Hey all, a sweet lady and bloggy buddy of mine has her blog up in a contest!
I don’t know if you are familiar with her site, Energizer Bunny’s Mommy Reports– if not, go take a look!  She always has something fabulous going on  🙂
Anyway, if anyone would like to vote for her, I’m sure she would be thrilled.  And so would I, she really is a wonderful person, AND has a wonderful site!  (and after all- isn’t that who we’d like to win?  LOL)
If you would like to vote for her site, please feel free to take an extra entry into any current contest that you enter on Have Sippy Will Travel.  You can vote daily, so that is LOTS of extra entries you can grab!
GOOD LUCK, MARINA!!!

“As you know my blog is up for votes on Circle of Moms Top 25 Product Reviewers and this morning while hopping over to re-tweet from my link I just realized fans can vote DAILY for their favorite blog!!

DUH Me!!! So whenever you do find the time, through the day and you love reading
Energizer Bunny’s Mommy Reports please put in your Love Vote of Support.”

Grace over at Blessed Elements has written a GREAT post about Friends for Seals, and we thought it would be a great follow-up for the guest post done by Denise Perrin (founder of FFS) here a few months ago.  As you all know by now, both Grace and Friends for Seals are fabulous- and I hope you enjoy her post! 

Making The Right Decision

It occurred to me the other day that even if we don’t make a decision to take a stand for our beliefs that we still unknowingly make a decision.
When we don’t make a decision to stand for our beliefs then we make a decision for the side we don’t support morally.

Recently I decided to take a stand to raise my voice to Save The Seals. I can remember the plight of the seals while I was still in high school and wondering what was the justification for the brutality where you actually take a club and smash the skull of an innocent creature and go to sleep at night thinking you are okay with the universe?
My thoughts, against, did not produce any action for supporting the seals. Perhaps that is why this slaughter is still occurring thirty-seven years later.
I am truly amazed that we have not grown as a human race and now my
thoughts also stray to wandering if these people are as proud of their accomplishments as the KKK which stood in photos by the human beings they hung and tortured.
Why have we not grown as a society to stand together and scream at the top of our lungs for it to stop?
Does not our humanity and evolution somewhat hinge on our attitudes towards the other creatures of God?
Everyone has a choice to make who is reading this post right now. You have two choices, Head over to the Friends for the Seals on Facebook ‘Like’ their page and take a step for the cause.
Denise has posted several ‘baby steps’ to begin getting involved for people to take in the direction to add volume to the voice that is screaming, “Enough!”
There are petitions (and you can withhold your name to stay anonymous.) Look in their info section for links that will take you to the petitions.
You can sign a boycott and not buy the foods from the manufactures who buy and sell seafood from Canada. You can refuse to eat at certain restaurants.
You can raise public awareness by blogging for this cause or simply just talking about it to friends (please let me know if you do and I’ll link to you and put your button on my blog).
This week end I raised public awareness just by saying no to eating at Red Lobster.
We went out with friends and they suggested we go to Red Lobster to eat. I told them I’d prefer another restaurant because I had signed a pledge to boycott Red Lobster.
I explained to them the practice of beating the brains out of seals (there is a season that targets baby seals) with a club. They could not get over the brutality and in return will boycott for the seals.
Last presidential election we voted for someone who offered us “A Change” and the majority voted and elected him because we so desperately needed ‘A Change’
That change does not rest with one person. As Americans we must let our voices be heard on what we no longer will tolerate.
Clicking off this post without going to Friends for the Seals on Facebook is choosing the club for the next baby seal. Going to the link is believing if we all stand together we can make a difference.
What will your choice be?

Cindy would like our votes!  🙂  
One of Have Sippy Will Travel’s readers has a cutie pie in a contest- and would love any of your votes!  Any votes for Cindy’s photo of her granddaughter, Malia, will get you 2 extra entries into any contest currently running on Have Sippy Will Travel. 

(From her post)
 …One I had entered, but not won, was for a Baby Bullet.  BUT… I (along with others who lost) were given a second chance to win!!!  An easy popularitiy contest for the messiest baby.  I seem to have confused my friends.  They have liked the beg for votes on my wall, not on the picture itself.  You see, my friends need to go to FrugalNovice’s Facebook Page and like her page… then look at her photo album for Malia and “Like” this picture HERE.

So… in an effort to make it a little less confusing, I’m trying again to solicit votes for my messy face 🙂

I covet any and all votes!!!  Thank you in advance!! xoxo

(From Cindy)

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