Black Friday Sponsored Giveaway | $250 Gamestop.com Gift Card

One person will receive a $250 gift card to Gamestop.com.

TodaysMama.com and GameStop.com have made it their mission to give Santa a run for his money this year. TodaysMama.com is hosting Mama’s Holiday Wish List, a huge giveaway on their site and they’ve shared their stockpile of gifts with me so I can share them with you.

The annual Mama’s Holiday Wish List contest gives people a chance to read and share heartwarming, funny and inspiring answers to the Holiday Wish List Meme for a chance win a fantastic grand prize package from GameStop.com. Entering is easy, get the details and enter the grand prize giveaway here.

Here are my personal answers to the Holiday Wish List Meme:



  • What is your holiday wish for your family? That we giggle and laugh and snuggle and get all cozy together and really feel that awesome Christmas magic. We are in the prime Christmas magic years around here.


  • What is your Christmas morning tradition? Wait for the pitter-patter of Simon's feet in the hallway. Head downstairs and get all choked up over how excited he gets that Santa has visited our house. Just thinking about adding in Anna's excitement this year is almost too much for me to handle.


  • If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be? This is my most decadent dream gift at the moment: Volvo XC90.



  • How do you make the holidays special without spending any money? Listen to Christmas music via Pandora on your computer. I think one of the greatest gifts we can give our kids (and ourselves) is just spending time hanging out around the tree - playing with toys we already have, talking about the history of our ornaments, reading holiday books from the library and our own collection, chattering about Santa, etc.


  • What games did you play with your family growing up? We played Monopoly, Clue and lots of Super Mario Brothers.



  • What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood? Opening one present on Christmas Eve (we do PJ's here - when I was a kid it was one we picked out - usually something from a relative) and having an ornament box. My family was a little unique in that we often went together the day before (or a couple days before) Christmas and all shopped together - literally picking out our own gifts. We'd come home, put them all into a big wicker basket/chest in the living room, and then open up the chest on Christmas morning. We usually drove to downtown Seattle for the day which always made it even more special.



  • Where would you go for a Christmas-away-from-home trip? My parents will be in Hawaii this year and I'd love to be spending the holidays with them.


  • Check out GameStop and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year? Simon's a big Lego WII fan and I love Mario. It would be fun to add Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars or Lego Batman to our collection. 



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  1. Mary Sara P. says…
    11/26/2010

    Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My favorite game growing up was Othello and we love to play Scrabble now.

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  2. Keli jones says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game is candyland!

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  3. Lindsey says…
    11/26/2010

    Lately it's been catch phrase. So fun with a big group of people.
    Happy Thanksgiving!

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  4. kimmy says…
    11/26/2010

    Oh man... currently our favorite game is "Creationary" by Lego. We love these new games. We hope Santa brings more of those... ~ kimmy

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  5. Nancy Flinn says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game has to be Spades. Nothing fancy, but give me a deck of cards and great friends and I could play all night!

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  6. syanik says…
    11/26/2010

    I always liked a game called Boardwalk when I was younger. It was a weird spin off game from Monopoly :)

    The other one was Cathedral:)

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  7. Jane says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game is City of Wonder right now on facebook.

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  8. Cyndy IB says…
    11/26/2010

    Right now we're loving Scrabble on the iPads....super fun for all ages (and educational too!)

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  9. Ann Sheppard says…
    11/26/2010

    It's not a board game, but my favorite is Spoons! Doesn't require much besides a deck of cards, a sturdy table and a pile of spoons - but always leads to fun and laughter!

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  10. Cinzia Loosemore says…
    11/26/2010

    I think my kids would love the "Game of Life" I used to love that game as a child

    Thanks for the chance

    Cinzia

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  11. c@rol w says…
    11/26/2010

    I love to compete with my 20 year old son at Dance, Dance Revolution. I'm 49 and he gives me one heck of a challenge! It's a blast! As a family game, we like to play Taboo.

    I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving! Happy Black Friday!

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  12. Angela W says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game is Sorry. Loved to play it when I was growing up and love to play it with my kids now.

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  13. marsha says…
    11/26/2010

    i love monolopy, my brother and me would play board games for hours when we were growwing up. sometimes my girlfriend would come over and play with us.

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  14. KathleenB says…
    11/26/2010

    I loved playing board games growing up. My fav was always Sorry!

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  15. Natalie Winterstein says…
    11/26/2010

    It's har dto pick just one but I am playing the newest Proffessor Layton on DS and I really love the series! :) Thanks for the chance to win an awesome prize!

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  16. Sarah R. says…
    11/26/2010

    I am a very serious "Clue" player, while my eight-year old loves "Canadopoly", and is very good! Looking forward to things slowing down and playing together more!

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  17. stampin_rachel says…
    11/26/2010

    As a family, we like Mario Kart on the Wii! Thanks for the chance Ali.

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  18. anne says…
    11/26/2010

    Favorite wii game is Guitar Hero.

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  19. Amy E says…
    11/26/2010

    Hi Ali! Happy Holidays! What a great giveaway.!

    My favorite game as a child was Go Fish. (Go figure.) Now, my sweetie and I play Cribbage and Mancala alot. So many good memories of family game time.

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  20. Kitsa Scaffidi says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game growing up in the seventies was "Don't Cook Your Goose"--a balancing game which was simple yet so thrilling.

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  21. Stacey Morgan says…
    11/26/2010

    Monopoly was my favorite game...still is. Got my kids loving it too.

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  22. Mari says…
    11/26/2010

    Right now for board games it is Life and Feed the Kitty. We also love Mario Kart Wii! Thanks for the opportunity!

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  23. Sandi Pressley says…
    11/26/2010

    Growing up I loved to play Scrabble with my mom. She's gone now and in her later years I was always too busy to play Scrabble with her....I wish I had takent the time to do so. I have learned to cherish the time with have with our loved ones. My favorite game right now would be Bedazzled on the comouter and I am learning to do Sudoku puzzles.

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  24. Jeannette says…
    11/26/2010

    WE love games! I remember growing up, if I did "good" on a report card, Dad would take us to the store & let us pick out a new game. One of my favorite games is Boggle, but my 5 year old can't quite lay that yet. Favprite games to play with her: Scrabble junior & Qwirkle....If you don't know about Qwirkle, check it out! SO MUCH FUN!

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  25. Pam says…
    11/26/2010

    We love card games at our house. Spade tournaments are a lot of fun with a group of people.

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