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Emily Luongo - I have to add my 2 cents too about Nordstroms. Life changing bra fitting experience there! It is amazing how the right fitting bra can change your whole attitude. It is expensive but absolutely worth it! Oh and I adore your blog…. 🙂

Angela - Next time you’re in KC, make an appointment at Intimate Designs!
http://intimatedesignsonline.com/index.html
I’ve been to the one in Independence, and I’ll never buy a bra anywhere else. They do a fitting, and then when you find the style that works the best, they custom alter it to fit you exactly at no extra charge. You can also bring the bras back anytime, and they will make new alterations for free. They even do the same thing for swimsuits! There is a range of prices, and they may try to sell you on the $70 bras, but I usually buy the $40 bras and they last for years and fit perfectly.

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love her art!
tara

Melissa - Love your blog Meg! Seriously, it’s always the first one I look at each morning. Bra shopping sucks, a close second to swimsuit shopping. I’ve yet to find one I like. I’ve tried the expensive one’s with no luck. Lately I’ve seen the infomercial for the “Ahh Bra” and have seriously considered ordering one. Also saw something similar the other day at Wallgreens, looked to see if anyone was around, picked it up and thought to myself–Are you seriously going to purchase a bra from a drugstore-I put it back. 😉

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - Dude – he is my favorite! LOL. I love the pretend audience girl.

Wendy - I actually had cake for breakfast today … and I wasn’t wearing a bra! 🙂

Cindy - Annie’s picture…precious! Just precious! Some days when I’m at the end of my rope, I come across one of the kids’ precious little drawings that they made without my knowing and left lying around. And I can’t help but think that it’s a love note sent straight from God, because it completly turns my day (i.e. attitude) around!

Kyra - Want to look 10 pounds thinner? Go to Nordstroms or Macy
and be properly fitted for a bra. I used to swear by Playtex until I found Le Mystere at Nordstroms. Now that I know my size and style, I purchase them online and get free shipping.
And I LOVE the mug! A friend is coming over tomorrow for tea and I bought fancy cupcakes. Going for a hike in the afternoon to shed those cupcake calories :]

Kimberly Dial - OMG Meg, I’m still laughing. I’ve never seen him before … thank you for sharing him! As for the bra shopping, I agree completely … the last time I went I was alone & the sales girl left me so each time they didn’t fit & I needed another I had to get completely dressed & go get more so they wouldn’t fit … so frustrating. I was exhausted when I left & I still wasn’t satisfied with my purchase :/

georgia - Bra shopping is rubbish!!!!!!
Took me 20mins to find my size the other day, all I could find were ‘skinny’ sizes like 32a! Lol
Damn me for having normal sized boobs!

Alisa - I love it when you post about the everyday stuff. I love to hear what you struggle with and what makes your day. What I was wondering is how you manage all 5 kids and their homework. Do they have much? Do you have to help Lauren anymore(proofreading/projects?) How much do they have each day and how hard are their schools? Which type of schools do they go to? I am asking because I grew up in Kansas too, but I now live in Germany. The schools here for my kids are really tough – homework (especially on weekends – can be very long and tough and the schools are super selective. You often comment on your kids’ sports and I was wondering how you manage all the team practices and supervising all the homework. Could you give us “a day in the life of Meg?”

Kerry Wiebe - Megs, All you have to do is call and the cupcakes will appear!! Really! Anytime!! I will hook you up! Love ya Girl!! I hope your week gets better!

Sarah - That drawing by Annie is super cute 🙂
Love the jammies.
I DESPISE bra shopping. (even worse…nursing bra shopping…uggh)
Thanks for the video. Hilarious! So needed that.

Karen - Meg,
When you come visit me in NYC (you have a standing invitation, you know!), I will take you to the Town Shop. The little old ladies who work there have been fitting bras for decades and are experts at it. They can tell your size before you get your coat off — it’s uncanny.
Karen

Mindy Harris - hilarious video. thank you for the laugh. i have such a hard time saying no to sweets. my nemesis. sigh.

Sarah Wolfe - Yes. I say nordstom too. It changed my life and my day… To get them to lift and separate :). Hard to find both!

Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails - I flippin hate shopping for bras too.(Esp. since Im quite well endowed.) Its like torture in my mind.
Love that youre trying to wean the TV watching. We’re huge on that in our home. Some times you have to be creative in coming up with other options but hey…isnt that the point? Creativity instead of vegging out? Last night our girls were begging to watch or play (video) something. I just casually said “think of a play you can put on for us.” And they jumped right on it. We made a big deal, videotaped and took pictures and everything. And you know what? We had some great laughs and the smiles on their faces were huge because they felt creative and validated.
Turning off the tube can be fun:)

Jen - The craziest of all crazies is I found an AWESOME bra at Walmart of all places and it is in the 11 dollar price range… It’s called Danskin Core Strength Push Up Sports bra…. Amazing it has light padding and gives great Comfortable support plus cleavage… Win Win Win….

Liz Woodard - I second (third? fourth? fifth?) the idea of using a bra fitting specialist. I went to Macy’s a few years back and got about 6 bras all at once. I was told not to wear the same bra more than two days in a row, so I rotate between the six. they have lasted a long time, though I am thinking I need to get back there. Go get fitted! I tried at Victoria Secret’s, though, and I felt a little too old for those younguns fitting me; they couldn’t find anything for me and I am a normal size. Good luck!

Amy - Bras – I feel your pain. I cannot stress enough how my life changed when last year, at the age of 34, I went to my first professional bra fitting at a real bra store. It is amazing how good you feel when your bra actually fits. Do yourself a favor and find a real store and get a fitting. They are expensive (in the $70 range you mentioned), but you are so, so, so, so worth it! This is the place I go to in MA, but it will give you an idea of the type of place to go: http://fabulousfoundations.com/

casey - Your post today made my day today! It seems like I have the battle the sweets EVERY SINGLE DAY!! And more often than not give in… hey maybe that why I’m like 15 lbs over weight! Go figure!?! (c;

kasey - Megan!
Get over to Victoria’s Secrets and get FITTED for a bra.
Or Nordstroms.
Spending good money on a good fitting bra is key.
The end.

Hanna - Go to Nordstroms- expensive but sooooooo worth it. The sales people there are always awesome and helpful. The older I get (40!) the more I don’t budge on certain things and this is one of them. Good luck!

Danielle - Ah, the bra thing. I finally found the Body by Victoria from Victoria’s Secret, full coverage bra. It is a bit expensive ($45ish) but I tell you I have one that has lasted over a year with a lot of wear. I just wash it in the washing machine on gentle and hang it to dry. Love your mug! I, too, find myself going to bed instead of eating something else I really don’t need! Thought I was the only one!

catie - forgot to say that i totally feel you on the bra thing. i finally found ONE type of bra that i can wear from victoria’s secret and that’s it. i can’t even wear any of the rest of their lines, just the one (dream angel’s with the memory foam, btw.) keep trying, you’ll find one eventually!

Becky - …must learn to proof read before i post….i think you know what i was trying to say (like a caveman)…

Kim from Miracle-Round - Goodness. Or goodness and cheese! – As my 11 year old would say. I hear you about the bra thing. I think the only thing worse than not finding a bra is thinking that you found one. You know, the one that feels great when you try it on. And feels great for a few hours, but by the afternoon, it’s digging into places you didn’t know existed. Good luck!

catie - i LOVE jim gaffigan! the “hot pockets” portion of that same show you just posted is pretty much the best thing ever!

Toni :O) - LOVED this video! I completely agree…pie is NO comparison to cake EVER!!! I LOVE cake, one piece is great but 15 is fantastic!! LOL!

Dana @ Bungalow'56 - OK I just finished watching the clip. Please thank Craig for me. It was “the best comedian I’ve watched in a long time.” It’s already up on my facebook page. Soo funny.
Dana

Dana @ Bungalow'56 - There must be some sort of star alignment. This is second post I’ve read today about the need for sugar and the struggles that some with that. Great PJ’s Meg. The bra thing? I’ve thankfully found “the one” at Walmart of all places. A cheapie too. But the best one I’ve ever had. You might find it in the most unexpected place.
Dana

Kerry - oh man.. that guy is too funny – “hope its Chooccolaate for meee!” Because that is exactly what I’m thinking. The whole time.
Love that you’re blogging/computing with the girls there – I’m going to try that with mine, see how many minutes we last without a fight! 🙂 xx

Marianne - love the crafts instead of TV! Something we aspire to at our home!!

Desi - Hi have you chosen the winner for this giveaway?

