SWEEPSTAKES!!!!

That right y'all, you could win a Hawaiian thing!!! Remember over here, when good old what's her face won poi?!?!?! Well, you could be feeling the same feelings of delight!

Before I get into how you can win, I have a few free-floating ideas that I'm having trouble making a complete blog post around, so I'll share them right here, right now. They're all short stories about how great my mom is.

1.) Who among us doesn't remember singing this jaunty tune, made famous by the Snowman from "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer"?

Well, being the imagineer I was, as a child, my younger sisters and I planted lollipop sticks under trees 3-4 times a week one summer. And every morning we'd wake up to find a menagerie of lollipops, lovingly scotch taped to the tree boughs. This only served to feed our lollipop tree addiction, but whatever.

2.) My mom has a funny relationship with technology, in my humble opinion. I mean, she's really good with technology and very innovative when it comes to her career as an elementary school librarian, but then she'll do things like email you detailed instructions on how to find an interesting internet item, rather than just emailing you the link. But, actually, maybe that has more to do with pop culture stuff. Por ejemplo, about 17 months ago my mom asked my sister, Emily, if she had seen the youtube woman. Thinking that perhaps it was a television character, of some sort, Emily said "maybe, I'm not sure". My mother's reply to that what "oh no, you'd know. Go to youtube and type in 'England's Got Talent Woman Singer' "... she wanted to show Emily, Susan Boyle, you see.

3.) My mom wants us all to know Jesus, and sometimes her methods to introducing us to him were a little unorthodox. Par exemple, my baby sister Brittany was obsessed with the rapper Eminem, when she was in 7th and 8th grade. She won a framed poster of him, looking tough, at the Ellensburg Rodeo, along with a sliver chain that was very Eminem-esque. Well anyway, Britt was super in to Eminem, but had a touch of the social anxiety so wasn't very involved with our church's Jr. High Youth Group, so my mom hatched a plan. In 2002, when Brittany was 14, Eminem came out with a movie called "8 Mile". If Brittany went to a church retreat, she could go see "8 Mile" with our older sister, and I think Violet, too. That might be a pop-culture thing too, cause if my mom knew the details of "8 Mile" she might not have let Bun-bun see it. But who knows.

So yeah, my mom rulez. But on to the sweepstakes!!! If you want the chance to win something Hawaiian, leave me a comment. Maybe it could be about something cool your mom did. Or if you're a mom, maybe something cool your kid did. Or maybe your favorite season. I don't know, but something!!! I'll announce the winner on Friday. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!