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January 15, 2014January 11, 2014

I’m Getting Old. Good thing there’s #Care4Today!

This post is sponsored as part of a campaign with Care4Today™ Mobile Health Manager and The Motherhood.

If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know that Emily likes to make fun of me for being older than she is. And the fact remains – I can NEVER change that! And as the years go by, it’s not as cute of a joke as it used to be. Because dangit in the past few years I’ve acquired two heating pads, lots of tubes of Icy Hot (and patches, ooh love the patches!), a chiropractor, a massage therapist, and a pill splitter. Sigh. My body is just not what it used to be. I mean, I’m still smokin’ hot and all, but I’ve got more than my share of aches and pains these days. And with that comes the occasional prescription as well as some natural supplements I take every day to stay healthy.

But due to a serious case of Momnesia, I often forget to take things or refill them on time. Whoopsie! Like I’ve said before, I’m my own worst enemy.

My forgetfulness (if I get out of my routine, I am hopeless!) when it comes to taking my supplements and medications has messed me up a few times, so I’m glad to have found a great app to help me manage not only my daily meds, but also anything my kids are taking when they have the occasional Rx. You know I love apps, and since I always have my phone on me, the reminders are convenient and I always get the message. This fab app is called the Care4Today™ Mobile Health Manager, and I love it! It’s available on iTunes, Google Play, and on the web – for FREE!

Not only does Care4Today™ remind you of medications you need to take, it also lets you create a record to share with family members or health professionals so they can see how you’re doing, and as I mentioned, you can set reminders for your family members’ medications too.

To learn more about this app and get lots of great health tips for the new year, I hope you’ll join me, the Motherhood, and some other great bloggers for a #Care4Today twitter party on Thursday – that’s tomorrow! – at 1 pm EST. To RSVP and join us, heck out all the info below. We’ll be giving away lots of great prizes to those who tweet along with us.

It’s the New Year, and common resolutions focus on self-improvement, such as eating healthier, exercising more and losing weight. However, only 8% of people achieve those New Year’s resolutions. Luckily, there’s a tool that can help you with one health-related goal for 2014: remembering to take medications as prescribed.Care4Today™ Mobile Health Manager is a free mobile app and website with new features designed to support and motivate people to stay on schedule with their medications. You can download and use Care4Today™ Mobile Health Manager from the iTunes App Store orGoogle Play or register on the website.

When: Thursday, January 16, at 1p ET / 12p CT / 10a PTWhere: We’ll be on Twitter – follow the #Care4Today hashtag to track the conversation. You can see the details and RSVP via this Twtvite:http://twtvite.com/Care4TodayNewYearHashtag: #Care4Today

Prizes: We will randomly award five prizes throughout the party, from all eligible correct responses to trivia questions. Each prize includes a $50 VISA gift card and a Vera Bradley pill case. (No purchase necessary. Entrants must be legal residents of the 50 United States + D.C. 18 years of age or older. Void where prohibited. For official rules, click here.)

Hope to see you all there! Can’t wait to tweet with you!

January 13, 2014January 24, 2014

Diaper Pail of Dreams – giveaway!

Whisper Diaper Pail is providing this giveaway item and provided me with a sample to facilitate this review (which I’m passing on to a friend since I’ve officially got ZERO kids in diapers now!)

Isn’t it just *hilarious* that the world’s most perfect diaper pail was brought to market at like, the exact moment that I potty-trained my last child? Go figure!! Well, my loss is your gain – if you’ve still got little ones in diapers creating stinkbombs like it’s their JOB, that is. I’m happy to introduce you to the best thing to happen to diaper-depressed parents since the invention of the disposable.

It’s…the Whisper Diaper Pail!

This diaper pail is unlike anything you’ve ever used before. Over the course of nearly 10 years of parenting, we’ve had three different diaper pails, but over time they’ve all become stinky. As in, at some point the odor protection just STOPS WORKING. The Whisper Diaper Pail permanently solves the odor problem of dirty diaper after dirty diaper AND makes disposing of them as easy as can be. Here’s why it’s so great!

1) Layers (upon layers!) of odor protection. Not only does the pail have a lid like other diaper pails, it also has a trap door on the inside which offers another layer of protection and also hides the dirty diapers so you don’t have to look at them. Finally, the Whisper also comes with a built-in spray, the ODOGard Spray, that ATTRACTS odors as well as locks them away! And all ya got to do to release the spray is press a button on the lid.