LAMusing - Tweet! https://twitter.com/#!/LAMusing/status/181546542996537345

Tabathia B - tweet
https://twitter.com/#!/ChelleB36/status/181508817870270466
tbarrettno1 at gmail dot com

Betty Curran - Tweet – https://twitter.com/#!/willitara/status/181484685078167552

Sarah L - Blogged:
http://slehan.blogspot.com/2012/03/win-100-olive-garden-gc-olive-garden.html

Carmen (in WI) - https://twitter.com/#!/cmouse01/status/181189948924379137

Mari - I’d take my girlfriends.
runningmatey at hotmail dot com

meredith - i would love to take my husband for a wonderful meal – he works so hard for us!

Cori Westphal - I’d love to be able to take my hubs out for a long awaited date night!
coriwestphal at msn dot com

Lynn - Tweeted:
https://twitter.com/#!/livelovelynn/status/180723715728883712

angie lilly - I tweeted here: https://twitter.com/#!/MsTofuFairy/status/180673725878910976

whitney f - https://twitter.com/#!/WhitneyFreeman/status/180529445134807040
Tweeted about it!!!!! =]
whitneylovesjon@yahoo.com

Maria Cantu - My kids, all over 18 so they would be mostly well-behaved.

Kerry - tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/KerryBishop/status/179751869994909696

Karla - Would love to take my best friend that happens to be my husband. I am so blessed with this guy. Love him to pieces.

Kelly - Nice giveways, the Olive Garden…love!

Diana Yarborough - I would take my family. We all need to get out and have a break from dishes!

Lela Pohlmann - It would so be my family! I’d treat my two kiddos and hubby to a night of appetizers, entree and dessert and wouldn’t worry about the bill! Ahhh, it would be heaven!

Lisa G. - I would love to go with my (future) hubby – but I need to meet him and figure out who he is first! 😉

megan - i love olive garden! i have many great memories from high school that took place in olive garden. great food with great friends = fabulous memories!

Shiloh Walter - I would take my husband on a hot date!

Andrea Siebert - my fav. restaurant ever!

Joann - We love Olive Garden!! I’d love to win:o)
I would take my husband and my 2 boys…although just me and my husband sounds good too!
A nice break and chance to talk…uninterrupted!!!!
Thanks:o)

Meredith - I would love to go with my husband because we do not get out that much, but I would also love to take my best friend of 35yrs because I don’t see her as often and I would like to and she is having her first baby in Sept. So, it would be well deserved and so yummy!!!

Michelle - I would take my family with me.

Dahbou - Tweet
https://twitter.com/#!/didyouyarnthat/status/178801962177929216

Debra F - I’d love to go out on a date with my hubby if I won.

sy - I would take my boyfriend, he loves Italian food. Thanks for the review and giveaway.
songyueyu at gmail

Jill H. - I would take my son to dinner. He always appreciates it and is great company.

Tina M - I would take my hubby

Kathryn C. - I would love to take my husband to dinner. We rarely get out for dinner alone so this would be a nice treat for us.
katbirdfl (at) gmail (dot) com

Ashley Hatten - https://twitter.com/#!/shuggysmommy/status/173845858423549954
ashleygatewood1(AT)gmail.com

Lauren - i would love to take my mom and/or sister. they both love it and it’s a fun girl’s night restaurant.

Mary - My kids of course. We all love pasta.
marybug2 @ yahoo . com

claudia davis - I would take my brother. We don’t get to go out much now that he got married but when we do, its always to a good meal!

Erica Best - good dining experience is when the food is great and leave full and happy
purple_lover_04 at msn dot com

Solducky - I would love to take my husband and daughters!
soluckyducky at gmail dot com

Amy J - I would love to take a date night out with my hubby! We have two young children, and varying work schedules so we don’t get out on dates as often as we need to 🙂

Kelly D - tweeted
https://twitter.com/#!/kellydsaver/status/171971486209409024

Susan - Tweet! https://twitter.com/#!/peelersh/status/171798220073222144

Kelly Brannan - Oh, how I LOVE Olive Garden!! I would take my husband. 🙂

Natalie J Vandenberghe - Tweet! https://twitter.com/#!/lexiquin/status/170973598490689537

Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails - I would take my hubby out to dinner with this since he’s been working so hard on the house since the fire. He’s such an unselfish person and never thinks of himself. (Plus I wouldnt have to cook, haha:))

Karin - Olive Garden is the favorite dining place for me and my daughter. Winning a $100 gift card would be awesome!!

Wendy - I would love to take my fiance out for a nice dinner! We could use a date night as we had our first baby in November and haven’t been out alone since!

casey - i’d take my boyfriend on our “cheat night” of our diets!!

K - I would definitely take my husband. Lately we have both been helping and concentrating most efforts on everyone else. Would be nice to reconnect and what better place than DELICIOUS Olive Garden!!! 🙂 YUM!

Joy - It would totally be my kids. They LOVE the Olive Garden. I make an entire Saturday available to them once a year in the spring where we go shopping and go to The Olive Garden.

Lora - My hubby and I. Times/money has been very, very tight. We struggle with our van being on its last “leg” (ha..a van with legs). I think a relaxing night out to dinner is just what the doctor ordered! Any way, just pizza with my hubby is fine by me. He’s a keeper.

Pam - I would take my teaching teammates. We need a winter “happy”!

Anita754rn - I tweeted, and tweeted again…anyway I really want to win but I am not so tweet-knowledgeable so I don’t know if I did it right.

Erin P. - I would take my sister and my best friend! Our “dates” usually consist of Starbucks after the kids are in bed. But dinner at Olive Garden sounds tons better!

Elizabeths - I love Olive Garden. I’d like to take my sisters, ok that’s two people,but I can’t take one and not take the other 🙂

Cindy Brick - And yes, I mentioned this in my blog:
http://www.savingsite.blogspot.com/2012/02/olive-garden-is-holding-contest.html

Jill Utecht - I LOVE the Olive Garden. Their Peach Bellini tea is my favorite! 🙂

Heidi - I’d love to treat the lovely ladies who live on my street to a girls night out. We moved in less than 6 months ago and they made us feel so welcome and are already good friends.

Wendy - Love Olive Garden! I would take my mom because it is one of her favorite places, and she hasn’t been in a long time.

Jenn Shock - I would love to take my entire mom’s group from church out for a girls night out! I think $100 would help all of us who can’t afford to eat out that often, to be able to relax and enjoy ourselves for a night out. It really does recharge your batteries to be with like minded women, and wine helps too 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway!

Binz - I would take my husband of two months 🙂

kaholly - I would love to take my daughter and her significant other. They are very, very good to me!

Carolsue - This giveaway is posted on my blog
http://mscarolsue.blogspot.com/p/blogher-olive-garden.html
Digicats {at} Sbcglobal {dot} Net

Tahra - I tweeted!
http://t.co/DgBMNrC7

Kelly Massman - i’d love to take my family! thanks for a chance to win!
And, have a GREAT day!
kmassmanATgmailDOTcom

AJ - I would love to go w/my family. We have been very frugal and haven’t eaten out in a looonnngg time. Olive Garden has so many interesting meals that I don’t think of making myself. What a treat!

Tonya Crain - Tweet:
https://twitter.com/#!/Mom2LinzNOkie/status/167653481010823168
tonyamcrain [at] aol.com

Desi - I’d take my fiancee. I love our date night dinners!

Tina M - I would love to take my hubby!

MyLinda - Mmmm Olive Garden, one of my all time favorites that I don’t get to visit much because it just doesn’t fit into the budget. Who would I take??? Hmm I guess either my hubby and daughters or a group of friends…whoever is being nicer that week! 🙂

wanda - I’d love to spend some time with my family. My kids are grown up and busy — so dinners out are pretty special!
I’d love some calamari right now!

Jeannette from PLant City - My husband, even though he is not a big fan of chain restaurants. We do not get out that often just the 2 of us and it would be nice to have a date night with some YUMMY Olive Garden and then maybe a movie.

The Lovely One - I also tweeted about this: https://twitter.com/#!/looklucklove/status/167087645468528640

Barbara - I’d love to take my husband. As empty nesters, we enjoy dating again! Love Olive Garden’s salad and breadsticks!

Lori - LOVE Olive Garden! This would be enough to take my husband, my married son and his wife(and their baby-to-be would be accompanying them :)), our college-age daughter, and our 17 year old son—who might be able to eat $100 worth on his own, but of course, we wouldn’t let him!

Mandy - I love Olive Garden… I would most definitely bring my sweetheart with me for a date night! mmmm sounds delicious!

Sue - We haven’t been there in so long -….. the kiddos were younger and kept calling it “Olive’s Garden”. So cute. I would love to take my family.

tara - I posted about your give away on my sidebar!

Rose - My husband & I are both retired now and are on fixed incomes. So having dinner at Olive Garden with it’s wonderful ombiance and scrumptous food would be such a treat! I can’t wait to try one of their new dishes. My mouth is already watering!

Nicole - I would absolutely love to take a road trip to Wichita to Olive Garden! I’d take my sister and mom. We need a girl’s weekend!!

