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
If you are pregnant (or know someone who is), enter Cake Lingerie’s Mother’s Day Giveaway. Deadline: April 25.
Good Reads
From The New York Times: Father and Daughter Bond, Page by Page.
I agree with Sarah of Emerging Mummy – In which I don’t care if the tinies know about the Roman Road.
Katie Kimball of simpleorganic writes about NFP, explaining that Natural Parenting Can Start Before Conception. I wish I had read that post pre-kids.
From NPR: Measles Resurgence Tied to Parents’ Vaccine Fears. How do you feel about the MMR?
From BBC: Pregnancy exercise ‘slims babies’.
I am very similar to Michelle in that “I don’t get writer’s block,” but I appreciated her recent post nevertheless: How to Write When You Have Nothing to Write.
Miscellany
Party to go to? Consider these red heels.
I want to buy some crepe paper and replicate this cheerful picture (via oh happy day).
In case you’ve ever wondered How to Hard Boil an Egg – Jeanine of Rosie Girl Dreams tells all.
Have you seen PicClick, the Visual Etsy Shopping Experience? Fun for hours.
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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.
You had me at the heels. I fell in love a little tonight with those beauties.
I love, love, love “The Streak” that is awesome! Oh and PicClick… oh my, I don’t have that much time :)
Just entered the pregnancy giveaway. Thanks for the heads up and for all the product reviews. Loving them!
Oddly enough, Stephan wanted me to make egg salad this week, and I told him I’d have to Google it. I almost never boil eggs thus can’t ever seem to remember how. Now I don’t have to Google it. :)
PicClick, oh dear! It is designed to keep me at the screen! I kept thinking I would stop when I got to the bottom of ‘just this one page’, not realizing that it keeps adding more and more and more to the bottom of the page!!! So.Hard.To.Close.The.Website… :)
Those heels, wow! The Grecian heel is quite the looker too!
I need to learn how to hard boil an egg, I either cook to less or too much!
On the MMR….my girls got the measles last year. They were exposed by their vaxed brother. He got the measles even though he received the MMR many years prior. Let me tell you that the measles (in our experience)was nothing to fear. It was far easier to deal with than roseola or hand, foot and mouth. Now they have natural immunity. And their brother does now (since the vax didn’t impart immunity). Measles is a mild childhood disease. Of course their are complications but they are rare. This mild disease is now feared as if it is polio. We see this happening to chicken pox now. It was a normal, mild childhood illness. Now they close schools if it starts to show up among the students. I feel like we are being brainwashed into a new perception of these illnesses.
I liked your link to NFP! My husband and I have used that method since the day we were married. Yeah, it’s green and easy and there’s a thousand other pluses. But above all it has done wonders for our marriage!
Measles can be pretty serious. It used to cause quite a lot of blindness as well as brain damage. About 15% of all measles cases have complications.
In developped countries measles “only” kills about 0.3% of those infected, but in places with poor hygiene and malnutrition it’s more like 28%, and for those who are immune deficient it’s 30%.
Not everyone gets immunity from vaccinations (my rubella vaccinations didn’t take, for instance), which is why it is important for others to get immunized; so that those unfortunate enough to lack immunity aren’t compromised. Nancy’s vaccinated son was likely a victim of other parents’ choice not to vaccinate; luckily the disease wasn’t serious in his case. Also, just because you’ve had the disease doesn’t mean you get “natural immunity”. If your original immunity from vaccination was ineffective, it’s quite possible that you are in the unlucky minority that can get these diseases multiple times.
Because I respect Stephanie and don’t want to debate on her blog…I will say to Mary @ Parenthood that I hope we can just agree to disagree on this issue.
@Mary…I didn’t mean to make that sound like you don’t respect her. Sorry if it came across that way. I have a tendancy to want to debate topics I feel strongly about and I was just saying that I was going to sit on my fingers and not begin a debate on the subject.
Thanks for bringing attention to NFP. It is awesome–the only method we have ever used and will ever use. Too many people don’t know about it or think it is the same as the old “rhythm” method, which it is not. I have learned so much about my body this way, and it is so great for a husband to also understand his wife’s body and appreciate the cycle of fertility. I really think it enriches a marriage. Even before we felt “ready” to have kids, it never ever felt right to us to suppress my fertility in an attempt to postpone pregnancy. Fertility is truly a gift, and we are blessed with it for only a portion of our lives. I never wanted to mess with that aspect of my body. Even when I wasn’t ready to be a mom yet, I wanted to appreciate my fertility and work with it, not against it. I’m so glad we made that choice.
Anyway, I’m so glad you included a link to a post about NFP. You have a great platform here, and now many people might read about it who might not have otherwise known about it or considered it.
Thanks for the link, Stephanie. Honoured as always that you include me now and again. You are such a blessing.
And this is yet another time I’ve seen NFP around – starting to wonder if it’s a sign! I am really interested in it. But I also have Baby Fever for #3 right now so maybe later. Ha!
Thanks for sharing a link to Rosiegirldreams.com. ‘Tis my first link on someone else’s blog. Feels like a gentle hug or pat on the blogging-world-back. By the way, our eggs were pretty much smashed as the 2 and 4 year old discovered and then tossed them into their baskets this year. Peeling was easy nonetheless. Much thanks again, and all the comments on the NFP are willing me to open yet another tab on this overloaded browser of mine. :)