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
Enter to win a $250 Marriott gift card over at NWI Parent Magazine. Deadline: July 1.
Enter to win a $50 Aeropostale gift card [Classy Mommy]. Deadline: July 4.
Good Reads
Kristen challenges us to “yearn and strive” for something bigger than the American Dream: Your Weekly Guilt Trip.
Michelle gives us something to think about: So How Busy Are You Really?
Emily reflects (and inspires): dear me in 20 years.
Marcela describes a positive parenting episode w/ her son: The word HATE.
From UANews: Reusable Grocery Bags Contaminated with EColi, Other Bacteria. Do YOU use them? If so, do you clean them?
Another reason to NOT buy juice boxes for your kids: 85% of Kids’ Drinks, Snacks Could Contain High Levels of Lead {via Inhabitots}. Yes! Lead!
From Reuters Health: Induced labor may double the odds of C-section.
Miscellany
Craft Idea: Cardboard Tube Campfire and Marshmallows.
A cute way to share the big news: We’re having a…(Gender Reveal Party).
From the Telegraph: Swimming babies: underwater photos of babies learning how to swim. AMAZING!
Someone needs to put together a Kids Restaurant Week for Southern AZ.
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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.
This is another great list! Thank you!!! I especially enjoyed the Guilt Trip. It’s so important to remember how very wealthy we are, especially when it’s a struggle to make ends meet. Our ‘ends’ are very luxurious indeed.
I just facebooked the article on children’s juice boxes. We rarely use them as we have made many lifestyle changes in our house but now we will eliminate using them entirely! Thanks for the information!
Jessica
Wow on the list of lead contamination!! It’s not just juice boxes though. They say bottled juice, too. I am wondering if there is something that is a particular problem with grape & apple juice, or if that was just what they tested. Even Santa Cruz Organics was guilty in their grape juice. Yikes!!
I was surprised to see Trader Joe’s on the list too. That study was a great reminder to me that processed foods/drinks are still processed…even if they are from the local health food store.
Wow, Emily’s post really tugged at my heart. It’s nice to know that other moms love motherhood as much as I do, but all moms have their “moments.” Sometimes I feel so wimpy when I have a hard time with just ONE child and most people have multiple children! No matter how many children God has in store for us, I will always try to remember how wonderful yet, at times, tough new mommy-hood can be and try to be encouraging to new mothers.
Thanks in including me–I hope you’re having a great summer (though from your posts it sounds as if its been nice)
Thank you for including me in your list!!!
I have NEVER washed my reusable bags….I think I need to!!
Off to read all these great links!!!
Thanks for including me, too! I always love the things that you post on Tuesdays, so it was a nice surprise to be included.
Stephanie,
I really look forward to your “What’s happening” weekly!
Thank you for doing this, I appreciate your blog hopping and finding worthy articles!
As always – a great list.
I don’t know why I had never thought about the whole cleaning the reuseable grocery bags thing… thanks for pointing out that article. It amazes me how often something that common sense eludes my thought processes :)
I have washed a few green bags when they are looking like they really needed it but I always ask for my meat to be wrapped in a brown bag. I never put raw meat in my green bags so I am not concerned about EColi and so much of our food does not come from grocery stores where I feel most of the EColi cases begin.
Loved the article on being “Busy”…passed that one along.
:)