Mom~E~Centric

You know I go crazy over anything that benefits my kids. And if it is an educational benefit, then go get ‘em. So, here’s what I have for you…you are going to love this!

SmartyRents.com an educational video game rental company featuring LeapFrog and VTech games. We RENT games for eight game systems including Little Leaps, Clickstart, Leapster, Didj, V.Smile Baby, V.Smile, V.Motion, and V.Flash. All games are available to rent including those no longer available on the market for purchase. Families can choose one of several SmartyRents rental packages to meet the individual needs of all children in the family. Our company works similar to Netflix in that customers choose from a variety of game titles with no late fees that are shipped free, directly to their door.

You can use the following promo code through September 30, 2010 for 1 FREE month of the 1 Game at a Time package or $9.99 towards the package of their choice

Promo: smart9

Exp: 9/30/10

In addition to that, I have a big prize for 5 of you..you read that right, five winners.

What’s up for grabs?

5 winners will receive a 3 month membership of the 1 Game at a Time package or $9.99 towards the package of their choice.

Here’s how you can win?

Contest Information!

1. The contest starts at Noon, CST on August 26, 2010 and ends at Noon, CST on September 5, 2010
2. The contest is open to U.S. Residents only unless otherwise specified.
3. The winner will be given 48 hours to reply with a mailing address and then another winner will be chosen.
4. The winner will be chosen via Random.org’s Random Integer Function
5. Most of my giveaways require one entry and I give tons of bonus entries. Each additional entry is always optional and EACH ONE MUST BE LEFT IN A SEPARATE comment to count.  If you don’t follow the giveaway rules I will just delete your comment.
6. I don’t like to devote posts to winners nor do I like to mention it in my posts.   My plan is to keep those posts in the pages area in the right sidebar, I will simply mark them closed with the information to identify to the winner in the post until the prizes have been claimed by the winner.  Please make sure jareason@gmail.com is white listed in your email so that you can receive information from me regarding contests

Giveaway sponsors are responsible for shipping prizes that are offered on Mom~E~Centric. Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery of any prizes won. If you do not receive your item AFTER that time, please email me and I will follow up with them.

Mandatory Entry:

The mandatory entry leave a comment with a link to the games you like most.

Extra Entries: Various Combos of this Can and Will be Used

1. 5 extra entries will be awarded for subscribing to Mom~E~Centric.

2.  5 extra entries will be awarded for posting about this contest on your blog, you must return and leave a comment with the link to the exact url of your post, not your general url.  If you have multiple blogs, you can post about this contest once on each of your blogs and receive 5 extra entries for each blog.

3.  1 extra entry each will be awarded for following me on Twitter @The_Jerri_Ann .   If  you already follow me, leave your twitter name, if you are just following me, come back and leave your twitter name so I know to look for you so I can follow you back.

4.   2 extra entry each will be awarded for bookmarking each post in places like Digg, Kirtsy, Technorati, etc.   You can get 2 extra entry for each place you bookmark it but you must leave that information in separate comments.

5.  1 extra entry each will be awarded for bookmarking any other post on this blog to any of those same bookmarking sites listed above. You may do this as often as possible with as many posts and as many bookmarking sites, however you MUST leave a separate comment for each.  (I realize this one is a bit far fetched and out there but hey, some folks have all next week….anyway, naturally it’s an extra entry but could get you some massive entries)

6.  1 extra entry each for tweeting about this contest with @The_Jerri_Ann and the link to this contest in your tweet.  You can do this a maximum of 5 times a day.

Disclaimer: Mom~E~Centric’s reviews and its author assume no liability for damages associated with any prizes awarded here or contents contained therein. Prizes lost in the mail or those not delivered by sponsors are not the responsibility of Mom~E~Centric or its author. Prizes not claimed within two weeks of notification to the winner will have to be forfeited.

Entrants must be 18 years of age or older to enter, and entrants must follow state and local laws concerning sweepstakes.

Sign up using my referral code too!  Go to YourSphere and use the referral code YSMC-0018 to get started.

