Holla! The Return of The Vlog AND an Announcement!

Friends, there is so much going on in this party of a blog post! I may need to go grab a chair before I faint from all the excitement. Firstly, let me sincerely thank More than Mommies for providing yet a another great chance to link up some vlogs (read: I still hate Janene a bit for forcing me out of my comfort zone and making me do this). Secondly, tune in here for a bit of an announcement:

So, as reported by my I-sound-like-a-3 yr.-old-little-girl-mumbly voice, did you catch that? Yes! This Mom of the Year is in another book. (Time to definitely grab that chair and fan myself…). This book is cool, fresh, and so professionally put together. The ladies I’m hanging out with in it are funny, so, so funny.

The scoop: The book is You Have Lipstick on Your Teeth. The brilliant Leslie Marinelli, Editor-in-Chief at In The Powder Room, got a boatload of funny ladies together, edited her heart out of it, and pulled everything together in a gorgeous book.

As described on the back cover:

Thank God for girlfriends and shared visits to powder rooms!

That’s always been the concept behind our website InThePowderRoom.com where we’ve been entertaining women with our humor and bold, brave honesty since 2009. Now we’re taking it to the next level with an anthology of original short stories from some of the wittiest women writers we know—stories they would only tell their closest friends, most likely from within the haven of a ladies’ room. Inside you’ll find 39 (mostly) true tales by women, for women, about being women—bodily changes, relationships, careers, motherhood, aging, illness, and more…

I am HONORED to be part of this book, and after a short while, you are going to hate me for refusing to shut up about it. Sorry :(. But there is lots of cool stuff going on, including a local book signing (first public announcement of this, so now I’m committed!), and a giveaway of 5 signed copies of the book here today!

Here’s the deal; my love Stephanie Giese of Binkies and Briefcases lives close-ish to me, so I make her be my friend. I call her in the middle of frenzied grocery store trips when I think of some minute book-related detail I force her to evaluate with me. She is a sport, and whether she accepts it or not, she is now my bestie. She is signing these books and giving them away with me, so please show us some love and enter in this giveaway!

And I promise to throw up that Rafflecopter widget so you can enter soon, but first humor me and check out these pics of lipstick on my teeth I took to try to promo the book. In one, I am full-on geek, in the next my nose looks to be the size of Mt. Rushmore. Your favorite?

And then, I tried to get my daughter in on the lipstick-on-teeth fun, but she is just way too cute for such nonsense…

Whatever, just humor me and enter the giveaway so you can win a copy of the book. Love you all!

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