$25 Restaurant.com certificates for $2!! Use the discount code: SPECIAL. This deal ends May 31, 2009 but remember certificates are good for a year. Check out the restaurants in your area and maybe treat Dad to a nice meal this month. We've enjoyed some nice nights out even with the girls using our certificates. Definitely a Cool Idea!

Or wherever you plan to do your summer reading. Personally, most of my reading gets done on the sofa while Comfort and Joy play or draw at the coffee table.

If you are looking around for some fun reading material and perhaps looking for a bit of an escape as well you can't go wrong with the categories at Harlequin. There's everything from cowboys to doctors to tycoons to preachers - and the men aren't bad either;) But seriously. No matter what your level of comfort is with the romance you can't find it at Harlequin. Some of the categories have the relationship end at the bedroom door and others invite you in. You can get a sense of which line is which by reading about them on their e-site, but don't forget to come back here and take advantage of this great deal!! It's definitely a Cool Idea!!

Get your free tickets for screenings of (500) Days of Summer.

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't. Surprising in its outcome, Marc Webb's debut feature film is a charming postmodern reflection on crushing, unrequited love and relationships, dispensed in a nonlinear structure. Starting at day 488, the narration jumps back and forth to different days in the 500-day love affair. From day one Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is completely smitten by new co-worker Summer (Zooey Deschanel). He believes in the possibility of soul mates destined to meet, while she believes that true love is only a fairy tale never to be experienced, and so her interest in Tom is purely lighthearted fun. Gordon-Levitt' s and Deschanel's nuanced portrayals of roller coaster love and the mercurial, ungraspable object of one's affection almost move this story out of romantic comedy and into tragedy. The comedic tone, vigorous shots, and effervescent music keep it light in the most satisfying way.

Sunday night we went out to eat. It had been a long week for all of us and it was an Adventure Girl Night at Restaurant House. Comfort was in rare form and occasionally broke out into song in between bites of 'rock-a-roni'. We heard verses from Mary Poppins, WALL-E, Elmo in Grouchland and perhaps a couple of others that I've blanked out. The restaurant wasn't overly crowded since it was a holiday weekend so many of our fellow guests were treated to a show with their dinner.

Several times throughout our meal the couple beside us caught our eye and smiled or nodded along with the song as Comfort sang. I will say, she wasn't singing loudly or I would have nipped this in the bud. Instead it was just loud enough that the tables just contiguous to us could 'enjoy'.

This same couple came back from their trip to get dessert with an extra banana. I didn't even know this place had real fruit but the woman explained that she always asked for one to make herself a banana split and they had given her two. She asked if we'd like the other. Comfort was busy singing but Joy enjoyed half of that banana very nicely.

As we were leaving they asked Comfort her name at which point she told them how old she was, we're still working on appropriate responsese to questions, and asked if they could give her something. I figured it would be some little token or toy so I said yes. The woman fished in her purse and pulled out a crisp dollar bill and told Comfort she could use it to buy herself something. Comfort passed it along to me and we said thank you, very much and good night.

So, have you painted yourself a picture of the couple that was sitting next to us at dinner? Can you see them? You think they are someone's grandparents and the woman was carrying a big purse and maybe had bouffant blue hair. The man was tall and lanky and walked with a cane.

Actually, they were in their mid-20's. They were talking on their cell phones part of the meal. The woman's purse was not much bigger than my hand - or her phone! Her eye shadow was bright blue - which is apparently back in style from the 70s - and her clothes were super trendy. He was dressed comfortably but definitely with care.

And my point here isn't that Comfort needed to have that dollar. It's that they needed to give it. If I'd said, "Oh, that's too generous of you," and handed it back - I'm sending a message that giving isn't worth the trouble. It was too generous of them but I can appreciate their expression and we won't just let Comfort buy anything with it but someday when she's old enough I'll have a really great story to tell her and, yes, maybe there will be a trip for an ice cream cone this week, too.

Celebrate 25 Years with Burt's Bees. They are giving away 1000 lips balms every day for 25 days. It begins every day at 9am. Get them while you can!

FREE Hawaiian Tropic Sun Care Sample

FREE cup or cone of ice cream at TCBY on Father's Day

Sign up for the Lego Jr. Club for Ages under 6 and get 2 FREE years of LEGO Magazine

Box Tops for Education Racing Mom Sweepstakes is giving away 10,000 extra Box Tops [5,000 1 st place, 3,000 2nd place, and 3,000 3rd place] Enter every day until the end of the Month for a chance to win for your school.

Parenting Magazines 31 Days of Mom Giveaways - Each day has a different giveaway and enters you into the Grand Prize Giveaway of a trip to Mexico. There are only a few days in May left but make sure you get your name in the hat.

And don't forget to put it on your calendar for Friday to sign up for your coupon from Mars. They are giving away FREE chocolate every Friday through the summer. It takes up to 6 weeks for the coupon to reach you but it's FREE chocolate and in my world that is definitely a Cool Idea!

One of the ways I started to make a little money here and there is to do surveys and use MyPoints. Why? I needed another way to use the downtime that I have as a stay at home mom. There's time where I need to be with the kids but I can be on the computer while they color or play or entertain each other. I can get a 5, 10 or 20 minute survey done and get some points or even a few dollars credited to my account. I always make sure to do the ones with actual $$'s first and then the ones with points. Just this week I've reached the threshold with Valued Opinions to cash out for $20 Visa Debit Card and $10 from Opinion Outpost.

MyPoints is a points per click or purchase system. [check out their site because it's easier than I'll be able to explain] and I've been signed up since summer when I saw a post on Deal Seeking Mom, I think. I especially make sure to click through when I'm going to be making a purchase on eBay because there are always extra bonus points for buying on eBay. I've cashed out points for Barnes and Noble gift cards and Panera gift cards. I figure this will be a nice treat for myself or a good date night for us when the school year is over and we can get out together again.

So, if you have those odd moments in your day that are free or you don't mind 5-10 extra emails in your account every day give it a shot and let the points start adding up. Then you can use them for something great for yourself, add them to your household account or use them as a gift for someone else. Whatever you choose it's another Cool Idea out there to try!

Sign up for great coupons and recipes through the Kraft Community! This would be a great week to take advantage of extra coupons especially since there weren't any in the newspaper. Click on the link and get started on the Cool Ideas that are available from Kraft!

Starting May 22nd and running through May 25th, SAVE $5 INSTANTLY when you buy any
2 Mega or Jumbo Packs of HUGGIES® Diapers, PULL-UPS® Training Pants or GoodNites® Underpants at Babies"R"Us or Toys"R"Us!

Restaurant.com certificates are on sale again through Memorial Day!! Don't miss 80% savings on $25 certificates. Get the $25 certificate for $2 with the code: SPECIAL. Remember that certificates are good for a year and this would be a good time to get a certificate for Father's Day next month! Definitely A Cool Idea!!

Posts have been infrequent this week because the grandparents are visiting and I've been enjoying a little bit of time to myself. Well, there's also a bit of extra work entailed with coordinating visits with the other parts of our family and getting extra amounts of meals done and making sure that Comfort and Joy are behaving appropriately throughout the day.

The girls have had some meltdowns from getting too high off the grandparents and I know they'll be disappointed when they leave tomorrow. Heck, I will, too. But it'll probably mean that once the laundry is back in line I'll be back here with more Cool Ideas.