Busy Mom Reviews

Play the Prilosec OTC Winning Play Giveaway & Instant Win Game.

From now until January 15, 2008, you could win tickets to Super Bowl XLII (where the Titans won't be as of tonight) on February 3, 2008!

Every time you play the Instant Win game, you’ll get a chance at instant win prizes, plus, you'll get another sweepstakes entry for a chance at one of four (4) Super Bowl grand prize packages – including tickets, hotel and $1,000 cash. We like those odds.

You could win one of these great prizes instantly:

* Autographed Brett Favre Mini Helmet
* $25 Visa® Gift Cards
* Prilosec OTC Mini Helmets
* NFL Season of a Lifetime T-shirts
* NFL Season of a Lifetime Hats

Once a day, you can enter for the chance to win, beginning on December 15, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. ET through January 15, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. ET. After playing, you can download the official “Prilosec OTC Winning Play Giveaway” widget to remind you to play daily.

Launched in 2006, The HERO Youth Ambassador Program was developed to provide comprehensive school-based support to orphans and vulnerable children living in HIV/AIDS-affected African communities.

This past summer, twenty-four teens from across the U.S.A. were selected to become Youth Ambassadors and traveled to Namibia and South Africa to work on Protecting Futures, a program by Tampax and Always to improve school facilities and educational programs as well as providing resources to help girls in Southern Africa maintain school attendance during menstruation.

For more information on the program, you can visit Protecting Futures (has sound).

The personal experiences of the Youth Ambassadors were documented in a series of webisodes airing on beinggirl.com (has sound) to help encourage and empower all teens to become global citizens.

You can also find the webisodes on You Tube.

Beginning December 1, 2007, students can apply to become a 2008 Youth Ambassador on Beinggirl.com.

I was sent this little Insignia Kix mp3 player for review.

It's a 1gb, easy to use player with a built-in USB connector (no cables), and, there's also an FM radio with 20 preset stations. It even comes with interchangeable color caps for the USB end.

It supports MP3, WMA, WMA-DRM, WAV and Audible formats.

The display is small, but, simple enough for my 5 year old to use it. As a matter of fact, we loaded it up with his songs, and, he's loving being able to listen to music on the go like the big kids.

It's small, and, easy to use, and, may not be for the hard-core music enthusiast, but, the Insignia Kix would be great to take along to the gym, or, to just keep in your pocket when you're out and about.

The Kix is available at Best Buy, and, retails for $50 (US).

Eat Better America is giving away free samples of Fiber One Cereal.

Sign up for their monthly newsletter filled with recipes and ideas for healthy livingand get your Fiber One cereal today.

First, if you have never read any of the Sweet Potato Queens' books by Jill Conner Browne, you should.

Right now.

When you're finished with all those, the read the newest one, The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit.

The Sweet Potato Queens are not Alpha Moms and the motto is "laugh through the hard stuff".

If I were a real writer (you know, "writer" with a capital "W") and not some hack with a blog, I'd want to be Jill Conner Brown.

She is absolutely hilarious, and, oh so right about so many things, and, captures life in the American South superbly, but, everyone can relate, too.

In The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profitis a "hilarious (though not scientifically tested) wink at the time-honored mysteries of parenting, for anybody who has ever had a kid or has ever known one, knows that the experience is neither fun nor profitable - so, you might as well laugh!".

I read it in one sitting. and, Browne covers topics from pregnancy, traveling with kids, and, potty training, to the Toothfairy, and, as with her other books, she does not disappoint.

During January, 2008 you can get your most burning tax question answered by a tax professional for free at FreeTaxQuestion.com

Whether you have a question about the recent tax law changes related to the AMT, or how big changes in your life such as getting married or having a child will affect yourr 2007 taxes, you can now go FreeTaxQuestion.com through January and have your tax question answered for free.

Simply submit a question online and a TurboTax tax pro will personally call you back at a time you request (a $29.95 value - FREE!)

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THIS EVENT WAS FOR LAST SEASON (2007). THIS IS NOT THE TURBO TAX WEBSITE - PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE

Swiffer and Warner Music are hosting a contest called the “Swiffer Break-up Music Video Contest.” The Grand Prize for the contest is $15,000.

Submit a short video to YouTube that demonstrates how you “broke up” with your old cleaning products and now use Swiffer for all your cleaning needs.

If you enter, you receive 10 downloads of “break-up” songs to use in the video (that’s one of the requirements). The top 10 videos will be posted to YouTube for the general public to cast a vote for their favorite and the video with the most votes wins $15,000.

You can find a complete list of rules, prizes and approved “break-up” songs at the Swiffer brand channel at http://youtube.com/SwifferBreakup.

Did you know there's a Bunco World Championship? I didn't.

On March 7-9th, 2008 Prilosec OTC is sponsoring the third annual Bunco Championship at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

Naomi Judd, along with over 2,000 Bunco loving women, will be on-site to crown the next Prilosec OTC Bunco Champion.

Prilosec OTC has also teamed up with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to raise money for breast cancer through a Charity Challenge.

Players can register online at Buncocentral.com and the group that raises the most cash will win a trip to Vegas to compete in the Prilosec OTC Bunco Championship and meet with country singer Naomi Judd.

I'm always looking for ways to save money (especially on the days I have no money to save. Like, oh, maybe today, for instance).

Women's Day Magazine has some great tips on Thrifty Family Fun, you should go check them out!