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Jeans Cream Soothes Radiation Skin: Giveaway

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
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My skin did pretty well during radiation. For weeks, nothing at all happened, and then at the very end of my 30+ days of treatment, a mild burn showed up. No blistering, though, or peeling, or anything else that made me horribly uncomfortable.

You (or those you know who are getting zapped) might not fare so well. Lucky you (actually two of you!), because right here, right now, you can enter to win a free tube of Jeans Cream. It’s a natural and revolutionary product that soothes and protects skin with high-potency vitamins and botanical extracts. And it’s not made by just anyone — creator and founder Jean is a two-time breast cancer survivor, and so she knows first-hand that this stuff really works.

Jeans Cream is good for more than just radiation-affected skin, it can effectively treat eczema, sunburn, diabetes-related skin issues, contact dermatitis, wound care, and you can even use it for daily moisturizing.

What are you waiting for? Leave a comment, and you just might score this valuable gift!

  • Leave a comment and share why you need this cream!
  • Leave your comment no later than 5PM ET on Wednesday, February 10, 2010.
  • You may enter only once.
  • Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia, who are 18 and older.
  • One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
  • Two winners will receive one 7-ounce tube each of Jeans Cream (valued at $45 per tube).
  • Winners will be notified by email, so make sure to check next week to find out if you’ve won!

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Posted in Giveaway, Radiation, Side effects | 7 Comments »

Giveaway – The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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If you’re a fan of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” then you know Bethenny Frankel. She’s not only a reality TV girl, though — she’s also a celebrity natural food chef, columnist for Health magazine and best-selling author.

First came Bethenny’s book “Naturally Thin,” detailing 10 real-life rules for escaping a lifetime of dieting, and now she’s written “The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life.” This is where she shares fast, practical and economical healthy recipes, then teaches us how to live without them. How perfect for those of us trying to live cleaner lives in less time!

Bethenny also dishes on how we can minimize the “cooking noise” in our lives. Keep reading for some inspirational nuggets — and for the scoop on how to win one of her books.

  • Do you hear yourself saying any of these things: I have no food in this house. I don’t have the slightest idea what to make for dinner. There is nothing to eat! I don’t know how to cook. That’s “cooking noise,” and you can stop it, and you can learn to feed yourself without stressing about it.
  • Food is one of the most powerful tools you have for building a healthy body and a calm mind. Food can make you strong or weak, energized or depleted, skinny or fat. You are what you eat — it’s true.
  • Being naturally thin is a practice — you will never be perfect (no one is), but you can choose a healthy path and keep plugging along on it.
  • Recipes are a bit like kindergarten. You learn some basics (how do Whole Grain Blueberry Pancakes, a Healthier Cobb Salad and Oatmeal Raisin Cookies sound?), then you gain the confidence to branch out on your own. When you know how to cook, you won’t need recipes anymore.

OK, I could go on, but then you wouldn’t need the book, and I really think you should get it. Or you could enter this giveaway for a chance to win a free copy. Details follow:

  • Leave a comment and share why you need this book!
  • Leave your comment no later than 5PM ET on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
  • You may enter only once.
  • Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia, who are 18 and older.
  • One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
  • One winner will receive one copy of “The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life,” valued at $16.00.
  • Winners will be notified by email, so make sure to check next week to find out if you’ve won!

Want another chance to win? Same giveaway going on at Braving Boys. Click here and enter again!

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Marble Breast Cancer Pendant: Giveaway

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

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Leave a comment to enter to win!

Dawn over at Out of the Blue Delivered was generous enough to give away a breast cancer bracelet in June, and now she’s back, offering this awesome marble breast cancer pendant to one lucky reader.  It’s so easy to enter this giveaway. Here’s what you’ve got to do:

  • Head over to Out of the Blue Delivered, shop around and leave a comment telling me what gift you’d love to buy and who you’d give it to.
  • Leave your comment no later than 5PM ET on Friday, October 30, 2009.
  • You may enter only once.
  • Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia, who are 18 and older.
  • One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
  • One winner will receive one marble breast cancer pendant, valued at $29.
  • Winners will be notified by email, so make sure to check next week to find out if you’ve won!

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BondiBand Giveaway: 5 Can Be Yours!

Monday, October 19th, 2009
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Leave a comment below to enter to win five headbands!

