Join Dora and Boots in a double-length magical adventure plus two additional episodes in Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom!

Dora Saves The Crystal Kingdom – The Greedy King has taken the crystals and drained the Crystal Kingdom of its color! Jump into Dora’s storybook with her on an epic quest to recover the crystals. She’ll need your help facing knights, dragons, magicians, and more to bring color back to the kingdom.

First Day of School – Dora is taking Boots and Tico to their first day of school! Help Boots learn Spanish and Tico learn English on their adventure to get to school!

Boots’ Banana Wish – Boots wishes that he will get bananas every time he says “bananas.” Now he needs help from Dora, you, and a special Wishing Machine to fix his out-of-control wish!

Kaitlyn still loves Dora and this DVD has been a daily request since we got it last month. At only $14.99 on Amazon, it would make a wonderful gift for the holidays!

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It was so great of Hershey’s to let me give ten lucky readers a bag of Hershey’s Kisses Meltaway milk chocolates, and it was obviously a prize a lot of people wanted to win since there were 384 total entries!  I used random.org’s sequence generator to randomize the numbers 1-384,  “shuffled” the numbers three times, and these were the first ten numbers in the sequence:

312- comment from P. Larch who eats chocolate by the handful
286- comment from Sharon who could use some chocolate right now (so sorry about your husband)
195- comment from Judy Brittle @kewpiedoll04 who likes to eat chocolate by herself and not have to share
33- comment from Nora P. who eats chocolate when she’s stressed at work
279- comment from Cori who also likes to eat chocolate by herself and not share!
49- comment from Carol @cdziuba who likes a good plain chocolate bar
89- comment from Lisa @samasam who likes her chocolate with coffee, tea, or champagne
361- comment from Dddiva who likes to freeze her chocolate before eating (me too!)
21- comment from Samantha Jo Campen who likes to freeze a Hershey bar and slather it with peanut butter (YUM)
207- comment from Becca who loves chocolate in muffins

Everyone will get an email from me this evening asking for a mailing address. Thanks again to everyone who entered!

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Our old refrigerator was hard to keep clean, both inside and outside. The outside surface was this dingy yellow, so it never looked sparkling clean. And inside, it had these off-white plastic shelves that had to be taken apart to remove the drawers, which were brown on the front. It was UGLY.  My lovely new Frigidaire, on the other hand, is downright PRETTY inside!  I’m so proud to be a member of Team Fridge, and I’m happy to be encouraging my readers that if you are in the market for a new refrigerator, to seriously consider something from the Frigidaire Gallery Collection.

Everything in the Frigidaire Gallery Collection is designed to help you get things done in less time and with less effort, giving you more “Me” Time and reducing your “Motherload”.  Some of the features on the Frigidaire Gallery Collection refrigerator that I have are:

# Real stainless steel with a protective coating that reduces fingerprints and smudges so it’s easy to clean.
# PureAir Ultra™ Filters: Keeps the air cleaner and fresher.
# SpillSafe™ Shelves: Designed to keep spills contained, making clean up a breeze.
# Bright Lighting makes it easy to see what’s inside.

The Air Filter snaps into a holder on the side, I hardly notice it, but I’ll tell you what, I do notice less food odors in the fridge. And it is significantly brighter inside than our old fridge.  Another cool feature is that the water and ice dispenser has blue backlighting, so someone getting up at night to get a drink can see the dispenser without having to turn on the overhead light.

One tip I have for owners of this fridge- pick up a bottle of stainless steel cleaner which should be available with the cleaning products in most stores. It cleans the surface of the fridge without any damage to the finish. Plus you can use it to make your kitchen faucets clean and shiny!

disclosure: As a member of Team Fridge, I received my Frigidaire Gallery Collection refrigerator for free in exchange for agreeing to write regular posts about it.  I am free to give my honest opinion at all times.

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This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the two winners:

#18 3 Carnations who subscribes and follows on Twitter

#42 Julie who subscribes and follows on Twitter

Enjoy your prizes!

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My three kids go through a LOT of cereal. Besides breakfast, they sometimes have it for an after-school snack, and Kaitlyn sometimes wants a bowl of cereal before bed. I try to stick to cereals made with whole grain, but that doesn’t have to mean a boring bowl of sticks and twigs! General Mills knows that kids love fun, fruity cereal and that parents want nutrition, so their popular kids’ cereals are now made with whole grain which makes me AND my kids happy! One of those cereals is Trix, the one with the “silly rabbit” who just can’t resist the fruity flavors of raspberry red, lemony lemon, orangey orange, wildberry blue, grapity purple and watermelon. As if original Trix wasn’t yummy enough, now there’s Trix Swirls, with pieces that have two flavors swirled together!

Thanks to MyBlogSpark, we got a box of Trix Swirls to review, and between my husband and my three kids, that box lasted less than a day. We also received an amazing art set so we could experiment with swirling colors together just like in the Trix pieces! Ryan’s the artist in our family, and Kaitlyn asked him to paint her something, so he painted her a big cupcake with a cherry on top, and she loved it so much, she asked to have it taped to the wall in her room. I have two Trix Swirls prize baskets to give away, and each will include:

• A box of Trix Swirls (this might be a coupon for a free box instead)
• A colorful apron
• a set of watercolor pencils
• watercolor paints
• brushes
• a sketchbook
• an art supply box

If you have kids who love to paint and create with color, this is the giveaway for you to enter!

WIN IT: To enter this giveaway, leave a comment telling me how you and your child(ren) think Trix Swirls were created (i.e. Did they run into one another? Dance around? Spin with one another too quickly? etc.), or what are your favorite things you would like to see swirled together? Open to U.S. only, enter by September 26th at 3:00 PM EST.

BONUS ENTRIES: I’ll give you one extra entry for each of the following that you do or have done, leave a separate comment for each:

• Subscribe to the RSS feed for MomReviews, links are in the top right corner
• Blog about the giveaway or add the link to a contest round-up. Leave the URL in your comment
• Follow MomReviews on Twitter – new!! Leave your twitter ID in your comment
• Tweet the giveaway, leave the status URL in your comment (under your tweet, where it says how long ago you posted the tweet, that’s a link you can click for the specific page for that tweet. Copy the URL) You can tweet ONCE PER DAY, leave a separate comment for each.

Win Trix Swirls Cereal and Art Supplies, 2 Winners! Ends 9/26 Please RT http://bit.ly/245EN7

Thanks for entering and good luck everybody!

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Oh yes, I said it. I am IN LOVE with my Frigidaire Gallery Collection fridge.  I love the dispenser that gives me filtered water and my choice of ice cubes or crushed ice, I love the shelves that are deep enough to hold TWO gallons of milk with room left over, I love the clear drawers that show me at a glance if we are getting low on veggies, I love the in-door shelves that hold all my condiments and cans of pop, I love the suspended shelf that I think is meant for a bottle of wine but on which we keep two liter bottles of pop.  Here’s the inside:

Frigidaire recently conducted a survey to get a window into moms’ lives. The Frigidaire Motherload Index revealed that Moms log more overtime than most Americans. The index found that moms spend most of their waking lives – 200 hours each month, in fact – doing the activities we least enjoy rather than the things we love. And yet the majority of us say we “rarely” or “never” feel caught up on our household tasks. Frigidaire kept all of this in mind when designing their new appliances. With new features such as a six-minute PowerPlus™ preheat time on their ovens, a Quick Clean dishwashing cycle that cuts the time it takes in half to clean our dishes, the Fits-More™ Dryer that allows us to dry the whole family’s clothes at once, and TimeWise™ technology to make the dryer and washing cycle equal, Moms (and Dads) get more time to spend with their family or taking some “me” time.

So, does my fridge save me time? Absolutely.  Besides letting me see almost every item in there with no digging around to find the tub of butter I was sure I had or whether we’re out of jam, the biggest time saver so far has been the water dispenser. We like our water really cold, so we were keeping a Brita pitcher in the fridge and almost every day, had to sit the pitcher in the sink with the water running to get it filled up. It was a pain. Having instant filtered water has increased the amount of water we all drink, too!

Visit the Frigidaire Gallery Collection site to learn more about all the time-saving appliances by Frigidaire. You can also become a fan of My Motherload on the Frigidaire Facebook Page!

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People say comment #1 never wins, but this proves otherwise- I used random.org to randomize the number of comments, and it chose comment #1 as the winner!

Congratulations Eloise from Mommy 2 Two Girls, winner of the Bandslam Prize Pack! Check your email, you have until Monday to reply.

There’s still time to enter to win the I’m Your Bus Giveaway here, and the Lands’ End $100 Gift Card giveaway I’m running on Table for Five. Good luck!

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