P.S. from Aeropostale - GIVEAWAY!

So - WE LOVED the P.S. from Aeropostale store!

When I arrived with Boo Boo La La at Mall of America P.S. from Aeropostale store, I KNEW we had been there before.  Just this summer we had stumbled upon this bright and friendly store - when another store had disappointed by not having the Avenger's t-shirt Boo Boo wanted in her size.

P.S. from Aeropostale had PLENTY of DIFFERENT Avenger's t-shirts in Boo Boo's size - and p.p.s. they were less expensive.

P.S. from Aeropostale caters to mom's like me.  Why?

• Their clothing is cute and trendy, but not too "grown-up".  
• They have lots to choose from in the size you want because they are aimed at kids ages 4-12.  
• They are not trying to be the store for all with just one or two in stock of each size.  
• OMG the sales people - the SALES PEOPLE are awesome.  Not pushy, just really helpful and show you all the cool features of items in the store.  Metallic nail polish?  Who knew that was what was in that cute bottle?? The cool sales girl wearing the polish, that is who.

And hopscotch and photo booth wall and tic-tac-toe and hula hoops!  Oh My!

Boo Boo La La loved spending some time in this store and really?  She wanted everything.  Including all the cool Monster High sketchbooks, erasers and stuff.  I may need to go back for the boots.

P.S. from Aeropostale really is a hit for kids and parents alike.

It made us Happy.   We had so much FUN.  And the clothing we ended up with?  Way Cool.

Even the blue streaks came from P.S.

Now it is your turn to discover P.S. from Aeropostale.   <-hop br="br" nbsp="nbsp" on="on" over="over" the="the" to="to" website.="website."> What is one item you would DIE for your kid to have in their closet.  I dare you to choose one thing because I love it all.

What then?  Comment with that item, link me to it so I can see.  You are now entered to win a $50 P.S. from Aeropostale gift card.  Cool, huh?

Want another entry?  Follow @PSFROMAERO on Twitter and leave me another comment with your @Twitter handle.

Please sir may I have another?  Yes.  LIKE P.S. from Aeropostale on Facebook - leave me a third comment.

That is all - except, they have a discount code for you to use right now thru November 11th.  The code is PSMOMSMN and gets you TWENTY PERCENT OFF!  Such a deal.  

Can you see why this store is a hit with the whole family?

Contest ends at 8 am Monday, November 5th - Winner announced later that day.

P.S. from Aeropostale gave me a $50 gift card to shop and one to share for this post - but the opinions are truly mine.

I want to suck your blood.

Well - he did it again.

I love Adam Sandler.  I told you before and I will tell you again.

Let's look shall we?

Boo Boo La La has been asking, read begging, to go see Hotel Transylvania  I wanted to see it, T-bone was game, but he was concerned that My Adam would do something Adam-ish and sing a version of "Hotel California" or some other silly Adam-ish thing.

He didn't.

It is just a great movie.

What Makes You Smile? - @psfromaero

  I got invited to a pretty cool event.

I thought I would take the most STYLISH person in my home.           The Cowgirl.  The Super Model.  Huggy Bear.  

The one who loves Tinkerbell and Yoda equally.

I got invited to bring My Girl, My @Iambooboolala to design a shirt.

What makes you smile? 

Can you draw it? 

Not only do I think this t-shirt design contest is a great outlet for creativity in the Elementary School Set.  It benefits their SCHOOL too.  Yes, $500 gift card for each grade winner First to Fifth.  And $1000 to their schools.

I don't know if you are familiar with what is going on in the world, but most schools I know could really use that money to benefit their students.

I think p.s. from aeropostale is doing one fine thing with this contest.

Making Mommy Smile Daily

So go to the contest website at www.pswhatmakesyousmile.com and download your t-shirt template.

Get your kid excited to create a design.

Upload it.

Come back November 1st, 2012 and get your friends and family to vote!

Remember their will be FIVE winners.  So amazing.

Oh and p.s. I am getting a $50 p.s. from aeropostale gift card to show up at MOA for their live event tomorrow night. (Watch for our @mommylisa @iambooboolala tweets around 5pm) and tell you about this cool contest.  I wonder what great find Boo Boo La La will encounter at the store?  A hoodie?  New jeggings?  

p.p.s. I got invited cuz I know cool people like AntiSupermom - go ahead I dare you to read her blog.

I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates...

HELP!  

Last year Boo Boo got a new scooter from Santa and it was love.

See?
 

But as you can see since that day Santa brought the scooter it was borderline for her height.  She runs this thing all around the house and loves to take it outside to scoot anywhere.  Loves the scooter - hates to bike ride, for now.   And a wheel is also cracked.  Stupid plastic wheels.  (T-bone, Sair and J-Dogg are giggling at that line.)

So which new scooter should she get this year?  And should it be from Santa?  Then we could give her the Brave Wii Game and Jewel Encrusted Merida....

Hmmmm.

Please weigh in...I am clueless on scooters as the one she got last year was a Zulilly.com impluse buy that worked out!

