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{Giveaway} The Samsung Rugby® Smart phone versus the Duffy Kid Test

April 23, 2012

The Samsung Rugby® Smart phone is dust-proof, water-proof, and supposedly kid-proof, but is it Duffy kid proof? We’ll find out… The Giveaway One lucky winner will win their very own AT&T Samsung Rugby® Smart phone (retail value $449.99) to put to the test. To ENTER… Leave a comment below about your own cell phone horror story. Have your […]

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{Review} Samsung Rugby® Smart aka “The Indestructible Phone”

April 22, 2012

Opening day for my son’s very first year of tee ball could not have been more cold and dreary. It had rained all night and it was threatening to rain all day. The actual game and parades had already been cancelled, but we still had to show up for the team photos. Every Little League […]

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Booking a Sitter Just Got Easier with SitterScout

March 27, 2012

Until we moved to Silicon Valley, I never had to leave my child with anyone other than family and/or “nearly family”. With my mom, dad, sisters, brother-in-law, and tons of long-time friends within driving distance, there was never any need to hire a “stranger” or a teenager to babysit for us. If something came up […]

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Life’s Unfair, But This is Ridiculous

March 12, 2012

Getting the kids out the door one morning last week, I took one look at my son’s school shoes– the ones with the giant holes and tears worn right through the leather- and decided it was worth braving the mall to get him new ones. I promised the kids that we would go right after […]

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{Giveaway} Quaker Oats Leap Day Winner

March 5, 2012

Thank you for everyone who commented, tweeted, and shared the Quaker Oats Leap Day Giveaway featured on this site. The contest is now closed. I drew the magic number… And the winner is… Rachel Veuve (@VeuveFamily). Yay! Congratulations! She will receive a $75 Visa Gift Card courtesy to put towards her own “Delightful Discovery” and the full product line of Quaker Oatmeal […]

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Leap Day 2012, and the Gracie Ran Away to the Dish

February 29, 2012

This Leap Day I was invited to make a “Delightful Discovery”… to use the “extra” twenty-four hours to try something new and out of the ordinary! With Leap Day coinciding with a typical old Wednesday with its early dismissals and karate lessons at 3 pm and dinner at 5pm, blah, blah, blah… that pretty much […]

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{Giveaway} Take a Leap and Win a $75 Visa gift card

February 26, 2012

So it’s late, late Sunday night and I am so very exhausted. Of course, I blame it entirely on another busy weekend heading into another hectic week– grocery shopping, laundry, errands, dinner, cleaning, backpacks and nap bedding packed and ready for school in the morning… and NOT on the fact that I am still up long after […]

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Last Minute Valentines Gift Ideas for Your Geek

February 10, 2012

Geeks can be exceptionally challenging to shop for… For the most over-zealous, there probably isn’t an item that they haven’t already discovered (or bought for themselves.) Add to that, the pressure of having to be extra thoughtful on Valentine’s Day and you have got quite the quandary! What to get? What to get? Just in the nick of […]

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