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Around The Blogosphere – Week 110

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5 Minutes Around the BlogosphereWelcome to our weekly roundup here at “5 Minutes Around the Blogosphere”.

As you know, you can come back all week and add a post or giveaway to our Mister Linky. Be sure to check back often, as new links will be added daily. You don’t want to miss out on something fun.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Marie from All Access Pass To Jack has started a new series on her blog called Life Is Therapy. Check it out, and link up with other moms to share fun and ordinary everyday ideas to help our children learn and develop.

  • Visit Charity Cars, a site that gives cars to needy families all over the country. If you like, you can help by either donating or spreading the word about the site so that those in need might receive the charity car they deserve. Also, you can help Katie, by visiting her profile and voting for her so that she can get a little closer to her family’s goal.

CONTESTS & SWEEPSTAKES

  • To celebrate the return of Blue Light Specials at Kmart, they are giving shoppers on Twitter a chance to win a $50 gift card everyday! There are over 40 great Bluelight Specials throughout the weekend in-store, and other great offers online at Kmart.com, too, only on Saturdays and Sundays. In addition to the chance to win daily, everyone following @KmartDealsnNews on Twitter will be automatically entered for a chance to win a $500 Kmart shopping spree.

    Winning couldn’t get easier – all you have to do is follow @KmartDealsnNews on Twitter from your personal Twitter account and issue a Tweet everyday using their hashtag: #KmartBLS. Each day is a new opportunity to win, so the more often you tweet – the better your chances are to win a Daily prize!

    For more info on sweepstakes details, check out the and the official rules here.

  • Do you have what it takes to be a Winterless Weather Forecaster? Jergens is looking for women to enter and post their videos on how they keep their skin looking beautiful and winterless no matter what the weather. Ten finalists will be selected to have their videos posted on youtube.com and will compete for the grand prize of a $5,000 talent contract with Jergens to film winterless weather forecasts for Jergens.com, as well as a luxury trip to NYC to meet Al Roker and get a VIP behind-the-scenes tours of the show Wake Up with Al! along with $1,000 cash!

  • Get your kids writing with Olive Garden’s Pasta Tales essay writing contest for students in first- through 12th-grade.

    This year, students are asked to submit essays on the following topic: “Describe a teacher who has inspired you in school and how they have impacted your life.” The contest grand prize is a three-day trip to New York City including dinner at the Olive Garden in Times Square and a $2,500 savings bond. Winners also will be chosen in each grade category and will receive a $500 savings bond and a family dinner at their local Olive Garden restaurant.

BLOG GIVEAWAYS

For Everyone

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Baby Essentials

Just For Kids

Books For Grown-Ups

Would you like to share a fun giveaway or a worth our while post? Please add it to the Mr. Linky below. You can come here any time this week to add in your link. Don’t miss out on the fun. Be sure to visit throughout the week as the linky grows, and more sites are added.

If you would like to have a post on your blog featured in 5 Minutes Around The Blogosphere, please send us an email with the actual link to your post at features5minutesformom at gmail dot com and we’ll see if it can be arranged.

You can find Marissa writing away at Mama Sparkles.

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  5. Thanks for giving me a plug for the new series. I ‘m really hoping we can all learn from and inspire one another. Kids are amazing and we get front row seats to their development. It seems like the stuff children need to know comes so fast and furious these days and everyone is terrified that their kids will be left behind so kids get pushed and pushed and become miserable and develop a distate for “learning” or even just developmental tasks. We don’t have to do it that way. We CAN maintain a connection and help our children learn and grow and they do want to. Wow, that turned into a stepping on my soapbox comment. 🙂 I might even repost that on my blog. 🙂

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