Friday, September 17, 2010

A Few of My Favorite Things GIVEAWAY!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED
I feel like Julie Andrews with a dash of Oprah thrown in! I am pleased as punch to welcome you to the epic Our Diabetic Life/Sugar Bolus/A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS GIVEAWAY!

I have two prize packages up for grabs. Each of them including something special from three of my favorite things ever!

Let’s start with curtain number one!

CONTIGO KIDS TREKKER MUGS!


We have been using Contigo mugs for years. They are amazing for a variety of reasons, not the least of these being they do not spill! Not one drop! They are good looking, durable, spill proof, ingeniously designed and they are BPA free. We use them on the boys’ desks at school, at soccer games, in the car, at church, and around the house. Seriously, these cups SAVED my carpets back in the old days when we drank A LOT of RED sugar free cool aid/crystal light. (That stuff does not come out of carpets. EVER.) Carpet staining catastrophes led me to buy a few of these…and ever since, if you want a drink in your room by the bed, grab a Contigo. In the car? Grab a Contigo. I even sent some to both grandparents house so we wouldn’t have to worry about spills. They make these for adults too. We have a few other varieties that they sell as well. Take a look at their website HERE…you will fall in love instantly!

Two winners will get TWO of these cups. Thank you Contigo for spreading the love to the Type 1 Community!

Behind curtain number 2?

Spibelts!!



We have used many different belts/hooks/pockets for the boys’ pumps…and by far they favor these. I think the win is in the simplicity. My boys are no fuss kind of guys. They want something simple, comfortable and something that does the job well. They want to run with their pumps on and not have to worry about it flapping in the wind, or falling off. These belts do the job beautifully. L and B both PLAY their soccer games with their pumps on! Only because they can with these belts. The pumps are held close to their bodies and it doesn’t even bother them. The material is stretchy so they can also throw some fast acting sugar in the pouch if they want to. My Junior High guy just puts his pump in his pocket, but we quickly found out this wasn’t an option during PE. (No pockets in the PE shorts.) He uses the black Spibelt with the blue zipper now and is EXTREMELY happy with it because it is held so close to his body, no one notices…and he can run freely…huge plus!

As part of the prize package, our two winners will get to pick out any Spibelt they want HERE. Check it out, buy one…because they are uber affordable…and then try to win another one here. My younger boys have a couple each to switch back and forth from! (You can also use them to keep your cell phone, keys and ipod in...they are great for your workouts!)

Thank you Spibelt for sprinkling kindness towards the readers of Our Diabetic Life!!

And curtain number 3 dear friends?

A gift certificate from Medic Alert to enroll your child in the KID SMART program! This will register your child for one year with the company as well as pay for a Medic Alert bracelet. There are several to choose from within the program, below you can find a few examples of what they offer. The cost is very affordable, and the peace of mind is priceless!





We have used Medic Alert for the past 12 years. It feels good to know our children's medical records are immediately available to emergency responders to help with their treatment decisions. Their 24-hour emergency identification services help identify children who are involved in emergencies or lost. With a phone call, a doctor can know all the important information if I am not there. Emergency responders can find out the boys’ Endo phone number, the insulin we are currently using, the boys ratios, and find out what allergies my children have. You can change the information online, it is easy to do…and it gives peace of mind especially now that we are not at the boys sides 24/7. You can read more about the Program HERE.

Come on…AWESOME, right? Thank you Medic Alert for your life saving gift to my blog reading Peeps!

THE OFFICIAL RULES:
THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED
To enter the contest and win one of the two prize packages:

● Leave me a comment before midnight on Thursday, September 23, 2010. Please include your first name. Comments left without a name will be eliminated.

● To earn extra entries (post a separate comment for each):
* Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter. Then, leave me an additional comment
containing a link to your tweet.
* Share a link to this contest on Facebook. Then, leave me an additional
comment to let me know.
* Blog about this contest. Then, leave me an additional comment containing
a link to your blog.

● No duplicate comments are allowed. Duplicate comments will be eliminated.

● Winners will be selected via random draw at http://www.random.org/.

● Winners' names will be posted here on this blog on Friday, September 24, 2010.

● After winners' names are posted, winners will have 48 hours to send a message to me at ourdiabeticlife@yahoo.com. If I do not hear from a winner within 48 hours, I will select a new winner.

Remember, to enter you must leave me a comment with your first name before midnight on Thursday, September 23rd.

GOOD LUCK! I SO hope you win!

116 comments:

  1. I love your favorite things, great job and consider us entered :)

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  2. LOVE this giveaway, Meri! Count us in!

    Tracy (& The Superhero)

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  3. I love all the contests!! Thanks for your blog. I love reading it.
    Kelly Harp

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  4. Oh yes Im in on this one and I am already a follower . thanks for doing this and hosting it . yahoo !!!!

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  5. Ooh, Ooh! Pick me! Pick me! This is your good friend and (coffee) drinking companion and co- pancreas Susan O'Rourke. Pick Me!!
    Love your stuff and I would twitter you if I twittered at all- which I don't.

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  6. Meri, where do you find all of this cool stuff? If I don't win, I'm going to have to do some shopping!

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  7. We love the Contigos too! Count us in!

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  8. Great products, appreciate you sharing!

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  9. for those that use a spibelt, do you get the special "diabetic" one or use the pump with a regular spibelt. Does the zipper every "tear" the tubing?

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  10. Casey, when you order a belt, in the comments section you can ask them to add a buttonhole on the back of the pack to feed your tubing through. That way you can order any belt you want! Works perfectly! We have one belt without the buttonhole, (I forgot to request it) and my son hasn't had any problems with it ripping the tubing or anything. Thanks for entering! Good luck!

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  11. Those mugs look great, I am fed up of wiping out soggy rucksacks from leaking drinks bottles! I quite fancy the spibelt for myself:)

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  12. MEEEE MEEEE MEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

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  13. This is heidi and I just want to say this is an awesome give away!

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  14. Love your blog & your give away!
    Count me in!

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  15. Tweet from me (Heidi) https://twitter.com/htimm (though I don't use twitter much)

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  16. Heidi again, shared on FB
    http://www.facebook.com/#!/heidi.timm

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  17. And I TWITTERED or TWEETED or What-have-you. xoxo

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  18. COUNT ME IN!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE. Oh yea I want!

    Blogging NOW. You know where I am ;)
    Tweeting at twitter.com/sugar_nova
    and Facebooking it at facebook.com/justicesmisbehavingpancreas

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  19. Hi Meri. I may try and call you this weekend if that's okay. Count this as my "give away" contest entry in the mean time. Don't draw my name for a Spibelt (Roxy wears the pink camo). We are in the market for the medical bracelet, though... :)

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  20. Oh and we are interested in the spibelt but Justice has a medic alert so we prefer someone who needs one gets it.

    You rock!

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  21. This is an awesome contest!!! I've posted about it on twitter (http://twitter.com/talkingbgs) and also on my blog (http://www.talkingbloodglucose.com/2010/09/my-walk-to-cure-is-looming.html). I gotta say I ADORE those spi-belts, a really clever idea!

    All the best

    Samantha (TalkingBloodGlucose)

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  22. New house = new carpet!! Need those mugs! Count us in....great give-a-way Meri!

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  23. Rockin' good stuff Miss Meri!!! I shall post a bloggy bit about it on my site too. Love the bottle!

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  24. Hi it's Allison Littlefield, signing Tommy up for the drawing!

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  25. Hi, if each d-kiddo can have a separate entry, then sign up Luke too! Love the contest and appreciate your wisdom always!-allison L

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  26. Doe, a deer, a female deer, ray a drop of golden sun.... Love the song! (assuming that was the reference in the blog title!) Thanks, Meri!

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  27. I did not see the "no relative" rule! I am a faithful reader, and I know the difference between Type 1 and 2:)I even noticed some old test strips in my car today...I know it wouldn't be fair to win, but I had to try! Love ya...your SIL, Lisa (I also love the...whatever they are called)

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  28. Tweeted: http://twitter.com/DMomBlog/status/24881952560

    -Leighann

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  29. Very cool favorite things! Please enter me.

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  30. I don't FB. I don't Tweet. But pick me anyway! Please!

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  31. Wow! Great giveaway! We LOVE the Contigo cups...we're down to our last two - I haven't been able to find them at Costco lately. And that Spibelt looks awesome, too!

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  32. Love all of these! Could use a new medic-alert. (FB'd and tweeted too...)

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  33. pick me! pick me! Okay, actually I was thinking if we get picked I'll have to buy a few of these things extra just because Isaac's brother will think they're so cool. Thanks for doing this, how fun!

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  34. I have a 13 year old, dx'd at age 2..4 weeks before he turned 3.
    Not fun to say the least!
    Pretty much STINKS!!
    I also have a 5 year old daughter, who so far, has not been dx'd.
    My prayer is that she will not ever be dx'd with this disease like her bro.

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  35. Count me in please! K went crazy when she seen the pink bracelet.
    Lorrie

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  36. Blogged it...

    http://www.onesuperheroandoneprincess.com/2010/09/very-meri-giveaway.html

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  37. Tweeted it. :-)

    http://twitter.com/crazypancreas

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  38. Not that I'm trying to influence the vote, but my birthday is coming up, and I'd LOVE to be a winner!

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  39. Wow - what a great idea! I LOVE that you are doing this (and I love the prizes!). My next blog will be about this (when it's not already past my bedtime), then I'll be back to comment again!!

    Thanks!

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  40. These are all really cool gifts!! Please consider us entered:)

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  41. Nice post.I’m really impressed with your article, such great information you mentioned here..

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  42. Facebooked and going now to twitter:)

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  43. SO cool! I love seeing your favorites :) -Kelly-

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  44. Your blog has been helpful to me since my daughter is newly diagnosed. What a wonderful giveaway! Nicole D.

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  45. I did a blog about your contest today... I want to win!! :)

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  46. blogity blog blogged... all about it :)

    http://www.mydiabetic-child.com/2010/09/its-sugary-sweet-givaway.html

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  47. Yay Meri! I'm so glad that you told me about the Kids Mug. I found one for Ally and she loves it! Although, this one looks like it holds more oz. Please enter me in this awesome giveaway!

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  48. Such great prizes! Just tweeted...
    http://twitter.com/MommaGodiva/statuses/25085669588

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  49. All the prizes sound GREAT!!!
    Kelly K

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  50. All the prizes sound GREAT!!!
    Kelly K

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  51. blogged it!

    www.mysweetestboy.blogspot.com

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  52. I would SO love to win this contest!!! :)

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  53. facebooked it!

    http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000156880017

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  54. Blogged it!

    http://www.theprincessandthepump.com/2010/09/what-is-better-than-free-stuff.html

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  55. Tweet Tweet!

    http://twitter.com/PumpingPrincess

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  56. Ooh, pick me! Pick me. :)

    http://wherecandyismedicine.blogspot.com/

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  57. Tweeted - Done & done!!
    Kelly K

    http://twitter.com/diabetesalic

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  58. The Contigo mugs look great.

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  59. I am a mom of a T1 little 9 year old cutie. We'd love any of your great give-aways! Thanks

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  60. My son would love the Spilbelt. Still looking for different ways to wear his pump.

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  61. Just posted on Facebook the link for this great giveaway :)

    http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/profile.php?id=638675164

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  62. I would love to win this for my granddaughter she is 6 years old and T1 diabetic. Thanks for the contest
    -Marilyn Hull

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  63. Blogged it today :)

    http://www.boxofchocolatesblog.com/2010/09/time-is-running-outenter-meris-contest.html

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  64. Wow, what an awesome giveaway!!! Thanks Meri and please count us in! I really enjoy reading your blog.. =)

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  65. Count me in! These prizes sound great!!
    Lizzie

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  66. I tweeted!
    http://twitter.com/laur_n/status/25249768314
    :)
    Lauren

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  67. Please count me in! I LOVE your blog!

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  68. pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me

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  69. Tweety Tweet Tweet!!

    http://twitter.com/RockinDMom

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  70. AND I FACEBOOKED!!!

    http://www.facebook.com/#!/?ref=home

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  71. Okay, Meri - I don't have the busiest blog out there, but I posted about the giveaway (and the DOC in general) for ya!!

    Happy giving!

    :O)

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  72. Hey!! haven't gotten the whole medical id's yet- helpful!

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  73. Am new to your blog, but have kept up through Laura's blog . . .what an inspiration you are to the DMom community and beyond! consider me entered into the contest!! :)

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  74. so excited for your giveaway! i'm in! (make sure you come to my blog in december for my giveaway) :-)

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  75. oops i didn't specifically enter my 1st name on my last entry! it's Bethany! oooo and I linked to this post on my blog :-D

    http://thediabeticprincess.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-giveaways.html

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  76. Facebooked it too. I don't know how to show you that. :)
    I promise I did it.

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  77. Holy 102 comments - you go girl!

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  78. Oops, forgot my name! Blame old age, the cat , the kids, 2am alarm clocks, the fact that today ends in a 'Y'!!
    Thanks for the great giveaway.

    Amanda and 'A' :)

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  79. Oopsie..I forgot my name too I guess.
    Blame it on the D that I deal with everyday--and the fact that I have a teenager that has D!
    UGH.

    Lesley and Colton Otwell

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  80. Great blog... fun contests... I hope to win:)

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  81. I also posted this on Facebook:)

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  82. Love you Meri- and if I win- no shipping! ;)

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  83. Hi my name is Amy and I love the contest ideas. GREAT blog too:)

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  84. I also posted this contest on my facebook page:)

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  85. Please sign me up-would love the pink bracelet for my Princess :o)

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  86. OMG! I hope it isn't too late! I blogged about it, tweeted it but I FORGOT TO ENTER!

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  87. Nothing like waiting until the last minute! Count me in PLEASE! :)

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  88. Facebooked it!

    http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/?ref=logo

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  89. TWEEEEEEET!!!!!

    https://twitter.com/Sugarbugsmom

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  90. Aaaaand blogged it!

    http://ladybugslizards.blogspot.com/2010/09/because-who-doesnt-like-to-win-free.html

    (For soem reason your button is HUGE on my blog. But that's ok. It's just MUCH more noticeable. lol)

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