Oscars and Desserts A Sweet Combination*

As the Oscars are quickly approaching, you may be planning an evening get together to watch them with some friends? Well I would love to share with you some great desserts that you can make to make the evening a great tasting night as well.

Hyundai has a really fun recipe widget that offers some clever and mouthwatering desserts of this year’s nominated films including “Up in the Eclair” and “Inglorious Custards.”

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*Disclosure – This post was brought to you by Media Needle.

Babies Of U.S. Olympic Athletes Among First To Get New High Performance Diaper – PAMPERS® CRUISERS WITH DRY MAX

New Diaper is Pampers Driest Ever and 20 Percent Thinner Than Before-

Every baby is a champion in play, and to celebrate the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Pampers® Diapers has partnered with Team USA to introduce new Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max, the brand’s new high performance diapers sure to earn gold with world-class “players” – babies.

The babies of Team USA athletes will be equipped with the new Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max as they head to Vancouver. In honor of these athletes and their families, Pampers has created specially-branded Team USA diapers with the Dry Max technology. Although these limited-edition Team USA diapers will not be for sale, parents all across the country can buy Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max for their best players in the world in March. In the meantime, parents can request a free sample three-pack of the new Cruisers diaper on Pampers.com starting January 29th. If this sample includes a Team USA diaper (they will be randomly inserted in select sample packs), their baby will win a year’s supply of Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max.

To bring to life the incredible passion, endurance and ability babies demonstrate daily in the sport of play, Pampers Diapers has directly teamed with two world-class athlete families who are among the first to receive the special-edition Team USA diapers: Olympic gold medal speedskater Chad Hedrick and his family, and skeleton (forward-facing luge) World Champion and Olympic Hopeful Noelle Pikus-Pace and her family. These athlete families will be sharing their Vancouver experiences from their babies’ point of view throughout the Olympic Winter Games via photos and videos on Pampers.com.

“For many athletes, bringing home an Olympic medal is not just their dream, it’s a shared dream of their entire family,” said Jodi Allen, Vice President of North America Baby Care at Procter & Gamble including Pampers Diapers. “We are so proud to partner with these world-class athlete families, who are also parenting inspirations by training and succeeding while raising young, active children. We could not think of a more appropriate event than the Olympic Winter Games to celebrate babies as the world’s greatest players and introduce our new high-performance gear – Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max.”

Babies’ passion and dedication to play demonstrates that they are some of the best players in the world. Did you know that a cruising baby in one day can take as many steps as a marathon runner in a race, and a nine-month old baby can crawl up to 400 meters in 20 minutes? It’s this active play that continually inspires the Pampers brand, and that’s why moms and dads are encouraged to log on to Pampers.com beginning February 12 to join in celebrating the development of their own best players. Parents will have the ability to upload a video of their baby crawling from left to right, and randomly selected videos will be compiled into a Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max “Baby Relay” commercial which will air during closing day of the Olympic Winter Games, giving babies a chance to showcase their own playful ability in the same forum as the most elite athletes.

“Pampers is delighted to give all babies the chance to be awarded for their everyday medal-worthy performances,” Allen said. “The technology incorporated into new Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max makes them 20 percent thinner than before and our driest diaper ever, providing game-changing improvements to babies in terms of performance and comfort, permitting them to be the best players they can be!”

Chad Hedrick – U.S. Olympic Speedskater

A skater from the young age of 18 months, Hedrick today is as dedicated to his family as he is to his sport.

“It makes perfect sense for me to be talking about Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max since it is a performance diaper. As an athlete, I understand that wearing high performance gear can mean the difference between coming in first place or fifth. And as a parent, I look for high performance gear for my daughter, Hadley,” Hedrick said.

With his unconventional technique and unique style, Hedrick quickly rose to the top of the speedskating world having won the 2004 all-around during the World Championships, and following it up by becoming the third U.S. winter Olympian to take three medals in a single Games, during the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino. A recent World Cup gold medal winner at the Calgary Olympic Oval and currently juggling fatherhood responsibilities, Hedrick is not only a winner on the ice, but also at home.

“With the Torino Games success in my rearview mirror, I’ve rekindled my passion for skating and am ready to make new memories and once again go for the gold at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games,” Hedrick said.

Noelle Pikus-Pace – U.S. Olympic Hopeful

For Noelle Pikus-Pace, the road to the Olympic Winter Games will be far less of a fairy tale. Going into the 2006 season, Pikus-Pace was favored to win gold in the Olympic Winter Games in Torino, but a tragic accident during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials shattered that dream when she was hit by a runaway bobsled, leading her to suffer a compound fracture to her right leg. After a miraculous six-week recovery, Pikus-Pace made her comeback and went on to win the World Skeleton Championships by the largest margin in history. Furthering her accomplishments, in 2008, she became a proud mother to her daughter, Lacee.

“Winning a medal this year would go beyond a celebration all my own; it would truly be a win for my entire family who have been a significant source of strength and support for me,” Pikus-Pace said. “We’re all on this Olympic journey together, and we consider ourselves a team. We’re delighted to include Pampers Diapers as part of that extended team and definitely plan to have some fun ‘playing’ along the way.”

