Shuey’s Life

I just wanted to pop in to say Happy New Year and Happy New Decade!  I hope everyone has a great year.  We’re very blessed to be starting this decade out with our little one, and I’m expecting this to be a good year!

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I just heard about a site that I find pretty interesting. Have you heard of Bidazzled? After checking out the site I actually find it to be pretty cool.

What is it? It’s an online auction site. Now I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not like all the other auction sites out there. Bidazzled runs penny auctions, also known as pay-per-bid auctions, and they’re all for a good cause. You purchase your bids in advance, and then the highest bid wins no matter how little the item sells for.

The best part of all is why Bidazzled was created. The auction site was created to fund a lung cancer charity called The Ruch Foundation, so every time you bid you’ll know your purchases are going for a good cause, and you can save yourself up to 80% at the same time!

Think all that is cool? Well you still haven’t heard the best part, and that’s that no one is a loser! You didn’t win the auction? No worries! You’ll receive up to 50 bonus bids just to say thank you for participating in the first place. You also have the opportunity to buy the item, and they’ll subtract for the amount you spent on the auction.

If you do win you also have the option to sell the item back to Bidazzled. Bidazzled will offer to buy the item back for cash and/or bids, so you’ll never get stuck with an item you change your mind about.

Does this sound cool to you? If it does now is the perfect time for you to check out the Bidazzled auction site and give it a try. You can use the code “BBP1202A” until January 15 to receive 15 bids. If you like what you see additional bids only cost $1 plus you can receive free bids through the referral program, so don’t forget to check it out.

I so feel like I’m going to fall over right now, but I can’t.  I’ve got a fussy baby on my hands…one who a couple weeks ago decided she doesn’t like to sleep before 2am.  She slept almost all day the last few days, and I think it’s because she wanted to sleep through all the holiday festivities.  Unfortunately now she won’t sleep at night.

And did I mention she doesn’t want to sleep in her own bed anymore?  She’s got this idea in her head that she’s supposed to sleep on Mommy and Daddy’s bed.  She doesn’t care about having us in bed with her…she just wants to be on our mattress when she’s sleeping.

Of course unless we plan on co-sleeping that just can’t happen.  At first I said we’d never ever ever co-sleep, but it’s amazing how your mind can change when you’ve been awake almost a full 2 weeks!  Sometimes you’ll do whatever it takes to grab that precious 2 hours of sleep that make you feel so refreshed you’d swear you slept a decade.

Unfortunately I don’t see myself getting any sleep tonight because little one just isn’t cooperating…even in bed with me.

That one word sums up the holidays for us this year. I swear this has been the most hectic holiday season I’ve ever experienced. There has been so much going on, and we’ve been running back and forth and back and forth until I feel like my head is going to explode.

I keep asking myself wtf happened to Christmas. It’s officially over in 20 minutes, and I don’t feel like it should have even begun yet. I don’t know where it went! What I do know is somehow during all the commotion I apparently missed it.

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Club House. All opinions are 100% mine.

Every year we go to my Grandma’s house for Christmas dinner, but I know there will eventually be a time when I’m the one cooking the big dinner.  In fact my friend Mo and his wife are coming down from Canada next month to visit for a couple weeks, and I’ll probably end up making a big dinner one night for us and all of our friends.

We all know one of the staples of a good Holiday meal is the gravy, but it’s also one of the hardest parts of the meal to make.  No matter how hard I try to make sure my gravy is perfect there’s always a chance it’s going to go awry.  That’s why I can’t even imagine making gravy for a holiday meal because that’s normally the type of gravy you make from the roast drippings.

I found out I don’t have to freak out over that anymore if I decide to make a huge roast dinner when my Canadian friends come to visit.  All I have to do is watch the gravy tips video on the Clubhouse.ca site.

If I lived in Canada I could also take advantage of the Clubhouse Great Gravy products that help you create a great gravy from your roast drippings without the fuss of making it from scratch or worrying about messing your gravy up. I think I’ll definitely pass that info onto my Canadian friends, and I’m also going to let them know that they can sign up to win a Clubhouse Great Gravy gift pack! If you’re in Canada and you’d like your own chance to win check out the newsletter sign-up and contest entry page.