You can read everything that has been posted plus upcoming tweets, skype messages and emails as well as all comments from this site on the new blog
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I hate when I see the same ol’ ads coming through twitter every few minutes. Even if the link is different, if it is the twitter person, I am not amused.
So, for you, all my dear sweet friends, I’m asking you to take the following polls….yea all of them please…or just one….doesn’t matter…
Ok, demographics – please?
About Television and Your Family
and the biggeee…
So, if you don’t mind, oblige me please, especially on the Guest Posting ones, I need some assistance.
Yes, Blogher is all about bloggers. And, although the name kind of implies ladies with the “HER” part on the end, more and more men are joining the ranks as bloggers and many as stay at home dads. I’ve never been and I’m so excited. I knew I could manage the registration fee if I could just get some help with accommodations. And, with just the right connections, we (me and 3 other ladies) have managed to get 2 suites. That means we all get our own bed and do not have to share with an almost-stranger.
The Affinia Hotels Chicago are absolutely amazing. One look at the photos and I was hooked…
Don’t you just love clean and shiny? And speaking of clean and shiny…
I’m going up on the roof if only for a drink and to enjoy the nightline and personality of it all.
And, how many hotels do you know who have their own Facebook Page and Twitter Name. Go check those out too.
Just keep dreaming the dream, right?
Ok, so we finally have power restored at the old home but er…it’s April something another and it is freezing in here. We have heat on in the middle of April. What is wrong with this picture?
But, in the meantime, I have contest winners….and I have envelopes ready to ship, all I have to do is get the winners names out and get you to email me your shipping address to jareason@gmail.com
And, the winners are:
The Founding of America Megaset, I had 2 of these and the winners are:
1. Catherine who blogs at Domestic Adventure
2. Redhatty who didn’t leave a blog name or link but here is her comment
RedHatty Says:
April 12th, 2009 at 10:35 pm eWhat a great giveaway, as a homeschool family, we would really enjoy this, civics and history all in one”
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World War II, The Ultimate Collection, and I had 2 of these and the winners are:
1. Catherine and you know already that Catherine blogs at Domestic Adventure
2. Arlene who Tweets as @madly59
The Bieliski Brothers There was only one of these and it goes to…..
Becky who did not leave a blog address either but this is her comment
Becky Says:
April 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pm eWow another GREAT giveaway! Please include me and I hope to be at the party tonight! Thanks!
Ok, I know it seems less like a blog around here than ever before but there are a number of reasons why things have slowed to a snails pace. But, I plan to continue posting regularly as soon as I get finished writing emails for all the winners of my own contests as well as the Twitter by the Sea contest.
Most of you probably don’t know that I am the PR representative for Twitter by the Sea and we had that huge party last Thursday night. I’ve been unable to work since Sunday night because we haven’t had any power so I”m a wee bit behind. Please hang on, I’m coming back.
So, we had this huge #twittercruise party and we definitely were in the trending conversations for that night. And, we had prizes galore. So many prizes in fact that it took us much longer to ask trivia questions and do random drawings than it should have so we were there for 5.5 hours instead of 3 like we had planned.
I will be getting touch with the winners in the next couple of days and the sponsors as well so that I can get the prizes moving to the winners. This really was fun and I hope you all enjoyed it. So, winners…here goes….
We had two of these, one of them was won by @tammygirl. The other one was won by @lisasamples. Congratulations to both of these ladies and their families. This piece of equipment sure looks like a lot of fun to me. You can follow them @thestep2company.
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This Solo Laptop Case was won by @matchmycoupons.
I personally have the Messenger Bag from this company and just trust me when I tell you that it is awesome! You can follow them too @sololaptopcases.
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Newbaby.com was kind enough to donate a Creative Labs Vado Pocket Video Cam.
And, the winner of this little gem was @cravingsavings. Congratulations, hope you have a good time with this little bad boy. You can follow them @newbabytv
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Label Daddy was kind enough to throw in a $50 Gift Certificate to his site for labels. If you haven’t seen these beauties in action, just go check them out. Then, tell @carogonza Congratulations for winning the gift certificate.
You can follow them @labeldaddy
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Also Sprout was kind enough to offer an Organic Baby Hooded Bath Towel. The winner of this is @susieqtpie. If you haven’t visited Sprout, by all means, go give them a whirl and see if you aren’t impressed.
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Another set of Gift Certificates were offered by Sarah Cook who sells Mary Kay. The winners of these Gift Certificates were @bkok00 and @luckytoddler. I happen to love Mary Kay cosmetics so if either of these want to give up their prize, I’ll gladly take it off of their hands, lol. Just kidding!
You can follow Sarah @missvibrant
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I met a lady several months back named Stacey Kanneberg who is a part of Cedarvalley Publishing and she was kind enough to offer up 2 sets of books. One of the books is Getting Ready for Kindergarten and the other one is Getting Ready for First Grade. My kids have these books courtesy of Stacey and you definitely won’t go wrong with these products. You can follow Stacey on twitter as @staceykann. The winner of these set of books is @cutemomclothes.
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LVS Online is another one of the wonderful sponsors. @mzautree is the winner of the $25 Online Class from LVS Online. Again, if you aren’t familiar with this company, I suggest you give their site a look and see if you aren’t just as impressed as I have been.
You can follow them @lvsonline.
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Another Twitter follower who has become a great friend is Charles Orlando. You can follow him on Twitter as @charlesjorlando. He has a recently published book entitled, The Problem with Women is….Men. And, he was kind enough to offer 2 books for our giveaway. The winners of those books are @bonggafinds and @ericamueller. Congrats to those twitter friends and I personally have the book and did a review of the book several months back. Thanks Charles!
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A group of Guru’s have a a package known as the Triple-Double. And, trust me, learning from these folks will be a dream for @tammigirl as she won the prize that they offered up. You can find them at My Side Hustle, Super Nova Webs, Just Write Right and MsShowBiz
Wish her well and maybe she can give us some tips or the secrets that the Triple-Double revealed to her. Congrats!
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Also an expert in her field, DeAnna Troupe was kind enough to give away a copy of her book The Cheapskates Guide to Advertising Online.
You can follow DeAnna at @deannatroupe. The winner of this great book is our twitter friend @luckytoddler. Congrats to you! Enjoy!
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The great ladies at Mabel’s Labels have always supported me and everything I attempt. And, this #twittercruise party was no different. The lucky winner of a set of Mama Cards (which I am dying to get me a set) is @craftymamaof4. Congrats to you! You can follow them on twitter @mabelhood
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And, speaking of Kim from @craftymamaof4, she is a former Pampered Chef consultant and she was kind enough to offer up a Pampered Chef Pie Dish and a Garlic Press.
The winner of these great prizes is @bkokc00 so go tell her congrats and tell her we are expecting some good cooking stories from her prize. You can follow her @craftymommaof4 on twitter.
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When it comes to cooking, I’m pretty pathetic but since we are discussing cooking utensils, I figure now is as good of a time as any to tell you about the Robinson’s Home Products which are available at Target, Amazon and Crock-Pot.com
We had 3 lucky winners in this giveaway and they were @bkokc00, @wastebasket and @mommaven. So, look for them to give us some cooking tips as well.
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Also up for grabs at our #twittercruise party was a set of bound books and book marker by Sweet Buddha who has her own Etsy shop. You can follow her @sweetbuddha
And the winner of this gorgeous set of books is @simplyandreah.
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Another company that has been quick to support all my projects is Care.com And, @tpompa is the lucky winner of a subscription to their site.
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And, the good just gets better. Eebee’s Adventures has a set of DVD’s and a set of Books that are totally awesome. And, again, they are always quick to support me.
And, the winner of the DVD’s is @luckydolls and the winner of the books is @redhatty. Go give Eebee a look and I promise you they won’t disappoint.
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We were the lucky recipients of 10 packages from Uncle Ben’s featuring 2 packages of rice in each. So, with that, we have 10 winners to recognize. And, since food seems to be a hot topic, I’m curious what these folks have to say about their rice once it arrives.
@autismfamily @redhatty @fprattellis @totally_toni @worldsdresser, @plussizemommy @susieqtpie @totaldelights @tpompa and @msshowbiz
All those wonderful people will receive one of each of these:
Let me know what you all think about it when it arrives.
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And the big prizes of the night were Vacation Vouchers from Sharnese Travel and the following people will be receiving one of those…I mean, does it get any better?
@simplyandreah @joanofalltrades @wrestlingaddict @madly59 @wastebasket and @carogonza
Keep watching those folks so you can learn more about their vacations! You can follow Sharnese @sharneselanier or @tweetthiscruise
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So, out goes a huge congratulations to all our winners and a big thank you to all our sponsors!
Unfortunately I am in the belt of folks in Alabama who have been without electricity since Sunday. I am at a local McD’s right now letting my kids play and using the wi-fi.
I am about to get as many winners as I can get so I can announce them and get you the prizes in the mail when I receive shipping addresses. I can always be reached at jareason at gmail dot com if you want to ask me something as my phone as email capabilities.
In the meantime, please hang on while I wait on some electricity at home…no electricity means no DSL modem and naturally the laptop batter wouldn’t have lasted this long anyway. My husband did hook me up to the car battery last night for a while but not long so I didn’t do much.
In the meantime, feel free to carry on and I’ll shoot you when I get back…
I know I spend a lot of time around here bashing these poor educators in my son’s school district. Let me say it now, the whole state of Alabama is not in the funk that we seem to be in here. With that, I want to introduce you to a service offered by Alabama Public Television to help teachers, homeschoolers and parents.
Those of you who homeschool may already be familiar with APTPLUS, our free online educational resource that provides thousands of multi-media assets that can help stimulate the learning of children all the way through high school.
