Chic Shopper Chick- is giving away matching Christmas pajamas for the whole family from Snug as a Bug- ends 11/26

Chic Shopper Chick -is also giving away Elf on the Shelf- this one ends on 11/19

Chic Shopper Chick is also giving away The Flight Before Christmas- ending on 11/19

Island Review- has teamed up with Buzzillionsto give away $25, deposited into your PayPal account- ends on 11/20

Hailey is not feeling good today- she is sick with the croup- so it has not been a good day at all.  Here are some of the things I have done today:

1. Woke up bright and early to Hailey coughing.  I held her upright to try to let her get a little more sleep.
2. Spent time in the steamy bathroom to try to stop her coughing.
3. Took her outside in the cold to try to stop her coughing.
4. Listened to Hailey cough so much she couldn’t eat any lunch.  Felt very helpless.
5. Spent more time in the steamy bathroom.
6. Was thankful that Hailey was able to sleep for about an hour this afternoon.
7. Held Hailey upright when she woke up coughing to see if she could get some more sleep.
8. Went back into the steamy bathroom.
9. Called the nurse at her doctors office (Hailey was already there yesterday) to say that nothing is working to stop her coughing.
10. Gave Hailey a nebulizer treatment (nurse recommended, even though she isn’t wheezing, yet).
11. Gave Hailey lots of warm drinks.
12. Went to the drug store to buy some eucalyptus to put in the shower for our next steamy visit to the bathroom.
13. Decided we are done with playgroups.

Stop by Thursday Thirteen to see who else participated.

So what are your plans for this Saturday?  I know what I want to be doing this Saturday.  I want to be getting some Christmas shopping done.  When you have a toddler you have to get your shopping done a little bit at a time otherwise things can turn unpleasant rather quickly.  Right now Hailey is sick, so my shopping this weekend will depend on how she is feeling on Saturday.  If she is feeling better we may head out to the mall to see what kind of deals of happening this weekend.

One place we were certainly be stopping is Sears.  They are having a Big One Day sale on Saturday, November 15th from 7am until noon.  They are going to be having some fabulous door-busters items that will be at their lowest price this season.  And- you’ll even be able to get some Black Friday special deals that morning.

One thing that I want for Christmas this year is a new digital camera- so I am going to be checking out the deal at Sears for the Canon Powershot 8.0 megapixel 4X optical digital zoom still camera.  It is going to be on sale for $149.99 before a $30 instant savings.  Another item that I want to check out, that I would probably use as a gift, is the Nextar 7 digital photo frame that is on sale for only $39.99.

There are going to be lots of fabulous deals- so I am sure you’re going to want to head out to the nearest Sears on Saturday.

5 Minutes for Mom has outdone themselves once again.  They are hosting an amazing Christmas giveaway with all sorts of prizes.  It started back on November 6th and will continue through November 25th.  There are already a lot of fabulous giveaways that I really want to win.  Check out Christmas Giveaway 2008 to see a complete list of the prizes already up for grabs.  Check back each day as more prizes are added. 

Need (or want) a new printer?  They are giving one away.  How about WALL-E on DVD?  Or maybe a doll house?  Yup- they are giving all of those away plus more!  What a great way to save some money on your Christmas shopping!

On Thanksgiving day after we are all way too full and making promises that we will never eat again, we get out the ads from the Thanksgiving day newspaper.  And we start to look through all of the ads for the best deals on Black Friday.  Everyone makes lists of where they want to go and what kind of fabulous deals there are going to be that we just have to get to.

On Friday morning everyone gets up bright and early to get started on the shopping.  The last couple of years have been a little different for me because having Hailey makes it a little harder to start shopping at 5am and go straight through until dinner time.  I’ve done more and more shopping online.

I’m not sure where the majority of my shopping will be done this Christmas season but I can tell you one of the things I will be looking for.  Rich and I both need new cell phones.  We have had our current cell phones for almost 3 years- and that is a long time for a cell phone.  I was looking at the Sprint Instinct phone today and this phone has some great features.  I am seriously considering this phone for both of us.

Since we use Sprint for our cell phone service I’ll also be checking out some more Sprint Black Friday deals.  We do like Sprint although the service we get sometimes is quite lacking.  So I am also going to check to see if there are any good Verizon Wireless Black Friday sales.  Many people in our family use Verizon so this might be a good option for us.  Of course there is also at&t Black Friday deals to be looked at, although I don’t know anyone who uses AT&T, so I’m not sure how much we’ll look into them.  Lastly I might check and see what kind of deals there are for the T-Mobile Black Friday sale, but I don’t know much about this company, so I’m not too sure about them either.

Who do you use?  And who would you recommend or not recommend?