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
The fabulously talented twin sisters behind 5 Minutes for Mom are giving away FIVE $50 American Express gift cards. Enter before Dec. 18.
A $200 Best Buy gift card is up for grabs at Classy Mommy. Deadline: Dec. 19.
Have you ever dreamed of starting your own photography business? Submit a two-minute video and apply for a SOAR! Scholarship. Three women will be selected to receive photography equipment, mentoring, instruction, and more. The deadline is Dec. 21.
Nicole {Momtrends} is giving away a $50 gift card to 1800Flowers.com. Deadline: Dec. 22.
Good Reads
The second part of Jamiee Roses’s beautifully written article about Stephanie {The Nie Nie Dialogues} debuted in the Arizona Republic last Sunday. I read every word…and I cried.
Darren Rouse {ProBlogger} gives you the inside scoop about How to Make $30,000 a year Blogging.
The Editor-in-Chief of Prevention Magazine shares The 7 foods experts won’t eat {Shine, 11-24-2009}.
Lori {A Cowboy’s Wife} writes about the FTC’s new guidelines and how she is responding: Bloggers, What Does Your Disclosure Say?
The Andrus family took 365 days and traveled the world with their four kids. The grand total cost of the adventure? $86,875.52. I guess we better start saving our pennies.
Miscellany
A thoughtful and personal gift…that you can make: Decoupaged Sketchbook {Design Mom}.
I want to make Festive Gumdrop Trees with my 3-year-old {via Make and Takes}.
These Toffee Oatmeal Fudge Bars {via Such the Spot} look absolutely decadent. Do I dare make them?
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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.
That gumdrop tree is lovely and tasty! Of course I can only eat a couple of gumdrops these days and then….I’m done. Gosh, I remember being little and eating the whole bowl of them. :{ The purple ones taste weird…kinda like straight food coloring, lol…maybe we will stick with gingerbread people, now those are tasty! :)
Oh my gosh! I’m so happy you left a link to that article from Prevention! I never would have guessed what those 7 foods would have been, and we eat several of them!
Thanks so much for including my link!
Also, canned tomatoes?? Wow, I had no idea. Great link to the 7 foods.
Thank you for posting the link to the second part of Stephanie’s story. Oh, I cried and cried. She’s such an incredible woman.
I read part one and part 2 of Stephanie Nielsen’s story. When I read the first part, I shuddered at the physical pain she still endures, but when the reporter described the initial reactions of her children, I cried for her – how hard that must have been. What a strong woman she is, she and her close-knot family have endured so much.
I love this round up. Thanks so much for the Momtrends mention and I love the facts about the RTW trip. Mr. Momtrends and I did it in 2004, but not with 4 kids.