My Sumthin' Is...........

A GIVE-A-WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yep!! That's what it is!!

I was chosen to try out these really cool bottles of water called Fruit 2 O Essentials. These not only taste delicious, but they are so healthy for you!!!

Their taste is cool and refreshing with an added bonus of zero calories and zero sugar!! Talk about Mom-friendly!!!...for us and the kiddos!!!




When our box arrived, I opened it to find many different varieties of water. We enjoyed Strawberry/Kiwi, Peach Mango, Blueberry Pomegranate, Cranberry Raspberry (2), Citrus and Cherry Acai. (You'll notice in the pic that there aren't as many bottles showing as I listed...uhh....the kiddos got to them before I could get the pic.........sorry...:o) )

DS couldn't wait for them to get cold, so he grabbed the Strawberry/Kiwi, opened it and poured it over ice. YUMM!!!!!!!!

We have not been disappointed. Each flavor is so distinct but I have to say that my favorite has been the Cranberry/Raspberry.

So..for the give-a-way part....

Sunny Delight Beverage Co., the distributors for Fruit 2 O Essentials, will send to the winner of my give-a-way, a box of these delicious bottled waters just like I received!!

Included are several pages of nutrition information, how to become a Fruit 2 O fan on Facebook, information on their partnership with the American Diabetes Association, a comparison sheet on the calories, carbs and sugars of other drinks compared to Fruit 2 O and information on how to lose 10 pounds in 2010.

This is an awesome opportunity to try, free of charge, tasty, healthy bottled waters that will spark that desire to not just lose weight, but make health conscious choices for you and your family!

The way to enter??....Just leave a comment! The contest will run today through Friday, April 23, 2010, midnight, CST. I will have one of my beautiful assistants, aka DH, DD or DS, draw the winner on Saturday and I will post the winner on Saturday as well.

You can up your chances of winning by commenting each day, but only one comment per day will be counted, so you will have up to 5 chances of winning.

Now.....start leaving those comments!!!!!

Studying..Created to be His Help Meet

We are studying the book by Debi Pearl, Created to be His Help Meet. Through our study of this book, we are going to learn what it means to be a help meet and actually living the role that God created us as women to fill. I've read this book once before and applied many of the things that Mrs. Pearl spoke of, and it has transformed an already good marriage into nothing short of awesome!! I encourage you to purchase this book and follow along or at the very least, check out the Pearl's website at http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/ Any text taken directly from Mrs. Pearl's book will be highlighted in blue.

I realize that in studying Created to be His Help Meet at the rate of one chapter per week, we will be doing this study for approximately 24 weeks. We could go at this at a much faster rate, but I believe that if we truly want to change and fill our God given rolls as help meet to our husbands, then we need to take things slower and put into practice what we are learning. I hope you agree and stay the course with me as we become better help meets together.

Part 1: The Help Meet

Chapter 13: The Great Mystery (Part two)

Do you find yourself often picking out the faults in your man and focusing on them? Be honest. Sometimes..yes, I do. It's so easy with our husbands and even with our children to look at the things they did that don't please you rather than the things they did that do please you. Why do you think that is? Maybe we've set our standards impossibly high, or maybe we require more of others than we do of ourselves. Whatever the reason, I believe the cycle of focusing on the negative can be broken.

It begins, again, with a change in our thought process. How would we feel if our husbands were constantly picking at the faults in us?

"Honey, the bread is delicious..but you got the top a little too brown."

"Sweetie, I can't believe how you pulled this party together on such short notice, but you forgot to sit the sugar out by the coffee pot."

"Baby, you do such a good job keeping the laundry done, but I really wanted to wear the brown pants that I wore day before yesterday. I really wish you would pay better attention!"

I don't know about you, but with those few statements, a fuse would be lit under me that would quickly ignite into a huge explosion!!! Yet, I'm afraid that is what many husbands listen to on a daily basis.

It's time to realize that a good marriage means looking past the faults of the one we love and quit trying to change him. We have to learn and live under the authority that God has placed us as wives in. That doesn't mean that a man who is lazy and unwilling to support his family deserves the blessings of a godly wife, he is just receiving the overflow of a wife willing to submit to what God has called her to. Remind yourselves, ladies, that we are not doing this study to 'fix' our husbands, we are doing this to learn to be godly help meets.