I’ve been loving my BondiBand headbands, and I’m just positive you would adore them, too. I use them mostly for holding back my hair while I’m working out, but there’s no reason these stylish no-slip bands can’t be used for fashion alone. For about $8 for one, you can find out just how great they are — or you can leave a comment below and take a chance at winning five of them in this giveaway (if you win, you get to pick the exact five you want)! Here’s the scoop on how to score the freebies:

  • Visit the BondiBand Web site, then leave a comment below telling me which headband is your absolute favorite.
  • Leave your comment no later than 5PM ET on Friday, October 23, 2009.
  • You may enter only once.
  • Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia, who are 18 and older.
  • One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
  • One winner will receive five BondiBand headbands, valued at about $40.
  • Winners will be notified by email, so make sure to check next week to find out if you’ve won!

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Cupcakes Delivered to Your Door: Giveaway

Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Bangerang Bake Shop cupcakes

www.bangerangbakeshop.com

Every once in a while, one of my kids will ask how I’d like it if cakes and cookies and candies were healthy and I could eat as much as I’d like (they are quite the dreamers). I always tell them I’d love it.

Sadly, these sweets are not so nutritious, and limiting sugary goods is what we all should do. No reason we can’t indulge once in a while, though, and when that time comes, Bangerang Bake Shop delivers. And I mean literally delivers cupcakes right to your door (or mailbox). They just sent two beautiful masterpieces to me, one Cupcake For The Cure (white cake, pink frosting and edible little pink ribbons) and one Chocolate Chip Off The Ol’ Block (benefiting kids cancer). They arrived in a clever little package, each cake wrapped individually in blue and pink tissue paper (don’t you just love the perfect presentation?), and with two plastic forks, because this is the kind of treat you want to eat with silverware — cupcakes come in jars with fancy lids that are totally reusable, by the way.

So what happened after our cupcakes arrived?

salivating

We opened the box and licked our lips,

unwrapping

we unwrapped the cupcakes,

tasting

we tasted the treats,

sharing

we shared them, too!

And we want you to do the same. Want your chance? Just enter the giveaway below — Bangerang Bake Shop will give a $22 gift certificate to one lucky reader. What a delicious opportunity!

  • Visit the Bangerang Bake Shop Web site and leave a comment below sharing which cupcakes you’ll buy if you win.
  • Leave your comment no later than 5PM ET on Friday, October 16, 2009.
  • You may enter only once.
  • Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia, who are 18 and older.
  • One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
  • One winner will receive one Bangerang Bake Shop gift card, valued at $22.
  • Winners will be notified by email, so make sure to check next week to find out if you’ve won!

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Giveaway – For My Courageous Sisterchick

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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www.robingunn.com

Best-selling author Robin Jones Gunn’s  Sisterchick Series follows women, best-friend types, on adventures around the world, and her book “Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes” narrates the story of a woman facing breast cancer. In the book, the main character comes across an adaptation of Psalm 23, and readers have had such a strong and positive reaction to the passage that it’s been made into an inspiring placard. For just $6, this frameable card can be yours.

Or you can win one here — I have three, and I’ll gift them to the first three people who leave a comment on this post.

Ready. Set. Go.

Wait, one more thing: I’ve got a coupon code for you — use it when you shop at shop.robingunn.com, and you’ll save 20% on your total order. The code: CANCERSPOT.

For My Courageous Sisterchick®

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not freak out.
He makes me lie down under scanning machines,
He leads me to trustworthy doctors,
He restores my deductible.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
(And keep on walking and don’t get stuck
or sit down or have a hissy fit),
I will fear no evil,
For You are with me.

Your new creation health renewal plan
And perfect timing, they comfort me.

You prepare an organic diet before me
In the presence of my injections.
You anoint my baldhead with oil
When my bra cup no longer overflows.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,

And when You at last pull my chart and call my name,
I shall arise
And dwell with You in Your house,
Forever.

Adapted from the 23rd Psalm
Appears in “Sisterchicks® in Wooden Shoes!”
Copyright © 2009 by Robin’s Nest Productions Inc.

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Giveaway – STAND BY HER: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men

Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Leave a comment below to win this book!

Leave a comment below to win this book!

There’s a new breast cancer book out there, with a new twist — it’s for men. It’s called STAND BY HER: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men by John W. Anderson (AMACOM Books, October 2009).

