Okay, here’s the truth – I don’t need anything big for Mother’s Day. I’m happy to maybe be able to sleep in a bit if possible, visit my own mom, and have a nice day in general. All these commercials that you see on television with Dad and the kids running out to Zales or deBeers to buy Mom a ginormous diamond? Please. First of all, I’m not a fan of diamonds anyway (and watching “Blood Diamond” only re-affirmed that for me), second, I’m a big believer in the thought behind it so if Hayley went and picked out a little ring or necklace for a buck at the dollar store I would be as ecstatic as those women in the diamond commercials. Honestly. And to me the best gift for Mother’s Day would be hearing, “no sweetheart, I’ll do all the dishes today.”

BUT! That said, if I happen to win the hot pink 4-gig iPod nano that they’re giving away over at Five Minutes For Mom, trust me, I will not turn it down! In fact, you can win it too, or any of the other great prizes. If you click the button up there, there is a list of Mother’s Day contests that you can enter. What’s exciting from my standpoint is that many of the contests are also open to Canadians, and if you live up here in Canuckistan, you know how frequently things are only open to US residents online (I am still weeping over the fact that I couldn’t enter to win that Dyson vacuum that everyone was talking about, wah!). The iPod is indeed one of the contests we can enter.

So what are you hanging around here for? Go enter some contests! Someone has to win, it may just be you. But no offense, I hope I beat you for the iPod. Good luck!