Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular roars into San Jose

Some families travel to grandma's house over the holidays. Some travel to Disneyland. Some travel to Hawaii to surf, or to the mountains to ski.  Some travel abroad.  It's not a competition, but if it were, we'd be the total winners, because we traveled millions of years back in time!   On Christmas Day, we watched the Bay Area's...

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Holiday Card Trends for 2014 featuring Minted

This holiday season I noticed a few "trends" in the holiday cards that we received from family and friends: Holiday photo cards are more popular than ever  About 75% of all the cards we received had photos on them!  I'm so happy this continues to be the case because I love looking at photos. Lots of cards were from Minted I always look...

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Celebrate the holidays (and every day) with Marley Coffee

The best part about the holidays is getting together with family and friends!  In the midst of all the madness -- the shopping, the parties, the decorating -- it's important to take some time and relax in the company of the people you love.  I was so grateful to be able to connect with my blogging friends this holiday season over a good...

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Bonggamom's Friday Finds: list your giveaways here

Welcome to Bonggamom's Friday Finds! I'm glad so many of you are finding this to be a useful way to get more traffic to your giveaways. And as a person who loves entering giveaways, I have to admit it's a great, easy way to find out where all the best giveaways are. So feel free to leave links to your giveaways, everyone. And don't forget...

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Get a Paddington Travel Tag at Chuck E Cheese (plus 3 free tokens every time you flash your travel tag!)

Do you like to travel?  Make sure your first stop is Chuck E Cheese! They're giving away Paddington travel tags to kids who purchase a meal combo!  The tags are inspired by everyone's favorite bear, Paddington, and the new Paddington movie that's coming out in January of next year. I first discovered Paddington over 30 years ago, when...

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Holiday Giveaway: Pick Your Prize! Two Winners!

Everyone is so excited, because Christmas is almost here!   I've already received my present -- a new iPad!  We bought it over Thanksgiving... but I'm still hoping my husband adds a tiny surprise for Christmas morning -- even a candy bar will do!  I love presents and I love surprised and I'll bet I'm not alone. Are you hoping for...

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Meeting Joe Staley (and a P&G Giveaway for you!)

I partnered with P&G via Blue Chip communications on this post.  I received a prize pack for myself and one to give away. It's not every day that you get to meet a real-life NFL player.  Last week, SF Forty-Niners player Joe Staley was at select Lucky Supermarkets in the Bay Area to promote Procter & Gamble's new promotion with...

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Bonggamom's Friday Finds: list your giveaways here

Welcome to Bonggamom's Friday Finds! I'm glad so many of you are finding this to be a useful way to get more traffic to your giveaways. And as a person who loves entering giveaways, I have to admit it's a great, easy way to find out where all the best giveaways are. So feel free to leave links to your giveaways, everyone. And don't forget...

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Walk with Dinosaurs in a spectacular new show

When I was a kid, one of my favorite programs was Land of the Lost.  I know humans never walked with dinosaurs, but it was fun to pretend!  This holiday season, Bay Area families will have their dino dreams come true when Walking With Dinosaurs -- The Arena Spectacular arrives in the Bay Area. They'll be at San Jose's SAP Center, and my...

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Watch your holiday wish list get printed onto Santa's Canon PIXMA printer!

Just 8 days till Christmas!  Have you made your Christmas wish list yet?  Here's a fun way to do it -- the Canon North Pole PIXMA app!  Just head to Canon's Facebook page and click on the North Pole PIXMA tab (or go to https://www.northpolepixma.com/)  You can create your child's wish list (or yours!) by typing out...

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Proactiv+ Review

I participated in an Influencer Activation Program on behalf of Influence-Central for Proacitv+. I received samples of Proactiv+ to facilitate my review and a thank you item for participating. The Pea, at age 13, is just starting to experience the "joys" of acne breakouts.  I can commiserate, because I'm getting breakouts right alongside...

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