Karla - Would love me some hubby time at Olive Garden. Yumalicious!!

connie - My husband and I need to go out, we just do (and we love the Olive Garden!) Thanks for the giveaway!

Megan Kemmey - I would go out to dinner with my Mom and Dad 🙂 I’m off at school, and although I’m only an hour away from home and I go home often, I still miss them too much! I’m such a home-body! 🙂 Olive Garden would be such a great treat!

colleen - I would take my family – 2 girls and hubby! Yum!!!

Leslie B. - I think I would take my husband. “Us” time is really hard to come by these days, so I would love the chance to go out to dinner without kids for a change. A gift card this size would more than likely give us 2 date nights, since we normally try to keep our menu selections to the cheaper items on the menu.

WendyQM - I would take my children! They LOVE Olive Garden… as do I.

Sarah - my hubby 🙂

Caro - I would take my boyfriend. Money’s been tight, and we’re looking forward to a night out.

jen - I love Olive Garden too! I would take my daughter because her favorite food is pasta.

Kim Black - oh i love olive garden. what a wonderful giveaway!

Jamie - Just introduced my two young daughters to the Olive Garden during Christmas break. They are 5.5 and 3 years old. Let’s just say in April, for my oldest’s birthday, her new request for her family dinner out is “The Olive Garden”. I could eat and eat and eat the breadsticks and salad all day long. SOOO GOOD.

Lindsey - My husband and I love Olive Garden! We both order the Chicken and Shrimp Carbonara…it is amazing!! One time one our server asked if I wanted to lick my plate…actually I really wanted to but didn’t want to be stared at! Love, love, love Olive Garden and would really love to have a night out since we have a baby coming in 3 weeks or less!! We’re going to need that alone time!!

Mandy - I would take my best girls out to dinner with me. My best girls are the ones that it is easy to share life with, they know my heart, I know theirs. We would laugh together and probably shed a some tears. It would be a taste of heaven.

danielle - Would totally love this! Girls Night Out! Yes, please!

Robin - LOVE their lasagna but that chicken marsala might have to be tried.

Kat - I’d love to take my family (mom, husband and 3 sons) to Olive Garden! It’s been quite awhile since we’ve all managed to go out and have a nice sit down meal. And we all love Olive Garden. 🙂

JP - Girl’s night with my sisters…we sooo deserve it! Too many things to deal with lately so it would be fun to be together relaxing for a bit.

Joleen - MMMMM…that sounds so good! I think I might treat my girlfriends to a night out (not that I don’t love the hubby & kids) but I could use a girls night out.

jeannett - i’d take my husband out to dinner…he’s cute.

shannan - I would take my daughter. I love going out with just her and having girl time!!!

Libby - Tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/ACraftyBalance/status/166599422728339456

Kimmie - Yum! Breadsticks 🙂

Brenda - I would to take our Pastor and his family! They recently just moved back to Kansas and have started our new church home, Restoration Church!

Molly B - I would love to take my bestie (who lives so far away) to Olive Garden so we could catch up! love, love, love Olive Garden! and now I am hungry

jennibell - My husband and I just had date night last weekend and this is what we chose! I would definitely take him again….

herblady - I’d love to take my handsome husband of 28 years. You can always count on having a good meal at Olive Garden!

Jessie C. - I’d go with my family. We love Olive Garden.
tcarolinep at gmail dot com

shar - I’ve made this several time, quick and easy and always goes over well with guests or ladies events:
http://www.food.com/recipe/olive-garden-caprese-flatbread-319431

Jeannett - The hubs sans kids!

Jerra - I’d take my husband and 16 month old son. “Noo-Noo’s” are actually something he’ll eat!!

Donna - I posted a tweet!
https://twitter.com/#!/p1gsfly/status/165162312968323072

Shelli Jenkins - I would take my daughter, it is one of her favorite restaurants and it would be a great way for us to catch up her next trip home from college!

Samantha Navarro - Olive Garden is my favorite restaurant and I need a girls night out! It’s great that Olive Garden is going to do this for someone – one more reason to love them!

Tara - Tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/MyWndrfulWalls/status/165130455463628800

Cheryl Ann Evenson - I would love to take my husband out to dinner. He is the most amazing person and all he has to do is come into a room and flash one of his wonderful smiles and my day is brightened. Going to the Olive Garden is a special treat for us – great food, great company – life just doesn’t get any better.
Cheryl

Christine Couch - Looks like you gals had fun!! I’d love to go out with my book-club girls! That would be a total blast 🙂 Thanks for the fun giveaway!

Cindy - Always start by asking for a take-out box. That way I get to enjoy the great food another day. This also leaves room for dessert!

Nicole F. - I would take my husband out! Now that our 6-month-old has reached the “babbling” stage, we can never get a word in edge-wise! 🙂 Thanks!

Tricia - Oh how I love carbs! And Olive Garden is a palace of yummy carbs! And..my husband and I could definitely use a date night.

Amy - I’ll treat my In-Laws to dinner. They both are big fans of Olive Garden and I can’t wait to take them there! 
Amy [at] utry [dot] it

Estie - I would love to take my husband out! With a new baby, a date night would be wonderful!!

Kerri - LOVE the OG!! Haven’t had a date night with my hubs in 2 years – yes, I am serious. Having a 4 and 5 year old and rough economic times = no bueno for nights out!!

Lisa K - It would be fun to take my husband and two oldest kids – leaving the younger ones home with a sitter. A treat to have some big-kid conversation without interruptions (and I don’t have to cut anyone’s meat!)

Kristel - I would love to take my 2 life long friends to dinner! One lives in Rome….if I win I am making her fly back 🙂

Tim - A guy’s got to eat, right?

Stacey - my husband : )

Michele - I would love to take my good friend to Olive Garden to celebrate her upcoming birthday. I love the idea of the 3 course Italian dinner for $12.95! Count me in!

Heather - Id take my friend Bethany for a mama’s night out!

Rachael - this post seriously made a pregnant lady hungry. I would love to take my mother in-law out for dinner as the Olive Garden is her absolute favorite restaurant and bring my husband along too since I love him and he loves Olive Garden!

Ami Lynn - I would take my hubby!

amy pugmire - I would love to take my mom its her favorite place to eat and she has been going through a lot right now, my dad is in his finals days of stage 4 terminal lung cancer and she has been at home by his side for the past 3 months taking care of him. I would love to give her this gift.

courtney b - i would take my hubby to dinner!

Jessie - I’d take my mama! She’s the best!!

Terri - I would have to take my family since I know everybody would enjoy a nice dinner out at the brand new Olive Garden here!

Brooklyn D. - Would love to do a dinner date with my Husband and sweet parents! Oh how fun! Thanks for the chance!

Margaret - Olive garden is my favorite place to eat!

Natalie - My husband and I have a one year old, we both work, we are on a tight budget, and as much as we love our little Genevieve, we are desperate for a date night! Puh-leaze! 🙂

renee - i’d take my awesome husband

sonya - lil'soak + friends - can’t take my gluten free husband (unless we realize that whatever illness he’s got is not related to gluten) but I would love a chance to do a girls night out. I think that would be a ton of fun! Girls night with my small group.

Sarah - Olive Garden is one of my go-to restaurants for a guaranteed good meal. Plus I love that pretty much everyone likes Italian, so if a big group is going out it’s a safe bet that everyone will be happy with SOMETHING on their menu.
I am pregnant with three other little kids at home, so do I even need to say that any and all date/girl’s night out type evenings are VERY appreciated?!

Julie - Of course my husband and I would love to go. But it would also be a different kind of fun to take some new friends from my moms group!

Heidi hicks - I would normally say I’d take my hubby but I’m a new stay at home mommy (little guy is 2 months) and I’m realizing it’s the hardest job I’ll ever have. I’d take my other stay at home mommy friends. They deserve it. 🙂

Natalie Doering - I’d take Ryan Gosling with me to Olive Garden. That’s a choice, right?

Deborah - I’d love to take my daughter out. She’s been having a rough patch of it.

Lisa - A girls’ night sounds pretty good to me!

Karen - I LOVE Olive Garden the MOST! So many yummy looking things but I always order the same thing: Seafood Fettucine-too die for! And it would be a toss-up between taking my sweet hubby or (with $100 to spend) treating some special girlfriends for a fun night out.

Tina I - I would take my hubby AND five kids. Olive Garden is one of the few restaurants where everyone can find something they like, and no one leaves hungry. We don’t eat out often, but for some reason my kids LOVE that place!

valerie (in TX) - Ohh, would definitely love the chance to take my husband on a date to Olive Garden. We try to get out once in a while, take the kids to Parents Night Out, but usually choose the cheapest (non-fast food) place we can think of b/c, well, money’s tight just like it is for everyone. 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway!

