FREE STUFF! July's Momspit Giveaway

As you know I am the mommy who gives and gives and keeps on giving. I give away sunglass accessories, baseball caps, and possibly one day, even a pen from our local bank. You see, when you give away free stuff, people are more disposed to look kindly upon your blogging ways and to tell their friends and their friends of friends and in this way, the word gets out. But mostly I give stuff away because I like to share my own good fortune.

Okay, so in the past we know I've given away some crapola items. But I have something far better for the 3 lucky prizewinners. It is Momspit.

At first I didn't get the reference to Momspit because I am slow, but in the words of its makers, it's a cleaning agent "inspired by the original." As in, when you use saliva to clean off that kiddie face. Instead of using your own momspit, if you're a lucky winner today you can walk away with either a Fig & Green tea flavored Momspit in 7oz or a Lemon & White Tea flavored Momspit in the same size. And for one winner, a deluxe-sized Momspit in the flavor of choice will be given gratis by the good moms over at Momspit. Pack your Momspit handily in your purse and soon, like Crabtot, the kid will ask for a spritz of it too. Thus, instead of smelling like wet dog or burnt toast, your toddler will smell like green tea and figs. Yum!

Basically it's a rinse-free cleaning agent that smells dang fine.

So let's see...post a comment if you want it and I will have Crabtot pull 3 winners from a hat. The winners will email their details to me at crabmommyatgmaildotcom and presto! Momspit in transit!

Meantime I hope all are enjoying a delightful July. Mine has been noteworthy. For example, I saw some Mennonites this week going down our alpine slide. This is a luge which, in summer, you go down on little seats with wheels. Usually it is your standard tourist fare wheeling it down, but last week I was most astonished to see a bonnet squad signing up. There they were, Mennonites going up the chairlift, their men with bowl cuts and oddly happy-go-lucky expressions, the women obviously more modest but still heading down that slope, bonnets filling with air! I stared boldly, disapproving. I mean, isn't it against their religion? First, there's the technology of the chairlift that seems wrong for these techno-shunning peeps, then there's the question of enjoyment. Are Mennonites allowed to have fun? Tell me what you think and I will factor it into the Momspit results.

In other news, Tot and I have been spending time at a local swimming pool connected to Crabgrandpa's vacation condominium. At this time of year Crabtown is infested with young Eastern Europeans who come to work the hotel industry and take over the jobs formerly reserved for Mexicans. This means the pool towel guy is a chap with thin legs in weird shorts, who plays sort of Gothy Polish rock circa 1990s around the pool while his various friends call out to each other, Alex! Igor! and throw their heavy consonants into the alpine air.

Also, this means the deck chairs are likely to be taken up by young girls with heavy Eastern Euro makeup, shiny bikinis and a desultory manner as they take a swim break between shifts of cleaning luxury condos. Also it means the Albertson's grocery store workers are no longer just Mexican but now also from the Baltic climes and they have badges saying "Mariana, Latvia" or somesuch and when you ask, 'Excuse me, do you know where I could find the sauerkraut?" the say, "What is sauerkraut?" and then dismiss you with a disgusted look. Sorry, but I thought Eastern Euros would know about sauerkraut. Don't they know everything there is to know about pickled cabbage-like strands in their zone?

Always with the Albertson's Europeans I feel as though I am interrupting them on a break.

Such are the tribulations of Crabmommy in summer, in our vale of wealth and comfort! Get out of my deck chair, Zlata! Honestly. Life can be tough.

Okay, so if I have been mean and roundly stereotyping, I hereby take it all back and will make it up to you as follows: If you are an Eastern European with Mennonite connections I will guarantee you a bottle of Momspit if you apply.