WINNERS Announced and Giveaways Ending!

I have winners to announce for my giveaways that ended. I apologize for the delay in getting these to you, but life with changing over the domain has been a real pain and not as easy as I thought it was going to be. It will be easy when I do it on Friday, but the beforehand has not been fun. So, I do apologize.


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So, the first giveaway Eden Home Organic Diaper Change Kit and $35 Gift Card Giveaway ended Thursday, April 8th (Yea, Coupon Mommy of 3, the slacker, I'm sorry!) with 113 entries.  We used random.org and the winner chosen was #71 with:

71. mamadail said...

I really like the peacock baby sling.
soxycarrie@hotmail.com

Congrats to you!
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The next giveaway ended Friday, April 9th was Cheeky Diapers One Size Cover Giveaway with 191 entries.  Random.org chose the winner and the winning # was #160

160. Tim, Allyson, and kids said...

they also carry prefolds and snappis
a_heart4home[at]yahoo[dot]com

Congrats!
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I will be emailing you folks later unless you see this first, please contact me at thriftymommy@verizon.net and send me your information.  Congrats again!
 
Pocket Change Cloth Diaper Giveaway ends tonight, so don't forget to get your entries in!

Eden Home: Organic Diapers Bag Change Kit Review and $35 Gift Card Giveaway Ends 4/7

With my youngest having such a tough time with many products that we were using, we really had to change our ways with shampoo, soap, disposable diapers to cloth diapers, baby wipes to cloth wipes and so on and so forth.

Organic Products are grown without the use of toxic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or genetically engineered seeds and is made with more natural ingredients.

When I first started looking into more organic/natural products, I found a great website, Eden Home "Where Organic Style Comes Naturally".

Eden Home sent me their Organic Diaper Change Kit.  This bag is chemical-free material, the fabric is interwoven using a microscopic design process and then these all natural fabrics are hand-designed with original prints.

This Diaper Change Kit is small (folded up) which makes it perfect for quick trips to the store, a trip where you know you won't be gone long. When it is unfolded it works perfect for you baby!

When we traveled to Massachussetts and had to make pit stops since the drive is over 8 hours, I took this Diaper Change Kit with us. The change kit is one that you would want to use when you don't need to lug around the huge diaper bag. It has multiple pockets in it with zippers. We placed the spray with cloth wipes in the pockets and as we started to fold it up we placed one cloth diaper in and then completely closed it up by snapping it closed and we were ready to go.

This made it so much easier than carrying the huge diaper bag around when we were just stopping for everyone to use the bathroom.  One of the positives things about these restrooms is that they make them for a family so I take all the girls in the their and can take care of all of them at the same time.

With the diaper change kit, I just placed it right on top of the changing areas and was able to change Baby B after opening this up! One of the places we stopped at they didn't have a changing table, so I had place this baby on the floor and then lay Baby B on the changing kit.  What a life saver to have this.

Eden Home has other organic products other than just the baby stuff, they also carry bedding, bath, home, skincare, kids, clothing, pets and gift ideas.    So, if you are looking for organic products for other than baby, they have it here.

CHECK IT OUT:

Check out Eden Home

http://www.edenhome.com/

GIVEAWAY

Eden Home would like to offer one of my readers/followers a $35 gift certificate to use in their shop.

MANDATORY ENTRY:
First make sure you are following my blog publicly and then once you do that, head over to Eden Home and look around and tell me what you would purchase from their shop with your gift certificate.  Come back here and comment with your response and your email address.

ADDITIONAL ENTRIES:

1. Head over to their blog and subscribe to their blog and then come back here and comment = 1 entry
2. Place my button on your blog and come back here and comment with the URL of where you posted it and a general id of where it was posted and come back here and comment with the URL = 2 entries
3. Follow Eden Home on twitter and come back here and comment with your Twitter ID = 1 entry
4. Follow Coupon Mommy of 2 Now 3 on twitter and tweet with @couponmomof2, @edenhomeorganic, #giveaways and the URL = 1 entry
5. Become a facebook fan of Eden Home and come back here and comment with your facebook name = 1 entry
6. Become a facebook fan of mine and come back here and comment = 1 entry
7. Blog about this giveaway including the link back to here and the Eden Home link and come back here and comment with the URL of where you posted this = 5 entries
8. Email 3 of your friends and cc me @ thriftymommy@verizon.net and tell them about this giveaway including the link and then come back here and comment with you emailed your friends for 3 entries
9. Tweet daily and come back here and comment each day with the URL from where you tweeted for 1 extra entry a day!