Lynn - Girls night out, for sure!

Analia - Wow! I would take my husband on a date! No kids, just us. I love Italian food!!!

Kayla Keeven - I would love to take my best friend out for dinner. She always takes me out for breakfast and dinner and such and I’d love to take her out for once 🙂

lindsey - if I won I would take my in-laws and my husband out to celebrate the first grandchild in our family, born this morning! I’m an AUNT! Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

Kate - We LOVE Olive Garden, the food is yummy (the salad is my favorite) AND we can take our 2 children there without feeling nervous about it. Ours is verrrry family friendly, which is key. SO I would take my husband and 2 children and enjoy the time together!

Stephanie - I would take my sweet husband out on a date night..something we don’t do often enough:)

Linda - I would take my husbad and three kids. Eating out gets expensive, so we don’t get to do very often!

Ann Marie - I would take my husband. He deserves a good night out!

beth - I would take 4 of my friends; we have really grown apart over the last year and this would help us reconnect!

s - I’d take my kids and husband because I owe one of my boys an Olive Garden dinner – he has been begging but when we vote, he is typically outdated and this mama owes it to him to go! He and I love that salad too!!! Maybe I’ll even break down and buy the dang salad dressing to take home and really blow my boy’s mind!

Lydia M. - I’m in grad school and my husband works nights, so we don’t get to spend that much quality time with one another, nor do we have the extra funds to eat out. With a $100 Olive Garden gift card, we could go on an actual date and catch up a little. Our absolute favorite thing on their menu is the stuffed chicken marsala!

Melinda - I would take my Mom. Her husband (my father) of 50 years unexpectedly passed away recently and dining out with someone is a true gift to her now. We could toast “to Dad.”

annonymous - Olive Garden is a fave! I’d love to treat my hubby!

Karen Galue - I would love to go to Olive Garden with my boyfriend who moved to Germany to study for 2 years. He is coming to visit me at the end of next month (yay!). I would be a very special treat for us, since we don’t get to spend that much time together.

Brooke - I would love to take my Fiance to dinner! He goes to school in Ohio and I live about two hours from him so when we see each other we always like to have dinner and Olive Garden is one of our faves!

Carrie - My mom and sister, they’ve both been going through a lot and we could all use some girl time.

MJ @ 517 Creations - I’d love to take my sweet husband…we could use a date night! 🙂

Jenny Young - Yum! I love their salad. That sounds so darn good! Would love a date night with my hubby!

cathy hobbs - I would love to take my 14 year old daughter out….the best way to have your teenager open up to you is over Lasagana and bread sticks:)

dixie - would love a girls night out!!!

Michelle - Well, my husband took our sweet daughter on a date when she turned 13 a few weeks ago. Her requested restaurant? OLIVE GARDEN! Was this Mama a wee bit envious…….um, yup! So……I would LOVE to go to the Olive Garden! I would take a girlfriend that I haven’t seen for a while and we could catch up on “life”. 🙂

Lisa B - I need to win, so my hubby and I have an excuse and funds for a nice date night.

Cathy - I tweeted about the giveaway here: https://twitter.com/#!/TCKK/status/164177271823929344

allison - i’d take my hubby out to dinner. we rarely get out just the two of us anymore.

Lin - I’d take my sister Tina, or maybe my Mom.

Lisa Littlejohn - This is always where my husband and I go for date night! We always try to bring leftover’s home for the kids, as they like the Olive Garden as much as we do! With a family of seven it is always a treat to eat out!!

Connie S. - I would take my hardworking hubby for date night!

Library Momma - I would love to take my husband. The last time we went to Olive Garden was as a special treat the night before my beautiful, now 9 month old baby was born! Now that I think about it that was the last time we were out alone together!

Elizabeth Gleason - Date night with the husband… Actually we have to drive 45 minutes to get to our closest one… So we make it a date day of perusing books then dinner at the olive garden.

Sonya Morris - I would love to spend dinner at Olive Garden with my husband and kids!

Tricia Hull - The very first Olive Garden in Alaska just opened this week in Anchorage!! Can you believe that? We have lived without an Olive Garden until now……I know, Crazy. It is our favorite restaurant to visit when we travel to the lower 48.
Definitely would take my husband. He loves the Tour of Italy and I love the Italian Margaritas (a shot of amaretto makes them Italian!)!! Oh, and definitely the Zuppa Toscana soup.

andrea - My sweet husband, of course!!!

Laura - I would take my nieces(18 and 11) because they are AWESOME! 🙂

Ann Parsell - I’d love to take my husband out to celebrate our anniversary of 9 years. I love Olive Garden-I crave their salad!

Jainatina - I would take my mom out for dinner. Girl time together would be great. 🙂

Susan Smith - I would take my husband and two children to Olive Garden. We have one up the street and visit it quite often

Bethany - I always get the baked ziti too…

whitneybens@yahoo.com - Definitely my hubby. He works so hard and deserves a night out w/o his three kiddos crying at the table because they don’t like what mommy made to eat! 🙂

LibraryGirl62 - My babies (19 and 18 🙂 LOVE Olive Garden !

Monika - When my daughter comes home from college each spring, we try to go to Olive Garden. The perfect place to celebrate, relax, reconnect, and enjoy a great meal. I look forward to these dates at Olive Garden with just her!

Amy - Um, yum, that all looks amazing. I’d love to take my hubby, fo-sho.

Kathi - I’d invite all the girls for GNO – we used to do this a few times a year and Olive Garden was the go to favorite. Thanks for the reminder to do it again and for offering the chance to win!

Heidi - My wonderful husband, of course!

Lisa - My hubby of course 🙂

Angela - My 3 boys would love to fill their bellies there!

Emily H. - I would take my wonderful husband. We have a 2 month old and are in desperate need of an actual date night!

melanie - mmmm. i’d love to take my dear man out to eat. we’ve been dating long distance now for two years, and he is such a gent, always paying for us 🙂 I would love to take him out to eat once in awhile. I think Olive Garden has the best salad (and yummy pasta, too, of course), I actually crave it!
Thanks for the yummy giveaway.

Karie - Olive Garden…yum!

Kim Elks - I would have a girls night out with my Mom and SIL and BFF!
Thanks for the chance 🙂

beth - I’d love to take the whole family to dinner. My husband LOVES Olive Garden and my daughter is just nuts over any kind of pasta. Ours is near a movie theatre so it would be fun for a family date. We just finished reading “The Borrowers” and “The Adventures of Arietty” comes out right after Valentine’s Day. Perfect!

Barbara Nelson - I would take my sisters and daughter we always have a great time at a table. Thanks for the chance!

Krissy - I would love to take my BFF!!! She’s 6 months pregnant and a night out without her 3 kids sounds like just what she needs!!! 😀 And btw, I have tried that Toasted Marshmallow Martini and it is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

ingrid lapp - I want to say that I would take my husband but really I think that I would like to take my daughters, we’d hit up Olive Garden then whatever big mall is closest. yep. def. my daughters but I would be thinking of hubs the entire time 🙂

Rebekah from Simply Rebekah - This is crazy. You are the 3rd person today to talk about going to the Olive Garden! My MIL went there for lunch today. A friend on FB chatted about going. Now you are blogging about it. It must be a sign! I need to go! And I was going to say I would take my hubby, but maybe a girls night out is in order.

mary - oh i would take my husband as we are on an ULTRA tight budget and my parent’s who have just started the retirement life.

Misha - This would be great to take out my parents! They come in to town every week to watch my kids play sports and it would be so fun to take them out for a treat and to show our appreciation.

Melissa - I would take my mother and sister with me to Olive Garden. They help me so much and when we are together we have so much fun.

Carly C - i would take my boyfriend, we have the same taste in food so that would mean we could share everything we get!!! its like 2 for 1

Linda@Lime in the Coconut - I think I would do my kids and hubby! And…I am salivating from your pics. I found a recipe for the exact 5 cheese ziti!! YUM!

Jen H. - Hubby. For sure! 🙂

Alysa - hi there! i would love to take my refugee friend, Hiyam, to Olive Garden, as I know she has never been! She would love the food and atmosphere and it would be so fun to give her that experience!

Kari - I would take my dear friend, Jena, and her husband. Jena was recently hospitalized for a serious bacterial infection of they lymph nodes – her face literally swelled up like a basketball – they still aren’t sure exactly what she had. But after 5 days in the hospital I believe she and her husband need a night out (and bless her husband taking great care of the house and 3 girls while she was gone)…. Thanks!

Alison K - I would take my husband ! We love date nights and we LOVE Olive Garden!

Jessica - I’d love to take my parents out to Olive Garden since they’ve treated me there so many times! $100 would go a long way there!

anna pry - i’d love to take my sister out because she’s always the one taking me out for food
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Karina Lee - yum i love Olive Garden

carrie - I would take our daughter, as Olive Garden is her FAVORITE restaurant. She loves the build your own pasta on the kids’ menu.

