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It's gray...again.

Mark's sick...again?  Still?

I can't hear out of my left side...

Enough!  One thing I hate about January is it's a relentless same-old, same-old.  It's goes on foreverrrrr and, let's fact it, it's not really the cheeriest of months.  In honor of my youngest brother's birthday, today, (he would have been 51, hard to believe he's been gone 29 years), let's do a giveaway.  This is a good one.

Unfortunately, when I went to take the picture, the glass water bottle was in use and I'd already given J the jump rope as he's working out regularly.

Jacob has had a lot of problems in the past with his teeth.  Now, he may just be a tad unlucky and have lousy teeth, but I've also wondered from time to time if it could be from a lack of calcium in his diet.  My girls have, knock on wood, never had a cavity, but have all kinds of structural issues with their mouths, my boys, have had more than their share of cavities.  Jacob especially.  If it is unluckiness, there's not much I can do, but if it's calcium, that we can rectify.  About a year ago I discovered a wonderful milk that he loves and he's gone from being a kid I had to force to drink one glass of milk a day to being a child who cheerfully drinks 2-3 glasses a day.  If Snowville milk is available in your area, I highly encourage you to give it a try. I've also been excited to discover that Jacob loves yogurt, specifically, Yoplait.  He'll happily eat 4-6 (or more if I'd let him) yogurts a week and that's also obviously a great way to boost his calcium consumption.  Will it make a difference?  No clue, but I do know it certainly can't hurt him.

My Blog Spark, in cooperation with Yoplait, have provided me with a Yoplait Original yogurt gift pack.  It includes a coupon** for a free sample of yogurt, as well as a duffel bag, speed rope, water bottle and sport towel.  As usual, My Blog Spark and Yoplait generously gifted me with a prize pack as well, and it's a really good one.  It even has me motivated to fill up that duffel bag and figure out a way to get myself back to the gym!

It was also a really good reminder that we need to be making sure we get enough calcium in our diets.  In fact, in an effort to educate all of us about the importance of maintaining strong, healthy bones with both lifestyle as well as a diet rich in calcium, Yoplait has partnered with Nancy O'Dell to give away one million cups of yogurt!  Visit Yoplait on Facebook to sign up for a free cup and make a personal commitment to meet your calcium needs everyday.  There's also daily calcium tips froma  Registered Dietician, Katherine Brooking.  Pretty cool!

Last night, I learned a classmate of mine from high school died of a heart attack.  Scary stuff.  As I said at the beginning, this giveaway is in honor of my brother Jeff.  I'm going to listen to all the signs pointing at me and make a real, concerted effort to take better care of myself and hopefully be around for my family and myself for a long, long time. 

It really is a nice prize pack.  Thank you so much to Yoplait and My Blog Spark for providing it to me.  Now, to enter to win one of your own, leave me a comment telling me what you're doing to try and take good care of yourself.  Bonus entries for following this blog, simply leave a separate comment.  Contest ends February 4.

**Coupon unfortunately not valid in some states, including California, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, North Dakota and Tennessee.  :(