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. Monica says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game is monopoly and cooking mama.

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  2. CathyK says…
    11/26/2010

    We love to play Monopoly around our house - and my in-laws love to watch the kids play Wii games - it just makes me smile to see how my 92 year old father in law gets into the "action" but he won't even hold the remote, just offers a lot of advice to the littles.

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  3. Jennifer Alfonso says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game as a kid was Scrabble. Now, I have lots of fun playing Wii the kids :) Thanks for a chance to win!

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  4. dawn says…
    11/26/2010

    I loved Monopoly growing up but now I like any card games. Thank you so much for this awesome giveaway. My kids are only asking for wii & nintendo games this year and this would help me so much.

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  5. Kelly H says…
    11/26/2010

    I do love a good game of scrabble with the family!!

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  6. Suzelle says…
    11/26/2010

    We played a lot of card games,Sorrry and Monopoly. I also remember too, playing a lot of Chinese Jumprope and hopscotch.

    GREAT giveaway....thanks Ali.

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  7. {vicki} says…
    11/26/2010

    Clue was always my favorite game---my favorite video game is Guitar Hero

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  8. Kelly Buck says…
    11/26/2010

    As a family we love Monopoly and for my personal...Trivial Pursuit (all those random bits of information stuck in my brain finally pay off)!

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  9. Missy_G says…
    11/26/2010

    I love playing Clue and Monopoly. Right now we are all having fun playing Lego Harry Potter!

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  10. Charlene says…
    11/26/2010

    Our favorite board game is Monopoly and our favorite card game is Five Crowns.

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  11. tape says…
    11/26/2010

    I used to love playing adventure games on my computer... King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Monkey Island... I'd like to try one of them again one of these days!

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  12. Sarah says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game is cribbage, my family's favorite game is Super Mario Brothers

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  13. Karen G says…
    11/26/2010

    We love to play cards. I grew up doing that and my boys were playing pinocle by the time they were 4 years old.

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  14. Jen Gough says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game is Monopoly!

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  15. Sara T says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game has always been Uno, because it's easy to pick up and everyone can enjoy!

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  16. Holly S says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game would have to be NHL 2010-I adore watching my nephews playing it!

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  17. Arrica says…
    11/26/2010

    It is hard for us to find games that the entire family can enjoy together (there are 8 of us). So anytime we find one, it becomes our new favorite... We are enjoying Settler's of Cataan with expansions, and the Wii, tournament style, and there is a card game that we enjoy, NERTZ. The card game is a take on solitaire with each player playing with their own deck in the middle, matching suits, against others while also playing their own personal solitaire in front of them. The point is to get rid of your deck of cards first.

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  18. Michele H. says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game as a kid was Clue, UNO, & monopoly. Best played with family. Thanks for the chance to win!!

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  19. Michelle says…
    11/26/2010

    We play a lot of Toy Story Yahtzee as a family but I love playing Super Mario Brothers on the Wii.

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  20. Tina Homan says…
    11/26/2010

    Our favorite game is Carcassone - it's a great 2 person game! And who doesn't love building a city with castles?

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  21. amy isley says…
    11/26/2010

    We love to play uno and scrabble. We also have love to play the wii.

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  22. stephanie says…
    11/26/2010

    my favorite game has to be "rook" with grandma and grandpa... but it's a tough call, we are total game geeks.

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  23. Lindsay says…
    11/26/2010

    Cranium has always been a family favorite in our house. Lots of fun.

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  24. Mary Kathryn says…
    11/26/2010

    we love the scene it games in the Mathews house!

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  25. Anna Vollmer says…
    11/26/2010

    My favorite game would have to be apples to apples..... love that game

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