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Ghiradelli Chocolate Thanksgiving Weekend Sale! Save up to 30% and get Free Shipping!

My husband loves Ghiradelli chocolates and their chocolates make great stocking stuffers.  I’m excited that starting Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd, at 12am PST we can get 10-30% off selected items!  That means he’ll get more Ghiradelli and I’ll save money!

Ghiradelli’s 7.18 oz. Limited Edition Holiday Assortment Stand Up Bag is usually $8.99 but it’s on sale for $6.30 now. The Red Festive Rectangular Gift Tin is 25% off!

Ghiradelli chocolates make great teacher gifts so stock up!

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From November 22nd-November 26th ONLY , Ghiradelli is offering 10-30% off selected items. This offer can be combined with their Free Shipping offer on all orders over $50 and will expire on Monday, November 26th at 11:59pm PST.

This offer will be starting Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd at 12am PST.

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Lindor Truffles – A Great Stocking Stuffer.. and a #Giveaway! {Ends 12/21}

Lindor TrufflesWhat do you think of when the holidays get near?  Gifts, shopping, cooking, AND sweets and treats right?  We are here for you then!  Lindt offers a wide range of Lindor Truffles products, including a whole holiday collection that you can put out for holiday guests to enjoy, take to work with you, or just keep in a special place for you and your husband to enjoy!

It all started in a small pastry shop on Marktgasse in Zurich’s old town in 1845. Confectioner David Sprüngli-Schwarz and his 29 year old son Rudolf Sprüngli-Ammann, who also trained to be a confectioner, dared to do something new: they decided to make chocolate. In particular and in keeping with the new fashion that came from Italy –solid bars – just like François-Louis Cailler in Vevey and Philippe Suchard in Neuchâtel had already done.

You can even build your own holiday themed bag of Lindor Truffles!  Mix and match five flavors for a total of about 100 pieces in your bag. You can’t resist that can you?

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GIVEAWAY!

One winner will receive a bag of:

  • Lindor Dark Peppermint truffles and
  • Lindor Milk Chocolate truffles
To enter to win, tell us what your most fond memory involving chocolate and Christmas is, in the comments below.

Earn extra giveaway entries:

Entries accepted through 11:59pm ET December 21st.

Open to U.S. residents only. No P.O. Boxes.

The winner will be contacted on 12/22 and must respond by 2pm 12/22 in order to claim their prize.  If we do not receive a response by then, we will have to choose an alternate winner.  While we’d love to think that the winners will receive their prize before Christmas we can not guarantee it.    Prize fulfillment is handled by the PR company.

Disclosure: I received Lindor Truffle samples for purposes of this review.  All opinions are 100% my own and were not influenced in any way.

Alicia Hagan, Editor

Talk about Embarrassing! Don’t try to leave your child at preschool when it’s closed.

It doesn’t work.

Mornings have been stressful around around here lately between my 4 year old fighting every outfit I put together for her, she is really picky about socks so we go through about three pairs each morning trying to find the perfect pair, she’s been having to poop right before we walk out the door to go to school, and I haven’t been feeling so hot for a little over a week.

This morning was no different.  My daughter cried about her outfit, she had to poop right before we were going to leave then to add salt to the wound, my husband told me that we needed to drop money off at my son’s school for his school photograph – ASAP.  What? What?

So I was running around like a mad woman, trying to get my 4 year old ready for school, fix her breakfast, fix her lunch for school, fix her hair, then I find out about the school pictures.  I had to hunt down a check and make a decision on which photographs we wanted to keep..which I absolutely suck at – decision making.

Finally, I get through all of that.  My daughter is dressed.  Her lunch is packed.  She’s going to eat breakfast in the car.  Then she has to go to the bathroom again.

That’s when I remembered that my husband and I agreed that maybe she shouldn’t go to school because she ran a mild fever last night, has been coughing, and having this ‘poop issue’.  But all that was going through my head was that if she stays home..

