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The Pre-Travel Freak-Out Begins

So, in case you haven’t heard, Emily and I are leaving bright and early Thursday morning for BlogHer. And we are soooo excited! (wanna see some of the fabulous clothes we are wearing thanks to Lands’ End? Check out my Blissful Style post here!) But as always, I have 50 million things to do before we leave that I am STRESSING about. So, I thought I’d share them with you in an attempt to make myself feel better, and maybe my brain feel a bit more organized:

1) Do my laundry
2) Press my beautiful yellow dress
3) Buy some heels to wear with my beautiful yellow dress (done! score!)
4) Pay bills
5) Buy stamps with which to mail bills
6) Do my kids’ laundry so my BFF Luanne who is babysitting will have clothes to dress them in!
7) Go to the grocery so Luanne will also have FOOD to feed them
8 ) clean out my car so Luanne won’t have to drive around a rolling trash bin
9) Pack!
10) Finish writing this week’s posts for Blissful Style
11) Clean the house so Luanne won’t have to watch my kids in squalor
12) Work on my speadsheet (which I got from Emily, Queen of all Spreadsheets) so I’ll know WHERE I am supposed to be WHEN at BlogHer. Because my brain is incapable of keeping track.
13) Charge my camera batteries
14) Order business cards for Emily & myself

Ok, well…that’s all I can think of now…but I’ll add more as I think of them and cross things off as I finish. Ready, set GO!

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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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