Thank you to Citrus Lane for providing me with this opportunity to review a Citrus Lane gift box. While this post is sponsored, the opinions expressed here are completely my own.
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My brother got married in San Francisco. Since it was a "destination wedding" for everyone coming from Boston they arranged some San Francisco type events in the days leading up to the wedding. One of the events was a wine tasting and IT WAS GOOD. One of the vineyards was SO good that I joined their wine club - a bottle of white, a bottle of red, delivered every month for one year to your door.
FABULOUS.
Except it never came.
After three months I called them and complained. A week later I discovered that I was pregnant. The FOLLOWING day 6 bottles of wine arrived at my door. For the next 9 months I received two bottles of wine - that I could not drink. NOT FABULOUS.
I worked from home but my husband left every day to go to work. When he would come home he would yell, "Guess what came today!" and I could tell by the glee in his voice that it was wine.
Citrus Lane changes all that. Citrus Lane packages up gifts that an expecting mom, or new mother WANTS to receive. Things that she will love and adore.
I had the pleasure to receive the "expectant mother" package recently (No big reveal here - I am not expecting - I'm just reviewing this product.) It's AWESOME!
It's filled with things for mom - like "mommy-to-be Bath Tea" and things for baby - including the SOFTEST swaddling blanket EVER and a sheep shaped rattle that was SO adorable I had to wrestle my 5 year old for it.
And more gift boxes arrive every month with age appropriate gifts and tips. It's the gift a new mother will look forward to every month!
You can check out some of the boxes here.
And if you or someone you know is expecting or recently had a baby, the generous people at Citrus Lane have offered to give one of these boxes away to one of my readers.
To enter, please leave a comment telling me the best gift you ever received.
Entries must be received by noon on Friday. Random.org and I will randomly choose a winner from all entries. Winners will be announced on Monday.
(Official giveaway rules are here.)
Disclosure: I received a gift box and compensation from Citrus Lane for this post, however, the opinions expressed in this post are my own.
This past Christmas my daughter gave me candid wallet photos of her and her two brothers. I hadn't had pictures of them to carry for years. I love having them with me!
Posted by: Kevin Hollowell | September 15, 2011 at 08:59 AM
THANK YOU for sharing this! I know several women who are pregnant and/or have babies ranging in ages from a few months to a year and a half. Time to do some shopping!
Posted by: Mary | September 15, 2011 at 09:05 AM
The best gift that I have ever received were crib sheets from pottery barn. Softest sheets ever and spoiled my son big time. He slept like a baby!
Posted by: Angela Kunze | September 15, 2011 at 09:06 AM
So cheesy but my favorite gift is my engagement ring. My husband and I got engaged on Christmas day. My ring is perfect and exactly what I always wanted.
Posted by: Kendra V. | September 15, 2011 at 09:26 AM
The best gift I've ever received would probably be my fancy digital camera. Have captured many great memories with it!
Posted by: Andrea | September 15, 2011 at 09:39 AM
This is awesome - thanks for sharing! My husband's working on making wine... and all I know is that he had better not start test-tasting it until after the baby arrives! ;)
The best gift I've ever received would be my digital SLR from my husband. He knew I was pining for a better camera with which I could capture every moment of our ridiculous adventures (and sometimes misadventures)... and trust me, ever since receiving that puppy, I take full advantage of it!
Posted by: Starrxstruck | September 15, 2011 at 09:47 AM
The best gift I've gotten would have to be a necklace from my husband. When we had only been dating a few months I admired thus necklace one day just in passing. Much to my surprise at Christmas that year I opened my present and it was the exact necklace I had admired earlier in the year. Not only had he managed to surprise me I couldn't believe that he remembered for months exactly what I wanted. Proof men do sometimes pay attention!
Posted by: Allison R | September 15, 2011 at 09:58 AM
The best gift I've received is probably all the kitchenware I've gotten as Christmas gifts so I don't have to buy it myself! My kitchen is fully stocked with gifts - and GOOD ones at that!
Posted by: Bethany | September 15, 2011 at 11:24 AM
The best gift I ever received was this past Mother's Day, when I found out after struggling with loss and infertility that I was finally pregnant again - and this time it stuck! I'm due 1/17/12 and totally elated! :)
Posted by: Alison Knowlton | September 15, 2011 at 12:08 PM
Hmmm... Such a hard one! I'd say the best gift I've ever received was my son, but that is pretty cheese-tastic... Oh well, it's true!
Posted by: Andrea | September 15, 2011 at 03:00 PM
For my birthday, my husband gave me a simple silver ring to replace the wedding ring that no longer fit on my finger thanks to pregnancy. I cried. (Shocker.)
This is a great idea, love it!
Posted by: Jessica | September 15, 2011 at 07:20 PM
I got a purple monkey as a gift for Sophia (but let's face it...for me) when I was pregnant. I have gotten fancier gifts, more expensive gifts....but that gift was perfect FOR ME. It showed my {amazing} friend knew me so very well. And while I was crying and other's were looking all "WTF" like. I felt so special that someone would put so much thought into a gift like that for little old me.
Posted by: Precious Momma | September 16, 2011 at 10:22 PM
Such happy times indeed. Nothing like capturing these moments of life to preserve them in pictures.
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