TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter, I’m sharing this meme with you. Did I mention this giveaway features $3,800 in prizes? For those of you that know me, you know I’m not exaggerating, because if I were, I’d exaggerate using an odd number. LOL!

Click here to check out the ginormous amount of goods.

To enter to win them, all you need to do is the following three things:

1. Answer the questions in this meme on your blog.
2. Make sure to post links back to TodaysMama.com and Provo Craft (using this link: http://bit.ly/4ikY3c ).
3. Tag your friends!

Create a Wishlist!

1. What 5 items are top on your holiday wish list?

• A piano
• A trip to India
• Maid service (even one a month would be heavenly!)
• A trip to New York City (I would love to get this gift early, so I can go this December!)
• A new printer like my old one (where the sheets feed into the copier)

2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?

Do my grandma’s banana cookies count? Honestly… there is no better handmade gift than that!

3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?

I’d love to knit a hat as long as someone else could do the knitting for me!

4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?

Holly Hobby Easy Bake Oven… hands down the best gift evah!

5. What items are top on your kids wish list this year?

• My 6YO wants an electric guitar.
• My 8YO wants us to get a piano. He’s willing to forego toys for it!

6. What is your favorite holiday food?

Where to begin?

• Reindeer cookies
• My MIL’s sugar cookies
• Saurkraut
• My mom’s prime rib roast
• Caramel Apple Spice from Starbuck’s
• Hot chocolate
• Veggie trays (especially if I got to chop the veggies)
• Olives (especially when eaten off my finger tips… tell me you did that as a kid too!)

7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?
Thankfully, nada (unless making reindeer cookies as neighbor gifts counts)!

8. What is your favorite holiday movie?
All of them! I love holiday movies!!! If I had to choose just one, I would probably say How The Grinch Stole Christmas, especially the part when his heart pops out of his chest!

9. Favorite holiday song?
I can’t choose just one:

• Oh Come All Ye Faithful
• We Three Kings/Star of Wonder by BNL & Sarah McLaughlin
• Bring the Torch, Jeanette Isabella
• That one by the Osmond’s that @troypattee dies for (can’t remember the name… not Puppy Love though!)

10. Favorite holiday pastime?
Giving!

Tag! You’re It!

Now, it’s tag time! I’d love to see answers to these questions from all of you, but since the task is to tag some of you and since tagging all of you would mean the rest of you would have no one to tag, here we go!

• Amy from Mom Spark
• Niri from Mommy Niri
• Robyn from Pensieve Robin
• Melissa from Isly
• Carissa from Good and Crazy People
• Angie from 7 Clown Circus
• Elizabeth from Parenting Pink
• Kim from Crafty Mama of 4
• Holly from June Cleaver Nirvana
• Jenny from Jenny on the Spot

Photos courtesy of Marie From makeandtakes.com.

Utah families participated in a service project Saturday, March 28 complete with kids crafts, yummy treats, and Christmas joy! Christmas joy? What? Aren’t we in the wrong month? Nope! Not at the Christmas Box House.

In 1997, The Christmas Box Foundation, with support from the community, agreed to fund and build a new shelter intake/assessment and residential facility. This facility has greatly enhanced services to abused and neglected children and reflects a statewide model for delivery of best practice assessment and treatment services to victims of child abuse.

When children enter the Christmas Box House, the first thing they see is a large Christmas tree surrounded by teddy bears and all kinds of stuff animals. Decorated each month by a different organization and based on a theme fitting the month, the Christmas tree is a welcome surprise for these children. The gift for them? A safe place to live and a brand new stuffed animal to keep them company during their stay!

Marie from Make and Takes partnered with Mom It Forward to decorate the April tree. First came making the crafts (donated by Provo Craft):

Leslie Mingo of www.dylbug.com helps her little one make spring decorations for the April tree.

Next came the finished product. Which was in greater abundance—the smiles on the kid’s faces or the decorations? They did a terrific job!

Then came the treats. Cupcake Chic generously donated mini cupcakes for the event. Who said we have to wait til heaven to get our reward? LOL! They were divine. And I won’t lie, they were a bigger hit with the moms than with the children .

And last but not least… the tree! Decorated for kids, by kids.

Happy spring! What will you do this month to Mom It Forward?