Who doesn’t like sheep?
Ok, so it’s likely you don’t have room for sheep.
Well, I have good news for you, I was kidding about the sheep!
You can, however, win Educational Software from Weekly Reader in our giveaway which will benefit your kids instead of eating your shoes (not sure…sheep eat pretty much anything, right…or is that goats?).
There will be 2 winners in the software giveaway, and your kids told me they want you to enter.
They did.
Really.
And so did the sheep.
Baa!
I won a prize!
This time I won an emergency kit from Energizer:
Energizer wants to help keep you and your family safe this season with a chance to get your own Emergency Kit! These cool backpacks come filled with useful products for disasters, including a weather-ready flashlight, an emergency blanket, batteries, safety goggles, and more. They are valued at over $75 and we are giving away 3! Perfect for family road trips, camping getaways, or for use at home, these are fabulous!
I won it at Lille Punkin’ Reviews, and was one of 3 out of 519 people that entered.
The last few days I have been so focused on the new site design I have neglected (alas, I am NOT a supermom…) some of my other blogging activities. Now is the time to address a few things!
First, we have received an award.
Well, we have actually received the same award TWICE - 2 different bloggers have awarded us with the “Arte y Pico Blog” Award!
We’re quite honored to receive this award from our fellow bloggers, at Moomette’s Mama Mentor Blog and Life in The Lapadula house even if we have no idea what the title of it means!
We will display it proudly despite it being the ugliest thing I’ve seen in awhile!
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We have it all, here at Accidental Mommies! From puddles to amazing artists, we are your one stop blog spot.
I just watched a great documentary on PBS about the artist Emile Norman. Currently, he is working with tiny pieces of wood inlay on sculpted pieces.
Words are always so difficult to use when describing art, so just go check out his website. Get enlightened!
Isn’t this polar bear beautiful?
If you get a chance, check out this very interesting documentary about his life.
Being an “Accidental Mommy” (see our about page for what that means…it’s probably not what you think) I am pretty sure I fall short of taking advantage of the “teaching opportunities” presented to me when it comes to my 4 year old son. At least in a formal sense where it has to do with learning reading, writing and arithmetic. Luckily he spent the first 3 years or so of his life with Grandma, my Mother-In-Law who taught him a great deal.
As he gets ready to start preschool, I am increasingly more aware of the fact that we do not deliberately do any learning type of activities together. I know he learns stuff every day but not “book type” learning. I believe that some people are natural teachers and others just are not (hello, that’s me…a not) and while many a parent who is not a natural teacher has raised a fine intelligent kid, I’m still bothered by the fact that I have trouble providing that for him.
Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! and it’s sister book Let’s Get Ready For First Grade help to fill the gap that other parents like me (the not teacher types) experience in raising their kids.
Continue Reading……
This past week and this weekend was filled with all sorts of activity and adventure. This weekend specifically, there seemed to be some confusion in my house that this sign would have clarified:
The Sak and Harper Collins have teamed up again for THE SAK: Book in a Bag Giveaway.
Unfortunately I didn’t win either of the first 2, but now there is still hope!
The cool thing is, this time the handbag is actually one I might use!
ToysRUs is giving away free Thomas Trains with coupon through July 5, 2008 (up to a $12.99 value).
Most of the major deals forums are printing this link: print coupon; which you need to be ready to print from right away because you can only access it once.
Thanks to Thirfty Jinxy, there is another direct link to the coupon that you do not have to print immediately: print coupon.
Jake is going to love this! He just recently started playing with his Thomas trains again.
As we’ve mentioned before, one of the goals of What’s That Smell? is to provide resources for Moms. One of those resources we plan on exploring is how to start a blog. We are currently in the midst of our Free Paid Survey How-To series, and once that is completed we will begin a detailed series on starting your very own blog.
The first choice you need to make when starting a blog is whether or not to use a free hosting service or pay for your own. We will discuss the features and benefits of each of those options in detail in our series, but for those of you who already know you would like paid hosting, I have another resource to help you make a decision on which web hosting provider to use. Web Hosting Geeks rates and reviews the top paid hosting services and allows users to rate them as well. Web Hosting Geeks provide reviews and other webmaster resources to help you make an informed decision.
Definitely check them out before you make any decisions about web hosting.
We are doing some minor remodeling here at What’s That Smell?
It’s not going to look much different, and most things will still be roughly in the same place, but hopefully easier to find!
Feel free to yell if you don’t like it - comment here or use our contact form.
In the meantime, if anything looks funny, just be patient, it will just be for a few hours!
Thanks!
I took the kids to a spray park this afternoon. While we had a great time, I had a very Accidental Mommy moment. A little girl left the spray area and was wandering around looking for her mom. She was starting to get panicked, so I tried to help. As we were looking around, she said “Oh! I’m peeing.” And, she let loose right there on the sidewalk. Then she was off to the spray area like nothing had happened.
When I was working out of the house (those were the days….) my desk at work was always covered with stuff from family photos, to weird chachkies to those promotional products that you get free from companies like letter openers, pens and stress balls.
One thing I never had was a fish tank on my desk, and now you can get a USB powered fish tank, that you put real fish in, and that you can control from your PC (I’m pretty sure you control the settings for the tank, not the fish themselves…we’re not talking Sea Monkeys or Planet of the Apes or anything like that).
What will they think of next? Who added this to their Christmas list? C’mon, you can admit it!
