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HP 3.5″ Digital Picture Frame Mother’s Day GIVEAWAY brought to you by TheMommyInsider.com and TheFind.com

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TheMommyInsider.com and TheFind.com have partnered to bring you the chance to win an HP 3.5" Digital Picture Frame!

What is something that all moms have lots of? 

If you said photographs, your right.  What good does it do to have photographs covering our walls, nightstand, and bookshelves when most of the people we want to share our photographs with never step foot in our home?

With the HP 3.5" Digital Picture Frame you can carry your photographs with you every where you go.   This 3.5" frame is the perfect size to go in a diaper bag or purse and is protected from 'the elements' (juice, milk, etc) inside the included black leather carrying case.

With the flip of a switch you can start a slide show, or you can browse photographs manually.  Up to 45 images can be stored internally but you can insert a memory card including however many photographs you put on it to share a virtually unlimited amount of photographs with your friends and family.

You can buy your very own HP 3.5" Digital Picture Frame here at Amazon.com
but be sure to enter our giveaway too!

GIVEAWAY!  We have 2 HP 3.5" Digital Picture Frames to give to lucky readers!
Tell us in 3 or more sentences in the comments belowComments , why you want to win an HP 3.5" Digital Picture Frame for Mother's Day and/or tell us a funny story involving a photograph.  If you've got kids, you have a funny photograph story! Winners will be notified via email May 6th.  If you are a winner, you must respond to our email by May 7th so we can ship your prize to you for Mother's Day! 

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iPosture, the gadget that helps improve posture

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When you walk by the mirror are you surprised to see that you are a little hunched over?  Even just a little hunch is too much.  I’ve seen that little hunch my mirror one to many times.  Hunching in your 90’s is one thing but having a hunch in your 30’s is another.  Moms sit, walk, bend, and rock constantly and keeping good posture while doing all of these things is important but how do we know when our posture is just right?  Iposture-2

The iPosture is an intuitive electronic device designed to improve
posture. Just over one inch in diameter, the iPosture clips to your bra, hangs on a necklace, or sticks to you with a little sticky pad.  When you put the iPosture on the first time, push the button to record your posture then the iPosture will automatically
sense when your body slouches, and will alerts you with brief
vibrations to correct it.  The vibrations are gentle, not zaps.

The iPosture provides a multitude of benefits including trimming belly
bulges, easing common back problems, and making you look taller, younger
and sexier.  Just ask your husband after you’ve been wearing the iPosture for a few days.

You can think of the $65 (current price as of publication date) iPosture as a money saver.. you won’t have to get a massage nearly as often because you won’t have the sore back muscles caused by poor posture.

iPosture website

Get productive with these iPhone apps

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iPhone app & Mac desktop version

Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task and list management tool.  
It's as though Things was developed just for moms.  Things is easy to use and it packed with features that parents (and others) will find very useful. 

You can even sync wirelessly with the desktop version (mac only) of Things using Wi-Fi. 

Things iPhone app features

  • Create projects
    EX: Large homework assignments or science fair projects that require several steps to complete.
  • The Today list
    This is where you will see a list of tasks whose start date is today as well as overdue items.
  • Next list
    Single to-do's and action steps from active projects.
  • Someday – I love this one!
    The Someday box is for ideas you might want to pursue in the future like plan a trip to the Bahamas.

Things desktop and iPhone app will have you anxious to get organized whereas before you didn't know where to start.

Download a free trial here.

ReachMyFile

ReachMyFile is a great iPhone
app for busy moms that essentially gives you complete access to your Mac from your iPhone.

When you run into a friend at the bookstore and want to show her photographs of the kids that you don't have on your iPhone, you can download the photos to show her.  Have you ever forgotten an ingredient for a recipe while you are at the grocery store?  Just reach back to your Mac to download it while you are shopping!  And you can download songs and movies from your
Mac to keep your kids entertained when you are waiting at the doctor's office or in traffic.  You can even use ReachMyFile
to find your child's homework assignment and e-mail it to the
teacher.  Sebastian would pay dearly if I had to do that!

You can see a video of ReachMyFile in action here on YouTube.

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PakNak® Charms

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PakNaks® are fun soft rubbery 3-D
decorations for kids to personalize all of their
stuff with. Backpacks, lunchbags, headbands, nightstand lamp, a flower pot, and anything else you can imagine.  They are weather resistant by using super strong self adhesive Velcro.   Each PakNak® has a best PakNak® friend, how cute.  For example, Sola the flower's best friend is Birdy-Birdy.  There's a PakNak® for every personality.  Some of my favorite's are the robot, soccer ball, flowers, birds, monkey, skateboard, and Ted the Head.. the frog.

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Paknak_monkeyThe colors are vibrant and have yet to fade since we've been using them.  There are currently 38+/-  PakNak® charms to choose from.

Click here to print out a PakNak® coloring book!

WEBSITE

COUPON CODE: Use coupon code PAK20 to get 20% off your order through April 2009.

GIVEAWAY: 4 lucky winners can choose 3 PakNak's to be their very own!  I will announce the giveaway contest and rules soon.  Sign up for our newlsetter to be the first to know when the contest starts!

ItzaBitza Educational Reading Game for kids + giveaway – this game is so much fun!

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This is one of the most entertaining games I’ve played in a long time.  Yes, I admit I played ItzaBitza.  My kids weren’t even around.  The concept of ItzaBitza is awesome..I’ve never seen anything like it.

ItzaBitza promotes reading comprehension, artisitic and imaginative creativity and provides an exciting gaming experience for kids ages four and older.  I was amazed time and time again by how the game responded to my drawings and made them come to life.

Here are just a few things you can do in the first ItzaBitza scene:

  • Draw a tree, apples grow on it.
  • Draw a moon and stars light up the sky and your Sketchie goes inside the house you drew, goes upstairs and goes to sleep.
  • Draw an envelope and your Sketchie takes it to the mailbox.
  • Draw a cup and watch your Sketchie drink out of it.

The Sketchie your child chooses at the beginning of the game (a boy or a girl) asks your child to draw things, including a house and a tree, then the drawings become part of the animation and story.  An example would be when I drew a tree with leaves, the game added apples to the tree.  You can see my award winning drawing (ha!) below.  Click on the image to view the larger version.  I didn’t draw the flowers.  When I drew the sun, the flowers grew! How cool is that?

Through out the game, the Sketchie gives you ideas and little games to play via a little word bubble that pops up when you click on him or her.  If your child has trouble reading a word in the bubble, all she has to do is move the mouse over the word and it is sounded out for her.  Great reading practice!

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There are several scenes that can be unlocked as your child progresses in the game including a camping scene and a naunted house.  You’ll have to buy the game to find out what happens in each of the scenes!

Buy a copy of ItzaBitza at Amazon.com for $17.99 (current price) OR buy and download the game here.

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