Shop Your Way with WisconsinMommy & Giveaway

My friend Maureen over at WisconsinMommy.com recently signed on with the Shop Your Way Rewards Program as a personal shopper. While I know many of you are familiar with the Shop Your Way Rewards Program, I’m going to guess that most of you don’t know how easy it is to sign up and earn free rewards! Realizing this, I partnered with Maureen to offer a giveaway just to give you an incentive to sign up with her as your personal shopper!

The Shop Your Way program is Sears, Kmart, and Lands End’s customer loyalty program that tracks your purchases and thanks you with rewards and benefits.

It’s completely FREE and as a member you’ll be rewarded with custom offers based on your shopping habits. This means receiving sales notification and coupons for things that you are already shopping for. In addition to the points you earn (that are redeemed like cash toward your purchases) you will occasionally be gifted with extra points, just because. It’s like receiving free money!!

One of my favorite things is that you can spend points as you earn them – you don’t have to save up until you hit a specific amount.

Shop Your Way Rewards members earn 10 points for every $1 spent. These points can be redeemed just like cash at your next purchase. You can take advantage of free layaway at Kmart.com as well as receive discounts on qualifying gas purchases when you spend $50 or more at Kmart. You are also able to return items without a receipt as long as you used your SYW Rewards account when you checked out. (This is a plus for me as I’m always losing receipts!)

Why sign up for a personal shopper?

As your personal shopper, Maureen can send you additional customized coupons based on what you wants and needs are. She can even find what you are looking for – just let her know what you need and she will find it for you!! She can find the best available deal and even match it with current coupon offers.

Enter to win $100 giftcard to Kmart/Sears or Amazon – you pick!!

Enter below by clicking on the form and then signing up to designate Maureen as your personal shopper. It’s quick, easy, FREE, and will save you money – score!! Once you have signed up, you can complete a few other bonus entrees for additional chances to win. Already a Shop Your Way Rewards member?? Just click on the link in the entry and choose Maureen as your personal shopper by clicking “become a client”. Not yet a Shop Your Way Rewards member? Click the link and sign up for the program. Then either click it again to select Maureen as your personal shopper.

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BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!!!

Maureen will be holding these giveaways each quarter and those who already have her as their personal shopper will not need to take any action to be entered. That means once you’ve signed on with Maureen as your Shop Your Way Personal Shopper, you will automatically be entered to win the $100 giveaway each quarter that you continue to have her as your shopper. Cool huh???

Tailgating Crab Dip With Wilton Armetale & Giveaway

I’ve never done an official tailgate. *hangs head in shame* I love sports. I love football. I just can’t afford to go to professional games so tailgating isn’t something we get to do often. I want to hang out with my brother more often because he and his buddies like to tailgate. In fact, they’ll be heading down to VA Tech to watch several games this season and they’ll be tailgating with people who take that activity very seriously.

I know it sounds silly, but I love the whole atmosphere of sports. I’m the person yelling in the stands, clapping loudly, and when my fingers cooperate I’m whistling. I really get into the game, no matter what I’m watching. Football or baseball, it doesn’t matter, let’s just play ball!

When you think about tailgating, you have to have the right gear. I’ve slowly, but surely, started stocking up on essentials. I got some fun food trays, liners for the trays, place mats, and an awesome Wilton Armetale bowl.

Something I had NO clue about when I moved to Maryland was their obsession with crab in their food. Holy cow, I’ve been exposed to it on a regular basis since we got here. Fred, he would eat crab every day if he was able to. When I came to him looking for ideas on what to make he suggested crab dip. Go figure.

I haven’t any ideas or recipes that include crab. Fred came to the rescue by using a recipe on the site of his favorite seasoning…Old Bay. He should have industrial size containers the way he goes through that stuff. He’s learned to tamper it in foods I eat.

He’s also great in the kitchen and he taught me how to work with crab. Turns out I’m OCD about certain things. Who knew? When we were sifting through the crab meat to make sure all the tiny shell pieces were taken out, I found I could’ve gone through that stuff all day long finding just one more tiny piece. He finally had to just take the stuff away from me so he could put his recipe together.



He took all of the ingredients and mixed them in the bowl. After he got it ready, he stuck it in the fridge overnight. We had been invited out with friends and were ready for the next day. After church, we headed out to our friend’s and brought the remaining ingredients to cook at their house.

I got distracted after we’d got to our friend’s house, and Fred took it all in stride. He’s the cook in the family, and knows I’m easily distracted. He brought our dish into the kitchen and the next thing I know, our crab dip is ready.

The bowl stayed hot for the length of the party! He was able to cook the dip IN the bowl because it’s safe for the oven, stove, or grill. This is why you could take this bowl to tailgating at a sporting event. You could bring your Wilton Armetale bowl, use your portable grill, and have a dip ready as you hang with your friends rooting on your favorite team!

