It’s Day #2 of our 12 Days of Must-Have Holiday Gifts at Mom Generations! Our video gift guide today will help you get the best gifts for the BABY on your list.
And the best part? There is a chance for you to WIN everything we feature!
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We’re giving away a family 4-pack for Video Games Live™ THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st at The Citi Performing Arts Center/Wang Theatre in Boston!
Video Games Live™ is an immersive concert event featuring music from the most popular video games of all time. Top orchestras & choirs perform along with exclusive video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, solo performers, electronic percussionists, live action and unique interactive segments to create an explosive entertainment experience! It is not just a concert, but a celebration of the entire video game industry that people of all ages will adore.
As part of the experience, special festival events surround the show for those who want to come early where guests will enjoy interactive game demos, a costume contest, prize give-a-ways, game competitions and the very popular meet-and-greet with top game composers and designers.
Even if you don’t win this family 4-pack, thanks to the One2One Network, you can get a 25% discount to the show throughthis link!
We just launched our 12 Days of Must-Have Holiday Gifts at Mom Generations! Our video gift guide will be 12 days of videos to help you get the best gifts for everyone on your list.
And the best part? There is a chance for you to WIN everything we feature!
Would you like to win everything you see in the video - a package worth over $250!?
There are 4 ways to enter… the more ways you enter, the most chances you have to win!
So here’s how:
1) Watch the video. We sing a song at one point, and ask you to tell us what the next line is. Email momgenerations@gmail.com with the answer (use the subject line Day #1 Answer).
2) Twitter about it! Tell your followers about our video gift guide and today’s contest, and send us the link to the tweet or send a screen shot to momgenerations@gmail.com (use the subject line Day #1 Tweet). You can use http://tinyurl.com/MGDay1 to link to today’s video).
3) Blog about it! Tell your readers about our video gift guide and today’s contest, and send us the link to the blog post to momgenerations@gmail.com (use the subject line Day #1 Post).
4) Put our button on your blog. Grab the button at the top of this post and put it on your blog sidebar. Then email us at momgenerations@gmail.com so we can check it out (use the subject line Video Guide Button).
Should I be alarmed that, while playing Star Wars today with my 3-year-old nephew, Alex, he decided that Grandma should be Princess Leia and I should be Chewbacca?
One thing I love about having a lot of siblings is that it yields a lot of nieces and nephews.
And together we all get to do really fun things.
Four years ago, in 2004, my parents decided to get tickets for all of us - all 15 of us, at that time - to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in NYC. At that time there were 5 grandchildren, all snapped in this photo with Grandma and Grandpa after the show…
We had so much fun that my parents decided to make it a tradition. And so we went in 2005 when there were 6 grandchildren… in 2006 (when there were still 6 grandchildren)… in 2007 when there were 7 grandchildren…
And this year, 2008, made it the 5th holiday season in a row that we have continued our little family tradition. There are 9 grandchildren now, snapped in this photo with Grandma and Grandpa before leaving for the show in NYC:
And as for the show itself? It is, in a word, spectacular.
The printer I had been using was old. Well, 3 years isn’t technically old, but it sure had started acting like a curmudgeony old man.
I try not to print things that don’t necessary need to be printed (you know, saving the environment and all that stuff), but I do like to print the many, many pictures I take of my dogs, nieces and nephews, so the promise of outstanding photo quality with the Epson Artisan 800 really piqued my interest.
Shortly after it arrived at my house, I asked Steve to set up the new printer for me, as an early birthday present. Now, I love this guy to pieces, but I feared that since he is not (I’m putting this very nicely) at allvery exactly technically inclined, it would turn into a disaster. However, to my surprise, he set it up all by himself, and when I went upstairs to check it out, I was instantly impressed.
Of course, I’m talking about the printer, not Steve’s ability to set it up (though given his previous attempts at putting stuff together, that was pretty impressive, too). Just the look of the Artison 800, especially next to our old curmudgeony printer, got me excited to use it.
It’s very sleek and stylish and beautiful, and yes a printer can be beautiful.