I’m guessing that you are familiar with the "fun" of helping your children with their homework or answering questions like "why are penguins black on one side and white on the other?". My daughter is 14–going on 21–and comes up with some real doozies. Of course I always want to know the answer so she will think I’m a genius!
APTPLUS is as easy to access as Twitter. All you need is a username and password, which any teacher or parent can get at no cost from APT. (Just visit www.aptplus.org.)
Educators and many home-schoolers in the state are already familiar with this as 76% of the teachers in 90% Alabama public schools are registered for this service, which helps them engage the kids in their classes.
I invite you to visit www.aptplus.org and register for an account if you don’t already have one. Then try it out. See how many videos, articles, etc. that you get to help your children or satisfy your own questions. We have just started offering this service to parents and ask your help in getting the word out about this great service by writing about it in your blog. We want all Alabama parents to know about this free service. Your help would be greatly appreciated!
Go to Twitter By the Sea, go sign-up then come back and leave me your confirmation number and you get a $50 cabin credit. Don’t miss out!
This is how I feel right now, at 2 AM….
I’m attempting to make my sidebars pretty again and not so cluttered with ads, in the meantime…it’s 2 AM and….yea, I’m FAILING…
I’ve almost killed myself (brain wise – I didn’t break foot over it, but you know……
Here it is….go check out the feeds in each of the posts now….your one stop place to find All of Me, All Over the Web
You can read:
Other Internet Sites to Find Me
As well as catch all the blogs:
and even catch a Featured portion…as well as a post known as Headlines Today which will feature my Michelle Obama site as often as possible.
I’ve been eluding to some upcoming secrets. And, the time is now for me to unveil yet another one of those secrets. Below you will find 3 of my secrets…..I have new blogs…as if that is something new to you guys, but here they are anyway…
Jerri Ann Reason a magazine/newspaper site where my blogs are all collaborated so you can see where I”m writing each day and what I’m writing about, this site has only been up 3 or 4 days so it is a work in progress, bare with me please
Media Critiques Not your normal media coverage, this is my ideas of how there media went wrong…or sometimes where they went right…critiques don’t have to all be negative
Parenting Sites 411 where can you find the most comprehensive information about all the parenting sites online? You got it, right here
So, bare with me as I get them off the ground, ok? Give me a read, leave me some comments, lend some support, pat me on the back and say something besides, “you idiot”. Ok? Thanks
Then, there’s a blog that I’ve had for a few months but have neglected. I hope to start working on it more often too, go give it a read if you have time…and hey, comments make me feel good.
Wentworth Miller yes, he is the most beautiful man on TV right now and maybe all of Earth, I need to write about him more
Then, there’s my personal blog which is close to a year old but it has some great stuff going on over there and some of it is free stuff. Go check it out.
Mom~E~Centric my personal blog that contains endless stories of my children, my husband, my family, my pet peeve, etc – you name it, I’m good to go
Then, my 2 already successful 451 Press blogs…
TV Boyfriends this one is exactly as it sounds, it is about men who you see on TV who would make a good boyfriend or whose character would make a good boyfriend
Mom is Teaching this is site is about teaching our children, homeschooling them, online homeschools, public schools, as well as other educators like parents, ministers, fireman, policeman, etc
And the one 451 Press blog that I have had but am struggling to build, so please, come see me, help me make it work…
Mental and Emotional Health this blog is just as it seems, it is about mental and emotional stability and health
Then you have the two blogs that I use for celebrity gossip and advertising…that’s about it for these two…
Life in Reality a blog used primarily for celebrity news and advertisements, seriously thinking of changing the name of this blog to reflect the news of someone who is new in our eyes but we will probably see all over the net
A Crack ‘n Life this was my personal blog, I ended up password protecting that side of the blog and now it is dedicated to celebrity gossip and writing advertisements
And, finally, my two blogs that have flopped thus far….
Education Uncensored a blog dedicated to the locals in my area and our school systems (not building very quickly so ideas are welcome)
The Reason for the Madness the blog that will one day compile the stories that will make a book that I can publish
As you can see, that’s a lot of blogging. So, please, by all means, join me, email me your latest blog fodder in ay of the above categories. I promise you, it will just almost certainly make it on the blog with a link back to you. So, if you have fodder and a link, I have a fodder and a backline. Come on, let’s go, help a girl out!
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
Part Two:
If you have time, give this a read… I’m Still ‘splainin’ Part Two
Part Three:
The unveiling of Jerri Ann Reason (a work in progress so pardon the bugs, we are working it out)
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
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)
Baby Gear
Foster Parents Online
Mom Is Teaching
Mom's Soap Box
Nursing Your Kids
Parenting and Religion
Parenting Extremis
Parenting Our Children
Parenting Sites 411
Parenting Teens
Parenting The Adopted
Parenting Toddlers
Parenting Under the Stars
Reviewing Toys
Single Parenting
Step-family Talk
Sympathy Pain
Teacher Smackdown
The Attached Mother
