Business Card Winners

The two winners of the 500 Uprinting business cards are

Alison

and

Jennifer

Congratulations! Uprinting will be contacting you soon.

$200 Visa Card Winner

The winner of the $200 Visa gift card is Leigh! Congratulations, Leigh. I'll send your email on and you will be contacted soon.

Custom Postcard Winners

The winners for the custom postcards are:

#7 Cathy

and

#8 Cheryl

Uprinting will be contacting you to send your prize.

500 Free Business Cards

I recently received an email from Uprinting offering another giveaway!

It turns out they took a poll on Twitter asking which product people would most like to win in a giveaway. The most popular answer was business cards, so they have agreed to give away 500 business cards to 2 of my readers!

(2) PRIZE WINNERS WILL RECEIVE

500 Business Cards

Choose size: 2x3.5”, 2x3”, 2x2";

Choose paper: 14pt cardstock (matte or gloss coating) & 13 pt cardstock uncoated

Choose Color: (4/4) Color both sides; (4/1) Color 1 side , B/W backside; (4/0) Color 1 side, black backside

Shipping must be paid by Winner. Offer Valid for UNITED STATES SHIPPING ONLY.

If you win, you can choose between 3 different business card sizes. There are also some nifty die cut business cards!

Enter by leaving a comment on how you might use the prize if you win.

I will select 2 winners, by random number generator, on September 10, 2009.

Custom Postcards Giveaway

*Have you entered to win my $200 Visa gift card?
Digital Room has offered to give two of my readers a set of 200 custom postcards!

You can personalize these to be custom greeting cards, custom postcards for invitations, thank you cards, announcements, holiday greetings, or anything else you can dream up.

(2) PRIZE WINNERS WILL RECEIVE

• 200 Custom Postcards (choose your size: 4x6, 4.25x6, 5x7"); 14pt gloss or matte, 13 pt uncoated

• Full Color on both sides (4/4)

Shipping must be paid by Winner. Offer Valid for UNITED STATES SHIPPING ONLY.


To enter, leave a comment about how you might use your custom postcards.

I will draw a winner on September 3, 2009.

Lines of Communication (and a $200 Visa gift card)

This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Sprint.

When BlogHer contacted me to offer one of my readers a $200 Visa gift card, I was tickled pink to be able to offer such a fantastic prize!

It turns out they are dying to know how parents keep the lines of communication open with their kids as they gain more independence and freedom in their teen years.

And it turns out that I am in that situation, right here, right now, because my two oldest, a 14 year old girl and a 12 year old boy have more opportunities than ever before to attend all manner of activities with the youth group at church.

It seems there is an activity for every night of the week, and I'm not saying there is anything wrong with providing those activities, but we choose to be very selective in which activities we allow.

Which brings me to the first way we keep communication flowing at our house:

1. Spend time together. We eat dinner together, all 9 of us, at our dining room table, with the television OFF most nights without fail. We try not to let anything interfere with this routine and our children know how important this time together is to us.


2. Spend time together - alone. My golf pro husband takes one of the children (age 9 and up) with him each time he goes out of town to play in a golf tournament. They get to spend 3 days together with no one competing for the attention of the other. I also try to do this on a smaller scale. Whenever I can, I will take only one of the kids with me for something as simple as a bank run, or a special event like a Pampered Chef party or a baby shower .


3. Listen and share. I like to listen to my kids tell me stories about what happened at church camp or at homeschool co-op or in Bible class. In turn, these stories almost always lead to them asking me if those things ever happened to me when I was a kid. They love to hear about the time I saved my lunch money every day for a week in third grade so I could skip the bus, walk to the candy store, and eat all the candy I could buy before I got home to pretend that I had ridden the bus like a good little girl. Their favorite part is how I got into BIG trouble when my mother got wind of the whole scheme.
   

And NOW is your chance to win a $200 Visa gift card.

To enter, leave me a comment below and tell me how you keep the lines of communication open with your kids as they grow older and gain more freedom - or you may leave a link to your post on your own blog in the comments below. (Check out below how to be entered more than once.)

The contest will begin at 9:00 a.m. (PST) August 10, 2009 and will end 5:00 p.m. (PST) September 4, 2009.. Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct.

Rules:

* No duplicate comments.
* You may receive an additional entry by linking on Twitter and leaving a link in the comments.
* You may receive an additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments.
* This giveaway is open to US-residents, 18 and over.
* Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail.
* You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
* Please see the official rules here: Official Rules

Check out how other BlogHer Reviewers keep lines of communication open with their growing kids - you've got 8 other chances to win a $200 Visa gift card!

Find more info for keeping in touch with your kids here.