2) Hands-free convenience. You use a foot-pedal to open the lid and you can drop the diaper right in even with a fussy baby on your hip.

3) No expensive refills! The Whisper Diaper Pail uses regular kitchen trash bags.

4) It’s local! The Whisper Diaper Pail was created in Cincinnati. By a PhD dad of 5 who has dealt with a lot of stink, and a bunch of other PhD’s. Woohoo!

Now that you know how GREAT this baby is, don’t ya wanna win one? Here’s how to enter to win your very own Whisper so you can eliminate the stank and camouflage the rank diapers your precious little one cranks out (relentlessly!!).

A) Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite feature of the Whisper Diaper Pail.

B) Check out Mommin’ It Up on Facebook and leave us a comment letting us know you did.

C) Check out Whisper Diaper Pail on Facebook and leave us a comment letting us know you did.

One winner will be chosen at random on Monday, January 20th at 6pm EST.

Good luck!

January 10, 2014

An important message from our sp@mmers

As you are probably aware, the internetz is full of people who want you to buy crap. Or just want your money. Some of these businesses sell awesome products and they appeal to consumers through advertising on traditional media as well as by advertising on blogs and social media.

And some people just want to advertise for free by leaving spam comments on blog posts and hoping that you’ll click through the link they’ve left with their brilliant commentary. I am guessing this must work on SOME level since these “sp@mmers” have been doing this for YEARS and with GREAT consistency and persistence. We have a filter that catches most these for us, so you guys never see ’em. You’re WELCOME!

As I was contemplating these gems after trashing a few sp@m comments this morning, I realized that Emily and I might be doing you a disservice by keeping this “advertising” from you. After all, who are WE to say that you might not WANT to know about “home heating oil prices on long isl@nd” or “Billig Canada Goose J@kke” or my personal favorite, “How To Get Muscles F@st” (because you know I love to work out!!) Sooo, this morning I decided to let a few of these glittering advertising gems out of the spam vault for your reading pleasure. I am reproducing these with no editing whatsoever so you can get the full effect of the articulate geniuses these companies hire to “spread the word” about their products. I am however, going to modify the link names so as to not truly give them press.Here we go!

This comment is by “M*ncler Norge”:

Humour me for a moment and suppose you’ve just hit your thirtyfifth birthday. You can follow her on Twitter.The typical sizes of the apartments are higher than the regular homes giving you that extra living space.

Hmm, ok, I would humour you (I mean, I would if I were British, but maybe I’ll just humor you instead), but I’ve just hit my thirty-sixth birthday, so I guess I’m out. You CAN follow me on twitter though, thanks for the plug! Also, you should probably take an English class before you decide to write sp@m comments in English. Your topic sentence was SO NOT SUPPORTED there!

Here’s a life-alterting message from “S@c L@ncel Pas Cher”:

abercrombie often uses male models only once, allowing campus guys to go on to expanded modeling careers. I finally get the box unwrapped and glance at the product label. Furthermore, they protrude in the entire group, as many of them will certainly be wearing common incorporate general. When you possess vision, you develop a relentless pursuit to do what ever needs to be done to get to your end reward.

Huh. Looks like I’m on the wrong track in my male modeling career. Do you guys think I protrude in a group?

This one from “fl!ght s!mulator” almost had me. ALMOST.

Hello, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a
lot of spam comments? If so how do you reduce it, any plugin or anything you can
advise? I get so much lately it’s driving me mad so any support is very much appreciated.

I was all, “Oh we have so much in common!” So clever. I wish you would’ve left your home address and phone number so I could SUPPORT the crap out of you.

I can also relate to this one, who left his or her “name” and a long string of numbers and letters that I can only assume is a super-secret government passcode to the Matrix, so I won’t reveal it. Here’s what this genius wants you to know:

926881 226873not every person would need to have a nose job but my girlfriend genuinely needs some rhinoplasty coz her nose is kind of crooked- 648975

DUDE! If Ihad a nickel for every one of my girlfriends who needed a nose job! Coz 928314592, RIGHT??

And finally, the piece de resistance from our new BFF “Christy”:

I’m ext?emely impr?ssed together with your writing abilities ?s
well as with the format to your blog. Is that this a paid subject matter or
did you modify it your self? Anyway stay up the excellent
quality writing, it is uncommon to see a great blog like this one toda?..

Aww, thanks Christy! Fl?ttery will get you ev?rywhere with us!

So what do you guys think? Should we give these sp@mmers some more play or what? Can you believe we’ve been holding out on you all this time?