Mommin' It Up!

May 31, 2010

Manis, Pedis, and Armpits, Oh My!

Sometimes is this bloggy world, you get lucky. And if you get really lucky, you get to spread the luck and love around. That’s what happened to me last week, thanks to Dove Ultimate Deodorant. You see, a couple of weeks ago they sent me an email asking if they could send me and a view bloggy friends to a local day spa to get pampered in celebration of their new Dove Ultimate Beauty Care Light Radiance deodorant. Ummm…let me think about it…YES!! Fortunately, I have long been a fan of Dove Ultimate, especially the go Fresh collection. So I was all about giving my pits some pampering with the Beauty Care Collection. Because summer is coming, and Cortney expects my pits to look lovely when we hit the pool. And since Dove Ultimate Beauty Care helps restore the moisture you lose when shaving (and they GOTTA be shaved!), I should be in good shape!

So last Friday, my friends and I slapped some Dove (they sent me some Ultimate for everyone!) on our pits and headed out to the salon for some girl time and a much-needed mommy break!

The lovely ladies who accompanied me to the spa are: of course my cousin Emily, Katie, Tricia, Elizabeth, Kate, Amy, Celia, and last but CERTAINLY not least, Andrea. (Cortney couldn’t make it cause her kids got sick – RUDE!) The girls at Tudor Salon & Day Spa treated us wonderfully!

We got manicures:

We got pedicures:

(I think Amy’s baby boy Brennan was a little bummed out that he wasn’t getting a pedi? Doesn’t he look jealous!?)

We even got CHAIR MASSAGES!! Rumor has it Katie proposed to the massage therapist afterward. No word on her answer yet!

And mostly, we had a large block of time to sit and chat with friends and DO NOTHING!! It was wooonderful.

Thanks to Dove Ultimate for a day that truly WAS the ultimate in friendship and pampering! For more info on Dove Ultimate Beauty Care and taking care of your pits this summer, check out the Dove Deodorant website, where you can also download a $1.50 off coupon! (You know me likey da coupon!)

Thanks to all my girls for coming out and spending the day with me!

May 27, 2010

A Favorite Things Giveaway

It’s Things I love Thursday! Sooo we are excited to bring you a giveaway from one of our favorite companies whose brands we love – P&G. P&G is a good old OHIO company that has been in business making great products for approximately FOREVER. Last night as I was laying in bed not sleeping (you know you’re pregnant, you wake up to pee, end up having to puke, and then it’s just all downhill from there. But anyhoo.) and since I was not sleeping I thought I’d try and see how many P&G brands I could think of off the top of my head that we have in our house and use regularly. I came up with THIRTEEN. Thirteen!!! That’s a lot! Especially since my thinking cap wasn’t exactly fittin’ right! These brands include Tide, Bounce, Pampers, Secret, Gillette, Cascade, and Swiffer – just to name a few. (Speaking of Swiffer, the winner of our Swiffer Sweeper Vac giveaway is Jen – lucky girl! Congrats!)

P&G asked Emily and I to host a great giveaway for you all to spread the word about their new eStore. Now you have a one-stop P&G shop online! You can get all your favorite P&G brands there and even apply available COUPONS (me likey!) with the click of your mouse. Plus, shipping is super-fast, and a reasonable $5 flat-rate, even if you buy a giant, heavy jug of Tide or 10 jumbo packs of Pampers! The store is very user-friendly. I know because P&G gave me a $20 + free shipping code to try it out.

And of course, P&G also gave us fifteen $20 & free shipping codes to give away to YOU dear readers! (And also generously provided 10 for us to give away to friends and family!) So 15 of you are gonna win the chance to experience some of your favorite P&G loot shipped to your door for free! Here’s how to enter:

1) Leave us a comment on this post telling us your favorite P&G product. Be specific! We wanna know!

2) For an extra entry, tweet about this giveaway on Twitter and use the hashtag #eStore in your tweet. Then leave a separate comment with your tweet URL.

3) For another extra entry, share about this giveaway on your Facebook page, and leave a separate comment letting us know you did so.

Random.org will pick 15 winners and the contest will close Monday May 31 at 5 pm. Good luck!

Visit the P&G eStore here. And for more Things I Love Thursday favorites, head on over to the Diaper Diaries!

May 21, 2010May 21, 2010

Irony of Ironies (and a giveaway!)

As you all know if you are regular readers of this here blog, I am the World’s Worst Housekeeper. It’s just not my forte, my friends. When I do get around to cleaning, I like tools that make it as easy as possible for me. You are never gonna catch me on my hands and knees scrubbing my floor. This is why I requested not flowers, chocolate, or new clothes for Mother’s Day, but a STEAM MOP. Because a steam mop is gonna make my life easier. (And I totally got it, too, thank you Bobby Rapson!)

Anycrap! I am about to give you a cleaning tool recommendation. Which is ironic, no? But it’s a GOOD ONE!

A few weeks ago I received an email from My Blog Spark on behalf of P&G asking if I’d like to review the Swiffer Sweeper Vac, and I was SOOOOOO EXCITED. I’m not kidding, I was totally geeked out!! Because I have been a dedicated user of Swiffer products for years – they are one of those cleaning tools that make it easy for me. And I had been jonesing for a Sweeper Vac for a long time, but wasn’t sure if I wanted to spend the $$. Because what if it wasn’t as wonderful as it seemed?

It. Is. WONDERFUL! It is all that and more. It is the Starbucks of stick vacs. Get one of these babies and you will NOT be disappointed!

When my Sweeper Vac arrived, it also came with a little “kit” to show me how well it worked. It had stuff for me to dump on my floor and vacuum up, like little containers of Cheerios and even HAIR!

I totally cracked up.

Truuuust me, I don’t need them to send me stuff to sprinkle on my floor. I got STUFF on my floor! Cheerios, cracker crumbs, and especially pine needles, courtesy of these two old ladies in my front yard:

Thanks to these pine trees, my hard wood floors are constantly covered with pine needles. Especially after a week like this one, which has been super rainy. Pine needles everywhere.

Argh!

Happily, the Swiffer Sweeper Vac is GREAT at picking up pine needles! And Cheerios, cracker crumbs, pet hair, and dirt in general. I big puffy heart it, and I don’t know what I’ve ever done without it. The Swiffer dry cloth cleans up all kinds of dirt, and the Vac sucks up all the crumbs of my life. It rocks! My favorite, favorite, favorite thing about it is that the BATTERY lasts! I held off publishing this review for a month or so because I wanted to give the battery a good test. After using it several times a week, (true story!) I’ve never had the battery even come close to running out (which is a problem I’ve had with past machines I’ve tried.) My living and dining rooms are pretty good-sized and I also use it on my new fabulous kitchen floor, and I’ve always had more than enough battery to do all three rooms thoroughly. Woohoo!

Ok, so, now for the really fun part. P&G not only gave me a Swiffer Sweeper Vac to keep, they also gave me a $40 gift card to give to one of you so you can get your own Sweeper Vac of Dreams (as I like to call it.) Here’s how to enter!

1) Leave me a comment on this post telling me what room in your house you most hate to clean. 🙂

2) For an extra entry, tweet about this giveaway on twitter and leave me a link to your twitter URL.

3) For another extra entry, share about this entry on Facebook and leave me a comment letting me know you did so.

Entries will close and Random.org will pick a winner on Monday, May 20th at11:59 pm.

Good luck and happy Swiffering!