name your tune! (giveaway)

**CLOSED** **WINNER: random.org #4, congrats Lua! Winner has been emailed and has 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen. Thanks to all who entered and thanks again to Name Your Tune!**

When Ryan was about 5 months old, I wrote a post asking for suggestions on new toys. I felt like he was growing and developing so much that he needed MORE for his wondering and exploring little mind. The lovely Candace from Name Your Tune contacted me

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everybody likes DEALS! ((& giveaways!))

**CLOSED** **WINNER: random.org #11, congrats Julie! Winner has been emailed and has 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen. Thanks to all who entered and thanks again to Zulily!!**

I subscribe to a LOT of those daily emails that send out different deals and discounts. One of my favorites is Zulily… I’m sure you’ve heard of it! It has daily deals for moms, babies and kids.

I look forward to their emails because the stuff is always SO CUTE and at such

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Favor time? Pretty pretty please?

I am going to the BlogHer conference this year in NYC, but have not found a sponsor and could use all the help I can get. I just entered this contest and if I win I’ll get a free ticket and my hotel room free. AHHH!!! I wrote a story about the awesomest thing my family has done and all YOU lovely folks have to do is go vote for it!!! PLEASE!

Just go here: Bunchland’s BlogHer Contest, read my lovely (AWESOME) story, and click “vote for this entry” if you

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Mama’s Playlist: Taylor & King

**CLOSED** **WINNER: random.org #52, congrats Julie L! Winner has been emailed and has 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen. Thanks to all who entered!!**

James Taylor and Carole King recently released a CD/DVD from their historic 2007 reunion performance in LA: Live at the Troubadour. Who ISN’T a Taylor and King fan?!

This live 2-disc set has 15 tracks including the classics “It’s Too Late,” “Carolina In My Mind,” “Sweet Baby James,” “You’ve Got A Friend,” and lots more! Taylor and King are on

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Organic cookies :)

**CLOSED** **WINNER: random.org #36, congrats Allie!! Winner has been emailed. Thanks to all who entered and thanks again to Home Free!**

Sometimes the organic products are hard to find at the grocery store–like they’re hidden away in the corner or behind posts or in the last place you’d think to look. I wish they weren’t because then maybe more people would buy them… I definitely think they’re better for you and your kids. We try to stay away from GMOs (genetically modified organisms) as much as possible in this house. So

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more organic yumminess: snack bars!

**CLOSED** **WINNER: random.org #22, congrats Becca! Winner has been notified. Thanks to all who entered and thanks again to Wings of Nature!**

In our new lifestyle of eating organically, my husband and I had yet to find a good granola or snack bar. I was sent the Wings of Nature organic snack bars for review and love them. They have 3 kinds: cranberry crunch bar, almond raisin bar, and espresso coffee bar. I put those in order of my most favorite to my… lesser favorite. Because they are all really

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Bamboobies!

**CLOSED** **WINNER: random.org #4, congrats Sabrina! Winner has been emailed. Thanks to all who entered and thanks again to Bamboobies!**

I’m a breastfeeding mama and started out with disposable nursing pads. WOW, you go through those things like water! It was starting to get expensive and I was telling Steve every time he ran to Babies R Us that he needed to buy more pads. Ridiculous. So we bought some washable pads… the milk just ran right off of them and made a mess. They were only good for minor leaking–I

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