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A Unique Gift!

Everyone starts thinking about gifts at this time of the year.  In addition to Christmas and the other special holidays, I also have five birthdays in my household between now and the end of the year.  Once the leaves start falling off the trees I go into full gift shopping mode. I have been trying to do more and more shopping online because shopping with four children is just… hazardous.  While browsing online for unique and affordable gifts, I have found a few website that are just awesome!  I wanted to take a moment and share some of my favorites.  Hopefully this will help other mothers who would rather shop at home in their pajamas than drag their little ones to the mall.

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Personalized gifts are super popular right now and I found some adorable gift ideas at I See Me!  This website offers personalized storybooks, puzzles, coloring books, lunch boxes and more! Their prices are fantastic and they have a great selection of themes to choose from.

 

 

 

TTBHoliday_350x230_V2Another great place to find personalized gifts for kids is Ty’s Toy Box! They feature PBS children’s programs and have every character you could possibly imagine.  My daughter is a die hard Elmo fan and she is also obsessed with The Wiggles.  It’s difficult to find some of these characters in the stores but they are ALL at Ty’s and you can have them personalized which is brilliant!

 

Another great site I found is called Happy Kids Productions.  They have a huge variety of products and their prices are very reasonable.  This company offers discounts fairly often which is great when you have a lot of gifts to buy. Right now you can save 10% on all personalized gifts at Happy Kids!

 

 

 

Hopefully this post has helped at least a few of my readers find some great gift ideas. The hard part for me is now deciding which items to buy when I would rather just get three of everything.

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Sick Slave Driver

For seven long days my family and I have been quarantined in our cozy little home battling what would appear to be either the flu or some very serious colds.  One by one each of the four kids came down with it and then finally I too became a victim.  As any mother knows, it is just torturous watching your children when they are sick.  It is worse when they are very small because they can’t really tell you what is wrong and therefore you have no certain answer as to what to do to comfort them.  It is stressful emotionally and physically.  You simply have to use a process of elimination until you find something miraculous that makes it all better.  This is precisely why I am not sure whether to be furious or amused at my eldest son. After being confined to the house for a solid week and spending the majority of my time (day and night) fetching, carrying, washing, medicating, bathing, feeding, fussing, covering, uncovering, patting, singing, worrying (at times pretty sick myself), I’ll admit I am confused as to what would be the “appropriate” reaction to this latest… episode.  Last night, when I left the room on what had to be the 15th errand for my ailing boy, he grinned a devilish ornery grin at his Granny and whispered “I am just pretending to be sick so my Mommy will be my slave.”.

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