thankyouthankyouthankyou

Those of you who have been absent from the computer for a couple of days may not have been aware that I was trying to win a contest for a FREE Flip digital video camcorder. Because the contest was based on votes, I have been begging/pleading/harassing everyone possible to click over to Classy Mommy and vote for me.

JUST ONE CLICK! IT ONLY TAKE SECONDS!

My friends, family, Twitter peeps, blog readers/followers, TBWers, and Facebook friends... you not only PUT UP WITH ME, but you put on quite the show of support. You emailed, called, linked up, re-tweeted, and voted from as many computers as you could get your hands on.

AND I WON!

It was a close one. Too close to call until the very end. A real nail-biter, it was. *grin*

So a big thank you to everyone who took the time to vote or to pass on my begging/pleading/harassing to their family/friends/followers in order to help me win my Flip. I'm SUUUUUPER excited to get it and to start boring entertaining you with gratuitous footage of my adorable kids at nauseum every once in a while.

Again, I realize that this is not a life altering device. It's just a camcorder. However, being a lover of photographing, blogging and generally recording my children's childhood, this little non-life altering device is something that I've had in my peripheral vision for a few weeks now, since reading about it somewhere online (another blog, maybe? ETA: Found it! It was Dani over at Postcards from the Mothership who posted a review of one last month. Hi, Dani, if you're reading this. *waves*). But because we're currently living on Peter's income alone so that I can stay home with our three boys, things like camcorders are just not an option in order for our budget to work.

Speaking of budget, Peter and I sat down the other night and re-did ours. My maternity benefits will be ending this month (and will be sorely missed!), so we knew we needed a clearer idea of where we stand and how we will function with the loss of that "income". We also wanted to be proactive in doing some pre-Christmas damage control in order to determin approximately how much we could reasonably afford to spend this year. I suggest you all do the same. It's really a good idea.

(As it turns out, looks like all our family and friends will be getting is a DVD compilation of video footage of our adorable kids.)

(Just kidding.)

Thanks again, everyone!!