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Happy Mother’s Day, mommies! I had the best Mother’s Day ever. I spent the day snuggling with Daddy and Jayden! Things have been so hectic around here, so we just wanted to relax.

I had written a post this morning regarding my Baby Blues (which I’ll now be postponing until Tuesday). As I finished the post, Daddy surprised me with one of my Mother’s Day gifts! He called me over to look at Jayden who was sleeping. He said that Jayden was making his famous pucker face and to hurry up and look before he stops. So I go over and notice that he’s not even making the face. Daddy’s like you don’t see it? And I’m like no. Then I notice a navy blue jewelry box in between Jayden’s arms. It was dark and I may as well be blind, it’s definitely time for some new glasses. So I didn’t see the box right away. I open the box and reveal…

Daddy had something else up his sleeve. He had me read this post while he stood behind me. I got to the last sentence…

Oh and by the way Sheena, turn around.

Confused, I reread the sentence and thought to myself… Why am I turning around? This is like something from a movie when a guy proposes.

I turn around and there Daddy is kneeled down with an open ring box!!!!!!!! It was snot, hugs, and kisses from there and of course I said YES. Well actually, I said of course!

Yes, it’s about time for a fill in or something.

Clutch your pearls (Tanyetta’s famous for saying this, lol), Daddy and I are not married. *GASP* I don’t bother correcting those who call us husband and wife here. Please don’t think of us as heathens, lol. Basically we feel a couple shouldn’t rush into marriage especially when a baby comes into the picture. A wedding is something that we both want to enjoy and cherish, so we much rather wait until we are able to coordinate something decent rather than run off to the Justice of The Peace or end up having a house wedding with Popeye’s chicken We don’t plan on “doing it big”, but we surely can make it look that way by using our resources and sticking to a reasonable budget. We have plans for June 14th 2009. Save the date!

So as you can see I got some very lovely gifts on my very first Mother’s Day. I really wasn’t expecting so much, just having Jayden was enough for me!

Enough rambling about my gifts, it’s time to reveal the winners of the “Celebration of Mommyhood” Mother’s Day Giveaway!

Congrats to the following mommies!:

Sky, who is the winner of the PeaceLoveMom Drawstring Cotton Bag, the Baby Gizmo Buying Guide, the Dream With Me Tonight Volume 2 CD, and the 3-Way Life Pad!
Mommie, who is the winner of the Peppermint Pattie Pedi kit!
1StopMom, who is the winner of the momAgenda Desktop (lime), the Adult Classic Seaband (malibu stripe), and the Toddler Classic Seaband (pink doggy paw)!
Naomi, who is the winner of the Steeping Cup with Meditative Mind Tea, and the 3-Way Life Pad!
Leslie, who is the winner of the momAgenda Desktop (lime) and the Onni Red Crown Handbag!
Lisa C, who is the winner of the Steeping Cup with Meditative Mind Tea, and the 3-Way Life Pad!
Lesha, who is the winner of the Steeping Cup with Meditative Mind Tea, and the 3-Way Life Pad!
Michelle Rosborough, who is the winner of the Steeping Cup with Meditative Mind Tea, and the 3-Way Life Pad!

We’ll be in touch with the winners shortly! Feel free to shoot us an email with where we can send your gifts if you notice your name listed above!

We thank everyone who entered the giveaway! A special thanks goes out to our sponsors: momAgenda, Skimbaco, Seabands, The TeaSpot, Klean Bath & Body, Knock Knock, PeaceLoveMom, and Baby Gizmo Buying Guide!

Winners have been announced here!

In case you missed it, Jayden was born just this past weekend on April 26th, 2008 at 8:18PM. Click here to see the post celebrating the arrival of our beautiful baby boy!

Mommy has been a mommy for six days now, and here is what she has to say about her newfound “mommyhood”:

I’m loving mommyhood! I feel refreshed and confident. I’m experiencing changes in my body that I never knew could happen until now. The simple and maybe disgusting things like Jayden pooting and pooping out what resembles Grey Poupon excites me. Let’s me know that our bodies are getting along. I love ALL of his little sounds. I don’t mind his loud cries, I guess it’s a first time parent thing. He makes the cutest high pitched coo (Daddy mentioned it already!) when I bring him to the boobie bar. He gets so excited and starts snorting. I love it!

So, in light of Mommy’s recent official becoming of a mommy, we’re throwing a Mother’s Day giveaway to celebrate the joys of being a mommy with other mommies, new and seasoned, across the blogosphere! We’d like to call it, “Celebration of Mommyhood”!

The Prizes

We have a total of EIGHT gift packages to be won by EIGHT lucky winners! Take a peek at what there is to be won:

ONE winner will receive a PeaceLoveMom Drawstring Cotton Bag, a Baby Gizmo Buying Guide, a Dream With Me Tonight Volume 2 CD, and a 3-Way Life Pad!

ONE winner will receive a Peppermint Pattie Pedi kit!

ONE winner will receive a momAgenda Desktop (lime), an Adult Classic Seaband (malibu stripe), and a Toddler Classic Seaband (pink doggy paw)!

ONE winner will receive a momAgenda Desktop (lime) and an Onni Red Crown Handbag!

FOUR winners will receive a Steeping Cup with Meditative Mind Tea, and a 3-Way Life Pad!

And we’re also going to throw in a surprise “goodie” in every package! If you’d like a specific gift package, please specify which one you’d like in the comments. Otherwise, a gift package will be chosen at random if you win. We hope that we can make this Mother’s Day a little bit more special for eight mommies out there enjoying mommyhood!

Stay tuned, as more prizes may be added!

How To Enter

There are three ways you can enter this giveaway, and everyone is eligible! You don’t have to own a blog to enter! If you’d like to be included in this giveaway, here’s how:

1. Post a comment explaining what mommyhood means to you. If you’re a daddy, or even if you don’t have any children, explain what mommyhood means to you from your perspective. (Only one comment per person, please!)

2. Blog about this giveaway. We’d love to be able to reach as many mommies as we can so that we can possibly make this Mother’s Day special for them this year. With your help by blogging about this giveaway, we know that the possibilities are endless!

3. Place our giveaway button on your blog. Please let us know in the comments if you’ve placed a button on your blog so that we can count that as an entry in your name. Whether you decide to place a button on your sidebar or include it in a post, both are acceptable ways to be included. Anywhere on your blog is fine! Here is the giveaway button:

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You can enter by just one method, two, or even all three methods. It’s up to you! Each method of entry is worth one entry in this giveaway, for a maximum of three possible entries. This giveaway will end at 5:00PM CST on Mother’s Day, Sunday May 11th, 2008, of which comments will be closed at that time. Winners will be chosen and announced here on Mommy Daddy Blog later on that night.

Good luck, and Happy Mother’s Day to everyone who is enjoying the blessing that is mommyhood!

This giveaway wouldn’t have been possible without: momAgenda, Skimbaco, Seabands, Teaspot, Klean, Knock Knock, PeaceLoveMom, and Baby Gizmo Buying Guide!

The winner of this giveaway is announced at the bottom of this post.

When it comes to internet passwords, what are your methods for keeping track of them? Sometimes it’s easy to use the same password for each account that you own. At times that is impossible. Sometimes your password won’t pass the security requirements because of repetitive characters, not enough characters, or not enough numbers. The list goes on. How frustrating is that? I tend to get out of these battles by tossing x’s in various spots of my passwords, but then this makes them hard to remember…

Quite a few websites provide garbled passwords when you sign up for accounts that you are unable to change. As of now, I still haven’t figured out how to change my StumbleUpon password. For a while I kept clicking “forgot password”. The same went for my domain registrar accounts. I wrote these passwords down on scraps and sticky notes, but of course I kept losing them each time I cleaned up my workspace.

The Internet Password Organizer is a useful way to safely and securely store all of your passwords. 122 reinforced tabbed pages provide instant access to login credentials. Each page is set up kind of like an address book but provides space to record web page, username, password, and notes. I like to use my Internet Password Organizer primarily to record my domain registrar and hosting accounts as well as affiliate program logins. As of late I’ve been forgetting my usernames to accounts since some of my account usernames were also created randomly. So Internet Password Organizer has helped me out with remembering my usernames as well.

Towards the back of the Internet Password Organizer there’s a bonus section that provides space for writing down internet service provider and home network information as well as software license information and additional notes pertaining to your computer. It would have helped if I had this book when I set up my mother’s home wireless network a few years ago. I wrote the details down on a piece of paper and now I don’t remember the network password needed to login. The password is stored on my laptop but if I get a new laptop or someone else needed to use their laptop in her house, they won’t be able to since I forgot the password. Eventually I’m going to have to reconfigure everything and this time write the password down in my Internet Password Organizer.

