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Check out the awesome prizes we have up for grabs in our huge Harry Potter themed giveaway! One lucky winner will recieve:

Prizes

Dark Mark temporary tattoo from Bruce Loves You [SHOP]

Harry Potter Light switch Cover from Made With Magic [SHOP]

Deathly Hallows Hair Bow from ZiggiesPiggies [SHOP]

Potterwhore T-shirt from Geeky Merch [SHOP]

Polyjuice Potion necklace from Geek OUTlet [SHOP]

Dark Mark Necklace from The Geek Studio [SHOP]

Your choice of a Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin or Hufflepuff Beanie from KnittyThingsAndSuch [SHOP]

Deathly Hallows Bracelet from partialtojam [SHOP]

Rules

Follow our blog, Geeky Merch.

Each reblog of this post counts as an entry. Reblog as many times as you like, but try not to spam your followers too much.

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We will ship anywhere.

One winner will be randomly chosen and notified on the 1st of August 2013.

Good luck with the giveaway, and remember to check out some of the awesome shops that are involved! If you would like to contribute to our next giveaway, click here!

Love, Geeky Merch.

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Had a scratch on my finger, Olivia gets all concerned saying "oh no what happened? You got a boo boo" so I ask her if she will kiss mommys boo boo. "Ummm no, I'm too little" and walks away.

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Faaaabulous!!!!!

Olivia is sitting at the table coloring when all of a sudden I hear "do you want a haircut? *frantic coloring* faaabulous!!!!!" Haha this kid

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This little baby cup of coffee creamer made my whole week and its only Monday :)

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WE NEED FEMINISM BECAUSE WHEN LANCE ARMSTRONG GOT CANCER AND LOST A TESTICLE IT WAS ALL ABOUT HIS HEALTH AND HOW INSPIRATIONAL HE WAS BUT WHEN ANGELINA JOLIE GETS A DOUBLE MASTECTOMY TO PREVENT HERSELF FROM GETTING CANCER, IT’S ALL ABOUT HOW SHE WON’T BE A SEX SYMBOL ANYMORE AND HOW MEN ARE OFFENDED CAUSE SHE WON’T BE AN OBJECT FOR THEM 

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Olivia just pinched my neck skin. I looked at her like "wth?" And she just said "sorry about your neck" and moved on with her life. Oy.

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This is my Olivia at our local high school track last year. My niece is a pole vaulter and we went to almost every single track meet as long as olivia has been alive. This photo is from last year but this year it took everything we had to keep her from stealing poles and asking to jump. My niece graduated this year so I don’t know what Olivia will do next season when she isn’t going to go to “bobcats” every weekend.

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Reflections

Have you ever been sitting with your baby, looking at how big she's gotten and in awe of all her accomplishments? In two short years she has learned so much and changed into a little girl instead of the sweet lumpy baby you once held in your arms. She knows so many words and is so smart and you find yourself waxing nostalgic of a time now gone that went by too fast. And as you are sitting and cuddling, holding and remembering, you feel a warm steady trickle of pee rolling down your leg and a little onto your new shoes you got on sale. That right there is motherhood. Straight up.

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After this

I give Olivia her juice at nap time and tell her "okay no more after this" several minutes later I hear "mom! I want some more afterthis!"

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Two going on fifteen

Me: no Olivia I don’t want to get in the tent Oli: don’t worry you can do it! Me: I said no Oli: I said yeah Me: It doesn’t matter, I’m the mom Oli: well I’m the dad

Eeeesh I’m already raising a teenager. We’ve been having a bit of an arguing problem, working on fixing it but it’s frustrating. Any advice?

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Isn't it funny how all winter long, when the sun rises later, you wake up thinking "oh man it's only 745? Why can't my kid sleep in a little?" But in the summer you wake up thinking "holy crap! My kid slept in until 615! I feel extremely well rested and got to sleep in a whole hour longer than usual!" Life is flipping weird man.

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This explains a lot

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Animal "sounds"

"Olivia, what sound does a puppy make?" *barks* "What sound does a cat make?" *meows* "What sound does a cow make?" *moos* "Okay, what sound does a shark make?" "I'm gonna eat you!"

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Graduation, state champs, and growing up

Haven't posted in a bit, my niece (seven years my junior) graduated high school last night so we were consumed by parties and ceremonies and a two hour trip to watch her pole vault at the state track meet. I laughed with my sister and my crazy family, I cried when she walked across the stage, and I screamed when she won the state championship pole vault and broke the previous record. It was a fun, emotional, exhausting weekend and I'm still having a hard time with this growing up thing. I'm so proud of that girl. Ranked third in her class, athletic, beautiful, sweet, my Olivia has a lot to live up to haha. Now we start a new journey when she goes off to college this fall and I'm sure I will be an emotional mess for that too.

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The Fun Paradox

Most of the time, there’s so much to do at home that you pretty much stay there. Every once in a while you think ‘hmm, we should do something today’ so you take your kid to a splash pad. They play and run and have a good time. All is well.

Once the fun is over, you go home. That’s where you realize that instead of her usual nap, your child only got ten minutes in the car. Catastrophe! The whining begins, accompanied by crying and acting like a crazy person. Of course once she’s had the tiniest bit of sleep she won’t go to sleep again, so you count down the hours to bedtime. A phone call stating your husband is working late means you won’t even get an assist and after the sun, water, and playing everyone is generally exhausted.

All in the name of “fun”

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Grandma: you can take some Aleve Sweetpea: No! You can't leave!

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“I am a princess and you are a superhero, now bow and curtsy”

Two things: 1. She thinks princes are superheroes because prince Philip (sleeping beauty’s prince) wears a cape 2. She might be watching a little too much Sofia the First…eh I need the peace