Be sure if you use Twitter to check out the #yoursphere thread too

I am a YourSphere test drive mom and let’s just be honest here..my brain is fried.  I’ve been in and out of the site I couldn’t tell you how many times and I have been in and out of the site with Ditto Boy too.  But, apparently I’m a numbskull and every time I’ve gone in, I’ve created a new account for the one kid.

I have that straightened out now so hopefully I an get you some good information soon.  For now, let me tell you about a game the kid played……

Naturally since we sold our desktop, we have to share our laptops until we get another desktop built for the kids.  So, when I turned over the computer….I turned over my day apparently.  I don’t know what all he actually played, I just knew that he was in a safety zone and not roaming the internet.

The fun that he played and then I had to play to prove I could beat him was the one with balls.  You shoot at the balls and try to clear them out before they reach the bottom of the screen.  And, you need three balls of one color to make them go “poof”.  Let’s just say…I lost a lot.

So, go ahead on over, use that referral code, get yourself and your kids signed up and see what fun they can have with the cool games.

Then, I watched as he played the “What are We Contest” and let’s just say ….I didn’t know.  He got a couple of them but where, those were hard.  Ditto Boy looked through some photos to choose for the contest a best photo but never decided on one and I HAD to get my laptop back and get to work.

So, now, go ahead, go check it out yourself!

I wrote this review while participating in the Yoursphere Test Drive program by Mom Central on behalf of Yoursphere. I received a free lifetime Gold membership on Yoursphere.com, Yoursphere t-shirts, and a $50 American Express gift card to facilitate my review.

Overheard (that is if you are a fly on my bedroom wall – and please tell me you are not, but you get the idea). And, one more thing, I’ve written before about this briefly but have you seen this chairs? Since it appears that I am going to be doing more actual work by the way of sitting at a desk, I’m thinking I need one of these bad boys….the Embody Chair doesn’t that just sound awesome?

Mom: zZzzzzzzZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

1st grader: Mom, it’s time to go to school

Mom: zZzzzzz WHAT? *feet hit the floor running*

1st grader: I set my clock to get me up and now I’m ready to go to school, come on.

Mom: *staggering to the fridge for a soda* What time is it?

1st grader: 6:45

Mom: *stopping dead in her tracks* WHAT?

1st grader: I’m ready.

Mom: I’m not. We get up at 6:45, we do not leave home at 6:45. Okay? 1st grader: Ok.

Mom: zzzZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz 1st grader: Mom…..Mom….MOOOOOOOOOOM Mom: WHAT? zzzzzzzzzzz

1st grader: I know it’s Saturday and we don’t have school on Saturday but if it were Saturday it would be time to get up. See? I set my clock for 6:45 just like you said. I’m going back to bed.

Mom: zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz What just happened here?

This is so not cool.

So, we had to make it a rule that I set the clock and I set the alarm and he only gets up with the chickens on school days. I do not need to know that it is time to get up IF it were a school day. We needed a better way.

Enter, Time Tracker!

I set his clock and I turn on his alarm. He gets up and his Time Tracker is preset so that he knows we leave home in 30 minutes. Some mornings I get up because I wake up and other mornings? I play the role of the bad parent and I simply get up early enough to put some pants on and grab breakfast money and my keys. We live 5 miles from school. He wants to eat breakfast at school and honestly, who wouldn’t? For the cost of one dollar, he is getting pancakes, gravy and biscuits, eggs, etc. You name it, they have it. If he eats at home, he is getting cold cereal because….I’m a bad parent that way. No, honestly, I can barely function at that time of the morning and I can barely cook. Combining those two variables is simply not a good idea. Who can argue?

The Time Tracker is also used for brushing teeth because apparently they think that swish swish is the right amount of time. So, we set the time for 5 minutes. One kid brushes until the time indicates that it is at the 50% mark and then the other kid brushes til the timer goes off. This little guy (the Time Tracker, yes I’m referring to it as a person) is very cool with time. He tells the kids how much time they have remaining verbally but also with the use of the red, yellow and green lights.