I’m not a fan of crab dip so I let Fred keep the bowl and the dip after the party. He ate the rest of the leftovers and then made the mistake of putting it in the dishwasher. NOTE: They are NOT dishwasher safe. I didn’t even think about that when he kept it to finish it off. So, when I got it back, it wasn’t a shiny bowl any more. Sad panda. Now I’ll have to use baking soda with water and get it back to it’s gleaming finish.

If you’re a crab dip fan, here’s the recipe:


If you’re up for tailgating be sure to enter this giveaway for a Medium Bowl, Pitcher, Cracker Tray, and Handle Tray.

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Having a Healthy Essentials Transition Back to School

Wow, have your kids gone back to school yet? I would imagine with Labor Day past everyone is back to school. My boys have been back for a week and my sophomore is already sick with his first cold. I guess that’s what we get for being so shut in all summer. I teamed up with The Motherhood and Johnson & Johnson to help families get the school year started off on the right, healthy note!

The week before school started I started cutting back the summer hours the boys were staying up til. Bedtimes and adhering to them during the school week is important to me. Secondarily it’s important to the boys and their success at school. A tired kid has a hard time learning.

I want my boys to learn to take care of themselves by getting enough rest, eating healthy (or at least thinking about eating healthy), and taking care of their bodies and minds.

At bedtime Buddy uses the Clean and Clear every night. He’s 15 and going through all those fun hormonal changes. Mornings before school he’s using the Neutrogena Oil-Free Acne Wash. Even if he’s still breaking out because of hormones, at least his skin will be taken care of. Clean & Clear Advantage has been shown to reduce pimples in just four hours. The medication starts to clear pimples immediately with maximum strength 2% Salicylic acid. They are reduced in size, swelling and redness, and the formula won’t over-dry skin. I need to get Buddy using the Wash at bedtime before he using the acne cream. Revolutionary MicroClear® technology pushes medicine deep into pores to fight both the acne you see, and the acne that’s forming below the surface.

Now, on the other end of the spectrum is occasionally taking care of myself. A couple of weeks ago I started using the RoC Deep Wrinkle Night Cream. I’m always skeptical about these products, but yes, I have what I call sleep lines that are disappearing! The ones that are back along my jaw line have pretty much become unnoticeable. I have two others closer to my chin that are deeper, but I’m seeing improvement there as well. I’m hoping the biggest change will be the wrinkles on my forehead. They drive me insane. I see a difference, but they’re deep so will take longer to see a change. It contains an exclusive combination of pure Retinol and an essential mineral complex that is clinically shown to visibly reduce even deep wrinkles after 12 weeks’ use.

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How is your family starting the school year off on a healthy note?

Sweet September $500 Cash Giveaway

I’m so excited to be on a roll with some awesome giveaways! Now that school is in full swing, it’s time to fill the wallet back up after all of the back to school gear that was purchased! Now’s the time to enter!

Welcome to the $500 Sweet September Cash Giveaway!

We have joined forces with a fantastic group of bloggers to bring you this great giveaway. One lucky person will win $500 cash.

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Back to School with SOL REPUBLIC & Giveaway

Last year, Buddy got a pair of SOL REPUBLIC headphones for Christmas. I’ve been ever so slightly jealous of them since then. I got to try them before he did and knew they were comfortable and they’ve got great sound.

When I had the opportunity to get a pair of my very own, I jumped on it right away. The hardest part for me was deciding between in ear headphones or over the ear. I went with over the ear. Then they arrived and guess what? Doodle’s headphones started having issues. Gah! For real? So I let him use “mine” (interpret as “his”). I’m thinking I won’t see them again.

We got the SOL REPUBLIC Tracks AIR just in time for school to start. With all of the gadgets we have, mostly the boys have, and being in a one room house, headphones are a necessity.

Neither of the boys really likes to be plugged in unless they’re charging. That’s where the Super Power Wireless comes in handy. Doodle has a tablet and iPod so he’s using the new headphones with those. Buddy has his own pair of Tracks AIR and with his brand new smartphone, he’ll be able to be on the laptop and answer his cell phone at the same time. Have I mentioned how stinkin’ cool these are?

The one thing we’ll have to do is swap the color of Doodle’s headband. The boys like to be able to easily tell the different between their things and these bad boys will be NO different. I will nip arguments of who’s are who’s by grabbing a new color in the butt. I think Doodle would go with the Vivid Red because of their old school colors.

Turns out they’re great for traveling, too. First vacation was over Labor Day weekend and the headphones came in veeeery handy! Movies being watched, music being listened to, and games being played, all done with the Tracks AIR’s on and silence in the car aside from me listening to the radio!

For all you technical peeps out there who like to know the nitty gritty about your products, the Tracks AIR have Sonic Soft ™ Speaker Pads. And yes, they’re very soft and the padding over the head is comfortable, too. There’s a 15 hr battery life. You can be up to 150’ away from your wireless device for it to continue to get signal.

Now you have a chance to win an awesome pair below. Be sure to read the Terms & Conditions to make sure you qualify! a Rafflecopter giveaway