Just some quick links and fun stuff I found around the web this week:

First off, please don’t forget to enter my current giveaways over on my other site:

• A Lexen Healthy Juicer (enter by 11:59 pm EST on November 22nd).  And I’m also giving another one away here at Mom of 3 Girls as well!
• A $10 gift certificate to Build-A-Bear Workshop (enter by 11:59 pm EST on November 26th).
• A $25 gift certificate to Restoration Hardware Baby and Child (enter by November 30th).
• Three Disney Holiday Prize Packs (includes Camp Rock, Bolt and Disney Box Office Hits CDs- enter by December 15th).
  

This week’s reviews were for the SpiritClips website, R.W. Knudsen Family’s Sensible Sippers drink boxes, three books/CD combinations from The Secret Mountain, the book You Think It’s Easy Being The Tooth Fairy?, the Shop.com site, the Refresh’n Dryer Towel, the TokBox website, the PARENTise website, and a blog review for Jamie’s Precious Peas.

Other new posts this week include a heads-up on Sears’ layaway program, a heads-up on a great new kids’ show on PBS, two new additions to the ‘Baby Kid’ blog family, and some great information about the Medicare Today website and Medicare “Part D”. 

You’ll want to stay tuned (and subscribed) over there next week, since I’m going to be launching my Holiday Gift Guide a bit earlier than originally planned.  And grab the button for it – you can get extra entries into all of the upcoming Gift Guide Giveaways if you have it in your sidebar!

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This week’s Contest Round-Up is up over at the other site as well. And don’t forget to check the Contests page during the week – there are some pretty awesome giveaways happening around the blogosphere so you don’t want to miss out on your chance to enter any of them!

Some interesting posts I read this week on other sites include:

• Twitter contests are getting more and more popular – Twitter! Tweet! Win! is a site where you can submit yours if you run them, and where you can find great Twitter contests to enter! And if you’re not on Twitter yet – what are you waiting for? 
• Need a good laugh? Check out the A Dose of Humor column over at 5 Minutes For Parenting! With articles like this and this – you’re sure to break out the chuckles. And you can submit your own funny posts too!
• Pink Lemonade of Life is looking for contributors – check it out if you’re interested! I only wish I had the time…
• The Power of Collaboration in Today’s Blogging World is a 2-part series over at ProBlogger about having a ‘Blogging Buddy’. Check out Part One ‘10 Reasons to Find a Blog Buddy‘ and Part Two ‘How To Go About Finding a Blogging Buddy‘.
• I have learned so much from Jordan at MamaBlogga about the ins and outs of blogging! She recently wrote The New Ultimate Guide To Migrating From Blogger To WordPress, and I’d recommend anyone who’s thinking about switching check it out.
• Do you want to have those buttons on your sidebar that link to all of the social networking sites that you’re active in?  Check out the Blog Badge Maker widget as mentioned over at BlogCoach!
• I keep meaning to write a post about doing product reviews and how to get started… Well, now I don’t need to because Michelle over at Scribbit has done just that! Check out her very thorough and awesome post Reader’s Panel: How Do You Do Product Reviews? She goes through how to get started and what you need to keep in mind. I would definitely second her suggestion to get started by simply reviewing products that you know and love – it’s the best way I’ve found to get the hang of writing reviews, and it shows off your writing style to PR reps and companies out there.
• Metropolitan Mama has a few questions for you – take a few minutes to stop over and answer them!

We’re still working out our plans for the weekend – so far they’re including some hanging out at home and pure laziness. Not a bad thing every once in a while – hope you all have a great weekend!