We Can Make a Difference on this Tax Day
Yes, it is Tax Day… but we can turn this day into a really big positive day for a wonderful Charity – Make a Wish. Let’s all take this day and help children with life-threatening medical conditions to bring hope, strength, and joy to their lives. These children go through so much fighting for their lives and what joy it brings on their faces to have a trip, a special toy, a playground and etc. to take their minds away from all the medical things they are going through.
How can you help? So glad you asked!
* Support the Make-A-Wish Foundation® online while saving on your favorite Betty Crocker® products through the Give $5, Get $5 promotion. Just visit StirringUpWishes.com today April 15th to donate $5 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help make children´s wishes come true and get $5 worth of downloadable Betty Crocker coupons.
* Simply purchase your favorite Betty Crocker® products this spring. For every specially marked package purchased, Betty Crocker will donate 10¢ to the Make-A-Wish Foundation®, with a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000 and a maximum donation of $500,000.
Betty Crocker has made a three-year, $250,000 annual commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation which, with your support, could be doubled in 2010 to $500,000. Will you help today please? Skip that lunch take-out today or that special coffee and give just $5.00 to make a difference on this Tax Day.
In addition to the Give $5 and Take $5, Blog Spark and Betty Crocker is making a $25 donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation on my behalf. They would also like to make a $25 donation on one of my reader’s behalf as well and offer the above prize pack. How cool is that? Go ahead and leave a comment below about the Make A Wish foundation such as if someone in your life as experienced a Make A Wish or just a good through about the program itself. You can read stories on the Stirring Up Wishes site. They are so inspiring for sure. I will pick a random winner using random.org tomorrow.
Will you please help? Thank you so much. We can all make a difference!
Disclosure: The prize pack and the donation were all provided by Blog Spark and Betty Crocker
Congratulations to Nan… comment number 5. You are our winner.
Disney Social Media Moms Celebration Day 2
This is a conference that I truly walked away feeling so uplifted and inspired. Day 2 definitely helped in that inspiration.
We started out the day at Epcot at the Volunteer Celebration.
Disney brought in families from all over to congratulate them and express their many thanks for all the volunteer hours they were able to put in for our country. You see Disney put on an awesome event called Give A Day Get A Disney Day.
From Disney’s site “The overwhelming support we received for the “Give a Day. Get a Disney Day.” program has helped us reach our goal of inspiring one million people to volunteer a day of service to their communities.”
For Disney to take the time to so appreciation to all these families is just so inspirational and just what our great Country needs. I was so happy to be involved. Our own families were able to volunteer right there on Disney Properties during this Day 2. Seeing all the families working together just big a big huge smile on my face.
During the event, a special guest arrived to showcase the biggest Can Food Drive. I have two videos to display this event.
After the volunteer events, we headed into the Epcot world showcase. This was neat as the girls had not been to Epcot since they were 2 years old and 8 months. We enjoyed walking through all the countries and seeing all the culture changes that each country would have. We stopped and danced, visited characters, dined on different foods and L’s favorite spotted out all the animals that we could.
Fast forward to the evening, and we were invited to an all exclusive dance party that included one of the Jonas Brothers. M was so excited and stayed right there at the stage watching every minute while Mommy and L dined on all the different foods that were served to us.
I do have a funny story… A cameraman came right up to us and I didn’t realize he wanted to video us and I was looking all around me trying to figure out who he was going to video… then DUH it was us. L gave him one of her infamous looks that said get that camera out of my face while mommy is over here acting clueless that he wanted to actually video us. I laughed so hard after the cameraman left…just another clueless moment for Jen right? 
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Disney really put on a spectacular show/concert for us and we were all over the moon heading back to the Polynesian that night.
Up next Day 3 of the wonderful conference with some superb guest speakers. Stay tuned for the post coming up
Cheerios 100,000 Book Giveaway!
We are a huge reading family. Each night we take time to sit down for family time and M reads her chapter book to us and then I will read to the girls. I just love having this time each night with the girls. Also, the girls love books. They are always asking for new books and so delighted when they see new books come in.
Cheerios has teamed up with Jon Scieszka and First Book to distribute 100,000 new books to kids in need across the country. Through the 100,000 Book Giveaway, the five states receiving the highest number of votes will each receive 20,000 new books for local kids – and we need your help to decide where the books should be donated!
By answering the trivia questions featured in this challenge, you can help select the states that will receive new books for local kids. For every trivia question you answer correctly now through August 31st, 2010, you can cast one vote for the state you want to receive new books. The more questions you answer correctly, the more votes you cast!
We take so much for advantage and don’t realize how a simple book is wanted so bad by children that just cannot afford them in their household and county school system. We are very fortunate here in our school system for the Pre-K division. Each week a new set of books is sent home in a reading bag for myself to read to L. We were so thrilled when this program started for the first time this year, but I never realized till Cheerios brought to my attention how this is wanted so badly by other states and school systems!
Please take a moment and go to the site and answer some of the trivia questions to cast your votes to where the books should be sent.
Cheerios sent to us through My Blog Spark a gift pack.
All the books shown above were included and also a box of the Frosty Cheerios. They included a Barnes and Noble gift card as well. Each book was the perfect shape to fit into travel bags for the girls and just the right length. Each night we would read one, and the girls just loved sitting there listening then asking questions at the end. No book is the same, so I really recommend at the end of each book you read to your child, to let them ask questions to see how much of the book they actually do comprehend!
Cheerios through My Blog Spark would like to offer one of my reader’s this same gift pack. All you need to do is:
1. Leave a comment about your reading routine with your family.
Then to receive extra entries:
1. Tweet this contest
2. Facebook this contest
3. Subscribe to our feed
4. Blog about this contest
Leave an extra comment for each entry that you do!
I will close this contest on Dec. 19th at 11:59pm EST.
Full Disclosure: I did receive the Cheerios, prize pack, information, and giveaway from Cheerios through MyBlogSpark.
No tags for this post.Lemonade Stand That Keeps On Giving
I know we are all struggling in this economy one way or another, but (there is always a but right?) when I can help with just $1.00, you can bet I will be all over that. So what am I talking about?
Kelly Ripa with Kelly Confidential, has teamed up with Electrolux Appliances to get cool for a cause this summer. They are letting you set-up virtual lemonade stands to help with the fight against Ovarian Cancer. For every stand opened, Electrolux will donate $1 to OCRF* to help fund research to find a cure. Plus, you can sell virtual glasses of lemonade to help raise even more funds for this important cause. Could you imagine if everyone donated $1.00 in America, just $1.00, how far we could help in the fight to find a cure for Ovarian Cancer. Yes, I did set -up my own lemonade stand as well. So sit back, relax, and put your feet up so you can enjoy an ice cold lemonade in Jen’s Lemonade Stand.
To sweeten the deal too, when you open up your own Lemonade Stand, you are entered to win your very own French Door Refrigerator from Electrolux. Yes, the one that Kelly is standing at up above. So stop what you are doing right now, and go open up your very own Lemonade Stand. Let’s all bond together and it will put us one step closer to finding a cure!
No tags for this post.Help Sponsor Me In The March of Dimes
Everyone that helps sponsor me in the walk will be entered in a drawing to win a $25.00 gift certificate of their choice to their favorite restaurant.
Click Play below on the button to watch the cute video!
Click here to help me reach my goal!
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