I’m SO excited about this giveaway — and I think you will be, too!
Creatively Obsessed offers handmade items all designed from upcycled materials.
They take Vintage books, buttons, crystals, and more and re-purpose them to make one-of-a-kind jewelry and accessories.
I especially love their Vintage Dictionary Word Necklaces! You can get them custom made with a word of your choice.
This would make a very unique and treasured gift for someone else. And it could also be a wonderful necklace to purchase as a reminder to yourself of a word that is meaningful to you!
Creatively Obsessed let me choose a word for my necklace and I chose the word “Courage”. It’s a word that has deep meaning to me in my life right now as we’re in a season of stepping out and walking down a path of adventure and many unknowns. I love the necklace and have worn it often since receiving it.
Save 20% Off Any Purchase from Creatively Obsessed
If you’re interested in purchasing a Vintage Dictionary Word Necklace or something else from Creatively Obsessed, you can use coupon code MOTHERSDAY during the entire month of May to get 20% off any purchase.
Would you like to win a Vintage Dictionary Word Necklace? Creatively Obsessed is giving away 13 necklaces this weekend to my readers (randomly chosen words)! To enter, just click on the graphic below and type in your name and email address. 13 winners will be chosen and posted early next week. This giveaway ends Sunday, May 4, at 11:59 pm, CST.
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Well, I started off this month’s Get More Sleep Challenge with a bang: I got 10 hours of sleep last night! I can’t remember the last time I got that much sleep, but it felt amazing! 
We spent all morning and early afternoon unloading the moving truck. It’s always a little overwhelming to have all your earthly belongings being hauled in at once and dumped in the appropriate rooms. I sort of wished I could wave a magic wand and have everything unpacked and in its place.
Since the house layout/room set-up is pretty different here than our previous house, we don’t have a basement, and we have fewer rooms/bedrooms than we did in our old house, it’s made figuring out where everything goes a little more interesting! But we’re really happy with what we finally worked out… now we’ll see how it works!
I’m so thankful my youngest sister, Olivia, is here with us through tomorrow. She’s been a huge help. I can’t even count all the boxes she unpacked today or the hours she saved me! We’re going to be sad to see her leave in the morning. 
After about three hours of unpacking, I needed a breather, so Silas and I left to go get lunch for everyone and coffee for me (mama needs her coffee!). That was an adventure, to say the least. I learned which roads were one-way (yikes!), got stuck in traffic, and was ever-so-thankful for a GPS. Navigation in new areas (or even in areas I’ve driven in time and time again!) has never been my strong suit. 
We made it back safe and sound and jumped right back into unpacking. A little while later, the doorbell rang. It was a neighbor with a bouquet of sunflowers. She had seen our Kansas license plate and had gone and bought us a bouquet of sunflowers. How amazingly thoughtful was that?!?
She came back a bit later and brought me a little notebook. She shared how they had moved here from across the country a few years ago and it had been so difficult for her. One of the things that had helped her tremendously was to write down three blessings every day. Remembering this, she wanted to give me a notebook and encourage me to do the same. I can’t begin to tell you how much this touched and encouraged me that she had gone out of her way to do this for me!
The doorbell rang again and it was another neighbor. She brought her children over to meet us and, within minutes, our kids had bonded. Pretty soon, they were racing each other on the sidewalk, riding bikes, and talking all things Minecraft. These neighbor children introduced my children to more neighbor children and, by nightfall, my kids have a gaggle of new friends!
Again, this was such a blessing. It warms my Mama heart to see my children connecting so well with other children — especially since they were so sad to move and it was so difficult for them to leave their friends and relatives behind in Kansas.
I had hoped to have almost all of the boxes unpacked by tonight (yes, I kind of set an ambitious goal!) and that didn’t happen (surprise, surprise!). But we did make major headway today and have almost all of the first floor unpacked and set up.
Tomorrow, I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to finish most of the upstairs so that we aren’t living out of boxes on Monday… I’ll let you know if we hit that goal or not!
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Ebates — one of my favorite cashback sites — is offering double cashback at 24 different online sites when you shop online right now. The sites include: JCPenney, Kohl’s, Macy’s, Walmart, Land’s End, and more!
This would be a great way to maximize the mileage of your online shopping dollars for Mother’s Day shopping — or any online shopping you need to do right now!
{Psst! Want to know what the most popular Mother’s Day gifts are this year? Check out this interesting survey that Ebates conducted.}
How Ebates Works
Ebates, one of the oldest cashback sites around, offers you a percentage — usually somewhere between 3-6% of your total purchase — back as a rebate when you make any online purchase from a qualifying site.
All you have to do is sign up for an account and then search for whatever online site you’re planning to purchase from, find the link on Ebates, and click through that link.
Once you’ve earned $5.01 in rebates, you’ll qualify to receive a check. Checks are sent every quarter. I love getting mine in the mail and seeing how those little amounts here and there added up to a sizeable amount!
3-6% in cash back for your online purchases might not seem like much, it can really add up over time. My theory: if you're already going to be making the online purchase, you might as well get a little money back, too, right?
After all, it's essentially "free" money! Plus, when they are offering double cashback, it adds up a LOT more quickly!
Enter to Win a $50 FTD Flowers Gift Card
Ebates is giving away 5 $50 FTD Flowers gift cards to my readers! You can use this to purchase flowers for your mom, yourself, or someone else special in your life! To enter to win, just click on the graphic below and type in your name and email address. Five winners will be chosen and posted after the giveaway ends.
This giveaway ends Friday, May 16, at 11:59 pm, CST.
(Note: This giveaway is underwritten by Ebates. Read my disclosure policy here.)
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