September 30th, 2008

Handbag Contest (Handbag Planet)

Ok, I love, love, love new handbags – so I was more than happy to sign up for a chance to win one!  Go on over to Handbag Planet yourself and enter – they are giving away 24 handbags in celebration of their upcoming launch!

September 26th, 2008

Christmas Gift Planning

As I seem to keep being reminded lately – Christmas is coming!  In fact it’s less than 3 months away now and I have to admit I’ve really struggled in the past to have my shopping done early.  This year I am working hard on getting my shopping done by the end of November and in fact I even have one gift purchased already!!  I was more extravagant than usual but what can I say – it’s been a crazy year in our house with baby #3 arriving a month before Christmas last year and I really wanted to thank my husband for how amazing he’s been.  Not to mention how supportive he’s being of me starting my virtual assistance business.  And bootstrapping or now there are several expenses associated with starting my business but he has faith in me and encourages me to attain my goals.  Anyway, that’s why I’m buying him an iPod touch!  He’ll be so excited!!!

That doesn’t actually leave me many people to shop for, we don’t have a huge group we exchange gifts with.  All the boys of course, my best friend, my grandmother, all the nieces and my mother-in-law.  The nieces are easy – 5 are tween/teen girls and get gift cards every year.  They love to do the shopping themselves!  Same for mother-in-law.  The other 2 nieces are 4 year old girls and I buy them pretty pink clothes to satisfy that urge since I usually only shop for boy clothes!

My boys aren’t too hard – they happily tell me every day what they want after all!  Bakugan is big on the list this year.  I’ll probably start buying their stuff asap, and I’m hoping to order a lot of it online, just cause it’s easier to hide from them that way.  I’m keeping track of some of my ideas (ok and a list of things I want too!) on Wishpot – it’s very handy!  I’m Laurie_Momof3 there if you want to friend me! Wishpot is a great place to get ideas for gifts for your family or any events you are attending!

That leaves best friend and my grandma.  Neither is easy to shop for – they have most things they need and want already!  But I just read this great post over on Personal Finance Advice about gift buying and it gave me some great ideas!!  My friend will have a new home soon so I might put together some kind of gift basket for that for her.  And my grandmother might appreciate a gift basket of teas and coffees and treats.  If I start buying little items to go into both now then I’ll be all ready come December!

Hmmmmmm – I think I’ll go shopping today and get started!!

September 25th, 2008

Skin Care Do’s

If you, like me, are a 30 Something mom then check out my post this week on Type A Mom!  I’ve got some suggestions for how we should be treating our skin as we age.  And check back here or at Type A Mom soon because I’m doing a follow up article on some great home treatments for the skin!