Busy Babe Planner Review and Giveaway!

** This giveaway has ended! Thanks for entering! **

I have had the opportunity to use and review the Busy Babe Planner thanks to The PR Place and My Busy Babe!

What is the Busy Bebe Planner you ask?

The Busy Bebe website describes it as:

It’s the only planner that is customized with your baby’s photo and birth information to help give it a personal touch, as well as creating a memorable keepsake .
It’s pre-dated (no filling in the dates) beginning with the month your baby is born.
It literally gets mom and baby on the same page. Mom plans her day and tracks baby’s progress all on the same daily calendar page.
It’s stocked with practical templates to help organize life with baby and encourage mom to take care of herself.
BusyBabe is small enough to stuff in your diaper bag.

My Busy Babe sent me a personalized Busy Babe Planner for “Little Dude” with the Chic Cover Boy design.

The picture to the left is of the Chic Cover with a girl and boy version! They asked for his name, birth date and time, birth weight and length, and a favorite picture of him. The Personalized Planner is $29.95. There are three custom cover designs to choose from: Chic Cover, Precious Cover, and Sassy Cover.

They also have a standard version of the Busy Babe Planner for $19.95.

As a mom who is on the third time around the new baby block, I admit that I haven’t used all of the sections of this planner. With three kids under foot, I just don’t have the time or honestly the desire. I will say that if had I had this with my first kiddo, my type A obsessiveness would have been all over this planner. I really do love that this has everything in it and you don’t have to notes here and there and then no where. I have been horrible about writing in baby books that sit no where near where I might actually write in them because they are too big and have too many pages in them that I would never use. So my girls both have baby books with only newborn foot prints in them. Maybe in the next ten years, I will pick through my memory (or now personal blog) and try to figure out when they did what! “Little dude” lucks out though. The Busy Babe planner is something I can set on my night stand and actually use!

The Planner includes some great features within its many pages! These are some of my favorites and the ones that normally end up random sheets of paper or post-it notes … but not any more!
Dated Daily Calendar Pages
Recording Baby Gifts Received
Recording Milestones
Visits to the Doctor
Packing Baby’s Bag for a Trip

Some of the other templates are:
Notes to the Sitter
Introducing Solid Food
Creating Exercise Goals
Planning for “me time”

Additional checklists included are:
Finding a Sitter
Childproofing the Home

Now what new mom can’t use at least half of those?! I know the baby gift list is a great one for me right now! Now if only it could write out those thank you notes for me … OK, I know I need to just get to them myself!

So if you are a mom-to-be, a new mom, or maybe looking for a baby shower or just baby gift for a mom-to-be or new mom, order them a Busy Babe planner. No one else will get them this great gift plus it will be something the mom keeps and passes onto the child. It sure isn’t an outfit that that the kiddo will out grown in two months and maybe get to wear two or three times because all of the other outfits they got! Be different and thoughtful with you your gift giving!

My Busy Babe has offered a giveaway to my blog readers. There will be TWO winners for this giveaway! The first winner will get a personalized planner. The second winner will get a standard planner! My Busy Babe will coordinate with the winners on what month their planners should start and customizing the personalized planner for that winner. Trust me, they are great to work with in creating your planner!
If you can’t use a Busy Babe planner yourself, you should still enter! Remember it is a great gift!!!

This drawing will end Monday, September 14th at midnight EST. I will pick the winners using Random.org. The winner will have 48 hours to reply with their address. You must include your email address in your comment or have it in your profile so you can be contacted if you are a winner! Please make sure I can see your email address!!! You must complete the Mandatory Entry for the additional entries to count.

So how do you enter to win?
Mandatory Entry:
Follow MyBusyBabe on Twitter. Leave a comment here with your Twitter name. How simple is THAT?!

Additional Entries:
1) Follow me on Twitter. Leave a comment with your twitter name. You are already on Twitter so take this extra entry as an easy freebie!!
2) Tweet about this giveaway with this tweet:
RT: Win one of TWO Busy Babe Planners from @MyBusyBabe! @simplybudgeted http://tinyurl.com/kn8vba #giveaway ends Sept 14th
Leave a comment with the URL for your tweet. (One Tweet per day until end of giveaway!!) Another Twitter entry option that is DAILY!!! Get tweeting for these entries!
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