Saturday, I mentioned that I had a few annoucements to make.
Are you ready?
1. I have a berry-red raincoat to giveaway.
I went through the boys’ closets this past week. Though I give most of the boys’ clothes they have outgrown to one of my nephews to wear, I didn’t realize until after I had already dropped the clothes off that I had this raincoat, too. But instead of giving it to my SIL (who I don’t think wants it anyway), I thought I’d offer it to one lucky reader.
The raincoat is from Lands End. If you have any experience with Lands End, then you KNOW they sell quality stuff. Though both of my boys wore this coat, it’s still in great shape. It doesn’t have any rips, snags or tears, though it does seem to have one slight discoloration patch on the front (you can see it in the picture). There is a reflective strip on the back of the coat.
It’s a small, size 7/8. (It’s too small for MK, of course. But he was a good sport to model for me).
If you would like the coat, here’s what you need to do:
Leave a comment. I’ll leave this drawing open all week to give more readers a chance to put their name in the comment pot and I will draw a random name on Friday, August 22nd. If you would to subscribe to my feed, I will put another ticket for you in the comment pot – so you’ll have TWO chances to win the coat. (If you subscribe to my feed, please let me know in the comment section so I can add another ticket for you). You must be willing to give me an address so I can mail it to you and I’m sorry, but I’m only opening this up to U.S. addresses only – I simply don’t have the money to ship it overseas. I’m terribly sorry.
2. Coffee Chat writing project begins August 30th.
The writing prompts for this Coffee Chat are:
A. What do you remember MOST about being a kid?
B. Long before you met your significant other, what did you picture your future mate would be like?
Feel free to go ahead and write a blog entry on one, or both, writing prompts, if you wish, but you must wait until August 30th to begin submitting links. You can find out more info about the program here. Please, only submit links to CURRENT blog entries – nothing older than 30 days, please. This group writing project is a chance for you to write something fresh and fun for your blog.
Also, please feel free to copy and paste the code to the Coffee Chat buttons on your blogs, too.
I will be posting links to all the particpants on September 15th as well as drawing one winner from all the participants – he/she will win a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate!
3. Carnival of Family Life
If you don’t know what the Carnival of Family Life is, you read more about it here.
It will be my turn to host the Carnival next Monday, August 25th. So, if you would like to submit a family-related article to put in the carnival, please do so here.
You can see an example of a current carnival here at Frugal Homesteading Blog.
This is an EXCELLENT opportunity to relax after dropping the kids off at school; just grab a cup ‘o joe, kick your shoes off and read some GREAT articles about all things family related!
4. Results of the next photo contest poll.
It looks like school won the poll. It was a CLOSE race between school and autumn, but school won. So … take some school pictures and pick the very best for the October 4th photo contest.
In addition, I wanted to ask your opinion on something:
I put that poll on a static page of my blog. In essence, the static page is like a sticky post, only it’s not a post, it’s a page. Did you like how I set that up? My husband didn’t care for the set up. What about you? Does that bug you when you visit a blog and they have a static page so you’re forced to click over to current entries? In essence, it’s like a “splash” page on a website – you know, one of those annoying “skip intro” pages you have to click through to get to the meat of the website.
If you didn’t care for that setup, let me know. I don’t want to do anything that irritates readers. 🙂
By the way, if you would like to know how I set that static page up, you can find the instructions here.
Thanks for sticking it out and I hope you’ll consider participating in one, or all, of these fun activities!
Write From Karen 
I have a 7 years old…this is interesting. I love it…I have 5 kids are they’re slowly growing out of their childhood and they only seem to wear same clothes over and over, so they outgrow a few with tags still in them!
HAHA Terri! My mom did that! Of course, that was back in the ’70’s and was the style but now?
Heck, GD won’t even leave the house unless he’s wearing a plain shirt and jeans. I can’t imagine trying to make him go to school with a pant trim! HAHA!
Yikes! How did I miss the poll for the next contest. Bummer. Autumn would have been my vote.
As for that red rain coat… It’s not THAT small! LOL Just sew on some decorative trim like our Moms did to the bottom of our jeans to make them longer and make them last another year! LOL (I told my son I was going to do that to a pair of his pants and he just about had a heart attack!)
Thanks mom!
No, I didn’t like the static page!