It's here! It's here!

Many moons ago (maybe a few weeks...), I received an email telling me I WON a playpen from Baby Trend.  Let me preface it with this: I never, ever win anything.  The closest I've come is getting my money back on Bunco night as the biggest loser.  Yep, that's right.  Out of 14 girls, I lost the most rounds.  That's my typical luck.

Somtime in June, I realized that Parenting.com was doing 101 Days of Giveaways.  This is the first time ever for me to enter into anything of this sort whatsoever.  But the stuff was just so...well, fabulous.  I couldn't resist.  So, from that day in mid-June until Labor Day, the last day of the contest, I was on top of it.  I check the daily giveaway every morning and registered for everything worth having.  One thing led to another, and I looked into their other contests and giveaways also.  I decided I might as well register for those too. 

One of the other giveaways was the play pen that I won...by some miracle.  Click below for the details on and pictures of my winnings:  http://www.babytrend.com/nursery_centers_deluxe/PY86443.html

Isn't that cool?  Anyway, in the email it said it should get to me within 3-5 business days.  On Wednesday I called to check the status, since it had been longer than that by quite a bit.  Apparently, the lady who deals with this type of thing was on jury duty for that extent of time but had shipped it the day before.  On Thursday I returned from one of my daily outings to find it on my doorstep.  Woohoo!

It's here, and I am so excited!  Scott and I have taken it out of the box and assembled it.  We're so ready to use it.  I think we even have the fancy pants features of it all figured out.  Yay for freebies through Parenting and Baby Trend! 

Just FYI:  The winners from the 101 Days will be notified no later than November 9th.  I'll let you know how that works out for me...assuming the outcome is me winning something else spectacular.

Lingering thought of the day:  I love having the option of Saturday night or Sunday morning church!  We attended this evening, and it was really nice!