Interested in what the inside of an Internet Password Organizer looks like? Take a look inside. As a safety precaution I suggest that Internet Password Organizer be locked up in the home office for safe keeping.

April is National Autism Awareness Month. In honor of National Autism Awareness Month, Innovention Lab, Inc. will be donating $1 to Autism Speaks for each Internet Password Organizer purchased from internetpasswordorganizer.com. For every thousand books sold Innovention Lab, Inc will also donate an additional $1,000.

GIVEAWAY!: I have ONE (1) Internet Password Organizer up for grabs! Leave a comment on this post telling me how you and/or your family will benefit from using Internet Password Organizer. The giveaway will end and comments will be closed on April 24th 27th 2008 at 7PM CST.

And the winner is…

#42 Krista! Congratulations Krista! We’ll be getting in contact with you shortly. Thank you everyone for entering our giveaway! If you’d like to be included in future giveaways here on Mommy Daddy Blog, be sure to subscribe to our feed!

April 10th marked 36 weeks for me. Sorry I’m late but I’ve just been overwhelmed with things. Thanks, Daddy, for picking the Crocheted Sunflower Infant Hat Giveaway Winner while I was fast asleep!

We had another dr’s appointment Tuesday, the 8th. The midwife checked my cervix and Jayden’s head has dropped low. I’m going to say that he dropped between week 34-35 because that’s when I started to feel the additional pressure. It’s definitely much harder to walk now, I waddle more, and there’s more pressure on my back, legs, and feet. I’m running to the bathroom more than ever too. I can’t even sleep through the night! I go potty at least 6 times each night! Oh and about that heartburn that’s supposed to go away…it didn’t.

I have found that I am addicted to lime flavored and scented products. They are Edy’s Lime Fruit Bars, Blessed Nest Sour Lime/Ginger Lip Balm, and Bath and Body Works Coconut Lime Verbena body cream and splash. I didn’t even realize my addiction until I clung to the Coconut Lime Verbena. If you have something lime, send it my way!

Oh this reminded me of something funny my nutritionist asked me Monday:

Nutritionist: Have you had any non-food cravings?
Me: Huh?
Nutritionist: Have you been craving to eat items that aren’t food? We had one lady come in here that ate dryer lint.
Me: *laughs out loud* UH NO, I haven’t wanted to eat anything but food. *laughs out loud*
Nutritionist: Hey it’s possible, pregnant women have strange cravings.
Me: *snickers*

After reading B.Y.O.Gown - The Girlie Variety at The Opinionated Parent, I am disgusted at the thought of using an hospital gown, lol. I wish I didn’t read the post BUT if you continue to read you’ll find that they are giving away a Girlie Gown! How innovative and stylish! My favorite pattern is the black and white Modern Mummy. It’s wise to choose the darkest since there’s going to be mess involved, lol. I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll be the winner of the giveaway!

The weather is just starting to get warmer and I bought a new lens, tripod, and other things for my camera, so I’ll be sure to update with more pictures. Expect more product reviews and giveaways as well. Until next time!

Today marks the end of yet another fun giveaway here on Mommy Daddy Blog! Our Crocheted Sunflower Infant Hat Giveaway actually ended yesterday, but Mommy’s body has really been taking a toll on her as we get closer and closer to Jayden’s expected due date (less than a month left!). So since Mommy’s resting away, I’ll be the one to pick the winner of the giveaway! So here we go! And the winning number is…

#29 - SJ!

Congratulations SJ! We will be getting in touch with you shorty! Thanks SJ, and to everyone else who took the time to enter our giveaway! As stated before, stay tuned because we have many more giveaways planned that you don’t want to miss out on! Be sure to stay updated by subscribing to our feed, because you never know what we might give away next!

As for other news, look forward to Mommy’s 36th week update; that is, if she’s up to it. These last weeks of our pregnancy are becoming a little uneasy for Mommy physically. So you guys may actually see another Daddy Style weekly update or two! We’ll just have to wait and see how Mommy feels!

Also, we’re on Twitter! We’ve actually been on Twitter for a while, but I’m just now starting to play around with it. It seems like a nice way to meet new people and stay updated with friends. I’m not a “hardcore Twitterer” yet (it’s amazing how some people tweet every single minute!), but Mommy and I will try our best to update from time to time. So if you’re a Twitter/Tweeter/Twit (or whatever “Twitter people” are called!), follow us on Twitter!