Jenn B - I am hungry now! I would love to take my family to dinner at OG! I used to work there and still love it!

kristine cline - I would love to take my 15 year old son out to dinner…he loves pasta and he just finished his first set of high school final!

Carol B - MMMMMM I love olive Garden…I would take my friends..because my husband doesn’t really care for Olive Garden!! I often eat there by myself I love it that much!!

Angie - I would love to take my husband along with another couple out to Olive Garden! Normally we gather at our house for spaghetti night. It would be nice to have the professionals handle the food and clean up!!!

Ashley - I would take my hubby! We are about to add twins to our little family. And so I think a night out while our 5 year old daughter goes to the grandparents sounds glorious! AND…Olive Garden sounds really good to this prego girl!! Your pictures were almost too much to handle! :0)

Jessica J - I would love to head to Olive Garden with my husband and my adorable 2 1/2 year old lilttle man!!

Ann - I’d bring the hubby or girlfriend for her birthday-as my husband is not a huge fan of olive garden!

Ashley K - I would love to take my parents out to dinner. They are always treating my husband and I. It would feel good to do something for them!

Melissa - Love olive garden!

Amy - Olive Garden was one of my Gram’s favorite restaurants – she passed away in August, but I remember taking her out on a date to Olive Garden on several occasions. Good memories. Maybe I’d take out her daughters (my mom and her sisters) and drink a toast to her. 🙂

Janelle - I am away at college and would love to treat some of my friends to Olive Garden! It is so yummy!

shannon - I’d love to take my family out to eat. We seldom go out to eat as a family. We have four kids, two of which are teenagers and it just doesn’t fit the budget much now that they don’t all eat off the childrens menu.

Kristin - definitely a date night with my husband! with two little ones, and a tight budget going out is a rare treat. 🙂

Karen Martz - My favorite is Grilled Shrimp Caprese and of course the salad.

Brenda H - I’d say hubby for me! WE don’t get out much, he works late and weekends spends time getting things done at home – Olive Garden used to be our ‘go to’ restaurant many moons ago when we used to go on dates! Love it.

Lori Austin - Every momma needs a girls night out now and then. I would take my 3 best gals. 🙂 Looks like you had a fun night – good for you!

melanie simpson - I would take my husband! With four kiddos and a tight budget this would make a great date!

lindsay - I’d love to enjoy this!! Thanks for the offer Meg!

Erin Whitney - I’d take my hubby. We just had our second son 2 weeks ago and he deserves a huge thank you for all he’s done for me.

Cindy B - I would take my awesome workout buddies Sheila, Camela, Tracey and Raylene to the Olive Garden! Last year in January we started working out together 3x a week at the local YMCA. Now we try to make it 4x a week. When you don’t feel like going its your buddies that keep you coming back for more. We need to celebrate!

Heather D - I am original and would take my husband! 🙂

Marcella - Oh, the usual, the husband,daddy and my darling at our house!

Sarah Rollins - Oh my, $100 would go a long way! Certainly I would bring my sweet handsome hubby and maybe our parents as a thank you for all they do to help our family!!

Diana Yarborough - ME and my husband of course. I need a night out badly!

Sandra K - I definitely would take my husband & 2 kiddos. Thanks!

Wendy - I would love to go to Olive Garden with my hubby. We just don’t go out together enough–just the two of us. ♥

Tiffany - I would take my family! Three teenagers and a husband makes it hard to go out to a nice restaurant very much, so this would be a nice treat!

sarah mc. - would take my husband, though he doesn’t love OG quite as much as I (embarrassingly) do. something about their salad and breadsticks, so delicious!

nicoleigh - I would take my friend who gave me free tickets {including backstage passes for a Meet & Greet} to see Lady Antebellum in concert! 🙂

Jessica - Yuuumm…love Olive Garden. Their soup, salad and breadsticks are a meal in themselves! I’d love to take my hubby with me. 🙂

elizabeth Ann - my husband, for sure!

Caitlin - I’d take my husband and girls! We live in Alaska and they JUST opened the first Olive Garden in the state in the last few weeks!

Sara - With that much on a gift card, I could take out my husband AND my mother – the two people I adore and value the most.

mel - i’d take my family. we all love olive garden!

Lori H - Oooo. Olive Garden for a date night. Sounds wonderful!

Sarah Williams - I would love to take my friend, Amie. She has been a blessing and a lifeline over the past year…would love to say thank you!

Caroline - I would love to take my 5 kids (ok, and husband too…) It’s their absolute favorite place to go! We can all find something we love and walk out a very happy family. But to have it free? Perfection!

Elizabeth - Olive Garden is my mom’s favorite, I’d take her and leave the boy’s at home.

Shanalea - I would definitely take my husband out. We love Olive Garden.

Nicole - I LOVE Olive Garden. I would love to be able to take my husband out to dinner at a nice place. We usually go cheap to stay on budget but having a nice gift card to Olive Garden would be wonderful!

Jen Boyd - I would love to take my bestie out for dinner. Things in her household have been crazy/hectic. This would be a great break and a chance to catch up.

Ruth Sperling - So fun! I would take my friend, Rhonda and her girls, my husband, and daughter. Five of my favorite people in the world to my favorite restaurant.

Joleen - I would take my boys there. We took them a couple of months ago and they loved it, and now ask to go there daily. But that is not in the budget, so it doesn’t happen often.

gboll - I would take my husband. he loves Italian! 🙂 Everything looks sooo good. I am glad I just heated leftover soup for lunch. 🙂

Wendy - Although I need a girls night out … I would take my husband and 3 girls and have a wonderful dinner. We couldn’t afford to do it otherwise … so it would be special.

Candice - I would take my husband. He was just talking about wanting Olive Garden this weekend!

Aimee - I would love to take my husband out for a date night! We haven’t had one in quite some time and are desperately due for one! We love Olive Garden but so do our boys. Its one of the restaurants where they always clean their plates (including salad!). $100 is enough to have a date night with my hubby and also a family night with the boys. :o)

4FabFranklins - Oh! Mygosh! I’d do just about ANYthing for that Toasted Marshmellow Martini!

Carrie H - I would take my hubby, date nights are few and far between with two under 2 in our house and not having to pay out of pocket makes a date even better!

Melissa Bailey - My Husband! We don’t live near family and don’t get any time to ourselves, since there is no one to watch the kids for us! So if I won, I’d drive the 7 hours up to my parents house and we’d go out to dinner every night until the gift card was used up! 3 date nights in a row, I would guess! Yipee!!!!

Elena - tweet-https://twitter.com/#!/ElenaIstomina/status/164035126240612352

Elena - I love Olive Garden! My husband and I went there two weeks ago and would be happy to go back soon!

Routhie - I would take the 2 girlfriends who were my first friends when I moved to the east coast. I was so grateful for their friendship then and love that we’re still friends almost 6 years later. They are definitely my sanity and we do not get out as much as we should. Thanks fro such a great giveaway!

Lelia - I’d love, love to be able to spend $100 at Olive Garden! Yum!!! I’d take my daughter out b/c it’s her fav!! =)

Ingrid - I would love to take my husband and 3 boys! They can put away a lot of food. 🙂

chantelle - I would LOVE to take my sis out on a well deserved girls night out! We both are overdue! Haha! Thanks for doing this promo Megan, your promos never sound like promos….

Chantel - I would love to take my daughter for a Mommy and Me date. She’s 11 now, with friends and hobbies and harder schoolwork, so time together is very rare and precious to me. Connecting over a great meal would mean so much.

Kelly G - I would love to take my sister out to dinner! She’s one of my best friend’s and has hit a rough patch recently. Last week her car died and her manager declined her request for vacation! Thanks for sharing such a great giveaway!

Trudy - I would love to have a quiet, delicious dinner at Olive Garden with my husband. Last time we went we brought our 5 children. One of our three year old twins was getting antsy after dinner so I left with him to wait outside. He had fun running around and circling a tree when all of a sudden he lost his dinner in front of the crowd waiting outside. It was lovely. A romantic dinner at Olive Garden sounds wonderful.

Melissa - I would love to take my friends out to dinner!

Wendy - wow, it’s been FAR too long since i’ve been to olive garden! these pictures look sooo good! man, i need to plan a girls night there! i would take my friends. 🙂

Elma - Oh I would love to go with my husband and kids:) We never go out because with seven kids it just cost way to much!! Thanks for this chance:)

Laurie Johnson - The Fam, including husband, preschooler and toddler. My toddler is a growing boy and has been known to eat an entire adult entree, so $100 would be awesome! Thanks! How was craft weekend? Do tell soon!

Sarah - I would take my BFF Colleen. We go to Olive Garden rarely, usually to celebrate something. With $100 we could both take our husbands too!

