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This months contest is for a $15 gift certificate to the Immature Couture shop at The Alt Bazaar!

Enter simply by registering an account with The Alt Bazaar, then send an email to info at altbazaar dot com that contains your favourite Immature Couture item, it’s page link (URL) and your Alt Bazaar username. Your entry will not count if it does not contain those three items!

Want an extra entry? Refer your friends! On the registration page, there is a space to add a referred by name. Make sure they use your screen name or your full name or their referral will not count as an extra entry for you (we need a positive way to match it with your account, a first name will not be enough). The more friends you send to The Alt Bazaar, the more entries you get!

Punky Moms is sponsoring a surprise second prize as well! Every qualifying entry for the Immature Couture gift certificate will be entered in a second drawing for another giveaway!

Highlights include Punky Society, Punky Moms Save The World, New Contest & Winners, Two Crafts from Diana Jeanne, Birthdays, and more!
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December 2007 News - Holiday Edition

Hey MuchacHos,

First and foremost, Happy Birthday to…

Dani, wildone123, TruthyBaby, jstar, redstar, Tommycat, regan, Muse, Ciarin, PinkSkullMami, BrittanyJ, Ravenous, Miz_B, Twisted, zwkamom, restless, ClairRaeCarmen, OLIVIA JANE (she’s 2!), Enitsirc, AshleyTEENmomma, Metamorpho, poprocks, LUCKY LADY, Punkymama, kaceysmom, C.O.G, Queen of the Written Verse, Fiestamom, mochitransfer, sky, and nyx! May your upcoming year be as good as or better than the previous!

We have had tons of good news, bad news, downright shitty news and Fucking OMFG great news! In fact, we’ve had so much happen this month, we bet we’re forgetting a lot, so if we have, please don’t feel forgotten! Let us know, and we’ll note it in January’s letter.

Sam (Crazy Raccoon Lady) and crew went to Tokyo and had a bit of a scare, but overall had a great trip. She shared her photos! If you missed them, go find them, they are super fantastic! Sarah (Muse) is about to pop FangFang out (and trust us, she agrees, it’s about damn time!). It snowed in Seattle and we’ve got lots of new jobs floating around… and oh so much more we can’t keep up. Heather (Hellkatmom) got a much needed new fridge for free. Peggy (peggy420) and Tiffany (hardcoretiff) both got new cars (man, can the car fairy spread the love please???)

Lisa (Lisamariemary) set up special page proclaiming the awesomeness of Punky Moms: http://punkymoms.isreallyawesome.com/
Go check it out and spread the word!

The Secret Winter swap appears to be going wonderfully - there have been lots of happy mamas posting hails to their secret stalkers for wonderful gifts. We’ll be setting up a schedule of swaps throughout the year, starting in January, so keep an eye out for that post! We’re hoping by having set swaps, everyone can participate who wants to, and it will keep flakers to a minimum (minimum, in this case, being equal to none).

Don’t forget to add your favorite holiday recipes and traditions in the Christmas Forum!

If you’re low on plaudits and feeling lucky, join our weekly football poll . Winners get 250 plaudits! Also, don’t forget to enter the raffles! The first place winner gets the goods, but second and third split the pot 60/40!

We’ll have a new contest for a baby carrier from Close2Me Baby (oh, it’s a nice one too!), I am really excited to give that away before the holidays! We have a onsie from TheeBasketBootique, which will also go before the holidays. December is a great month for prize goodies!

Jenn has redesigned our front-front page, take a look! It may change again soon, but didn’t ya know? Blue is the new black! (Or she might just be a tad bit crazy in the head about blue, either way, right?)
http://www.punkymomsforum.com/index.php

We will be adding content by the ton to our site in the coming year! Articles on breastfeeding, bottle feeding, both feeding, baby carrying, co-sleeping, crib sleeping, vaccinating, not vaccinating, ear piercing, partying it up with a toddler to worry about… Oh the topics are endless! Want to contribute to our little project? You can view the entire thread here but here’s the skinny:

We have a new goal. We want to add one page of content, real content, to our main site, every day for the year of 2007. One page of content is 500 words or more. That’s about five paragraphs, real quick n’ easy to punch out! Need a topic? Check out the board forums! Or pick a topic we don’t have a board for, whatever! It can be 500 words or more worth of prose about the hilarity of a shit covered wipe stuck to the wall, we don’t care!

