Happy New School Year! (GIVEAWAY)

Twas the night before school started, when all through the town, the parents were cheering… It was a riotous sound! By 8, kids were washed and tucked into bed… Where memories of homework filled them with dread! New pencils, new folders, new notebooks too! New teachers, new friends…Their anxiety grew! The parents just giggled when they learned of this fright-and shouted upstairs: Go To Bed! It’s A School Night!!

Tomorrow is the first day of school here locally. Of course since I homeschool Tate, we have been back for awhile, but the public schools head to class tomorrow. We have a full-load this year including American History, Chemistry and Calculus. I have no idea how all this Calculus mess is going to go, it all looks like a foreign subject to me but at least Tate has some kinda clue what is going on and needs little help from me. Our goal is for him to take the SAT next year and then take some college classes next fall. He will only be 15 then and I am just hoping it was the right decision to make.

I remember when my kids first went to school. What a bittersweet day. I hated to see them head into that big school on that very first day but I was thrilled that they were going to have their minds opened and expanded. I love to read and was so excited when they were learning, we could then have the biggest adventures through books each and every night.

Nestle is having a HUGE giveaway at nestlefamily.com which is called the Happy New School Year Sweepstakes. Feel free to enter every day for a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000 worth of back-to-school essentials plus a $2,000 NESTLÉ Literacy Grant for your school, plus daily prizes of $50 reward cards.  The sweepstakes ends October 15, 2011, but remember…you can enter DAILY!

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To celebrate being back in the classroom I am happy to announce the Nestlé Family Happy New School Year Survival Guide giveaway in partnership with Reading is Fundamental here at The Post-It Place! The prize pack includes:

A $25 MasterCard rewards card, $20 worth of school supplies, a mix of free coupons from STOUFFER’S, JUICY JUICE, TOLL HOUSE Morsels and Refrigerated Cookie Dough, NESQUIK, and TOMBSTONE; $3 off coupon from BOOST Kid Essentials; product from WONKA, Baby Ruth, CRUNCH and BUTTERFINGER; a straw dispenser and coupon booklet.

To ENTER:  Leave a comment stating what your favorite thing about the first day of school is. I always liked watching the kids agonize over the perfect outfit…then I loved coming back home and taking a nap

All entries must be received by September 14th, 2011 at 11:59 PM.All entries must have a valid US mailing address. Winner will be selected randomly and  will have 3 days to respond to the verification e-mail or another winner will be chosen.

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