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What does Valentines mean to you?  A big ring?  A dozen roses?  Chocolate?  Wait, CHOCOLATE?  For me, yea, it basically has always meant chocolate.  I’ve never spent a Valentine’s day that was so romantic that I swore I’d never forget it.  Actually the only one I can remember was the one when my first born child was about 4 weeks old.  He was born on January 14th.  And, that very February 14th, I made the decision that my hard working husband deserved a decent Valentines.  So, I made arrangements to meet him at this Chinese place between our house and his job. 

Well, the place was packed and our one month old son was far from even a little bit impressed with the lack of room and all the noise.  Lesson Learned.  Period.  Anyway, there’s some other folks who do better holidays than I do and who celebrate better than we do.  And, one such group of people are the people conducting an awareness campaign and are known as LIFE Foundation.

LIFE Foundation is holding a contest over the next few weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day.  Basically, the idea is that Valentine’s Day has become to be labeled as a “greeting card holiday,” but this year in particular offers the opportunity for people to get back to the holiday’s roots by rethinking what a genuine gift of love is. 

So, LIFE’s goal is to make this year’s holiday a time to consider life insurance and make it a selfless and enduring gift giving occasion.  And, buying someone life insurance can be much like buying them chocolates.  Ok, maybe that’s a bit much but you know what I mean.  At least the life insurance would be around much longer than the box of chocolates.  Unless you are like me and you wear that box of chocolates around your waist for a few years. 

To encourage people to commit selfless acts of love this Valentine’s Day, LIFE is sponsoring an online contest during the weeks leading up to February 14. Anyone over age 18 is invited to nominate a close friend or family member who has exhibited selfless love for a chance to win a variety of prizes, including $2k towards the Cartier Love Collection!  Learn more at http://www.insureyourlove.org/.

The contest ends February 14th!   And, it’s worth noting that the act of selfless love doesn’t have to be insurance related but can be anything! I hope you enter as well!

Go check it out, ok?  Just do it for me.  Consider it your Valentine gift to me! mkay?

If you aren’t familiar with the give away, go check out this post and then comment to enter to win.  The contest ends on Sunday night, the 18th at midnight.  So, go now, don’t get left out.  What’s included? 

Super Bowl Prize Pack contains the following:

• 1 football

• 1 beverage pail

• 1 snack helmet (my favorite!)

• 2 key chains

• 2 hats

• 2 t-shirts

• 5 Pepsi 24 pack coupons

• 5 Frito Lay coupons

and when you pile it all up, it looks lke this….

Go, now, give it a whirl!  You can’t go wrong. 

Just so you know, this is not my official post for the day, I just thought I would hit you with some reminders……if you haven’t had enough of me, you can get more at 24/7 Moms

Part One:

the Super Bowl Prize Pack contains the following:

• 1 football

• 1 beverage pail

• 1 snack helmet (my favorite!)

• 2 key chains

• 2 hats

• 2 t-shirts

• 5 Pepsi 24 pack coupons

• 5 Frito Lay coupons

Go here to win…

Part Two:

If you have time, give this a read…  So, first of all, I think I have some ‘splainin’ to do

Part Three:

The unveiling of Jerri Ann Reason (a work in progress so pardon the bugs, we are working it out)

Hello, Are You Ready?  Move that B…no wait, just double check your links and entries, this could get gritty!

I am in the process of kicking off a “12 Days of Christmas” Give-away(s) on three of my blogs.  They are Mom~E~Centric, Education Uncensored and Mom is Teaching.

You can find full posts with vendors names on each site.  I am writing to ask you to help promote the give-a-way in one way or another, simply word of mouth, the internet, our great social forums like TwitterMoms and Blogher or your own blog or website/network.

The rules and terms and conditions will all go up in a post tomorrow but for you here, so you have a heads up, here’s how the contest will work.

The one rule that stands out in my mind is to let you know that the contest will run from midnight Dec 1st until midnight Dec. 12th.  Each entry must be time stamped between the hours of 12 AM and 11:50 PM of that same day in order to be counted.  I will be doing the necessary behind the scenes paperwork and try to get winners information to the sponsors so they can hopefully make the mailing time frame.  Other than that…

1.  The contestant must put up a blog post (or other website entry) including at least one button and including both the link to my post where the give away is taking place as well as the company who is sponsoring the give away.  The contestant must come back to the blog and link to the post where this post is hosted.

2.  The contestant can gain a second entry into the contest by twittering both my link and the sponsor’s link.  The entrants will need to leave me their Twitter Name (as if I don’t know it already, I want to get to know you and follow your through twitter).

3.  The last way to get an entry in the contestant is by subscribing to my RSS Feed.

If you could promote this Give-a-way, I’d greatly appreciate it.

Here are a few of the buttons which will lead you to the original posts that I am just getting out now.  Tomorrow rules and regulations for everyone and then Sunday, buttons for everyone.  But, here’s a few for you to try on for size.

<a href=”http://www.momecentric.com/2008/11/28/12-days-of-christmas/”><img src=”http://www.momecentric.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/momecentric-promotion-button7-300×225.jpg” alt=”" title=”momecentric-promotion-button7″ width=”300″ height=”225″ class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-2187″ /></a><textarea name=”textarea” cols=”25″ rows=”4″> </div></P></DIV> </DIV> </BODY> </HTML>

That’s it for Mom~E~Centric……………..moving right along..

Here’ is Education Uncensored

<a href=”http://educationuncensored.ning.com/profiles/blogs/12-days-of-christmas-giveaways”><img src=”http://www.momecentric.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/education-uncensored-promotion-button-with-red-button4-300×300.jpg” alt=”" title=”education-uncensored-promotion-button-with-red-button4″ width=”300″ height=”300″ class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-2196″ /></a>

That’s it for Education Uncensored and now for

Mom is Teaching

So, I give you the button and the code…

<a href=”http://www.momisteaching.com/12-days-of-christmas/”><img src=”http://www.momecentric.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mom-is-teaching-promo-300.jpg” alt=”" title=”mom-is-teaching-promo-300″ width=”300″ height=”200″ class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-2204″ /></a>

Ok, so here’s the deal, if a company were to offer me something…I don’t know what yet, just something…and I was to give it away here on the blog…..what kind of contest would you participate in and what (within reason) would you like to see as the prize being given away??????

I know that I have changed the blog format some and as of late I’ve spent a lot of time raging about my own’s public school experience.  But, I am trying to get back to the basics here which is “educating our children by whatever means necessary”.

I want the blog to reflect all degree’s of teachers as well as learners.  So, with that, go vote for

Best Education Blog.

CONTEST:  Take the following five questions to your blog (if you don’t have one, simply answer in my comments section) and post the questions and answers by Friday night, September 26th at midnight.  Then, send me the link to your post showing me your questions and answers.

WINNER:   Everyone who participates, either on their blog (as long as you send me the link) or in the comments will be entered into Random.Org after Midnight on September 26th.

PRIZE:  The winner will choose from one of the following:

1.  a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate

OR

2.  a copy of The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish

OR

3.  a copy of The White Trash Mom’s Handbook by Michelle Lamar and Molly Wendland.

Here are the following questions, remember that Survivor kicks off its 17th season tomorrow night with a 2 hour premier.  So, here goes…

How Well Do You Know Your Survivor Seasons and Players?