With this giveaway, you have several chances to win and you must come back and comment for each of them if you want to be entered for all entries and you can enter up to Wednesday, April 7th until 11:59PM EST. I will be checking to make sure that each requirement is done and you will want to make sure you do the mandatory entry to qualify for this giveaway. Please remember that I DO LOOK AT EACH ENTRY and if they are not valid for the giveaway, I WILL NOT PUBLISH THEM. The winner will be drawn via random.org and will then have 48 hours to respond by email or another winner will be drawn. Once the winner has responded with their information, I will forward your information to Eden Home to send your winnings.


The product in this review was provided to me free of cost for the purpose of conducting this review. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and are not influenced by monetary or other means of compensation.

Thank you Eden Home and Good Luck to my readers!

 

Cloth Diapering While Traveling

So, last weekend while I was taking a break again which was a much needed break...we were just going to hang around the house and just enjoy time with each other and the fmaily. DH spoke to his father and his dad had surgery about a week ago and he just didn't sound well. So DH was concerned so we decided to make a quick trip to Massachussetts.  So, gathering we didn't know we were going to be leaving until last minute, I'm running around the a chicken with her head cut off to make sure that I have everything that I need.

Baby B is cloth diapered full time so this was going to be a brand new experience for us.  First I will have to say I didn't know how many cloth diapers that I would need and then cloth wipes and the whole 9 yards. 

So, I packed a bag of about 25 cloth diapers to be gone for 2.5 days and all the essentials that are needed for this.  Then I put some into the diaper bag so that when we had to stop I would have some there as well!  A little while ago we were sent a Diaper Bag Kit from Eden Home to review (which I will be doing soon) and taking this along was such a great idea.  I am so glad that we did especially for when we stopped in the restrooms.  The best part was having a family restrooms so DH could help with the kids!  I could open this open and just put it on the changing area and change Baby B.  We stopped one place and they didn't have anywhere to change Baby B, so I could just pop this rightt on the floor and change her.

So, my essentials included cloth wipes, wipe solution, something to put the solution in (I really should invest in a spritzer because I think this would help with traveling when we do travel), wetbags (I have two and they are small, so I brought them both) and extra inserts!   So, how does everyone else do this?

Anyway, traveling and cloth diapering actually worked out really well for us.  Family commented about them and my sister in law who was just recently married is thinking about having another (sometime) so I was showing her the diapers and about them, hopefully I can get her converted to them, we love them.  DH's mom asked how he liked it, he said I don't like it, but it is good for Baby B. 

I think my biggest issue was we need a bigger bag to put the dirty cloth diapers in.  I ran out of room. I was a little annoyed with this, but whose fault is that.  Hopefully I can gather up some money to get a large or extra large wetbag because this would really help in the future. By the way, using a Pail Freshner from Rockin Green (which I will also be reviewing soon) was awesome because these dirty diapers sat in there for a while and the freshner was nice to have.

Also my next biggest issue was having a diaper bag that actually worked. I wasn't happy with what we had, we had a small Gerber one and this works great for quick store trips or whatever, but not for traveling.  Again when we get some money up I need to find something better that will work.  We don't have good luck in that area of having a great diaper bag.  What do you all use that works great for cloth diapering and traveling and all that?

By the way Sister E wore regular diapers the whole time (traveling I mean), but she never once went in them and every time we stopped she went in the restroom.  Good job Sister E.

The ride home was the longest trip every!  UGH.  The girls did great, no doubt about that, but it was horrible.  We got stuck in traffic in New Jersey which made an 8 hour trip turn into a 13 hour trip. 

Oh I forgot to mention, breastfeeding while traveling that long can be a pain to.  On the way home, I was in so much pain.  OMG.  While sitting for 2.5 hours in New Jersey, I couldn't take it anymore, I took Baby B out and fed her since we were not moving.  It didn't help so we ended up having to stop at Target and get a converter so that I could plug my pump up and pump while going down the road.  Can you imagine that site?  Haha, at least it was dark outside, but I felt so much better and we needed the milk for the next day anyway.  But WOW.

We took the car, so imagine all the stuff you need for the kids, yourself and then the other things, we were jam packed and trying to pump in the front seat, I had no room.  Oh well, I love my car, I can deal and we really didn't spend much gas, so I can deal.

Do you have info on traveling while cloth diapering?