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Win-It Wednesday: iVillage Summer of Love Gift Basket ($100 ARV!)

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Join me every week for Win-It Wednesday. I’ll be posting 24-hour giveaways at 8 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET to give you plenty of chances to win!

iVillage Gift Basket

As part of the relaunch of their Pregnancy & Parenting site, iVillage recently asked its readers to complete a Married Sex survey. Among the key findings were these interesting results:

  • 63% of married women said they would prefer to catch up on an extra hour of sleep, watch a movie or read a book than have sex with their spouse
  • 31% of women reported that they had a better sex life before marriage
  • 14% of women have participated in sexting, while 17% have sent flirty email messages
  • 44% of women said the quality of their sex life has not changed since having kids
  • 23% of women have sex 1 to 3 times a month

iVillage wants to encourage couples with children to enjoy a “Summer of Love”, and today they’re giving away a Summer of Love gift basket (valued at $100!) to one lucky Deal Seeking Mom reader! The gift basket includes:

  • beach blanket
  • 2-in-1 massage oil from K-Y
  • cooler with plastic champagne flutes, napkins, bottle of champagne
  • Listerine strips
  • gourmet pretzels
  • chocolate covered strawberries
  • fun-shaped ice cube trays and popsicle molds
  • tanning oil
  • scented candles
  • iVillage tote bag
  • red nail polish

To enter, share your best tip for couples with children who want to spice up their love life!

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Prize:
(1) Summer of Love gift basket, as described above

This giveaway ends at 7pm EDT on Thursday, 5/27 and is open to all U.S. residents 18 years or older. I’ll use Comment Contest to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Winners must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  3. Helen

    My best tip for couples with kids – surprise your significant other from time to time. It could be anything – from a box of ice cream sandwiches on a hot summery day to bringing dinner home from a favorite restaurant. It doesn’t have to be much, but sometimes it can mean a lot!

  4. caetie

    We don’t have the budget for a babysitter to go out every weekend, so on the nights we stay home with a movie and pizza we make sure we both shower, put perfume/cologne on, dress in cute clothes (not my daily pajama pants) and I put makeup on and do my hair cute. Then we feel like we are making an effort for the other and keeping it romantic :o)

  8. Heather

    I’m getting that “spicy” time is the point of this prize pack so my comment on how would be to get the kids ready for bed a little earlier than usual one night, AFTER you’ve spent some quality time with them of course, and then you have the night to do you thing :-). Theres also the option of waking up a little earlier on the weekends too. You could be together during the child’s nap time, or see if grandma can babysit for a few hours. It cant always be spicy, so dont forget just to have FUN when you can. When we take our kids outside to play catch, we can still flirt, grab one another, laugh, wink, smile, and joke around, and be all giddy like back in the good ol dating days. Who says it has to stop just because YOUR OFFSPRING have come into the world :-). KEEP IT ALIVE LADIES :-D. It’s still FUN!! And if it isnt, make it.

  10. Amanda Y.

    Definitely schedule date nights. Try to exchange with other parents so you don’t pay for day care, but go out without the kids! and often!

  11. Lynn L

    For sure, make time for couples only time – dates or whatever you can fit in! Flirt and laugh!

  22. Caroline

    take time to do something together that has nothing to do with kids. My hubby works offshore and is gone for a month at a time so it’s extra hard for us to make time for us, but every once in a while while baby’s asleep, we’ll watch a movie, or leave him with mom so we can go out to dinner like real people (it’s happened twice in 10 months!)

  27. AnnMarie

    My best tip is to get a babysitter and have a date night. It can be at home or out and then use your imagination. Good times.

  29. Holly

    My husband and I will take a date on a weeknight. Its easier to find a sitter, AND we dont’ have to deal with crappy crowds. Even if we just get dinner and the grocery store, we try to take time to ourselves at least 1 time every week or two.. For our own sanity.

    We also take every other saturday morning to ourselves. I get one, then him, and we trade off. But we have to be home by noon so we can have family time. It helps us be able to have fun on our own