Happy Thanksgiving!

We had the preschool Thanksgiving Feast,

made the annual Turkey Hand Cookies,

scoped out the best place for Black Friday shopping and said what we're thankful for this year.

I think we're ready!

Happy Thanksgiving from everyone in Ellie-Town! 

Mads Rocks It Out

You get to listen to music that rocks instead of my voice shrieking because my baby just walked across the living room!

Her new record is walking the entire way across the mats at Gymboree, more than 20 controlled steps and then putting playballs in a hoop still while not holding on.  Way to rock it, Mads!

This post is part of Wordless Wednesday and linked up at

5 Minutes for Mom

Live and Love Outloud

A Beautiful Mess

Baby Deals Dujour

You must read this before you plan your Black Friday.  You might not be waiting in line in the freezing cold at 4:30 am after all!

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How much do you love the baby daily deal sites?    

How much do you hate getting 15 emails a day with sales beginning and ending at all different times and then, when it's too late, realizing your were on Gilt when you should have been on Haute?

So much?

Me, too.

But there is a solution.  BabyDealsDujour is the site that lists all of the baby daily deals in real-time.  You can subscribe (for free) to BabyDealsDujour and get ONE email with all of the deals.  How genius is that?!

BabyDealsDujour has every daily deal and member's only site you can think of from BabyAge to Zulily.  If you haven't ventured into the world of Woot and Mamabargains yet, now is the time!  Just today there were deals on Petunia Pickle Bottom, Rockabye Baby, Angel Dear, blabla and Melissa & Doug.  Can I tell you how fab it would have been to NOT pay full price for my treasured PPB Boxy Backpack?

I know you are already in love.  And you may have already opened a new window to sign up for your daily email from BabyDealDujours, but I still have two more great things to tell you:

1) There is a $50 Pottery Barn Kids Giveaway going on right now on the BabyDealsDujour Blog.

2) BabyDealsDujour donates 10% of all proceeds to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. 

If you want to stay updated even more, you can follow BabyDealsDujour on Facebook or Twitter.

BabyDealsDujour has tweeted that the baby daily deal sites will not disappoint on Black Friday.  Instead of waking up when it's still dark out, heading into the freezing cold and throwing elbows, I'll be snug in my pj's sipping on my Via, snagging the best deals online.

You can thank me on Saturday.