And, if you prefer not to get up with the chickens and you need to help your kids learn to manage time “5 minutes til dinner, go wash up” or “15 minutes til bedtime” or “you must clean for 10 minutes in that pig sty of a room”…oh wait, ya’ll are good parents, I forgot.

Anyway, the best part of this little gem is that one of you guys will be getting one too! No, really, you get to enter to win one! And, we are following the new contest design for the second month now. I had a guest poster on October 1st so we are starting this contest at 12:00 AM on October 2, 2009 and it ends at midnight on October 10, 2009.

I know it hardly seems fair but we are going to have to continue to stick with shipping to the continental United States and Canada. All other contest rules and disclaimers still apply.

By the way, if you don’t win one, these guys are really inexpensive ways to save your sanity! Contests will begin on the 1st and the 15th and end on the 10th and the 25th unless otherwise requested by a sponsor and will be noted in the contest post.

Mandatory Entry:

The mandatory entry will be for the reader to go to the sponsors website and pick out a favorite product and then return to the contest post and leave a comment identifying that product in the comments section.

Extra Entries:

1. 5 extra entries will be awarded for signing up for the newsletter on Blogalogues and returning and leaving the email that you used to sign up with

2. 1 extra entry will be awarded for putting the Blogalogues button on your own site. You will need to return to the contest post and leave the address where I can find the button. Here is the button and the code.

<a href=”http://www.blogalogues.com” mce_href=”http://www.blogalogues.com”><img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-467″ title=”Blogalogues125″ src=”http://www.blogalogues.com/wp-content/uploads/Blogalogues125.jpeg” mce_src=”http://www.blogalogues.com/wp-content/uploads/Blogalogues125.jpeg” alt=”Blogalogues125″ width=”125″ height=”125″ /></a>

3. 1 extra entry will be awarded for putting the Mom~E~Centric button on your site and then returning to the contest post and leaving the address where the button can be found. Here is the button and the code to use.

<a href=”http://www.momecentric.com”><img title=”momecentric_thumb” src=”http://www.momecentric.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/momecentric_thumb.jpg” alt=”momecentric_thumb” width=”125″ height=”125″ /></a></textarea>

4. 1 extra entry will be awarded for following Mom~E~Centric in an RSS feed. You will need to return to the contest post and leave your username that you signed up with.

5. 1 extra entry for following me on twitter. If you already follow me, simply comment with your username and if you don’t follow me already, go to The_Jerri_Ann and follow me. You must return here and let me know the Twitter name you are using to follow me.

6. 1 extra entry for tweeting the contest. You will need to use @The_Jerri_Ann in every tweet. Check each contest to see if the sponsor requires you to use their Twitter name and what that name is. You will need to leave a comment with a link to each of your tweets. You will only be allowed to tweet each contest 3 times a day. (Notice this is different than some of my other contests where Tweeting was unlimited). Disclaimer: Mom~E~Centric’s reviews and its author assume no liability for damages associated with any prizes awarded here or contents contained therein. Prizes lost in the mail or those not delivered by sponsors are not the responsibility of Mom~E~Centric or its author. Prizes not claimed within two weeks of notification to the winner will have to be forfeited. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older to enter, and entrants must follow state and local laws concerning sweepstakes.

So, last night the kiddo’s started their t-ball season as players in a game instead of just practicing.  We got our brains beat out by an all girl team in the first game.  Then, we did some beating in the second game.  Today we lost again but there was a professional photographer there and she got some awesome photos.  If I get to it, I’ll scan them so you can see them….we even bought a poster size of each kid…they were that good.

But, in the meantime, you are stuck looking at what I made…..

This little boy is just a few days older than Mini Me and he has an older brother who is a few days older than Ditto Boy…weird eh?

His first time “on deck”!

Playing the pitcher requires lots of gear……

His first at-bat of the season and it was a home run…no kidding.

Mini Me was finished making pictures by this time and only wanted to go play his game.

And, this last one…this is a member of the all girl team that beat us….do you think she’s gonna be speedy or what?

She is standing on 2nd base by the way…