  • She’s going to sit in front of the TV all day while I work, which I HATE
  • She’s going to want my attention (all day) and I have a ton of work to do
  • She’d be happier at school

So, we get in the car, I tell her that she doesn’t have to go to school, we go to my son’s school to drop off the photographs and check, then I say “don’t you think you’d have more fun at school than at home today?”.  She looks at me with her sweet little eyes and says “Yes, Mommy.. I think you’re right”. Huh, did I hear that right? She agreed to go to school?

Hooray! She’s going to school!

I can get some work done?  I hit the gas pedal like nobody’s business (her school is across the street from my son’s school so I probably got up to 25 MPH), parked the car, got her out, and my daughter said “look mommy, it’s the mayor!”.  I looked up and saw a man dressed in a suit, carrying a bible.  My daughter goes to a pre-k inside a church so I didn’t think anything of it.  But I also noticed that there weren’t ANY other cars around. Strange for being just a few minutes late to school.  There are usually a few stragglers in the parking lot at 9:15.  The “Mayor” asked me if my daughter goes to the preschool there and I said Yes.  He said “Oh, I’m so sorry, there’s no school today.  No one told you?”  Are you freakin’ kidding me.. is what I do not say out loud.

My daughter looked at me very sadly and we walked back to the car.  At that moment I realized that I was going to have to come up with things for her to do while I worked.

That’s about when she stepped on the Wilton Chocolate and Easter Candy Molds on the floor in the car.  Ding! Ding! Ding! We have something to do! Thank goodness the molds didn’t break!

Making Easter chocolates with my daughter

She did really great for about an hour (watching TV) then broke down and asked me to play with her for about 20 minutes straight until I broke down and said OK.   I reached a comfortable stopping point with work and got the Wilton’s chocolate candy and molds out and we got to work. She LOVED making chocolate candies and it’s such a quick, easy, and mess-free project that I think we’ll make chocolates for every holiday now.  I just hope someone eats them!

What Easter traditions do you have?  Do you have a favorite chocolate candy recipe? Do you put Oreos or other goodies, in your chocolate candies?

Have you ever taken your child to preschool only to find that it was closed?  What did you do?

 

Alicia Hagan, Mom Blog editor

Vermont Nut Free Chocolates


StpatricksdayvermontIt's a little late to enjoy Vermont Nut Free Chocolate's St. Patrick's Day treats but there are plenty of other reasons to order and indulge in a special nut-free chocolaty treat. There's Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and there's tomorrow! All great times for chocolate!

Vermont Nut Free Chocolates sent a box of St. Patrick's Day chocolate coins, miniature chocolates, and Leprechaun Pops and I gave Sebastian one of each this morning. What's really funny is that I had already sent him to school and I forgot it was St. Patrick's Day! He didn't wear green, and I didn't give him a special St. Patrick's Day treat! I felt so bad. I grabbed a green sweater from Sebastian's closet, and one of each of the St. Patrick's Day treats from Vermont Nut Free Chocolates, jumped in the car and made a fool of myself at the school's reception desk when I told them that I needed to give Sebastian a green sweater and some chocolate! I know all four of the women behind the desk thought I was crazy. What's worse is that one was the school counselor. I'm sure she thinks I'm crazy!


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Vermont Nut Free Chocolates are handmade, gourmet quality candies, that provide children withpeanut and tree nut allergies a way to safely enjoy chocolate treats.They’re also a great alternative for classroom parties in peanut-free schoolsor day care centers.

Here are some fun Vermont Nut Free Chocolates facts:

  • There's a fun chocolate tool set for little guys and dads
  • You can buy chocolate for baking including chocolate chips, cocoa powder, and unsweetened baking chocolate
  • A litter of 9 chocolate pigs is only $3.25!
  • Perfect for class treats
  • And yes, they sell Truffles!

Treats can be ordered from the company’s web site, http://www.vermontnutfree.com/