Katie Sellers - My hubby of course!!

zoraya - I guess I would take my husband. We need a date! just the two of us… sounds so good.
Thank you for the giveaway 🙂

Sarah Wolfe - Me! Me! I’ve actually been craving it lately 🙂

jen smith - i would take a couple girlfriends. nothing better than a girls night out!

Andrea - Definitely go out on a double date with some friends of ours. No kids allowed!! 🙂

Nicole Q. - A night with my man is always my favorite . . . . runner up is a night out with girlfriends!!! Both fuel me up!! Your pics made me hungry and it’s only 10:30am

Laura in LA - I would take my mom! We don’t go out often enough and could make a couple of trips with this prize. Awesome.

Briana - I would take my husband, because we haven’t had a date night in quite awhile. 🙂

Erika C. - I also could use a Girls Night Out….you are so right, it is much needed to be a better wife! (I’m not a mommy yet.) So I would take some amazing girlfriends! 🙂

Amy James - You can never go wrong with Olive Garden. The food is consistently yummy. I would take my Mom if I won. She is 90 and does not get out often. Whenever I ask her where she would like to go she ALWAYS chooses Olive Garden.

Alyssa - I would take my boyfriend. I love the “tour de Italy” that comes with fettuccine, lasagna, and chicken parm!

Jermaine D. - This girls night sounds fun, I think I’d have to take some friends out! We even have a new Olive Garden in my town!

ira lee - i love olive garden so much!!!

Sarah Pinault - My husband doesn’t like Olive Garden so I’d take my small group gals from church.

Seriously Sassy Mama - I love going out with my girls.

Andrea Siebert - date night with my hubby of course!

Mollie - I would take a few friends. This mommy needs a night out!

Tammy EL - An Olive Garden is opening near us soon. We live in the middle of nowhere and it’s the talk of the town! Glad you had a great time with girlfriends…we need that time.

Steph - Out to dinner! What a concept! My husband hasn’t had an income in over a year so beans and rice have been great food! But, an Olive Garden, actual out to dinner night would be awesome! I would take my husband and my daughters for a lovely evening out!
Enjoy your blog – you inspire me.

Jodi - I tweeted about the giveaway here:
https://twitter.com/#!/JodiEvans776/status/164016397385601024

Candice - I would love to take my husband and kids out for a special dinner! Seeing how they work so hard in school and sports and how my husband works so hard as well. I would love to say “My treat”. Hehe:). By the way, loved your setup for craft weekend! Could I be on your next guest list?

Larissa - I would take my husband. We rarely get a date night, so this would be an awesome dinner at an awesome place!

Margo - I’m so hungry now. Me and hubby need to catch up on our date nights, so he would be my date for sure. Thank you.

Paula Caldwell - I would go with my husband. We rarely get a night out alone. On one of your visits you should try the Pasta e Fagioli soup. It is a favorite.

Rachel Matilda - I would love to take my son to have some one on one time with him.

Rebecca - Olive Garden is my FAVORITE!!! I got a gift card there for Christmas…LUCKY ME, right?

karen peachey - I LOVE Olive Garden!! I’d pick it every time my hubby & went out if I could!!;) The salad is definitely my fave!!

Amber - Love the caprese flatbread! I would take my man! We love our kids, but we also love a night out to ourselves!

Talia - I would take my girls. They are working their way through College and rarely get a treat. They are so deserving! We don’t go out to eat often so what a special night this would be!

caren wise - i’d arrange for a date night for me and hubs, for sure!

Lynn - I would treat all my mama-girlfriends. As the one without children, I always like to make sure they get out of the house a few times a year!

Jennifer - I would treat my wonderful, hard working husband to a night out. We would probably invite the kids too;)
Thanks!

Caitlynne - Wow that food looks amazing! Definitely makes me want some Olive Garden! A date night would be fun.

Molly - I would love to go out with my hubby! He works division I sports in the Big 12 and has been super busy since early October. I would love to have a nice quiet dinner out with him. And we are frugal so we would save enough of the giftcard to also take out our girlies. While we don’t go out to eat often, our girls love to eat out. They are so silly and go on and on every time about how it is their favorite restaurant and we should go to that place more often. Super cute:)THANKS!

Julie - love, love Olive Garden!! I would take my hubby out!

Rebecca - WOW!!! 100.00 would go a long way at the Olive Garden!! I would love to win this one!! Keeping my fingers crossed that I will soon get to try the marshmallow martini!!

jessica - Oh my gosh! This looks so yummy!
I would love to have a girls night out with my mom and sister!!

Susie - Oh, how I need a date night out with dh. I love their soup and salad.

Maria - Link to my tweet about it:
https://twitter.com/#!/randomtink/status/164006736842334209

Shar - I would like taking my grandchildren to Olive Garden if I were lucky enough to win this. I, too, love their salad!!

Maria - Yum! Love Olive Garden! Especially on cold days so I can have their soup!
It would either end up as a date night (since I finally convinced dh of the yumminess that is their soup) or a girls lunch out.

Jody - I would take hubby & kiddos. We JUST said we should go to OG – bc of their breadsticks!!! Haven’t been there in forever..how fun!!

Holly - I would take my 15 year old daughter. She has been wanting to go to OG for awhile. I am gluten free and just found out they have some gluten free options so I am so excited to try them!

Jennifer - Olive Garden just opened in our town and we are all so excited around my house!! I’d have to bring my handsome husband and adorable kids because we all LOVE the OG!

Sandy - Olive Garden is my college student’s favorite restaurant. I would love a GC to take her out and leave the card balance with her so she could return with her boyfriend.

Adrienne S - I would take my husband who has been traveling for the past year and is finally home for the month of February!!

shannon - Olive Garden is my most favorite restaurant ever….EVER! I LOVE that stuffed chicken marsala! On a special dinner I would take my hubby because he loves olive garden and he is my most favorite person and he works so hard for our family!

MegM - Yummy! I’d love to take my sister. We never get to do anything together without our husbands or kids tagging along.

kendra - their breadsticks are the best! and, anything with shrimp!

Heather R. - I’d love to take my family. We are always running around with activites. It would be nice to sit down and enjoy a yummy meal. Thanks for thinking of us!

Andrea - I would take and husband, 2 kids and my parents surprisingly enough! Every time we go out to eat with them, my dad always insists on paying for everyone. I would love to take them out for a change and make him leave his wallet at home. =) Thanks for the chance to win!

Jen D. - Yummo!!! Would love to go on a date with my husband!

Jen - I’d love to go out to dinner with my husband!

Kristi Rediske - I would take my mom who is 83-my dad passed away 6 years ago and they loved to go to the Olive Garden so she would really enjoy that again. I would also take along my 2 kids and their families-the $100.00 probably wouldn’t take care of it all but thats ok-I want my entire family along-I can add to that just to have them all there. Thanks for the chance-you are awesome.

Denise - I’d love to take my three daughters to dinner!

Angela B. - My “girls” and I get together about twice a year for dinner to catch up. One lives out of town and so it’s special when we are all together. We usually go to Olive Garden because everyone has something they love there. The past two times we have closed the place down! I need a girls night soon and this would be perfect!

Cherie - Our family loves Olive Garden. Their curb side to go is fantastic and easy with a car full of screaming little ones. : )

Dianne - I’d love to take my husband! We could use a night out without the kiddos…cause if dinner is paid for, we can afford the sitter!

Laura - Love the Olive Garden and would LOVE to win!

Terri Fretwell - I would love to take my family. Because I love them!! We don’t get to go out to eat much because I cook, all the time.
I love your pictures and review of the food. My mouth is watering.

melissa - i tweeted! https://twitter.com/#!/jonahbonah/status/163997042597826560

sara @ it's good to be queen - i’d love to go to olive garden for a date night with my husband. i’d also love a girl’s night…both are fun!

mimi - I would take my hubby out. We live on a pretty tight budget and it’s been forever since our last date. This would be so fun!

melissa - i would take my husband. we NEED a night out together. just he and i.

linda - yummy!!! i would have a much needed GNO!!! thanks for the chance to win!!

Megan - I would take my Preggo Girlfriend– soon to be mom of 3. She needs a night off!:) I can smell the bread sticks now…YUMMY

Ashley - I’d love to take my mom out to dinner. She has been taking care of my grandmother for the past few months and I’m sure a night out would be a fun change of pace. Thanks for the chance to win!

Beth Ann - Olive Garden is sooooo Yummy! When my aunts come visit it is the first place we go, I would love to treat them next time they visit

Allison - One of my college friends is moving to my city this week and she LOVES Olive Garden… so I would definitely take her!

Shawna - My husband!

Amanda - I would take my aunt. Whenever her and my fiance go out some place she ALWAYS picks up the tab. We don’t expect but it would be super cool if I could get her back once.