In reality, most men love their wives and children. They take pride in them and will do everything in their power to provide for them. They want women they can trust with their secrets. Women who will keep their homes clean and ready for his buddies to drop by at a moments notice. They want a woman who will keep their secrets, their dreams and who will encourage them instead of nag. Men who have a woman like that at home, will rarely be looking at 'the grass on the other side of the fence'.

Mrs. Pearl encourages this week to:

1. Show our husbands noticeable respect at least three times a day.

2. Look up the word reverence in the Bible. Mrs. Pearl says that eight times reverence has to do with men. Reading this will help us understand from God's Word what God requires of us.

Have a wonderful week watching the change in your man as you openly show him respect and admiration!!

Next week: Kings and Kingdoms

Blogoversary Give-a-Way!!

Well today's the day!! I finally have it all together to do my Blogoversary give-a-way!! :o)

I thought and prayed about what I wanted to do and here's where I ended up:

I love the seasons and try to decorate my house according to the seasons. I found an adorable little platter that looks like a large autumn leaf. It's actually for a cheese ball and comes with a knife for spreading. I also have 4 books that I would like to give away that have spoken to and encouraged my heart over the last year or so. Here are the titles and authors:

Certain Peace in Uncertain Times; Shirley Dobson
You're Late Again, Lord; Karon Phillips Goodman
God is in the Small Stuff and it all matters; Bruce & Stan
Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart (Daily devotional from praise & worship songs)



My hope is that whoever wins this little gift basket will enjoy these books and the new autumn season as much as I did and do.

Here's where your part comes in:
The give-a-way begins today and runs through Friday the 18th with the winner being announced next Monday the 21st.

To be entered, just leave a comment. Now, if you leave a comment each day, Monday thru Friday, you can have up to five chances to win!! It's that simple.

Thanks for being here with me and for me over the last year. Thank you those that follow my blog, get my post through feeds and e-mails, e-mail me privately and just pop in now and then to say hi!!!

Don't Forget!!!

I'm kind of surprised....Couldn't anyone use some free laundry detergent???

I've only had 2 respond to getting some free laundry detergent.

I'm giving away 5 coupons for free laundry detergent...this will fit anyone's budget Im sure!!

Want to know how to get this free detergent??..click here!!

Got a Give-a-Way Goin' On!!!

I love a good give-a-way, don't you?? And what makes a give-a-way even better, is when it's for something I use everyday...something I would pay for.....unless....I could get it for free!!!!

I was chosen to try a bottle of Sun Laundry Detergent. Now, I was very happy to get this bottle of detergent to try for free, but...I must confess....I already use Sun Laundry Detergent. So, getting this bottle to try was just perfect for me!!!

It does a great job cleaning our laundry. It comes in a variety of scents (which I really love!!) and it's incredibly affordable (which our budget really loves!!).

Now, here's where it gets really good......

Along with my free bottle of detergent, I was also given 5 coupons for a free bottle of Sun Laundry Detergent! So, you know what that means...

Five of my readers will get a coupon for a free bottle of this detergent to try as well!!!!!

Think about it...we all do laundry and if you're like me..you do several loads a day! Laundry detergent is something we use a lot of.

If you're not familiar with Sun Laundry detergent, then this would be a great chance to try a very good, very affordable product for free.

Here's all you have to do......

Leave me a comment telling me why you'd love to win and try this product and (just because I'm curious if anyone does more loads of laundry a week than I do) share about how many loads of laundry you do in a week.

This will be open until midnight, June 21 and I'll announce the winners first thing Monday morning, the 22nd.

Can't wait to hear from everyone!!!!

A Beautiful Day, KFC and a Request!

Happy Monday friends!!!....well...Happy Monday afternoon!!

It has been a beautiful day here in the deep south!

I've got laundry on the lines, the windows are wide open and the birds are singing!!...loudly!

I've just been busy today catching up on all of those things that tend to get pushed to the side during the weekend. Got some much needed mopping done as well. I hate mopping...I think it'd be great if we just had black floors throughout the house. As long as I didn't drop anything white, we'd be in good shape, right?? Maybe not.....

