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Giveaway: Prize Pack from Subway!

We are big baseball fans in our family – especially Sam. In case I haven’t mentioned it lately, he is obsessed. Obsessed! Last night he was walking around the living room yelling “Get your hot dogs! Your peanuts!” You know, as a back up in case the baseball player thing doesn’t work out. (And if you haven’t heard him sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” you should check it out!)

We are also big Subway fans! Kate is the lead fan in this category – the girl loves her some Subway. She picks it over any other fast food place, and I always feel good about feeding her a turkey sub!

When the nice people at Subway asked if I would help promote their Baseball DeSIGNS Auction, I didn’t hesitate! This week, Subway is auctioning off baseballs designed by Little Leaguers and signed by all kinds of famous people – from Ken Griffey Sr. to the Jonas Brothers! Between now and August 29, you can bid on your favorite ball – and all proceeds go to the Little League Urban Initiative.

You check them all out on the Subway Facebook page, and your kids can play fun games at SubwayKids.com!

In celebration of the Baseball DeSIGNS Auction, Subway is giving one of our readers a prize pack containing a $10 Subway gift card, a Little League reusable meal bag and a baseball with some fun extras for your kids to design their own ball, just like the Little Leaguers. My kids were super excited to get this in the mail, and I’m sure your kids would be too!

So here’s how to enter:

1) Leave a comment on this blog post
2) For an extra entry tweet about this contest on twitter with a link back to this post, then leave a separate comment with your tweet URL.
3) Post on Facebook about Mommin’ It Up – like our page if you haven’t already and then leave a separate comment letting us know you did so.
4) Subscribe to our blog feed and leave us a comment letting us know you did or already do.

The giveaway will close at 3:00 p.m. on September 1, and the winner will be chosen randomly. Good luck!

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I received a bag, baseball & $10 Subway card, in case you were wondering!

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Cleanest diaper I ever saw

Oh, hi there, remember me?  I’m one of those two girls who used to write actual blog posts before they started doing all these crazy back-to-school giveaways (which you have til  Monday at 3 pm to enter! So do it!)!!

So, anyways, the giveaway posts are done and now I have a tale to tell, about how graceful and coordinated I am.  And how, as all of you know, I am a perfect housewife.

And my fabulous new Frigidaire Affinity washer & dryer *might* figure into said tale.  Which starts like this:

A couple of months ago, in the same week in which I began the HELL on earth that was potty training Sophie, I accidentally (because really, WHO would do that on PURPOSE?)  threw a DIAPER in the wash with Sophie’s pee-pee laundry.  When I opened my beautiful new washer (which I had less than 2 weeks at that point) I was horrified to see that gel stuff that is inside diapers ALL OVER my washer, and Sophie’s CLOTHES.  When I realized what I had done, I was slightly despondent.

When I realized I was going to have to scoop that diaper-gel all out by hand, I was severely despondent.

And then, I was thankful.  For three things: 1) That my Frigidaire Affinity washer & dryer BOTH have a “Sanitize” setting, 2) that the diaper I washed was only a pee-pee diaper and contained no poop and 3) that my Frigidaire washer also came with a coupon for Tide Washing Machine cleaner (which I had learned about at Fabric Care University).

I raced to the store with said coupon, bought the cleaner, ran it through my washer, and WOW it was never so clean, not even when it was brand-new!

Then, I sanitized the CRAP (oh, pun SO, SO intended) out of those clothes with the “sanitize” setting.

My Frigidaire appliances are fortunately much more graceful and coordinated than I am.  And SO much better at doing laundry than I am.  If only they could cook dinner and bear children, they’d probably replace housewives altogether!

This review is part of my participation in the Frigidaire Test Drive program.  I am on Team Washer and Dryer and totally get to keep said bad-a** appliances.  Thanks to Frigidaire and Mom Central for making me a part of this awesome campaign!

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Transform Us, Please!!

Ok, so, the title of this post may be a bit misleading.  Emily and I do not want to be turned into robots that can turn into semi-trucks nor do we want to go on Extreme Makeover and get new noses (among other things) –  but we are super-excited to say that our KITCHENS are going to be transformed!!! Can you say DREAM COME TRUE??  We are thrilled beyond belief to announce that we are Granite Transformations Trendsetter Bloggers (that’s what that button in our sidebar is all about!)  Granite Transformations is providing us with new kitchen countertops (which they make themselves!) for freezies, and they are re-facing our kitchen cabinets, which Emily and I are paying for but at a nice discount.

And we. ARE SO. EXCITED!!!

Perhaps you remember that I lovingly refer to my kitchen as “the eyesore of my house:”  well, now you know why:

And for another beautiful view:

Besides the new kitchen floor that my darling husband gave me for our 10th anniversary, I pretty much hate it.  The countertops are cheap and the cabinets are crap!

So when Jacob and Nick from the Dayton office of Granite Transformations came over last week and showed me how they can make my kitchen beautiful – without ripping it it out and making it non-functional – in just three or four DAYS I was so happy!! They were so nice and knowledgeable.  I had a lot of questions about HOW the heck they were gonna be able to work with my kitchen  (it has serious problems!!) and they answered them all and assured me they can make it happen!

Don’t be jealous Bobby Rapson, but I really can’t wait to see these guys again!

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Oh hi, it’s Emily now! Like Jenny said, we are extremely excited about this opportunity. Our kitchen is ok, but our house was built in the mid-90s and our kitchen shows it! (and yes it disturbs me as much as it does you to realize that things from the mid-90s are now outdated – but it’s been 15 years!) I have been wanting new counter tops for, like, ever (or maybe three out of the four years we’ve lived in our house), and my husband has very strong (negative) feelings toward our cabinets, so we are both equally excited about the transformation our kitchen is about to undergo.

The best part? We don’t have to do any of it! (Well, except paint and change the light fixtures and put down a new floor – hey we might as well go for the gold, right?) Because people? We are not handy.

(Apparently I am parentheses-happy this morning, my apologies.)

So. Here’s what we’ve got to work with:

Eh.

As you can see (sort of, in the high-quality pics from my cell phone), our cabinets are oak-ish and have a distinct lack of hardware, which I do not enjoy, and our counter tops are run-of-the-mill vinyl. And our floor is awful (and also the bane of my existence, because it has 9 million groves per square inch that hold onto dirt for dear life. Any flooring companies out there who are dying to get in on this project, give me a call).

But in just a few weeks, it’s going to look entirely different, and it’s going to be awesome.

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Since neither Jenny nor I see home decorating as our forte, I thought it would be fun to turn to you for advice as to what would look best in our kitchens! Please leave a comment letting us know what you think we should pick for our counters and cabinets (and if you could tell me what color to paint my walls, too, I would be eternally grateful. I am awful at picking out paint!). If you want to see what our options are, click over to the Granite Transformations website. I can’t wait to hear what you think!

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