Dream Connection $1000 Shopping Spree
Win $1000 shopping spree! My Mommy Manual and ArtisticSensations.com are celebrating our Dream Connection (read our story here) by inviting you to share yours.
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Beginning FEBRUARY 14, 2010, we will be accepting your entries! Write a minimum of 300-word essay about a significant mom-to-mom connection in your life that has had a defining effect on your mothering. Is it your mom, your sister, your aunt, a friend or a teacher? Your entry must also include YOUR $1000 WISH LIST from ArtisticSensations.com. Shop from thousands of items, including kids/teens designer bedding, furniture, room decor, and gifts.
Our panel will select the top entries, which will be featured on My Mommy Manual starting on March 21. Then we will open it up to the world… and yes, including all your friends and family… to VOTE for your story. The Dream Connection that has the most votes by 12:00 NOON CST on April 20, 2010 will get a code to redeem immediately at ArtisticSensations.com
Deadline for entries is March 15, 2010
AND THE WINNER IS…
Sarah Gaffney! Check out Sarah’s wonderful essay. Congratulations, mama! Go spend that $1000!
I don’t have a mom to mom story handy but I’m certainly going to shout this out. Great idea!
thanks Todd. i can’t wait to read the inspiration entries that will be coming in around connection.
WE ARE ALL ONE. (that goes for you men too *wink*) thanks for spreading the word.
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Thank you for at least getting me to think about a mom-to-mom connection. I know exactly who drives my parenting – it is the mother of an ex-boyfriend. I will never forget him telling me how wonderful his childhood was. And I will never forget the Thanksgiving when she told me a story of a Thanksgiving years and years ago that was so tense that she almost walked out the back door. Her son never knew of the tension; he only remembers that wonderful childhood. THAT is parenting!
I would have to say that the women in my immediate family have been and still are all influences in my mothering. Back in 2008, I was pregnant with my 1st child (girl), at 6 months I found out that she had a rare genetic disease, On Sept 25 2008, I delivered a stillborn @ 32 wks gestation. My whole family was there for me, but more so the women. I am currently 25 wks pregnant with my 2nd child, whom I believe to be my 2nd chance, and those same women in my family are there for me….Good news is that this baby is fine. Oh by the way, I’m having a boy, due date is June 7th 2010. The only thing that I want for him and that I’ve always wanted for him is a clean bill of health. As far as material matters, I have been trying to get a bracelet made for him that I used to wear as a baby and am having trouble trying to get it made. It’s called an Azabache bracelet, however, it’s a specific make.
This would be so cool to win these prizes
I hope this is where I enter the contest. Please redirect me if it’s not:
In 2006, I brought home triplets from the hospital. Suddenly, I went from a fairly normal life to 100% immersion in Mommy-world. Fortunately, my husband and I were helped by all kinds of wonderful people, who assisted us with round-the-clock feedings, diaper changes, doctors’ appointments, dishes, yard work and much much more. But there were a few ‘mommies of multiples’ that really gave me the ‘mommy connection’ that I needed, and the encouragement that…YES, I COULD DO THIS!!!
Fast forward four years later. We moved away from Savannah, Georgia, where we lived then. Life has progressively gotten easier as the triplets are now four years old–wise, mature, schoolgoers with their own colored backpacks.
But about a month ago, a lady from Savannah called me up at my home here in Kentucky–she’s someone that my husband used to work with. She had just had twins (preemies) and was really needing some good advice and encouragement (her husband was about to get deployed too). We talk now about every week, and she asks me things, and I give her my best answer, and I just encourage her. She thanks me profusely, but here’s the truth…
…she’s helping me even more than I’m helping her, because she has allowed me to make the ‘mommy connection’ come full circle. And I can’t think of anything better!!!