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An at-last accomplishment and a $75 giveaway!

There are a lot of things I want to do that I say I’ll do “when I get around to it.”  Or, “when I have the money.”  Or how about my favorite, “When I have the time.”  The reality is that only a small percentage of these things will ever get done.  But there are a few things in life I’ve managed to actually take the time to accomplish that were totally worth it.  Time+ effort paid off!  A perfect example of this is the “fun room” that I posted about a year ago.  We lived in our house TEN YEARS before we ever turned our useless, waste-of-space mud room into a beautiful, functional art room for the kids.  Not only did it take a long time for us to finally DO IT, but it took a lot of time to physically accomplish the transformation – researching and finding the appropriate furniture, cleaning the room, painting the room, arranging all the kids things in an organized manner, and of course, the 50 bajillion coats of chalkboard paint and dry erase paint Bobby had to put on the opposite sides of our door in that room!

But all that hard work and time we invested totally paid off!  In the year since we accomplished this big task, we’ve made so many good memories in that room!  Like this one:

Joshua, Sophie and I were making a Jack O’Lantern craft in October.  We’ve spent so much time making things together in this room.  This is also where Sophie and I did all of our work together to help her overcome her developemental delays. As a matter of fact, we still often call it the “Mommy-Sophie time room” even though it’s for everyone, because Sophie and I spent SO much time there accomplishing THAT big achievement!

Ok, so why am I telling you all about my great accomplishment?  Because the good folks at Quaker Oats asked me to spread the word about a great accomplishment of theirs that has been a loooooooong time coming. As in, 130 years long!  Quaker, the Oatmeal experts, have finally…made…COOKIES!! Delicious oatmeal cookies!  Can you believe they never had cookies before?  Me neither.  I got to sample some of the soft-baked oatmeal cookies and they are delicious!  Joshua and Sophie loved them too.  They come in five yummy flavors, Apple & Cinnamon, Banana Nut, Chocolate & Almond, Raisins, and Cranberry & Yogurt.  All made with the Quaker oats you’ve loved for-EV-er!  Get them at your local grocery store and you’ll be really glad Quaker finally accomplished this feat!  These cookies are well worth the wait.

To celebrate finally accomplishing oatmeal cookies, Quaker is giving away a $75 Visa gift card to one lucky reader! (You could buy A LOT of Quaker cookies with that!)  Here’s how to enter to win this dough!

1) Leave a comment on this post telling  me something that was worth taking the time to accomplish in your life.

2) “Like” Quaker’s Facebook page and then come back to this post and leave a comment telling me that you did.

3) Follow Quaker on Twitter and then come back to this post and leave me a comment telling me that you did.

**Leave a separate comment for each entry! Up to 3 entries!*

One winner will be chosen at random on Saturday, March 23, 2012 at 6 pm EST.

Good luck!  I can’t wait to hear all about your accomplishments!

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This post is sponsored by Quaker.  All opinions about the super-delicious cookies are my own!

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94 Replies to “An at-last accomplishment and a $75 giveaway!”

  1. Making our extra bedroom into a school room. We homeschool and having a special place designated for school has been great!

  3. After spending a week with “you know who”, I came home and shredded 25 years of tax forms. Accomplishment – Oh yes!

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  4. It is worth taking time to set up a budget so that I know exactly what I can spend. It took a good while for me to finally set up a good budget.

  7. Going back to school for my BFA (and a career change) was a huge accomplishment so that I could stay home with my son while still working/earning some money. Yay for Quaker Oatmeal Cookies!!!

  8. The entrance to our house is through a built-on room that we basically ignored for several years. We finally got furniture and painted the paneling.

  10. We just recently FINALLY finished off our basement – a project that stretched over about two years! It was worth it and we are making such good use of it now!

  23. Worth accomplishing: sewing all three children’s Halloween costumes every year. They now have a closet full of them to play dress up with in the play room, and each time they do, I look on with great pride. 🙂

  26. Going back to school to get a degree in nursing was so worth it….and now staying home with my kids is worth it too. Sure there may be less money to spend each month, but the kids and I are very happy with our arrangement.!

  27. It was worth getting my Master’s Degree in 2002, even though I’ve been a domestic engineer since 2003!

  29. I recently got my h.s. diploma and graduated with honors. That was definitely worth the wait and time for this accomplishment.

  30. We put a four season room and new deck on our house. It was a room that didn’t see much use until it became our children’s play room. Totally worth the time it took to finish it.

  36. It took me forever to get pregnant so many years ago, and my biggest accomplishment is my wonderful children!

  41. The year i turned 30 I decided to run a marathon – I didn’t have any kids yet. I am SO GLAD I did it back then, because the training takes so much time, energy and motivation that I don’t think I could drum up, now with 2 kids. I’m happy I didn’t put it off for “later.”

  42. We finally made our spare bedroom into an organized school room for homeschool. 🙂 What a relief to walk into that room and feel like something can happen there. No clutter, no disarray! 🙂

  43. i decided to have more children and we are so blessed to have 3 great kids. We take such great pride in our family.

  46. It has taken me quite a while to clean out my rocky and sandy yard in order to put together raised beds, but I have completed the task and am ready to use the compost that I have been also working on for quite some time (over 9 months). It looks so awesome! I can’t wait to see all the veggies!

  49. Getting my bachelors degree in education. I got really sick during college, but I pulled through and it was a lot of hard work. Because of that, I was able to teach for the past 25 years and now retired. I was able to reach and help many students because of my degree.

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