legacy

In honor of what is for many, back-to-school week, I want to tell you the story of a very fine educator and his legacy.  That educator is my brother, Andy.  (Yes,  my hairy brother.)  He’s been teaching high school science for  an eternity about 15 years or so.

Andy, the eduquarter. I mean the educator.

In fifteen years, he’s taught a lot of students.  Recently,  I had, on separate occasions, the chance to meet two of his former students, both a few years out of high school.  When they heard I was his sister, they both went on and on about how nice he was, and what a great teacher he was, and how much they loved his class…

…and then they both said the exact. same. thing.

“But what I remember the most about him is that he showed us how he could put four quarters up his nose.”

Let me just type that again for you.

“But what I remember the most about him is that he showed us how he could PUT FOUR QUARTERS UP HIS NOSE.”

What??  Well, I guess that’s what I would remember most, too, because OHMAHGAH EEEWWW!

One of his former students told me this when we were sitting in the lobby of the DENTIST’S OFFICE. What am I supposed to say to that???

I’m proud of you, brother.  You are leaving a lasting legacy.  A fine education that is worth no less than one whole dollar.

Do you put the quarters in some sort of sanitizing solution when you’re done with them? Because I really do not want to think of those two-bits back in circulation.

People. Use quarters with caution!  You do not know where they have been.

**UPDATED**

My sister-in-law just informed me that it’s four quarters IN EACH NOSTRIL.

Two-Dollar Legacy.

I can’t even continue writing.

WE SHARE THE SAME DNA!!! I fear for my children!

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People. We are getting old.

Each fall, I enjoy checking out The Mindset List from Beloit College – you know, the thing that makes you realize just how freaking old you are by telling you all the things college freshman consider ancient history? Yeah, that. So now that I think about it, “enjoy” may not be an appropriate word. Regardless, it is pretty interesting. And frightening.

Let’s start with this little fact – this year’s entering college freshman were born in 1994. Had MTV been less Pedro/Puck and more Farrah/Janelle at the time and I had been striving to be on 16 & Pregnant, I could theoretically be their mom.

Frankly, that’s enough for me. I don’t need to read the rest of the list.

But… let me throw a couple more things out there.

#4 – Michael Jackson’s family, not the Kennedys, constitutes “American Royalty.” Now, I am not old enough to remember the Kennedy dynasty (just the tragic deaths of the subsequent generations) but the Jacksons? For real?

#8 – Bill Clinton is a senior statesman of whose presidency they have little knowledge. Just imagine the comedy they’ve missed!

#20 – Exposed bra straps have always been a fashion statement, not a wardrobe malfunction to be corrected quietly by well-meaning friends. #20.5 – the term “wardrobe malfunction” is not new-fangled.

#25 – They have lived in an era of instant stardom and self-proclaimed celebrities, famous for being famous. See also: The Real World and Teen Mom references above.

#34 – Billy Graham is as familiar to them as Otto Graham was to their parents. Otto who?

#71 – Despite being preferred urban gathering places, two-thirds of the independent bookstores in the United States have closed for good during their lifetimes. Oh, my heart.

But, there are some good things, too.

#12 – For most of their lives, maintaining relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world has been a woman’s job in the State Department.

#23 – Women have always piloted war planes and space shuttles.

#24 – White House security has never felt it necessary to wear rubber gloves when gay groups have visited.

Maybe the last 18 years haven’t been in vain after all.

I wonder what the Beloit list will look like when Kate and Joshua enter college. That’ll be the 2026 List.

Surely – surely – we’ll have flying cars by then.

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