“In gearing up for competition, I always look for gear that’s not only spirited, but more importantly, items that won’t sacrifice my performance, and I want the same for my daughter,” Pikus-Pace said. “The fact that Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max are smaller in size means that they’ll also take up less space as we pack and head off together to Vancouver.”

Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max – Biggest Innovation in 25 Years

Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers with Dry Max are the brand’s new high performance diapers and the biggest innovation for the Pampers brand in the last 25 years. Pampers Diapers invented the Dry Max technology and applied it to the current Swaddlers and Cruisers core, which allows the diaper to be thinner than before. This game-changing diaper – Pampers’ driest ever – helps lock wetness in for up to 12 hours and its less bulky design helps give flexibility and comfort – perfect for all of babies’ play. The new diaper design also helps families reduce their impact on the environment by containing 10 percent less material weight. In fact, if current North American Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers users switched to the new Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max diaper, they could together throw away the weight of 1 billion less diapers every three years (based on 08/09 volume for Swaddlers/Cruisers).

Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max will be available at retail across the country beginning in March 2010. Product will be available at mass, discount, baby specialty, grocery stores and online retailers where Pampers products are sold, with the same retail pricing as the current Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers Diapers (pricing is at the sole discretion of the retailer).

For more information, please visit www.Pampers.com.

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Skorch has decided to remain digital!!!

Winner of Harry Connick Jr. CD

The winner of the Harry Connick Jr. CD is Danielle Carlson !!! Congrats ! Please email me within 48 hours from now with your home address so the cd can be sent out to you. Thank you for entering and ENJOY!!

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Buble’ with some Bubbly*

From the first time I heard his sweet velvety voice I fell in love with the songs of Michael Buble’. His music is so soothing. It is like you can totally unwind, throw on one of his cd’s and pour a glass of bubbly and you will be taken away to every place you have ever dreamed of going to. It is like a mini vacation for an hour while listening to him. His new cd, which is called “Crazy Love” has come out on Oct. 9th.
I had the wonderful chance to experience this fun cd, with the help of the One to One Network I am a part of.
It is everything I had expected it to be when I signed up. It is Buble’ at his best.
From the very first song, “Cry Me a River”, you know it will knock you off your feet!, actually it gets you up onto your feet to dance.

Here is a list of all the tracks from the new CD, “Crazy Love”:
1. Cry Me A River
2. All Of Me
3. Georgia On My Mind
4. Crazy Love
5. Haven’t Met You Yet
6. All I Do Is Dream Of You
7. Hold On
8. Heartache Tonight
9. You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
10. Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)
11. At This Moment
12. Stardust
13. Whatever It Takes (bonus track)

As you can see, some songs you will already know, but you never heard them like this before, with the Buble’ twist! You will totally love this CD. You can also be a facebook fan of Michael Buble’ by clicking here : http://bit.ly/MBFanPage

Thank you One to One Network for yet another GREAT review of a wonderful CD. !!!

The Plus Size Mommy

Celebrities Join ‘A Day Made Better’ Cause to End Teacher-Funded Classrooms by Making Surprise Visits to Winning Teachers

Selena Gomez, James Denton, Michael Ian Black, Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Debi Mazar Among the List of Notables Showing Their Support for Teachers

NAPERVILLE, Ill., October 6, 2009 – Today, more than 3,500 OfficeMax associates will be joined by community members and celebrities as they surprise 1,000 teachers across the country with $1,000 worth of essential classroom supplies as part of the third annual “A Day Made Better” event. Each year, OfficeMax volunteers surprise teachers at 1,000 elementary schools across the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, to celebrate their extraordinary efforts and call attention to the national problem of teacher-funded classrooms.

This morning at 10:00 a.m., OfficeMax associates and celebrities in select cities will arrive at the identified schools to meet with the principals and school administration to surprise the winning teacher with a large box of school supplies for his or her classroom that includes a printer, digital camera and essential classroom materials worth more than $1,000 per gift.

Celebrities taking part in the “A Day Made Better” nationwide event to show their support for teachers and give back to local communities include:

- Selena Gomez – singer and actress known from Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place, Another Cinderella Story, and her debut album, Kiss & Tell, released on September 29, 2009.
- James Denton – film and television actor known for his role on Desperate Housewives.
- Maksim Chmerkovskiy with Debi Mazar – Dancing with the Stars duo featuring Maksim, a dance champion, choreographer, and instructor, and Debi, a seasoned film and television actress known for her recent role in the HBO Original Series Entourage.
- Michael Ian Black – comedian, actor, writer, and director known for TV comedy series The State, Viva Variety, Stella, and currently Michael & Michael Have Issues.
- Krista Watterworth – HGTV host and top designer on hit show, Save my Bath, and featured on You Should Live Here, 25 Biggest Decorating Mistakes and The Big Reveal. Krista’s designs are regularly seen on HGTV’s Spice Up My Kitchen.
- Richard Roeper – Chicago Sun-Times columnist and well-known movie critic.
- National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jon Scieszka, Caldecott Honoree David Shannon, and talented newcomers Mac Barnett and Adam Rex, on their Guys With Books tour.
- Young Adult New York Times Bestselling author Scott Westerfeld and Irish young-adult fantasy author Sarah Rees Brennan.