Just a little side note here...Don't forget to go by KFC and get your free piece of grilled chicken. They are giving away one free piece today only. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around grilled Kentucky Fried Chicken. I'm pretty sold on the fried stuff. I'm not convinced that they can beat that, but we'll see.

I'm not going out today so I was a little disappointed that I wouldn't get to try it for free. Then yesterday I'm looking through the Sunday paper and God blesses with a coupon for a free piece of grilled chicken good through May 7th. Woo Hoo!! I'll be out during that time frame so I get to try it for free as well! Isn't it great to know that God even blesses in grilled chicken??!!

I have a request:

DD is searching for blogs whose ideas center on purity and whose writers goals are to become (eventually) a wife and homeschooling SAHM. She is looking for like-minded young women...age range approximate 16-25....whose goal is to be a godly wife and mom. (I think her exact words were..."You're great Mom, but I want to read blogs that aren't from old women." ?????!!!!!!!!!!!??????? (Where did she get the idea I was old??????) :o()

Anyway...I still love her despite the bruises.....no....seriously, she's fine...really...she's great....honestly....:o)

So, if you sweet friends of mine could send her some great blogs to check out so she won't feel all alone as a young woman wanting to do the Biblical thing I would greatly appreciate it!!!

Now, it's time to sit on the porch and curl up with a good book!!

Free Suave!!!

Today ONLY click here to get a coupon for a free bottle of Suave! You have to register and in 2-4 weeks you should get your coupon.

Free is always best!!!

Blessings......

Free Arby's!!

Click "here" to get a free Regular Roast Beef sandwich from Arby's with any purchase.

My family LOVES Arby's and takes full advantage of coupons in order to go.

Hurry though!! This coupon is only good through this Sunday, December 14.

Blessings....

Check Out Vocalpoint

If you haven't joined Vocalpoint yet, head on over and do that. I love being a part of this group!! I joined over a year ago and have received so many free samples from them, not to mention the awesome coupons they send for you and for you to share with friends.

I received a Kashi Blackberry Graham cereal bar today. Now, I'm not terribly fond of Kashi products and so I wasn't terribly thrilled when I saw this sample in my mailbox. But...

I tried this bar and it was nothing short of absolutely delicious!! I gobbled this thing up and found myself wishing I had more in the cabinet. I also got 5, $2 off coupons for a box of these bars!! Now, I'm not sure what they cost in the stores, but a $2 coupon is a good thing in my humble opinion. These bars would be perfect to grab on the way out the door when you don't have time for a sit down meal.

No...I'm not getting anything for plugging these bars or Vocalpoint, just wanting to share yet another great find with my friends.

You can sign up for Vocalpoint "here" .

Blessings....

Freebie and Black Friday

I don't know about you, but I love getting samples in the mail! As a matter of fact, I love getting mail! I'm one of those weird people who love to get their mail as soon as the mail person has run and since I've been getting so many freebies in the mail, it makes it even sweeter!

Check out www.lacoste-parfums.com click on the free sample tab and get your own freebie of this perfume!


Just out of curiosity, how many of you are going to get up in the wee hours of the morning and hit the Black Friday sales??

I have only done that once or twice and frankly I wasn't terribly impressed. For the minimal amount of things I would buy anyway, fighting a crowd of thousands and encountering many angry--by the way, I know why they're angry....I would be vicious if I was out and about by 4am too!!...--got-to-have-that, focused people, it's just not worth it. Nope. Think I'll stay snuggled in the bed with dear hubby, wake up whenever, and work on just enjoying the day with my family!

Blessings....

Give-a-Way Reminder!!

Only 2 days left on my HP Photosmart gift card give-a-way!

I have 4 gift cards for 10 free prints at any HP Photosmart Express station that I will be giving away Saturday, November 15. Deadline to enter is midnight November 14, CST.

Since I only have 1 entry, 3 other people have an excellent chance of winning!!!

Blessings......

Try New Products!

Wanted to send along another website that you might find fun!

I love to get free stuff in the mail and I also love to review products. In the past, I've blogged about a few products that I've received and have enjoyed very much.

My dear hubby told me about this site and I just signed up! I haven't had the chance to try out any products yet, but I trust the name so...

http://www.kraftfirsttaste.com/

Just go to this site and sign up. It says that you will be able to try free products and get valuable coupons, which as we all know, I love!!!!