Anderson watched his mother, Anne, die from breast cancer. Then, he watched his mother’s best friend Caryl, his sister Mary, and his wife Sharon battle breast cancer and survive. From these four extraordinary women, Anderson learned how breast cancer affects men and what men can do when women in their lives become its victims. After his wife reached her five-year cancer-free milestone, he decided to write a comprehensive reference and compass for husbands, fathers, sons, brothers and other caring men.

STAND BY HER is a step-by-step program targeted to men who want to become invaluable breast cancer caregivers to their loved ones, while at the same time helping them address and overcome their own personal fears, frustrations and anxieties caused by this disease. Combining anecdotes from his own and others’ secondhand experiences of breast cancer with extensive research and abundant resources, Anderson provides information, strategies and guidance on countless medical and emotional minefields men face, every day. Beginning with the challenge of interpreting and handling the initial diagnosis, he clearly explains the range of breast cancer treatments — from lumpectomy and chemotherapy to double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery.

Anderson is an Emmy-nominated director of television commercials, including Lifetime Television’s “Stop Breast Cancer for Life” campaign, and a writer, producer and director of television shows. He is a writer for newspapers and magazines, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation and many other publications. He has a blog www.standbyher.org.

And he’s going to be on The Today Show on October 8, talking all about the book. Check him out if you can.

And here’s some exciting news: One lucky reader is going to score a copy of Anderson’s book. Here’s the scoop on how to enter to win:

  • Leave a comment below sharing why you really want this book.
  • Leave your comment no later than 5PM ET on Friday, October 9, 2009.
  • You may enter only once.
  • Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia, who are 18 and older.
  • One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
  • One winner will receive one copy of STAND BY HER: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men, valued at $18.95.
  • Winners will be notified by email, so make sure to check next week to find out if you’ve won!

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Celebration 4 Life Giveaway – 12 Will Win

Friday, September 18th, 2009
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Enter below to win one cap and one Keep Cool bandanna.

I’m back with more about the Celebration 4 Life gear. You know, the shirts, caps and Keep Cool bandannas (aka cooling neck wraps) modeled by my boys in a previous post. Yea, those. But I’m not here to just chit-chat about these goodies. I’m here to give them away. Well, the Celebration 4 Life folks are giving them away. I’m just providing the avenue by which you can score some free stuff.

One cap and one cooling neck wrap can be all yours if you enter this giveaway. And if you win, you’ll get to choose the cap and wrap of your choice. Pretty generous, huh? It gets better.

Celebration 4 Life will award 12 winners. Yes, 12. So be sure to leave a comment (but only one) so you have a chance at getting these great goods.

Here’s exactly what you need to do:

  • Visit this site and leave a comment below sharing the model number of both the cap and cooling neck wrap you want (note: Caps with the thin reflective bands are standard size, and the ones with the wider reflective bands are smaller).
  • Leave your comment no later than 5PM ET on Friday, September 25, 2009.
  • You may enter only once.
  • Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia, who are 18 and older.
  • Twelve winners will be selected in a random drawing.
  • Twelve winners will receive one cap ($13) and one cooling neck wrap, ($5), valued at $18.
  • Winners will be notified by email and in a post on this blog, so make sure to check next week to find out if you’ve won!

Before you leave the Celebration 4 Life site, check out their free downloads, and use them if you can. OK, that’s all. Good Luck!

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Congratulations, Deb!

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

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Deb is about to get a brand new, pink breast cancer bracelet in the mail, because she is the lucky winner of this pretty giveaway prize. Congratulations, Deb!

Thanks to Dawn at Out of the Blue Delivered for donating this bracelet, and for raising awareness about a disease that too many of us must fight.

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Giveaway – Breast Cancer Ribbon Bracelet

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

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If you think this breast cancer bracelet would look great on your wrist, or you’d love to give it to someone as a gift, or you just like scoring things for free, then you’ve got to enter this giveaway.

My friend Dawn over at Out of the Blue Delivered is giving away this pretty piece, and all you need to do to enter this contest is leave a comment on this post — well, after you hop on over to Dawn’s online store and shop around a bit. Out of the Blue Delivered specializes in gifts for every occasion, and I want to know all about your favorite find. Here’s exactly what you need to do:

  • Leave a comment below and share what gift you like best from Out of the Blue Delivered.
  • Leave your comment no later than 5PM ET on Wednesday, June 25, 2009.
  • You may enter only once.
  • One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
  • One winner will receive one breast cancer ribbon bracelet, valued at $18.
  • Winners will be notified by email and in a post on this blog, so make sure to check next week to find out if you’ve won!

