Congratulations to Lisa Greathouse, the winner of this contest. See more great giveaways every day at GiveDaddy.

You love me, don’t you?? I have a great giveaway for you in honor of school being around the corner. Check it out:

Pier 1 Imports and Sometimes Parenting Sucks are getting ready for back-to-school shopping.

Have you made your list yet?

Enter to win a set of Pier 1 Imports notepads! Aren’t they cute?

All you have to do is follow Pier One on Twitter, visit their site, then come back here and make your back-to-school list in the comments. A winner will be randomly chosen August 17, so enter now and tell your friends!

Good luck!

And the winner is:

Elsa Melendez! Your story was inspiring, and with your birthday the next day, how could I not pick you??

Thanks to all my entrants, and I hope to see you at the conference anyway.

Susan

It’s not often you find a conference in Orlando that specifically addresses the needs of women, but in a few weeks, we’ll be home to the Florida Conference for Women. I’ll be there, and excited to participate.

At the conference you can:

• Reinvent your career
• Manage your money
• Market yourself
• Network effectively
• Find funding for your small business
• Manage your health
• Stay positive

And who can’t use all of that??

I want you to go to the conference too, so here’s how you can win.

Visit the conference’s website and review the presentations, agenda, etc. Come back here and leave a comment telling me what you most want to get out of the conference and why. Have you recently been laid off and are looking to start your own business? Suffering a health issue and need help staying positive? Share your sob stories with us.

I’ll pick a winner April 30, and that person will receive a ticket for the conference.

What are you waiting for??

5 Minutes for Mom is having THE Ultimate Blog Party! They’re appearing on tv, doing giveaways, drinking wine…these are my type of ladies!

They invited me, along with other Orlando bloggers, to join them at Olive Garden tonight for a special dinner given by the restaurant. I’m super excited.

But they’re also having a contest where you can win some fabulous prizes. They have over 100 prizes you can win! So in this post I’m supposed to talk about the ones I want to win. Here goes:

19 — $50 gift certificate to Target Stores
Provided by: Shoot-Me-Now
Prize details: Treat your kids, or even better, treat yourself! Shoot-Me-Now would like to donate a $50 Target gift card to one winner.

21 — $50 gift certificate to Target Stores
Provided by: Agoosa – Funny Name, Sound Advice
Prize details: Agoosa would like to donate a $50 Target gift card to one winner.

22 — $50 gift certificate to Target Stores
Provided by: Beginner Baby Blog
Prize details: Everyone loves a gift card! Beginner Baby Blog would like to donate a $50 Target gift card to one winner.

I’m all about the Target cards. And the numbers of the other prizes I’d like to win are:

118

69

72

87

88

12

Wish me luck! You too! Go enter!