How so? Well, it is really cool looking… but beyond that, what it’s got going on inside is just as cool. With my old printer, I had to deal with it shaking and making this annoying squeaking noise whenever I printed a photo. Not to mention how long it took… all for pretty so-so quality. It really deterred me from printing my masterpieces (well, they are to me).
But the Artisan 800 is speedy. Like, snap-of-the-fingers speedy. And the quality? Amazing! Now, that is beautiful. No shaking and no squeaking noises is just the icing on the cake.
There are really so many awesome features in this printer, but since printing photos is what I was most excited about, and this printer has exceeded my expectations in that area, that’s what I’ve obviously spent the most time talking about here.
But others may find that they’re most excited about the Artisan 800’s copying, scanning or faxing capabilities (that is, after all, where it gets its “all-in-one” distinction). Others may love its Wi-Fi capabilities. That’s right, Wi-Fi and Ethernet networking is built in. The touch-screen had Steve most enthralled. And there are two paper trays so there’s no need to switch between regular and photo paper… it houses both at the same time. Plus, for all it offers, the price is right at $299.
I’m really excited to use the Artisan 800 for my holiday cards this year. I attempted to do this last year, but that curmudgeony old printer put the kibosh on that pretty quickly.
Now I’ll just need to stock up on some more frames for all the pictures I’ll be printing out like mad!
Looking for more? All the info you need about the Epson Artisan 800 is right here.
To some, that is young. To others, it is old (I know it was to me 10 years ago).
I’ve always tended to look at my age in comparison to others in my family. Not as a good or bad comparison, per se… just as kind of an interesting, anthropological (if you will) look at the differences and similarities.
When my Mom turned 28 years old, for example, she was just one month away from giving birth to me, her youngest child. She had had Audrey two and a half years prior. And she had married my Dad four years prior, gaining 2 young step-sons, my older brothers, in the process.
I remember being a little girl and asking my Mom how old she was when she had me. 28 seemed, quite frankly… old. And yet, here I am, less than 12 hours from turning that very age, and in some ways, I still feel like that little girl.
I simply cannot imagine myself, at this point in my life, having 3 children, about to give birth to my 4th.
Really, I can’t even imagine myself with one child.
I know that may seem odd, given that I’ll be celebrating my 4th wedding anniversary one month from tomorrow. I’m past the newlywed stage, it’s time to start procreating, right?
I’ve gotta be honest here… I’m just not ready. I obviously l-o-v-e my nieces and nephews beyond words. I love being with them, playing with them, talking with them, taking pictures of them, watching them grow… I am in no way, shape or form anti-kid. I’m just not ready for the responsibility of having my own yet.
You know what I did on Sunday morning? I slept until 9:30 AM. I didn’t have to escape my house to do this. I didn’t have to hire a babysitter. I just felt like not waking up until then… and I didn’t have to. I liked that feeling.
When I am done with work for the day, sometimes I go to the gym. Sometimes I grab dinner with friends. Sometimes I just go right home and watch television on my couch. I don’t have to tend to anyone’s schedule or needs but my own. I’m not ready to give that up just yet.
I’m happy with my role as “dog mom” at Mom Generations. Some people don’t take the whole “pet parent” thing seriously, but I do. My dogs make my world a better place. And giving them all the love in my heart brings me so much joy. I buy them birthday presents. I bring them to work with me. I dress them up at Halloween. I wouldn’t take a holiday photo without them in it. They’re not just my dogs. They are my best friends, my children, my life. I don’t care what anyone says, my love for them will never change… even when I do have human kids.
Yes, I do want kids eventually. There is no question about it. I clearly won’t be done having them by the time I’m 28, like my Mom, but that’s OK. Times have changed. I have a lot of friends my age who are just getting married now.
So let’s revisit this in 2 years, on the eve of me turning 30. We’ll see where I am on the having kids front. That’ll give me 2 more years of sleeping until 9:30 AM on Sunday mornings. Maybe by then I’ll be ready to give that up!?
Each day, Rescue Me features a dog in need of a forever home, in hopes of bringing awareness to pups that need help throughout the United States.
Please sign this petition to prevent George, a sweet, big, lovable Golden Retriever, from being forced out of his loving home because of his size (via Dogster Blog).
