Starting Mothers Day Off Right With A Keurig Coffee Maker! + Instagram Contest for Keurig Vue (Gifts For Mom)

I don't know about you, but since becoming a mom 9 years ago, I have found that I can not go with out my coffee in the mornings. There are days that I need to have coffee several times a day in order to function properly. I know a lot of it does have to do with the fact that I do not end my days until late in the evenings, and sometimes not until 2 or 3 in the morning, then I am up at 5 or 6 in the morning with a baby. I then head out to take care of patients, go home, get my daughter and husband up, then I get breakfast ready for my family, get my daughter and husband off to work and school then take care of my son and baby until noon when I send my son to school and put the baby down to nap. That is the time when you would think I would try to take a nap, but that is when I do housework until the baby wakes, then it is time to pick kids up and so on. So, yeah, I need my coffee, I actually need a cloning machine so I can make a clone of myself on days where I feel that I am surrounded by chaos, but when I realize that I will not be able to get one of those, I go for another cup of coffee. My big thing is, I do not see the need for cup after cup. I may have a cup when I first get up. My husband may or may not have a cup, depending on whether or not he wants one. Then when I am ready for another one, I will get one, but I prefer a fresh cup, not one that is stale and that has been sitting there in a pot for a few hours. Call me picky, but that is what I want, and I know that when I use a Keurig, I can have that. So when I was sent the Keurig MINI Plus Brewing System to review for Mothers Day this year, I knew that this little machine would be the perfect one for a mother like me! It fits perfect on my counter and it is perfect for me, for anytime I want to brew just one cup at a time, which is kinda how I do it! I also love that with the Keurig MINI Plus Brewing System, you can find it in various color options in the new 2013 model, so when you are out shopping for the perfect Mothers Day gift this year, you will be able to find it in yours or moms favorite color! Also, to help celebrate Mothers Day this year, Keurig is hosting a fun Mothers Day contest on Instagram. To enter, upload a photo to Instagram with your best advice on motherhood, include @Keurig  and the hashtag #PointOfVue so you can enter to win a Vue V600 Brewer! They will choose 10 winners at random!!!! This contest is running now through May 6th at 11:59PM EST, so hurry up and enter!!!!! You can get more info on this contest by heading over to the Keurig Facebook Page!

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#Giveaway #RC PLAY-DOH Board Books CLOSED!!

This review was made possible by Mom Spark Media. Thoughts are my own. I received PLAY-DOH books for the purpose of this review

We love to read in our house. When it comes to my babies, I start reading to my babies from the time I find out I am pregnant with them. I will read just about anything and everything to them while I am pregnant, then once they are born, I do not stop reading. I love now that Wyatt is here and that he is getting older, he loves being able to be part of the reading times with his older siblings. Not only do I read to the kids, but they love to read to Wyatt as well, and he is such a good listener! Recently Wyatt was sent a great collection of books by PLAY-DOH from Silver Dolphin Books that he has enjoyed having everyone read to him.

Wyatt, loves looking at the pictures in books, and in these adorable board books, he finds the pictures and the colors to be very fun and entertaining for him. He also loves that he can interact with the books like in the 'Mama's Little Ducklings', Wyatt loves looking under the little flaps to see what is hiding under there for him to find and helping the mama duck find her baby ducky. In the 'My First Words', Wyatt loves being able to see pictures of items that he may recognize and listen to me and his siblings teach him what they are. With the  'Counting Bunnies', Robert has found this to be his favorite book to read his baby brother because Robert loves to count and he can not wait until Wyatt can learn how to count. Estrella really likes to read both the 'Rainbow Butterflies' and the 'Making Shapes with Monkey' books to Wyatt, where she can show and teach Wyatt about colors and shapes, which are both things that she really enjoys herself! We really like being able to share these books with Wyatt, and Wyatt loves to be able to pick out one of his PLAY-DOH Board Books when it is reading time for one of us to read to him! You can share these fun books with your little ones too by heading on over Amazon today where you can purchase this collection of PLAY-DOH Board Books! Well, the wonderful people from Silver Dolphin Books would like to send one of my amazing readers their own set of the PLAY-DOH Board Books to share with their little ones! 

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#DisneyPaintMom The Finished Project And A Out Of This World Reveal Party!

We have had so much fun redoing Robert's room. From picking a new theme to stripping and repainting then letting Robert have a part in the whole painting process. Robert loved being able to use the stencils and pick and choose where we would put them on his walls. We kinda made him the boss of the whole project when it came to adding the Ready Set Glow Paint from the Disney line of Glidden paints! Robert loved making his aliens which he made to be a representation of himself and his little brother Wyatt. As I had mentioned in a previous post about our painting project, Robert had decided to add some googly eyes to his aliens, which went on just as he had wanted and they also look just as great as he had wanted!

Robert loves having his glowing designs along with his glowing alien friends on his wall above his bed, he said now he really has a room that makes his feel like he could be in outer space!! I loved that we were able to allow Robert to express himself and paint his room the way he wanted so he is proud of it and he feels good about showing it off to others as a piece of his art!

Once we got done with all of the painting on the walls that we had originally chose to do, Robert decided that he needed to add some extra asteroids to some other parts of his room that were lacking. So, he painted them in the spots where they were needed in his eyes, as you can see in the picture below ;)

Then, when he looked over the room, and felt that there was not anything more that needed to be done, we set up the rest of the room and got ready for a reveal party! Robert had told his friends about the painting project and about the party, so they were very excited to come over and see what he had been talking about. We gave all of the kids glow sticks, glow bracelets as well as some fun Buzz Lightyear stickers and some cupcakes for our little party!

We asked the kids to come dressed in their most out of this world gear, so that they could be ready to step into Robert's out of this world, Buzz Lightyear, Ready Set Glow Room!! The kids loved the theme and they thought the Ready Set Glow Disney paint from Glidden was cool and the parents that came with the kids loved it as well. Everyone loved the idea of letting the kids be creative and take part in the entire process from coming up with a theme to the painting process. Robert was so excited to tell everyone that he made the aliens and that it was his idea to put everything where it was and to also add the googly eyes on his aliens! During our reveal party we also had a mini raffle where we gave away a $50 Walmart Gift Card to one of the party guests so that they could get their own Disney Glidden Paint supplies!! Even though we went with the Buzz Lightyear Ready Set Glow theme from the Disney Glidden Paints, we showed everyone the Disney Paint website so that they could get ideas from all of the other paint themes that they have available! We had such an amazing experience and we enjoyed not only our time as a family putting this project together but also sharing our finished project with our friends. You can start your project today and get your ideas by heading over to your local Walmart and checking out their Disney Glidden display or heading over to the Disney Paint website!

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