Busy Mom Reviews

It's that time of year.

For many of us, bathing suit season is right around the corner.

Like many of you, I hate to buy bathing suits and tend to sticks with the same one for years and years.

Wait, now I realize why my mother had one bathing suit the entire time I was growing up.

Anyway, when I buy bathing suits, I tend to get them from Lands' End because they last so long, and there's a variety of styles for different body types.

I think the expiration is up on my current bathing suits (cannot get one more year out of them), so when Lands' End offered to send me a bathing suit to try out, I jumped at the chance.

I selected this one because it professes to be a "slender suit" that makes you look one size smaller, and I'll take what I can get.

When it arrived, I was a little skeptical since it appeared to have elastic contraptions everywhere and seemed a little heavy, but my fears were gone when I put it on.

Boy, it is solid and it looks great, I love it. I have no idea if I look one size smaller or not, but as far as me in a bathing suit goes, I'm very pleased.

Don't believe me?

Here's a chance to try one out for yourself, Land's End is offering a chance for you, dear reader to win a $100 gift card to Lands' End to get your own suit.

Just leave me a comment before 11:59 pm CST on Friday, May 9, 2008 and I'll choose a winner on Saturday, May 10th, 2008.

In the meantime, check out Land's End's swimwear and pick out your favorite suit!

Whoops!

I screwed up my own contest.

I originally thought the contest should last until tomorrow, but, I realized I'd be extremely busy this week, so I changed the end date to last Friday and promptly forgot.

Sorry, 'bout that.

Yeah, I know, "Shut up and tell me if I won or not."

Using this handy dandy Random Number Generator, the winning comment number is: 2!

Congratulations, Debunot!

Here's a screen shot of the drawing.

Thank you so much for all your entries!

For our Canadian friends...

Fido last week launched a Canadian first for the wireless industry with its new service, Fido Uno.

Fido UNO works by connecting calls from a specially-enabled handset to a high-speed Internet connection when at home and through the Fido network when on the go. Now you can have the freedom to talk as much as you want on your Fido phone while at home without using up your wireless plan minutes and all the benefits of a mobile when you’re not.

Skinny Cow, products favored by dieters with a sweet tooth, has a new ice cream bar, Skinny Dippers, and I got some to try out.

Skinny Dippers are an ice cream bar with the end covered in chocolate, and one bar contains only 80 calories and 3 grams of fat.

I'm not much for pretend ice cream and other diet "treats", but I have enjoyed Skinny Cow's ice cream sandwiches, so I was glad to give these a try.

Know what? They taste like real ice cream and chocolate. I liked both the caramel and the mint. The serving is one bar, and, it was really enough, I didn't feel "cheated" or anything.

But, the real test was the fact that the 2 boxes lasted less than 24 hours in our house because the kids devoured the rest not knowing anything was "different" about them and they asked why we didn't have any more.

Skinny Dippers have 2 grams of fiber and are only 1 Weight Watchers POINT. They come in caramel and mint flavors.