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Source: toysrus.com via mommylisa on Pinterest

Source: toysrus.com via mommylisa on Pinterest

Source: toysrus.com via mommylisa on Pinterest

You're so beautiful. - Veronica Sawyer

Yes, when you say "You are so beautiful..." you can feel everyone's brainwaves singing...  "To meeeeeeee."

Right?

I changed it up on you there, that is what I did.

Exchange - Heather's 1988

Courtney: If I got that money, I'd give it all to the homeless. Every cent. 
Veronica Sawyer: You're beautiful. 

Then of course Heather Chandler tells her something or other about being openly a bitch.  It gets hazy for me.

I digress.

Ahem.

Today's Spin is on Beauty thanks to the mind of Gretchen at Second Blooming.  I find her a great read because, well - I had my child at 38 and I can relate to being "tired" to say the least.  :)

I love beauty products.  Especially oils and moisturizers - anything to stop the inevitable wrinkles - and lessen the current crop.

One night I was watching ShopNBC because yes, I am one of those people with an unhealthy addiction to watching shopping channels.  I sometimes buy, and I usually return.  That night ShopNBC was demonstrating this heat and light device that was supposed to improve skin texture, reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles and all I had to do was shell over about $150 and use it.  (p.s. it is out of stock right now at ShopNBC you can find it here.)

The results they showed looked pretty dramatic and I am tired of my "old lady wrinkle" that runs across my forehead....I took the plunge because they had 6 value pay option and waited for it to arrive.

I have now been using it for over a month and I will tell you that I really do think my skin texture is more even and my "old lady wrinkle" is not quite as wide across my forehead as it was.  It may actually be working is what I am telling you.  For ONCE.  I mean I cannot tell you all the things I used to "reduce wrinkles".  Ugh.  Never work.

But the bonus?

OMG after I rub this on my face for twenty minutes I am zonked.  Totally relaxed and nearly asleep.

It lets me sleep better than I have in god KNOWS how long.  I don't even wake up in the night.

And - because its just light and heat.  One night when Boo Boo La La was being crabby about going to bed I went in and gave her a "face massage" and she was OUT in like two minutes.  She now begs for her face massage - I only do it once a week and just for a minute so don't report me~!  But it really helps us sleep.

Really!

Who would have thought that a beauty treatment would have such a wonderful side-effect.

Now its your turn.  Jump into the spin!

Politics, The Bible, and Your Partner.

I do not think it is any secret that I am a liberal - or that I, along with at least ONE of my Auntie's wishes that Hillary Clinton were president.

But it may be less obvious that I go to church on Sunday and LOVE that this year I am not teaching so that I might participate in our Adult Forum.  I went a few times last year when it was not my "turn" to teach our Sunday School Class and fell in love.

My church is not what you might expect.  I belong to an Evangelical Lutheran Church of America congregation with pastors who were raised up here (North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and  Wisconsin in my opinion are different from the rest of Middle America) and really are like most people I know in real life.  Family men, love the Twins, tolerate the Vikings, and have sensible open minds.  The older pastor recants tales from the farm and growing up there - the younger one quotes popular culture, ex: using "Talladega Nights, the Tale of Ricky Bobby." to relate how following the ADULT Jesus is harder than "Baby Jesus".

They both like to push you to think.

The last Sunday of September they decided to discuss a hot topic in Minnesota; "The Marriage Amendment" that looms come election day.

Well, not exactly.  The pastor, the younger, with a twinkle in his eye said the topic for the day was the types of marriage from the bible.  I found a blog that outlines them too, Unreasonable Faith, so you can read something pretty similar to the handout our pastor gave us.  Well, he didn't have the comment at the end like the blog, but I like that comment ;)

Something he DID say that made me really want to write this post and hopefully change someone's vote November 6th.

What did he say?  He said that during Biblical Times marriage was more "politically and monetarily driven".  Women had NO rights whatsoever when it came to marriage - heck if your brother-in-law would not marry you under Levirate Marriage if your husband died and left you with no son - You became an outcast & a beggar with no rights and no family support.

So why are we making marriage political or biblical?

Our congregation pointed out the word of God said, "Go forth and multiply." But, what about the couples who today cannot, or don't want to, have children?  Are you going to stand up and tell them they can't be married in the church?  They are not worthy of a "biblical" marriage?  And what exactly does "multiply" look like these days?  Isn't adoption a way of multiplying your family too?

I guess what I am hoping to say to you is this; God never said that marriage was between one man and one woman - and there were no other types of marriage.  MEN decided to write the laws of marriage and pretty much made women slaves.  So why NOW when we have given women rights in marriage, and we have set records for divorce in our country, are we saying that no one else can have the right to marry who they love?  Why NOW when we are trying to teach our children to not be bullies are we allowing a few people using the BIBLE for their POLITICAL agenda bully us?

Please think long and hard about who you know in your life and if you want them to be happy, just like you are, before you vote my dear fellow Minnesotans.

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