Redbook Magazine...making me feel old, but hopeful

I got my new Redbook magazine the other day.
I know, its a very "Mom" thing to read. But hey, its interesting....



A couple of new things I learned, that also made me feel old:
1) Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary this year. It seems it was just yesterday we were watching Kevin dancing on that bridge in Footloose. Oh, those were the days!

2) As if the anniversary were not enough, Kevin is turning 50 this year. See above comment regarding dancing on the bridge.

3) Kevin and Kyra have a daughter named Sosie. So now I can technically be included in a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon! "Kevin Bacon and Holle Maricle both have daughters named Sosi." And if you're my friend, that just makes you all-the-closer to Kevin in the game.

Something I learned that made me feel hopeful:

1) Redbook has these awesome "free-stuff" giveaways every month. Visit www.redbookmag.com/winit to enter. Apparently you can only enter for each thing once a month, but they put new stuff on there every few days. So far I've entered to win five different spa vacations (and I get to bring a friend!), a pink cell phone, a baby sling (how did they know I was pregnant?), and some kind of neato razor.

Here's a list of give-aways for August. They are only available certain days, so you have to be on your toes to catch the ones you want.
* A 3-day, 2-night trip to New York City ($2500 value)
* 6 very expensive clutch purses ( each valued at $275- can you say Ebay?)
* 50 Jostens memory books ($45 value each)
* 50 "Smile Health 101" Crest dental packages (worth $40 each)
* 3 Olympus cameras, plus $320 gift certificate to myphotoalbum.com ($620 value per set)
* 15 Yoga prize packs (worth $130 each)
* 10 T'Fivve anti-aging sets (it looks like some sort of cream & a spray, although I've never heard of it myself) ($304 value per set)
* A techbargains.com set including: an iPod, a Sony HDTV, and a portable GPS (value $1623)