Tag: charity
Mid Atlantic HopeCuts
It’s time for the City of Hope sixteenth annual Mid-Atlantic HopeCuts, presented by over 60 regional salons across Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virgina and D.C. The Participating salons will donate their time and talent to offer consumers drastic discounts on hair cuts and other salon services including coloring, manicures and pedicures, skin care and makeup [...]
Children’s Miracle Network and SheKnows.com Encourage Readers to Help Raise $1 Million for Sick and Injured Kids in May
Children’s Miracle Network and SheKnows.com Encourage Readers to Help Raise $1 Million for Sick and Injured Kids in May SheKnows.com Launches “Give a Miracle, Win Something Magical” Giveaway, Also Introduces New Children’s Health Site SALT LAKE CITY—May 3, 2010—Children’s Miracle Network, and SheKnows.com, one of the largest and fastest-growing online women’s destinations in the world, [...]
Support Bloggers Give
Earlier this week, while traveling through some of the blogs I regularly read I noticed a cause named Bloggers Give mentioned. I liked what I read and wanted to learn more about how to help so I added it to my to-do list. Before I had a chance to learn more I was contacted directly [...]
How soon is too soon?
The day after Christmas means more than new things. It also means cleaning up and finding places to put the new things. Growing up my Dad always liked us to keep our Christmas gifts under the tree for a good week or so. We were never allowed to put our new things right away. I’m [...]
Home Is Calling – a request for help and a giveaway
I am a big believer in the importance of home and family. Pillsbury’s new Home Is Calling campaign brings to mind the family and home cooked meals that so many of us look forward to during the holidays. Sadly, not all people are fortunate enough to have these things to look forward to. Pillsbury is [...]
Join the NJ Moms Donors Choose.Org Blogger Challenge
With hubby out of work now for three weeks, the list of things we need money for is growing longer. Almost daily I look at the growing list and face the sad realization that we simply don’t have enough money for everything. Sadly, this is also the case with our schools. The DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge [...]
Karito Kids review and giveaway
I don’t have girls but I do have two nieces and another one due any time now, so I do check out girls’ toys and clothes. Thanks to Beth at RoleMommy I got a chance to check out a new line of dolls called the Karito Kids. Let me tell you, these dolls left an [...]
The things we do for our children
This week the Parent Bloggers Network asked people to write any stories of extreme measures used to get a toy. I always try and get my kids the toys they want or the toys I think they’ll want and enjoy. I’ve never really done anything extreme to get a toy for my child, unless you [...]
Teenager taking a special plunge
I had tears in my eyes when I read this, so I’m sending it over to Skeet for Share Some Good Stuff. Don’t worry, they were good tears. As mentioned on my Home and Vacation blog a while back, there are annual winter ocean plunges in New Jersey that help raise much needed funds for [...]
Give thought on what to do with old cars.
I used to have a 1988 Mustang convertible. A while after I had my first son I took it off the road, with thoughts of using it down the road. It needed some work and we didn’t have the money, and the longer it sat out in the side yard the worse it got. So [...]