Your article will be proof-read, but otherwise unchanged, and added to our main site (PunkyMoms.com) and viewable to the general public. Your work is still your own. We will put a Copyright [YOURNAME] on it. We only ask that if you have previously published your work, it be legally available for us to publish. We will also send you a document to type your name into once you send your article to post. We are not in a position where we need this now, but it would suck to have to retro-actively search people down for this, so we’re doing it as we get submissions. Just be aware that by electronically signing this, you give us the rights to publish your article on our site and in our archives and possibly in our Zine.

Please send all articles to administrator@punkymoms.com as a text file, word doc, paste it into the body of your email, or whatever. Please no PDF’s. You can include images if they pertain to your article, but please send your images separately, not embedded in the article. You can send in as many articles as you want. We’ll post reminders about this periodically so it doesn’t fall by the way-side.

Last but not least, have a fantastic holiday, whichever one you celebrate. Make it merry, keep it safe, and remember to donate a little time or a little money or even just your gently used clothing or household items to charity this holiday season and all seasons. Have a great new year, and don’t forget to make more Punky Moms time on of your resolutions!

Love,
Winter, Sarah & Jenn

The BIG 4-0. No, I am not talking about my age. Today is my sell-by date. You know, that date you will remember just as readily as you will remember your child’s actual birth date. That day most doctors hate for you to even reach, let alone cross.

Today is mine. The BIG 4-0. Forty weeks pregnant. This is longer than I have ever been pregnant before. Both my boys were a couple of weeks early. No big deal, they were also both just over eight pounds, and plenty ready to come out. This baby has shown no signs of being ready to visit Earth-side any time soon.

Oh, I know, babies come when babies want to come and when babies are ready to come and babies evicted early tend to have some sort of complications, usually caused by said eviction. I am not all about eviction. But like I mentioned, both my boys came two weeks “early.” I know, this is not indicative of anything. I also think this one is a girl, so maybe I need to cook girls longer. Maybe she is just stubborn like her mama. Maybe she wants to be fashionably late, who knows. I was kind of hoping today would be the day though. It’s my grams birthday. It’s Imbolc. It would have been a great day to have a baby. I am a little put out that it wasn’t meant to be. I don’t expect to go into active labour and have a baby before midnight, it’s already 9 pm.

I am so tired of people asking if I’ve had the baby yet. Don’t they think if I had I would have posted about it/let them know in some other way? It’s not like I won’t notice I had a baby. It’s not like I don’t notice I am still pregnant.

I am worried it won’t happen for a while now. Lots of stress in the house. My mom started chemo again on Monday, and something happened with her IV medication dispenser thingie, and had to go to the ER Mon night. Today she is feeling quite sick, we had to go pick her up from work, and she’s spent the whole day almost lying down/sleeping (we live with my parents, so this does directly effect me more so than if we didn’t). My 4 y/o broke his collarbone on Tuesday at school. Not a major break, but a break that is causing him pain none the less. My 2 y/o keeps telling us the baby shouldn’t come out. Not only telling us, but outright screeching if we ask if the baby should come out. My husband is suddenly very worried about how we will do it, money, time, stress, you know, all the things he worried about before our first was born and didn’t bat an eye at with the second.

I just feel like she is going to decide to stay in till the middle of April if all this “excitement” doesn’t die down. I know, I am not an elephant, I won’t be pregnant for much longer. And once I am not, I’ll probably miss it. This pregnancy has been awesome. I didn’t hate it like I hated the first. I didn’t just want to get through it like with the second. I truly enjoyed almost all of it. Yah, I started bitching a few weeks ago. I got huge. I got uncomfortable. I stopped sleeping. But up until then, things were smooth sailing. No morning sickness, no nausea, no general achiness to speak of. I was even up and after the boys as needed. I put on a grand total of 15 pounds so far. I’m coming out ahead this time baby! None of this 50 pounds like with Dor, and 30 pounds like with Chai. I had the textbook perfect pregnancy this time. I’ll brag. I deserve it.

So why won’t the baby come out?

I just feel like I have had very little pre-labour getting ready activity going on in my body. I am not losing any of my plug, and with both boys it was gone long before labour really got underway. I am not really contracting at all. The other night I was, to the point they were timable and my back was a mess, but they stopped come morning.

I never expected to be a 40+ week mama. Does anyone? I am not feeling overcooked, or overdone. I’m not feeling tired of being pregnant, in and of itself. I just really want it over and done with already, and to be holding a fresh smelling baby and for everyone to stop asking and wondering and worrying.

I wonder if this is where the stigma about hitting age forty comes from. The BIG 4-0. I’ll hold at 3.9 too, thank you very much.

Jenn is a stay at home mom in South Florida. By day she kisses boo-boos and bakes cakes, by night she is a writer, entrepreneur, lover and all around goddess. You can contact her at

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