An OfficeMax survey conducted in June 2009 supports data first reported in a National Education Association survey in 2005: Teachers spend on average $1,000 of their own money each year to offset school budget shortfalls and ensure their students have the necessary classroom resources for learning.

“Teachers inspire and shape our country’s greatest asset, our children, and it is astounding that they are left to cover the cost of doing a good job,” said Bob Thacker, SVP of marketing and advertising for OfficeMax. “We hope today’s surprise events will generate a grassroots movement in support of teachers and demonstrate how easy it is to make a difference in your own community.”

To drive national support, OfficeMax is working with Adopt-A-Classroom, an innovative nonprofit organization that enables the public to adopt a teacher in an easy, accountable manner. Adopt-A-Classroom identified the needy schools for “A Day Made Better,” and those principals were invited to nominate one teacher who exemplified passion, dedication and innovation in the classroom.

“Our country will need up to 2.4 million more teachers by 2010, yet we continue to lose half of new teachers within their first five years largely due to lack of support,” said Jamie Rosenberg, founder and executive director of Adopt-A-Classroom, which has raised $10 million for teachers over the past decade. “Today’s ‘A Day Made Better’ events serve as a wake-up call to the country that teachers need our support now.”

OfficeMax first launched “A Day Made Better” in October 2007, and with the help of 3,000 associates each year, OfficeMax has been able to surprise more than 3,500 teachers across the country with a total of $3.5 million worth of classroom supplies. Emphasizing community action, the “A Day Made Better” event has helped increase donations to Adopt-A-Classroom, which has supported more than 30,000 teachers and one million students over the past ten years. For more information about “A Day Made Better,” visit www.adaymadebetter.com. To adopt a teacher, visit www.adoptaclassroom.org.

THANK YOU OFFICE MAX for helping with this cause !!
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WIN !!! Meaningful Beauty by Cindy Crawford *

You may remember a whle back I wrote a post about Busy Moms Beauty Regimines (click here to read : http://theplussizemommy.com/plussize-stylefashion/wonderful-skin-care-regimens-for-busy-woman)

I was recently contacted by the wonderful company again and they asked me if I would like to do an update post and allow a giveaway to my readers. Of course for you all, my wonderful subscribers, I jumped at the chance at doing a giveaway to you all. They allowed me to chose which beauty regimine I would like to giveaway, so I chose my favorite one :

Meaningful Beauty® — By beautiful mother/entrepreneur/super model, Cindy Crawford, theMeaningful Beauty® skin care line is an age maintenance regimen that combines a powerful antioxidant with luxurious anti-aging ingredients in beautiful packaging.  The line includes a day moisturizer, a night treatment, a gentle cleanser, a great-smelling, pore-refining toner, a deep cleaning facial masque, a depuffing, brightening eye treatment, a neck and décolleté treatment (an often ignored area that gives us away!) and a glowing serum (a model’s secret!).  Meaningful Beauty® is great for every day and, beautifully packaged, making it gift worthy as well.

Here are the requirements for the giveaway:

***YOU MUST SUBSCRIBE TO MY BLOG TO ENTER ***

• Follow me on Twitter, I am @plussizemommy – comment and tell me you are = 1 entry
• Tweet the following on Twitter : ” Win Meaningful Beauty by Cindy Crawford on @plussizemommy ’s blog http://is.gd/3n0qc  ”  = 1 entry per comment with your tweet thread included, up to 4 per day
• technorati, momfave, digg, or stumble this blog and/or post  = 1 entry for each one accomplished, comment with which you did  (see sidebar for links to do these)
• VOTE for me in the Divine Caroline contest, click button on right sidebar – comment and tell me you did (Thank you) and  gain 1 more entry
• comment and tell me which celeb you would most love to look like = 1 entry

This giveaway begins NOW and will end on Sept. 30th at 10pm eastern time. Winner will be selected by random.org. Winner will be posted to this site and will have 48 hours to claim their prize by emailing me their name and home address of where to ship the Meaningful Beauty. Winner will NOT be emailed. Thank you for entering and Good LUCK !

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Feature Fellow Blogger – “Blogalogues”

Jerri Ann Reason is the administrator and publisher of Blogalogues. She has a media site at Jerri Ann Reason along with a site, Jerri Ann, where you can sign up to learn from her via webinars and ebooks. She has been writing online since 1999 and her media site can direct you to all things related to her. Her personal blog is Mom~E~Centric, if you want to see how she handles the stress of life.

DAN ZANES and Friends UPDATE !!!

FROM THEIR WEBSITE !!!

We’re really excited to let you know that dzaf are going to be performing live at this year’s jerry lewis telethon hosted by the one and only tony orlando! 

the telethon airs this monday september 7th. click here to find out where to tune in. dzaf hits the stage at 5:30pm eastern time so take a break from the bbq and dance with us. 

and you can still preorder our brand new dvd “the fine friends are here!” click here to get your very own.

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