Welcome to “Tuesday Tours: What’s Happening on the Web” where I serve as your tour guide and showcase the best contests, freebies, deals, and reads for moms on the web…all in one convenient location.
Contests
I LOVE Tea Collection’s unique, high-quality, and super stylish clothes for tots and kids…which is why you’ll find me entering to win a $100 gift certificate over at Tangled and True. Deadline: July 9.
Two opportunities to win a $100 gift card to Lands’ End: A Wrestling Addicted Mommy (Deadline: 7-13) and Momtrends (Deadline: 7-31).
Zappos.com and BillMeLater invite you to upload a 1-3 minute video that answers the following question: “The Household CEO: What does it take to fill her shoes?” The winner will receive a $2,500 shopping spree. Deadline: July 27.
Announcements
Birth Matters Virginia, a non-profit organization that exists to provide “education, support, and resources” to pregnant women, recently held a video contest. They just announced the winners. Each video is 4-7 minutes and almost all of them include photos and/or video footage from real births. So beautiful! Several of the videos totally made me cry. All of the videos are great, but I especially enjoyed: “Home birth/water birth of Judah Darwin“ because it reminded me so much of the birth of my second daughter.
Do you live in California? Get ready for the San Ramon ecofestival (“good green fun for everyone“), scheduled for August 29 & 30, 2009. There will be a kids zone, a food court, a job fair, a fashion show, and more!
Damselfly {Growing A Life} just gave birth to her second baby on June 30. It’s a boy! Go congratulate her when you get a chance.
Good Reads
BBC NEWS reports: World hunger ‘hits one billion’ {6-19-2009}. Let us not forget those in need.
I enjoyed this fun, well-written, and truth-telling post by Johnny Truant: The Real Secret to Becoming a Popular Blogger {on copyblogger}.
Melissa {Full Circle} recently wrote a tribute to her mom (who gave birth to her 40 years ago): A Note To My Birth Mother.
Kelly Curtis shares some ways to get your kids reading (and why you should be trying to do so) in her recent feature column at 5 Minutes for Mom: Reading for Pleasure.
Miscellany
If you like West Side Story and you love being online, you’ll probably get a kick out of this CollegeHumor video: Web Site Story. It made me laugh.
Linda Swain {Moms on the Move} recently interviewed Rebecca Matthias, a mother of 3 and CEO and founder of Motherswork Inc., the largest maternity wear company in the world. I thought the video clip was pretty inspirational.
A reminder that raising children is a noble profession that deserves our very best {via tutus and turtles}.
This DIY Birthday Pixy Stix Project {via Elle’s Studio} is totally cute.
I have never been to IKEA. This post makes me want to go: IKEA’S Ultimate Breastfeeding Room {ByMomsForMoms, 6-29-2009}.
Here is a map of obesity rates in the U.S. {msnbc.com, 7-1-09}. What is the rate in your state?
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*** If you have a contest or an announcement that you think might be a good fit for Tuesday Tours, e-mail me at stephanie@metropolitanmama.net.
The Web Site Story video is totally funny – I saw it the other day! Thanks for the list of great links I’ve got five or six to go read now and I see that the obesity rate in my state is 25-30%… gotta start working on making sure I’m not part of that statistic!
Ahh yes, one more reason I really wish we had an Ikea nearby.
Thanks for the shout out!!!
The birth video was awesome.
And, about obesity. I don’t even have to check the map. Mississippi is the fattest state in the whole entire country. It’s sad but true.
I’ve been quite interested in nursing rooms recently – they are a part of a number of stores and malls that I never noticed before having Elizabeth. I was quite impressed with the one at Cloverdale (Etobicoke) (NB the pictures of the nursing room are at the bottom of the page), but it’s not nearly as fancy as the one featured at IKEA. I’ll have to go check out our local IKEA (Ottawa).
When I was still nursing I used the IKEA nursing room and it was fabulous! I was thrilled another time to see that they also provid wipes in the “regular” bathrooms at their changing stations (along with diapers) when my son had a blowout and it took all I had to clean him up. Ahh… memories…
thanks for getting the word out about my contest…and loved the johnny truant article.