RiverSong Festival

Posted by Beth Gasser on July 27, 2010 1 Comment

My town’s music festival is this coming weekend. RiverSong is located along the Crow River in Hutchinson, MN, and it is a full weekend of fantastic folk music the whole family will enjoy. There’s a big park, river, music, food, camping, wildlife, bike trails, and so much more. The best part is that tickets are affordable and kids under 14 years old are FREE! If you are looking for something fun to do this weekend in Minnesota, check out Riversong. Discount tickets are available until Wed. July 28th! If you are there and spy me, Confessions of a Mom, let’s take our picture together and post it here.

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The Jensen Project Movie Giveaway

Posted by Beth Gasser on July 13, 2010 6 Comments

UPDATE: Congratulations to Carole Spring, Winner of the Movie and Soundtrack!

I am pleased to announce that on Friday night, July 16th we’ll be sitting down as a family to watch the premiere of “The Jensen Project” on NBC at 8/7c. I was contacted by those promoting the movie and offered a special preview, which we watched. The kids were excited to see some of their favorite American Idol alum on the soundtrack recording clips. I was intrigued by the clever use of sci-fi story line, while maintaining the integrity of family movie.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS: So now the good part: I have one copy of the movie and soundtrack to give away to one lucky blog reader. All you have to do to enter this giveaway is leave a comment below. The winner will be chosen randomly and notified via email. Therefore make sure you leave an email address in your comment! If I can’t contact you, I’ll need to select another winner. Deadline to enter is Friday, July 23rd!

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TotallyTarget.com

Posted by Beth Gasser on June 9, 2010 1 Comment

It has occurred to me that not everyone is aware of the site TotallyTarget.com, because not long ago I had no idea it existed. I love checking it for good deals, clearance items, and coupon help.

Don’t have a Target in your area? I still use it for coupon ideas, and I have actually found better deals at Cashwise, EconoFoods, or Walmart with the same coupons/product saving ideas.

Just today I got tons of free and nearly free items, including all the Rolaids our family could possibly use in a long time, lotion, shampoo, and deodorant. I was bummed that the clearance Jello that would have cost about 11 cents were gone when we got there, but we still got some great deals.

Do you have a site you absolutely love that helps you save money and find good deals? Please share it with us.

photo credit: dno1967

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A Rainy Day at Valleyfair

Posted by Beth Gasser on June 8, 2010 4 Comments

What’s worse?

Driving with three kids an hour to get to Valleyfair?
Taking three kids in varying age ranges to Valleyfair?
Paying for a family of five to go to Valleyfair?
Paying for parking in order to pay for five people to spend the day at Valleyfair?
Having one child still in diapers while spending a day at Valleyfair?
Standing in the rain for seven hours while we desperately tried to get our money’s worth at Valleyfair?
Finding out many of the rides we paid for are not open during the rain?
Soaking wet and freezing all the way home?
Seeing the sun come out bright and shining about 15 miles from home?

Despite all of this, we did have a memorable day at Valleyfair. The kids had fun and nobody got hypothermia or extreme chaffing, so all is well.

photo credit: jessicapearsonmn

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Grocery Giveaway

Posted by Beth Gasser on May 27, 2010 13 Comments

Congratulations to JoAnn who was randomly selected as the winner!

It’s been a while since I focused my attention on connecting with other bloggers. I want to deepen the connections I confessions of a mom have made over the last two years, and meet some more great people. I decided to focus on growing my subscriber base this next week, so that we can get the idea juices flowing again.

Since I started my recent hobby of couponing, I have been able to stock my pantry with all kinds of cool items. For this giveaway, I’m going to fill a “surprise” box full of items. One randomly selected winner will have to wait to open up the box to find out. I promise there will be all kinds of food, health & beauty items, etc! You’ll have to enter and win to find out! Winner will be selected on my 15th Wedding Anniversary, June 3rd, 2010 at 11:59pm!

To Enter:

REQUIRED: Subscribe to my blog via email, and make sure you verify the subscription (watch for the email and click on the verification link). Then leave a comment that you “subscribed via email”. If you are already a subscriber, let me know that too. If you have something you’d like to confess in your comment, that’d be great too! Make sure you enter an email to contact you. (1 entry)
Subscribe to my blog via Google Friend Connect, then leave a separate comment. (1 entry)
Join the Confessions of a Mom Fan Page on Facebook, then leave a separate comment telling me which name (first, and last initial is fine) I’d see in my list of “Likes”. (1 entry)
Follow ConfessionsMom on Twitter and tweet this giveaway-Write your own or use this: “Purely for fun GIVEAWAY while helping @ConfessionsMom grow her mom blog connections. You can join in too http://bit.ly/cQDMZN ” , then leave a separate comment. (1 tweet per day)

Since this is purely for fun and non-compensated, I’d love if you’d tell me about your blog in your comments. If you don’t blog, what are some of your passions? The reason I’m doing this is to connect with more people, so let’s have fun.

Winner will be contacted via email. If the randomly selected winner does not leave an email address, another will be chosen. The winner will have 48 hours to reply with a designated name/shipping address or another winner will be selected.

Enjoy!

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