My hope for this site, is to share with you and learn from you, how we can all live a simpler life and be a better steward of the finances God has entrusted to us. I'm sure if we can all master this, the stress level in our lives would go way down and as a bonus..think of all the people we can help in the process!!!

Blessings.....

Awesome Coupon!!!

I've shared before how I love candles and just about anything that makes my house smell good. I'm sure that would be my one consistent splurge. I do, however, always use coupons or buy my "smell goods" when they are half off. I never pay full price.

I wanted to make everyone aware of an awesome coupon that Glade has put out.

Go to http://www.gladepromotion.com/ and fill out the form. Once you submit that form, you can download and print a coupon for buy one, get one free Glade Scented Oil candle holder.

I use these in my own home, and they are really great!! The smell just seems to go throughout my entire house and lasts for quite some time.

With the Christmas season coming up, these would also make great gifts for that Sunday school teacher or friend that you just don't know what to buy for.
Don't let this great offer pass you by!!

Blessings......

Just a Reminder....

Just a reminder...you have until midnight tonight to enter for the Build a Bear gift card! I will be announcing the winner in the morning and sending that person an e-mail.
Thanks so much!!

Blessings....

An HP Give-a-Way!

I'm not aware of any HP Photosmart Express stations in my area, but I have used stations similar to this and love them! They are very convenient, and in my busy world, I'm all about convenience!

While I've never had the opportunity to use a HP Photosmart Express station, I have used HP products and have been very satisfied. I have no doubt that the same great quality I've experienced from other HP products, remains true for these Photosmart stations.

If you have one of these in your area, I would encourage you to check them out and in order to help you along in that process...

I've got another great Give-a-Way going on!!!

I have 4 gift cards to give away to 4 blessed readers! Each card is for 10 free HP prints at one of the HP Photosmart Express stations.

You have until November 14 to enter this give-a-way. Just leave me a comment along with your e-mail address so I can get in touch with you should you win!
I look forward to hearing from each of you!!

Blessings.....

Taco Bell Freebie

Sorry I'm getting this out quite last minute but word is out that Taco Bell is offering a free taco to every customer between 2 and 6 pm today. Can't beat a free supper!!

As with any offer, you may want to call your local store and see if they are participating in that promotion.

Blessings....

My First Give-a-Way!!!

I am SO excited to be able to share with you what an awesome gift I got to preview. What makes this more exciting for me, is that in getting to preview this gift, I get to give away something to my readers!!

I was blessed to get to preview a Build a Bear!! I opened my box and squealed (yes, at 44 years old it's still okay to squeal over a stuffed animal!!) at the cutest, cuddliest Koala bear I'd ever seen! This bear was gray and white with the cutest black nose and eyes! He was wearing a Build a Bear t-shirt and I gave him an immediate hug!! My son, who by the way has his first girlfriend, begged me to let him have it for his girlfriend and I looked him square in the eyes and said, "NO!" (Sorry Ashley....) He came with a birth certificate which allows me to register him (I named him Kirby by the way) in Build a Bearville and there you can play neat games and lots of fun stuff.

Any of you that have read my blog know that I try to give ideas and encouragment on how to live a simpler, more frugal lifestyle and how to be the wife Christ has called us to be and so, being wise with our spending is one of the things I focus on. Here's where my give-a-way comes in.....

I have a $10 gift card for Build a Bear that one of my readers will get to spend!!! (Told you I'm excited!!) And yes...you can buy a Build a Bear for $10!!! I got on their website at www.buildabear.com and found several of the cutest animals for $10 and with Christmas just around the corner...(see where this is going??)...you can get a great Christmas gift for that special little (or 40something) someone in your life!!!

How can you get this gift card?? Just leave me a comment with your e-mail address so that I can notify you if you're the winner.

I will close this give-a-way on Friday, October 31 and announce the winner on November 1st.

Kirby and I will be anxiously waiting on you!!!

Blessings.....

It's Free!! It's Free!!

I am SO excited!!!

Starting next week I have some great freebies to offer to some of my readers!! This is my first chance to give away something through my blog and I am so happy to have this opportunity!!

Keep checking back so you won't miss an opportunity to win!!!

Blessings....