Amber - Yummmm Love Olive garden! I would take my hubby out for dinner 🙂

Alice H - Love Olive Garden! Even my 2 year old flips out for those yummy breadsticks! I have to fight my older 2 for the olives in the salad. My favorite thing to order is the Pasta Fagoil (spelling?) soup! Now I want Olive Garden! Thanks for this giveaway!

Sheryl - I would take my hubby and kids! The kids love the breadsticks and salad!

Beth K. - I would take my husband out for a date night. With four kids, work ,activities, etc. it has been a very long time since we have had a date night – like years! Or we could take the kids with us, but I will have to think about that. We love Olive Garden! Salad and breadsticks – could eat those everyday!

Mia - of course i’d love to take the hubs out, but olive garden is where my mom and i always go! this post made me soo hungry 🙂

lauren - yum!!! i took my boyfriend on his first trip to OG a few months back and i’d really love to take him again! he LOVED the food and the desserts were fabulous! 🙂
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Amy K. - I love Olive Garden! I would take my best friend out for dinner… she just had baby #3, and with three kids under 5, she doesn’t get out much. Also, she *loves* Olive Garden’s salad dressing. =)

Emily - YUM! I’d love to take my hubby for a date night!

Tami - Seriously I would just take my husband. We have 5 kids and I am in graduate school so we don’t get much time for ourselves. It is a treat when we get to have a date night (which we do at least once a month). So it would be an extra special treat if we got to go out for free. Great giveaway. I hope I win this!

Sharon B. - Love Olive Garden! And now drooling over the pictures!!! Yummy:)
I would take my husband – we have not had a date night in quite awhile and it would be a nice treat to take him!

Karen - I have been doing weight watchers for 3 weeks now and I am seriously drooling on my iPad now…

Valerie Alexander - Olive Garden is my FAVORITE!!! Just went there a few weeks back for my birthday with my girlfriends. It’s the best!! This time I would probably take my hubby, or who knows, maybe another girls night out!!! 🙂

Annika B - I am glad I had a good lunch, otherwise I would be drooling now. This looks yum! Pasta and cheese and bread is such comfort food!

Anj - Any time I wear an apron in the kitchen it makes my hubby frisky, LOL! Of course, in the middle of cooking dinner with two crabby kids and a stressed mom does not really get him any action… 🙂
I, too, love the blog but am not keen on processed ‘food’. There are other quick meals that can be made with real food… But if peeps use that kind of stuff then I suppose it’s nice to have a new recipe…

Megan - I’m afraid I have to agree with the other posts… I love your blog and seriously read it every single day. But the sponsored posts with the fake, over processed foods really turn me off. I totally give you props for supporting your family doing something you love (blogging), but I wish your advertisers weren’t selling family time with a box/jar/bag of chemical “food”.

Katie - look at u in your cute apron:)

Juli - Made your recipe for dinner tonight! It was YUMMY! Everyone really enjoyed it! Thanks!

Toni :O) - With the others…love your blog but not this recipe…sorry but CB smells like, well, I’ll leave it to your imagination, not good though. Sodium content is absolutely ridiculous as well. :O(

tina - sounds good!

Tracy Fisher - yummy! where did you get that cute apron? i want one so bad :). tracy

Whitney - I love the idea of the breadsticks!!!
This sounds yummy! Thank you for sharing! 🙂

Shari Barnes - Oh my goodness! I will have to try this! We love Chef Boyardee. I grew up eating those pizza kits. They are still one of my favorite meals! How did you make the breaksticks??

Cheryl - Yum! My boys would love it! Sounds like a great, kid-pleasing recipe for the days when you don’t have the time to do an Italian meal from scratch! (which is pretty often in this house too!)

happygirl - Hahaha. Cute apron. I couldn’t have survived college without chef boyardee.

Lorri Vallese - Being married to an Italian for 30 years I have to say yuk to canned chef boyardee, that stuff is florescent. I am sure it was tasty for your family but I would never touch it again. Sorry I love your blog and visit everyday but this post just made me gag a little. And I had to laugh at the dehydrated onion and jar of garlic. My mainstays on my counters at all times are large onions and whole garlic. sorry meg really I do love your blog.

Shannon - looks super duper exciting! i love that the kiddos made dinner! i can’t wait for my boys to do that! i hope they will want to!!! 🙂

Barbara Nelson - Looks like you are in for a busy week, have a great craft weekend/bathroom opening!

Dana @ Bungalow'56 - Megan,
You always inspire me with your photos. How you think to take them from different angles and perspectives. It is one of many things of course I enjoy when I visit. Enjoy your weekend. It will be a wonderful success, as we can all see the care and attention that is going into it.
Dana

Colleen - You have inspired me to redo one of my rooms. This is why I love your blog.

Lisa B - It looks like we’re moving to a new house and a giant blank slate. First step is to hire painters. I’m a bit overwhelmed because there are so many different looks you could go for. What do I want my home to look like when friends come to visit? Welcoming, bright, full of life. Then I realized, I want it to look like yours. So eclectic. I know you do a lot of thrift/antique shopping, but do you have a list of your home paint colors and where you’ve bought the major items in your home? I need some rockin’ rugs too. Thanks!

Kara D - wellll just when I think I can’t love your blog more, you throw out quotes from my favorite movies!! get out of my brain, meg! 🙂 “hello diane, want to come and take a look at these swatches?!”

kate - Add me to the list of jealous people. Craft weekend is gonna be out of this world!

Heather - Looking good, Meg! I love that you have helpers!! Maybe one year I’ll be able to come to craft weekend. Keep having fun. 🙂

Sharla - I know it will all be worth it and you guys will have an awesome time. I hope you have a great week!

Tracy Fisher - You know how people have wishes??? Well, mine is to someday be at Craft Week. Looking at your photos it makes me happy. I wis you the best of time. And one day… I am there! Bucket list item for sure.
Tracy

Cheryl - Everything is coming together! I can’t wait to see/hear all about Craft Weekend – wish i could be there in person! Have fun 🙂

Tiffany - It really is a lot of work, huh? You make it look easy (and fun).

Robin - SO looking forward to getting my Craft Weekend invite sometime. I’m on the waiting list – just waiting…

Mindi - So jealous!!! Coming to one of your craft weekends is on my bucket list!!! I love reading your blog!!! Can’t wait to see the finished bathroom and pictures from craft weekend.

elisa - so jealous!!

Laura Phelps - I want to stop by with lattes and cupcakes for you…and a big hug…and tell you “YOU ARE AWESOME HAVE A WONDERFUL CRAFTING TIME!”
of course, if I did do that…it would be silly for me not to STAY for craft weekend…
I mean, CT is not that close to Kansas…kind of a big trip to just deliver coffee
you are inspiring…in your sleepless state…keep on inspiring!!!
LOVE all you accomplish…LOVE
LOVE
LOVE
I am in love! I am in love! And I don’t care who knows it!!!!!! (I KNOW you know where that comes from)
prayers for you this week….
xo

Kimberly Dial - Busy, busy, busy … oh what fun you gals are gonna have … I’m working on not being jealous! 😉 Enjoy!

Jenn - Wow that is a lot of work… But you are going to have such a wonderful time at craft weekend! And all this time you have spent preparing will be SUCH a blessing to the ladies who are coming :). Good work.

Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails - One of these times I WILL treat myself to a craft weekend with you! And yay for gray bathrooms. Ours is finally {just about…ahem} finished now.
Next up? Painting the kitchen. The cleaners did a great job of washing all the walls down for me after the fire so now all we have to do is repair the burnt part of the wall and paint away!
Is Craig painting beds? I got to thinking: you should beg him to finish the 3rd floor off and make it a bunk room for Craft Weekends. Think of how awesome it would look with all the beds lined up with old quilts. Im sure he’d love that idea:)

jennie w. - You definitely need to take Craft Weekend on the road!

Meg Duerksen - The most we paid was $65….the least was $20. But Kansas is different from other places. Things don't sell if they are priced higher.
Good luck.
-meg

suzka - Woo hoo hooooo hoo hoo hoooooooo! I’m going I’m going I’m going to Craft Weekend!

Kirsten P - Meg, I know you like posters and turquoise and I think you like
cupcakes. So I thought you might like this poster for $.98
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Eat-A-Cupcake-Posters_i5242351_.htm
http://www.allposters.com is having a sale and I thought of you when I saw it.
I got this for Christmas from the same website:
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/White-Birch-Lane-Posters_i3363308_.htm
It’s a 12 x 16 photo of birch trees – my favorite tree.

Maija Lepore - Just looked at the first of Jeanne’s videos- love it so much it gave me chills!!!!

