This truly is an ‘accidental mommy moment’ and lucky for all of you, it’s combined with a giveaway / contest announcement.

Apparently there is a new, hip handbag company called “The Sak” that is growing quite popular. I don’t really know too much about handbags unless they are of the “Winnie-the-Pooh” variety and hold diapers and various other assorted baby items. To me, a purse is a purse and I hardly ever carry one. That doesn’t mean I don’t like free stuff, however, regardless of its shape, form or purpose. Heck, I’d get excited over free toilet paper because I’m cheap and frugal and anything free must be good. Except a free used mattress. That’s just gross.

So, “The Sak” has teamed up with HarperCollins Publishers and Shape Magazine for the “BOOK IN A BAG GIVEAWAY” and they are giving away 15 free Silverlake Canvas Convertible Satchels, each containing 3 of Harper Collins newest summer books during the month of May. The site actually reads ‘moth of May’ but I’m taking a leap here and assuming they mean ‘month.’

From their site:

“BOOK IN A BAG GIVEAWAY” SILVERLAKE CANVAS CONVERTIBLE SATCHEL
Style #: 103544
$99.00



Casual, cool, and very functional; get two bags in one with this Scotch-Guarded canvas cutie! To convert it from a satchel to a hobo just slide the shoulder strap out of the bottom loops and connect it again over the top. Presto - a whole new bag! The lining is our exclusive print created by Parisian graffiti artist Gilles Jourdan. Contrasting leather trim and Shiny Nickel hardware. Zippered main compartment and exterior front pocket. Interior features 2 open pockets and a back wall zippered pocket. Strap drop is 15″ when converted to Hobo.



BOOK IN A BAG SWEEPSTAKES
This summer The SAK is teaming up with Harper Collins publishers and SHAPE magazine to bring you great summer reads along with the seasons hottest handbags! Every month Harper Collins is giving away a different The SAK handbag and a brand new book. To intoduce this contest, 15 luckiy winner for the moth of May will receive this stylish satchel containing 3 of Harper Collins newest summer books.



TO SIGN UP FOR THE GIVEAWAY
Send an email to: bookinabag@harpercollins.com.
Please include your full name and your email address.
Dimensions: 16.00″ long, 5.50″ wide, 10.00″ high. 6.00″ strap drop.

Go enter to win a purse!

****please note: I myself typed this post with one hand while holding a very heavy sleeping baby, whomever typed the contest info from the “The Sak” site needs a spell-checker in a very bad way****

Whenever the kids are physically wiped out or sleep late, Don uses the phrase “I exhausted them yesterday!” 

The girls were very excited about giving me breakfast in bed this morning for Mother’s Day.  Don knew that I really wanted to sleep in, so he suggested that they eat their breakfast first, then bring me breakfast.  Olivia was worried that I would wake up and spoil the surprise.  Don told her not to worry, that I would still be in bed.  She asked, “Oh, did you exhaust her last night?”

Oh, my….

I put Jake in the tub this afternoon because he didn’t get his bath last night and it’s raining so we’re not going outside today. I started filling up the tub and he climbed in while it was filling.

I left to get towels from the closet right outside the bathroom and Jake said, “Mom, it’s not filling up.”

I went in and looked and sure enough, there was hardly any water in there. He was splashing around a little, but certainly not enough to make the water go anywhere. It took me a second to realize WHAT he was splashing around with…

“Jake, that’s because you took the plug out!”

Yeah….

Why can’t I be this lucky with lottery tickets?

This time, from over at 5 Minutes for Mom, I won an Easy Bake Mix and Measure Kit in one of their contests.

5 Minutes for Mom continues to run great contests so hop on over there and enter. Usually it simply involves leaving a comment on the particular contest post.

20/20 Research is looking for Moms of teen girls to participate in a paid bulletin board / online focus group type research study.

Here’s a description:

20/20 Research, is currently conducting a research discussion among mothers of teen girls. This discussion will take place via online bulletin board discussion Monday, May 19th through Friday, May 23rd. If qualified, you will be paid $100 for your participation in this online discussion.

A bulletin board is a new, cutting-edge way to conduct market research with busy people like you. This discussion will consist of 6 people including yourself and a professional moderator. This format allows you to log in a couple of times a day at your convenience and take part in the discussion anonymously. The discussion will not take place at a “specific time” so you can log on and off at whatever times during the day or evening that work best for you! You will also be able to read the responses of others within the discussion and respond candidly.

You will need to log in 2 times per day for all 5 days of the discussion and answer all of the questions posed by the moderator. It should take approximately 30-45 minutes each day to answer the questions. You can log in from any computer with a high-speed Internet connection, whether at work, home or elsewhere.

Qualified participants will receive $100 for their complete participation!!!

Your responses will remain strictly confidential and we’d like to ask you to participate in a very brief (2-3 minutes) online screening survey to determine if you qualify for the discussion. Please click the link below or copy into your browser to begin the quick survey:

Survey link

Thanks, and we hope to see you online soon!

(No sales or solicitations, ever. Strictly research)

To register to receive future notifications of these opportunities by email, join the 20/20 Research panel.

Last night my son was up a few times complaining about this or that. He’s got a stuffy nose, likely from allergies, and it keeps him up. This morning my husband was watching the news and came upstairs and said, “you think we’ve got it bad, there’s a 3 year old boy who hasn’t slept since he’s been born.”

CNN.com has a video regarding the boy: The kid who can’t sleep. I can’t even imagine how difficult it is for these parents. It’s hard enough now getting just 6 hours straight from Abby!

He’s supposedly undergoing surgery that may correct the problem, but it is a 50/50 shot. With all the medical advances today, this one seems like it should be simple, but I guess when you are dealing with the human brain, exact science is just not always possible.

Ok, Kim, since you’ve mocked me about our TV channels, let’s have a poll. We stopped cable over ten years ago, because I got tired of paying for such a poor product. There was never anything worth watching. Over the years, I’ve thought maybe I was missing something. But, after random viewings of both cable and satellite, I realized that I’m not.

So, I’m curious. What do you watch on TV? What channel do you mostly watch? How much do you watch in a day? And, what does satellite or cable cost you per month?