I know that I usually do not post about products that have been recalled but this time I am since we have this product in our home and I purchased it for Ellie 2 months ago.
If you have one please register for your replacement tray NOW!!
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G.I. JOE: Renegades Season One Vol. 1 – June 5th
When a spy mission against Cobra Industries goes awry, a group of young G.I. JOE team members is forced to hit the road as fugitives. Now the team members — DUKE, SCARLETT, ROADBLOCK, TUNNEL RAT, RIPCORD, BREAKER and SNAKE EYES — must use their wits and elite training to prove their innocence to the world before being caught by the authorities, the COBRA organization or, worse yet, another elite military team called the Falcons.
With exciting, action-packed storytelling, spectacular animation, G.I. JOE Renegades, produced by Hasbro Studios, boasts an incredible voice cast, including Charlie Adler (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), Lee Majors (Six Million Dollar Man), Clancy Brown (Shawshank Redemption), Jason Marsden (Batman: The Brave and the Bold), Johnny Messner (Tears of the Sun) and Kevin Michael Richardson (The Batman).
I, personally, have been a G.I. JOE fan for as long as I can remember and am glad that I have passed that love on to my boys as well. As a young child, I was a HUGE Tomboy and was into all of the awesome cartoons for boys and steered far away from the girl ones. It didn’t take long before I was hooked on G.I. JOE.
Disclosure: I received a promotional copy of this film for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This post does contain an affiliate link.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green – In Theaters August 15th
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THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN opens in theaters everywhere on Wednesday, August 15th!
The Great Facebook Experiment
As you know, Facebook has changed their algorithm for business pages so that not everyone that ‘Likes’ a page sees the updates being posted. In order to make more money, Facebook has started charging to ‘Promote’ a post for you so that it reaches more people. When I learned of this, I thought it was time to take that FREE $50 Facebook advertising credit Mark Zuckerberg gave me and do a little research.
On Thursday, May 31st, I posted the following update on my fan page:
Hello friends of The Megalomaniac Mommy!! Could you do me a favor and Like this post if you see it! I am trying to figure out the adjustments Facebook has made and want to ensure you are seeing my posts!
Thank you!
This was just a regular every day post like all of the other things I post on my page.
4 hours later, I posted this:
Now we are going to see how many people see this ‘promoted’ post since I have free Facebook credit to use!
*********IF YOU SEE THIS STATUS, PLEASE HIT THE LIKE BUTTON AND/OR LEAVE ME A LITTLE MESSAGE SAYING HI—– AT THE END OF THIS LITTLE TEST I WILL BE DRAWING A WINNER FOR A ♫ ♪♫ TRULY OUTRAGEOUS PRIZE ♫♪♫ THANK YOU FOR HELPING OUT!***********
I paid $15.00 to promote this ad over a 3 day period.
Here are the results.
For those unfamiliar with the terminology, here are the definitions:
Organic: The number of people who saw your Page post in newsfeed or ticker, or on your Page’s wall.
Viral: The number of people who saw your Page post in a story from a friend.
Paid: The number of people who saw your Page post in an Ad or Sponsored Story
My first post was liked by 47 people whereas the 2nd post was liked by 138 people who viewed it. Oh, and there were also several people who commented on my promoted post that they didn’t even see it until 2 days after it was posted!
After seeing the numbers from this little experiment, I feel that I am still better off just posting a regular message without promoting it because it is obviously still being seen by others and seeing the numbers for the promoted post just seems like a waste of money.
Johnson’s Baby Cares & Save the Children
As a mom, we all have those moments that we cherish and know we will never forget. This past Mother’s Day, I had the pleasure of sharing my day with my youngest daughter, Baby Ellie, to celebrate her baptism. Instead of sleeping in and waking up to a lovely breakfast in bed as I have in the years past, I woke up bright and early to shower and get myself and every one else ready to head to church for 2 hours and then play hostess at a luncheon with family following the baptism. Although I did not get to enjoy Mother’s Day as I would normally do, I was glad to share it with my little Ellie, our miracle baby that we were told we lost.
My pregnancy with Ellie was not a pleasant one and at one point, we were told that I had miscarried. This news of course devastated us and we were beyond words happy to hear that the doctor was wrong and she was still growing inside of me. After that night, my life changed and it changed even more when she was born early at 36 weeks and faced a few issues before finally coming home.
Since Ellie was born, I have been doing my best to give back. I have been donating what I can, here and there to different charities and causes that all involve children. A new cause that I have grown fond of is the Johnson’s Baby Cares program which had partnered with another cause that we have supported for a few years, Save the Children.
Johnson’s Baby cares is donating Baby “Care Kits” stocked with baby essentials (lotions, washes, shampoos, diaper creams, etc) to Save the Children who will distribute them to families in disaster stricken situations. In addition to this great contribution, Johnson’s will donate an additional $50,000 to Save the Children when they achieve 500,000 views on their “Happy Mother’s Day, Mom — You’re Doing OK” video below.
Please take a moment to watch this great video.
You can learn more about Johnson’s Baby Cares by visiting them on Facebook.
Disclosure: I wrote this review while participating in a campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Johnson & Johnson and received a promotional item to thank me for my participation.