Tiffany - crack me up: “let me show you to your room….” WAHAHHAAAAA – when and IF I ever get off the east coast, I’m COMING OVER!!! & bringing dinner so I can negotiate my way in 🙂

Mindy Harris - i’m so hoping i get picked for one of the craft weekends!! can’t wait to see all the gorgeous pics. what a fun, fun thing and amazing ministry, megan!

Pat allen - Oh I wish I were going, if only to sleep under those quilts. Meg, please tell us how you came to have so many!
Pat

Amy @ www.littleforalittlewhile.blogspot.com - Those quilts are heavenly! I’ve been searching for the perfect patchwork quilt for quite some time…still looking 😉 I was dreaming of your craft weekend last night, maybe the stars will align and I will get chosen for one inbetween nursing a baby (almost 1!) and getting pregnant again! Happy weekend!

Tracie - Oh the quilts the quilts! They are so gorgeous! Where do you find them?

Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails - OH those quilts look amazing…esp that darker colored one on the top left(L-O-V-E). Enjoy the rest of your Sunday afternoon:)

Midwest Magnolia - Melissa Lewis - Oh my, do you have A LOT of quilts. I love quilts and am fortunate enough to have two, one made by my grandmother, Mama C, and on made by my husbands grandmother. But I must say, I am jealous of your 2 massive piles. So colorful and comfy looking.
I wish I could come to your craft weekend. As a recent stay at home mom, that just moved to a new city/region, the thought of having a weekend filled with adults/women and creating/making/gabbing away seems so like… heaven!!!!! Can’t wait to see and hear all about it.

Carrie - I love quilts. My grandmother is an expert quilt maker and someday I hope to make one too.
Sad I didn’t win… so I ordered a print. Lookout beige walls you’re getting some color!

Wendy - AMAZING quilts! Where do you get such great things?

Emily - Crossing my fingers I get picked to participate in the next craft weekend!! Those quilts look like a big hug from Kansas to Florida:)

Jennifer - I want to be wrapped up in those quilts so badly! My mom has always collected quilts and they make me feel at home! Those look perfect! 🙂

Laura Phelps - I think she should pick 4 winners…
or 5…
or 520 🙂

Jyotsna Kandpal - Merry Christmas Meg !!! You know I am the same kind of person… When I make up my mind for cleaning everything then I just do everything in one shot.. Though it takes a lot of hours as you mentioned… And I love everything after that.. But this feeling lasts for 2-3 days and I am back to lethargy again… Eveything in my house also looks like this.. I wish there was someone I could hire to just clean the mess after me… lol…

Jacci in Ohio - Happy New Year!!! I’m impressed you got your Christmas stuff down already. I always get a little down when vacation ends, so I leave mine up just until I get back in the swing of our normal schedule. I know you’re getting ready for craft weekend, but I thought I’d mention one more time that the neutral background vlog idea thingy is still something I think would make a really great post 🙂 you know, in your spare time 🙂

mary - Thanks so much for always sharing your real life. It’s nice to see I am not the only creative soul with piles to go through and organize. Here’s to another year of more piles to make and more to clean up!

Mrs. Jones - My craft room looks exactly the same. Thank you for showing me that photo. 😉 I feel better now.
~Heather

April R - inspired.
again.
🙂
Happy New Year!

Holly - You have no idea how glad I am to see that your craft room looks as bad as mine!

Sarah Wolfe - I have yet to put my Christmas stuff away. It’s going to make a big mess, and I dread that. With cleaning, it looks worse before it looks better, so you’re headed in the right direction. Happy 2012!

sue - Happy New year to you and your family. You have entertained me all year with your blog. I thank you for that and look forward to seeing what you get up to this year.

Amy - Thanks for showing your craft room. Mine looks the same and I really need to get in their and do something so I can create in peace and calm. Happy New Year!

Siobhan - Ha! That craft room is epic! As much as I hate clutter I love to organize that looks like its gonna be fun;) I hope you have an awesome new years even if your cleaning! You have blessed me so much this year by your blog I cannot Thankyou enough for all of your encouragement and lifting of my spirit! You are such a blessing to me and so many others!

Shannon - happy new year Meg! you rock! yep so we went to our friends/neighbors down the street this year with our three littles. the best part of the night, or worst, was me walking through their darkened kitchen (where the fondue pots, one with chocolate in it) were still set up. i dipped a few chips in chococlate and came out like nothing had happened, or no one had seen me. except that my chewbeads necklace dipped in the chocolate and i didn’t know it. until my friend pointed out a huge
smattering of chocolate all over my bright white v-neck shirt from the now chocolate covered chewbeads. it was embarrassing but they know me well enough to know that i would totally do that. so we laughed a lot about it. later, i almost choked on a too big mouthful of chips. sa-weet! happy new year!

jen marmen - Hi Meg-Happy New Year! I love your Christmas dishes and was wondering where you got them?

Ali - D’you know how envious I am of the phrase ‘All the Christmas decorations are put away”?
Guess what’s on my list for today….
Happy New Year!

Kari - You are in good company. I have spent this evening updating my blog since I have been neglecting it for the last 6 months… working on a small business: facebook.com/redpoppydesignsbykk. But of course, due to my crazy, quirky tendencies I couldn’t ring in the new year without being up to date! (Oh, and my mom has been begging for recent pictures…) Anyway, happy new year to you and your family! Thanks for the entertainment in 2011 – looking forward to more to come!

Tami - Post pictures of your craft room when you get it clean so I can be inspired. Love your blog. Keep it coming in 2012.

mel @ the larson lingo - Happy New Year Meg! So thankful for you & meeting for real this year! Blog sugar was a highlight for me this year! Here’s to a great 2012!

Tiffany - Happy New Year Megs, of course your readers are awesome. Your awesome!! Thanks for sharing your colorful life with us. Big things in 2012.

karen - HI meg!, yup. at home browsing pinterest and my favourite blogs. happy new year!!

Jen Brandt - Totally browsin’ Pinterest and Facebooking. Drove 979 miles in last two days. Back home from Christmas in TX with in-laws. Christmas at home with our kiddos tonight, Christmas at my mom and dad’s tomorrow/New Year’s Day dinner. Just told hubby I am blog stalking Meg and he said, “Tell her I said, ‘Hi'” 🙂 Here’s to a great 2012!

Oberheu.wordpress.com - Ha! I’m cleaning my craft room tonight too! Just took a break to peek at fb and see what everyone is up to. New Years always makes me want to clean things up – get a fresh start! Enjoy your cleaning -your right it feels so much better when its done!
Back to work now:)!

kelli - I was browsing pinterest….eating cookies….
Freaky…. Yikes.

Jennifer Cooper - We made this for a Keepers at Home(like a Christian Girl Scout troop Christmas craft. The cost was about $5/ornament. The pins were $3 @ Walmart and the paper flowers were $6/bottle at Michaels. I think each bottle covered about 3 balls. These were easily finished in about 20 minutes by girls ages 5-11. Thanks for a cute and fun idea. Many planned to keep them hanging up through the spring.

Heather G. - YAY for more wells!! And yay for that cute ornament 🙂

Christina - Nice craft! I love making christmas ornaments too! It can be so creative! I read your blog a lot lately (only discovered it 3 months ago!!). Some of you ideas are really great! Greetings from Europe 🙂

Tracy Fisher - Those ornaments are so HAPPY! Love them. And I needed that verse today after a moment of tears. I know God knows what He is doing with me… but once in awhile I’d love a heads up!
Tracy

Christy - Oh I love that project! Thanks for the great idea 🙂

Kimber-Leigh - oh, my kiddos would love this project. makes me wish i hadn’t gotten rid of my 1983743987 prima flowers a while back. 🙂

Kerry - My girls are going to LOVE this Craft!!

Valerie @ Chateau A La Mode - Cutest ornaments ever! I agree…being perfect is definitely overrated!

Terrie - Love these!
To be honest with you…I get all nervous and clammy when I click on your Christmas crafts…
Cause I LOVE them all and want to do them…but have NO time to do them this year!
I’ve been a crafting fool in the craft room…
But, I’ll just ‘pin’ the idea and add it to my list for next year!
I did several of your crafts last year…made getting out decorations fun this year!
New colorful stuff!!
HaPpy Christmas Crafting!!

Kimberlee Jost - So pretty.
I love christmas balls.
😉

Michelle From Australia - Beautiful! Now that I’ve accomplished the bauble wreath from last year I might move on to this one. Thanks for the inspiration Meg.

Leah - I did that craft with my homework club kids last Christmas and it was great. Except our push pins kept falling out. Have you had that problem at all?

Lindsey@ Piecefully Home - cute and simple, this is my dream kids craft. i’ll have to do this with my girl

The Orchard - What a cute craft! My girls would love that! Thanks for sharing.

Tanya - I love that ornament. Unique!

Alycia - what a great idea! i want to make one right now but i don’t have the little flowers. i have everything else tho 🙂