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Get something for free

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Over at the PlanetKid Child Care Blog, we’re giving away one $20 gift card to Smoothie King. Got one near you? Check out this locator and find out. And if you do and you want something for nothing, just click here and leave a comment (don’t leave your comment on this Breast Cancer blog, you must go to the Child Care blog) and you might just be the lucky winner. You have until May 19 to comment. Good luck.

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Giveaway – Sweet Onesie Gift Set

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

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Got a giveaway going on over here at this blog, and you’ve got to enter. It’s free, all you need to do is leave a comment on the post and you might just be the lucky winner of a precious baby onesie and burp cloth, compliments of Little Sassy Pants. The best part: If you win, you get to personalize the items just as you wish. Perfect for a baby gift or for your own little ones. Check it all out right here. And if you just want to do some sassy shopping, click here and check out the handiwork of my friend Deidre.

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Lucky Laura wins a prize

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

It’s an emotional time for reader Laura. She’s just completed chemotherapy for breast cancer and will soon head for a mastectomy and reconstruction. A perfect time for a shiny, new necklace, don’t you think?

Lucky Laura. She won the hand-crafted breast cancer awareness necklace that my blogger friend Christine made and offered for my recent giveaway.

“I look so forward to wearing it,” Laura tells me. “I feel honored!”

Ditto. I feel honored to know these women, both of whom have their very own blogs. Visit Christine at Color Me Pink. And stop and see Laura here.

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Giving away some breast cancer awareness

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

My new blogger friend Christine over at Color Me Pink is offering this beautiful breast cancer necklace for one lucky reader. Yep, it’s another giveaway, and you could be the one who scores this made-by-Christine treasure. Here’s what you must do to enter to win:

Head on over to Color Me Pink, browse around a bit and tell me in a comment one thing you learned from your trip to Christine’s blog. I’m giving you one week from today to make this happen. On Wednesday, December 10 at 5 PM, I’ll randomly draw a name. Then, Christine will mail off this pretty prize, which happens to feature a chunky pink faceted pendant, with sterling awareness ribbon and sterling star charm. Strung on a sterling fine chain with lobster claw clasp. Valued at: $25.00.

Consider this your chance to pick up a free holiday gift, for you or for someone you know. Now, get on over to my favorite new pink site and tell me something that captivated you.

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Congratulations, times five

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Yay for Kim, Susy, Zee, Forsythia, and Joseph—all winners in my latest Smoothie King gift card giveaway. Each lucky gal and guy will receive five gift cards, each one good for one free 20 oz. smoothie.

Thanks, Leah, for continuing to shower my friends with smoothies. I appreciate it, and I know they do too.

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Giveaway: Gobs of Smoothie King gift cards

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I love Smoothie King, and my friend Leah for offering so many goodies for giveaways.

I’ve got gobs of gift cards in my hands, each one good for one free 20 oz. smoothie, valued at about $5 each. I’m bundling them together in packages of five and will award five readers with one of these packages. That’s $25 worth of smooth stuff you’ll get if you win. So here’s what you’ve got to do: Leave a comment and tell me why you love smoothies. That’s it. Do it by 5 PM on Monday, November 10 and your name might just be one of the five I draw randomly from my fancy hat.

Oh, Leah wants me to tell you about a new item on the Smoothie King menu: The Berry Stimulating Maté. It’s got blackberry, strawberry, blueberry, Guayaki organic yerba maté, turbinado (save on calories and carbs and make your smoothie skinny by leaving this ingredient out) and nonfat milk. Yerba maté (pronounced YER-ba MA-tay) boasts a host of health attributes. It aids in weight control and digestion, increases metabolism, induces mental clarity, sustains energy, and lessens the effects of allergies and diabetes. Can’t beat that.

Ready. Set. Go, leave a comment now. Wait: First you might want to see if there’s a Smoothie King near you. Sadly, there isn’t one here in Gainesville. Click here to find a location near you.

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If I just breathe: A book and a giveaway

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Breast cancer normally affects older women, and there is really very little information about how the disease affects women under 40 (that’s why I wrote about the Young Survival Coalition in this post). But here’s the deal: Breast cancer is a devastating blow to any woman. And as new author and young breast cancer survivor Tina Koral says, “young women often face a myriad of unique challenges, including higher mortality, threatened fertility, isolation, and a lack of informational resources targeted to our age group.”

That’s why Tina wrote a book, so that she can share her story with other young women with breast cancer who need hope, and for young women who do not have breast cancer, but need to know what to look for. And that why she’s sending me a book—so I can help spread the word. And why she’s giving one away here too—so you can help spread the word.

Want to win a free copy of Tina’s book, If I Just Breathe? Take a peek at the excerpt below and leave a comment no later than 5 PM on Monday, November 3, 2008 telling me why you’d love to have this book in your hands. Then I’ll work my random-drawing magic and will announce the lucky winner in a post.

In the meantime, check out Tina’s website here. This is where you can order her book.

“The photographs from my wedding day show a joyful young couple, visibly excited to start a new life together. The promise of a happy home full of children shone in our eyes. The thrill of that day, of marrying my childhood love in a city filled with romance, will stay with me forever. What I did not know at the time was that along with something old, new, borrowed and blue, I carried a seven centimeter, rapidly growing mass of malignant cells in my breast. I was twenty-nine years old.”

Exerpt from If I Just Breathe

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Shabby Apple has a winner

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

“What I love most about my body is my skin,” says Cathy in her comment for my Shabby Apple dress giveaway. “I have been blessed with great genetics and protect my skin with SPF so that I always look younger than I am. Now, I am teaching my daughter to take care of her skin, which is also beautiful. I have been every size there is between 8 and 16 and sometimes it is difficult to be comfortable in my own skin, but its mine and I love it!”

And now Cathy gets to showcase her beautiful skin in her brand new jersey dress. Yes, she’s the winner. And I just know she’s going to look smashing and dashing and all things radiant in that trendy yet sophisticated little number.

Congrats to you, Cathy. And thanks to you, my Shabby Apple friend Ashely, for making this giveaway possible.

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Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

You’ve got to enter this Shabby Apple dress giveaway—you could win a fabulous jersey dress, priced at $64 but free for you if I pick your name in my random drawing on October 21.

See snazzy dress to the right.

Click here to enter.

15% Shabby Apple discount coming soon.

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Happy Love Your Body Day

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Today is Love Your Body Day. We’re talking about it on That’s Fit, readers here on my personal blog are sharing what they love most about their bodies for my latest giveaway—click here, reveal your most prized body part, and enter to win a dazzler of a dress—and now, I’ll tell you what I love about this 38-year-old body that belongs to me.

To be honest, I’ve always been a bit hard on my body, generally wishing it was thinner, stronger, tanner, tighter, more toned. I’ve even gone as far as reducing my once-too-big boobs and tucking in my sagging-skin tummy. I explain my breast reduction as necessary for comfort—four pounds of heavy, dense tissue were removed—and I justify the tummy tuck too. Comfort again. After seven years, I just couldn’t deal anymore with the excess post-pregnancy stuff hanging from my middle. Comfort aside, though, I admit both surgeries gave me an appearance I wanted: Small boobs and a flat tummy, both better matches for my other body parts.

I love my boobs and my tummy now. Truly love them. There are other parts I love too—parts never reconstructed or enhanced, like my toes.

John told me on one of our first dates that my toes are cute. I agree. They look best in flip-flops, painted just right with my favorite really dark color.

I also love my hair. Never thought I’d say that after shaving off my blond locks nearly four years ago in preparation for the big chemotherapy fall-out. But my hair grew back better. And my hair stylist Trippe cuts it perfectly, which makes me love him almost as much as I love my hair.

Other parts I love: My arms, for toning up so nicely; my legs, for allowing me to run lots of miles; my brain, which is getting smarter by the day, thanks to second-grade homework and four tests per week; the whole darn thing, really. I mean, this body of mine delivered two whopper-sized baby boys and beat breast cancer too. I love it. Simply love it.

What do you love about your body? Name something. Anything. Your eyes, your ears, your lips, your fingernails. Surely, there’s something that makes you happy. Think about it, and share by leaving a comment, either here on this post or on the giveaway post, where you stand to win something pretty.

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