Real World Mom

My dear friend Heather over at Singing With My Heart is doing something incredible for the month of October!  As you may know, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  It is also National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Heather decided she wanted to help raise much needed funds for these causes, so she came up with a brilliant idea!  Here is what she is doing:

For every comment I receive in my blog, starting tonight, and all through the month of October, on any entry, I will donate .25, up to $250. For every person that writes a post about this, and links to it? Another .25 thrown into the pot. If you tweet this? .5 added. At the end of the month, I will tally the comments, the entries, and the tweets, and I will split the money in half and donate to each of the two charities that I have chosen. The person who comments in my blog the most, out of the entire month, will get a $25 gift card to Amazon.com.

Please head over to Heather’s blog and contribute a comment. Not only will you be helping to raise money for two important causes, you’ll find some great reading!

While I’m sad to see summer come to an end, I am very excited about starting school on Wednesday!

I’ve got everything ready to go, from my financial aid (thank goodness!) to my notebooks and pens.

Nervous doesn’t accurately explain what I feel. I know once I’m there that I’ll be fine. I just have to stay calm enough to reach that point!

The kids are not as optimistic as I am about going back to school. (Although I think “B” is more excited than she is willing to admit.)

While we’re on the subject of back to school, I was recently made aware of The Community FoodBank of New Jersey’s BackPack Program. There are many children that rely on the free and reduced lunch programs at school, but do not have enough food to eat at home on the weekends. The BackPack Program provides backpacks full of food to those children who have the potential to go hungry over the weekend. To make a donation to this important cause, visit their website or donation page.

I wish everyone a safe and smooth transition into their school days!

From the front page of A Whole Lot of Nothing, the story of a fellow blogging mama who could use our help! Read on and pitch in if you can!

“In case you live under a rock or are new to blogging, let me introduce you to Lotus, better known as Sarcastic Mom. She’s is well-loved around the “secret society” of mama bloggers and non-mama bloggers. Among her three blogs (that we know of) is her main blog, Sarcastic Mom, where she ever-so-sarcastically tells all of us about her son, her Mexican (dog), her back fat, and her life in general. For MANY bloggers, she is a daily must-read.

In recent months, Lotus has opened up her house to all of her readers and told us all about her trials and tribulations with her kind and generous evil landlord. Basically, she and her family are now living in a mold-infested house and need to get out. But, their LAN-LOR (do you hear Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat, or am I hearing voices again?) won’t let them out or take action to rectify the situation that is making her family sick.

As Lotus’s loyal stalkers readers, I have teamed up with Dawn at KaiserAlex and Victoria at VDog and Little Man to raise some cash-ola for Ms. Lotus.

We’re not asking for tons o’cash, we’re just asking for a bit of help for Lotus and her family on finding a new house. There are two ways you can contribute to the House of Lotus:

1: Hope From Shopping – Every Mama Blogger likes to get some, I mean, something in return for giving something. I am donating 25% of the price of each plush animal or toy and each pacifier purchased on my website, Good for the Kids, to the HoF’oSho Fund from purchases made between Wednesday, March 12, & Sunday, March 30.

What to do:
*Go to Good for the Kids and purchase ANY plush stuffed animal or toy and/or pacifier product. If it’s stuffed or if you can suck on it, it counts (bottles and cups not valid).
*To have your donation counted, please enter this code ~ lotusrocks ~ into the Discount Coupon Code box upon checkout.
*Leave your blog or web address in the comments section of the order, and I will post your info on our update post and {cyber} pat you on your back.
***25% of the product cost for any plush animal or toy and/or pacifier will be given straight to the House of Lotus.

2: Change for Change – Collect the change from around your house and your toddlers mouth and change it into a gift card. At Coinstar machines around the country, you can turn in your change (for free) into a gift card good for tons of places Lotus can purchase some new household items to replace the moldy ones. Please leave a comment if you are going to be sending a gift card (no cash or checks please), and I will email you the address to send the gift cards. Be sure to include your blog or web address with the card, and I will post your info on our update post and {cyber} kiss you on your cheek.

3: Post a Banner and Blog – Spread the love, and post a banner on your site or write a post encouraging others to support a rockin’ mama.”

Link URL:

http://awholelotofnothing.net/?p=241

Image URL:

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x141/goodforthekids/Lotus-HoFoSho-Rack-Banner-1-1.jpg

Link URL:

http://awholelotofnothing.net/?p=241

Image URL:

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x141/goodforthekids/Lotus-HoFoSho-Rack-Banner-1-1.jpg

As a former bank teller, this one is near and dear to my heart. “Oh, Come On. Show Me That Handsome Mug.” (Now available in mug shots!) In York, PA, a hooded-man entered a bank and demanded money. The teller told him to remove his hood, which the idiot man did, allowing police some good videotaped evidence to hold against him in court.
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Police in Portland, ME are looking for a man who uses his car to cut-off vehicles being driven by women traveling solo. He then gets out of his car and shows off his ensemble which consists of a garter belt and black high-heeled boots. The article doesn’t say whether he puts on a performance beyond that. Since this has never happened to me, I can’t be sure how I’d react, but I do think I’d pee myself laughing. Guess I’ll have to wait for the video… “Well, He Was Wearing a Garter and Boots”

 

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Do you know of a child who deserves a laptop? Sarabeth from i once was hp is searching for the right person to give this laptop from One Laptop Per Child to. For all the details, see her post, “Technology or Why the OLPC Laptop Won’t Work For My Children.” The deadline is March 15 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

 

Misty Dawn from My Dogs Keep Me Sane (and Misty’s Words) gave me this most fabulous award:

This means a lot to me, Misty, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart!