'TIS THE SEASON TO BE GIVING, FROM A DONEE TO A DONOR (WITH LOVE, RIBBONS, SEALED WITH A HUG)

"Welcome to the Milk Mama Diaries Carnival (December). For this month, we want to honor breastfeeding for having enriched our lives and blessed us, maybe even empowered us, in a way that only breastfeeding can. Please scroll down to the end of this post and check out the other carnival participants."


J and the Three Boys is happy to host Marnellie Santos, who is a new mom. Greatly inspired by my friend Jenny Ong's Chronicles of a Nursing Mom, Marnellie joins this mom's Milk Mama Diaries.  This is what she has to say, "I was able to read on relevant sites with the same topics on breastfeeding and "mommying". Truly parenting and babies are mysteries which one will never get tired trying to solve. I was able to find helpful mommy sites (nice ones that are not readily selling) from the carnival last August. I do not have a blog but I'm interested to participate on the December carnival. Hope you can host my post... hopefully with this I can actually kick off a blog of my own.

Scam!

I'm pretty sure I'm not the first to post about this, but I was aghast when I saw the email that www.OkayOkay.com sent to my inbox this morning! (And another question to them is -- how did they get my email???)

I generally check most deal emails I get -- I believe in diamonds in the rough! =) So as always, especially since this particular one was new to me, I scanned the note. And then I saw this: