Events
04.10.10
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You’ll find information on health, safety, activities and shopping all under one roof!
Bring the kids for the FREE entertainment including puppets, dancers, clowns, magic and more!
Speakers on a variety of subjects, including redirecting misbehavior and promoting self-esteem!
www.BabyKidExpo.com
866-654-3976
11.3.09
My Mommy Manual and Kolcraft, along with our friends at Artistic Sensations and Viewpoints invite you to a Baby Shower like no other… Web 2.0-style! Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11 am – 1 pm CST, tune in HERE and be part of the first live streaming virtual baby shower ever!
Click here to get to the LIVE streaming video and chat room! We’ve got over $2000 in BABY GEAR to share with you!
10.03.09
Join Parents As Teachers and hundreds of St. Louis families for Family Play date! It’s FREE and open to all. The festivities will feature Block Fest, an interactive exhibit that uses hands-on math and science activities through block play to encourage young children and their parents to learn and play, side by side.
When: Saturday, October 3, from 10 am – 4pm
Where: St. Charles Convention Center
For more information, contact Pat Simpson, pat.simpson(@)parentsasteachers(dot)org.
08.30.09
7.25.09
My Mommy Manual, Bevitoré Wine Boutique, Ka-ka-o Chocolate, and Abstrakt Art Gallery co-hosted an evening of wine tasting and mingling to benefit Parents As Teachers.
Everyone learned how to pair wine from Pierre Hourquebie. The silent auction featured an $800 painting from Croatian artist, Paco Rosic donated by the gallery, a private chocolate tasting from Ka-Ka-o, and a month of tango lessons from Michael Flanagan.
Todd Jordan did an amazing job capturing the evening in images (see below and click through to our Facebook page for bigger sizes). He also did a fabulous write-up of the night on The St. Louis Social Media Report. Thanks, Todd!
Saturday, July 25, 7-11pm
BowlHer/BlogHer Simulcast
In addition to enjoying an evening of wine tasting and wine education at the gallery, we joined hundreds of women across the country virtually at BowlHer ‘09, the first interactive event to take place at BlogHer—one of the world’s largest social media conferences for women. Recordings of the parties are available here.
Not going to BlogHer? Want to join the festivities right here from the St. Louis Area? Swirl Sip & Savor with us while interacting with other regional parties across the country.
All events will be connected via sreaming on momTV, on the air on Blog Talk Radio, and on Twitter for the highly popular Girl’s Night Out Twitter party (#GNO).
7.11.09
Mom Entrepreneurs in the St. Louis area are invited to join Practical Mommy and Zen Mommy of My Mommy Manual at The Rise to the Top’s Summer Business Break with with Anna Kournikova. It’s THE summer networking event in St. Louis!
What: You are invited to the ultimate summer PRIVATE PARTY experience featuring a high-end mover and shaker crowd, top shelf cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, gift bag with BIG giveaways, wine tasting, Meet+Greet with tennis superstar Anna Kournikova, and very special box seats to the St. Louis Aces tennis match later in the evening all included with your ticket.
Where: Dwight Davis Tennis Center located within Forest Park
When: July 11th, 2009 Private Party begins at 5:30 PM
How To Get Tickets: Online at http://www.therisetothetop.com/summer-business-break.php (Very limited quantities available!)
Bonus: There will be many surprises throughout the evening including a special raffle supporting Lift For Life and a demonstration of the future of television with Widget Realm who will be unveiling Yahoo’s new TV platform. Even if you aren’t a “techie” it is going to be quite interesting and revolutionary.
Questions? Feel free to Email David Siteman Garland, CEO of The Rise To The Top at David(@)DSGagency.com
6.29.09 Believe in Zero Red Balloon Toss
We teamed up with the Looking Glass Lane girls again to do another live fundraiser for 12 for 12k’s partnership with Unicef and their Believe in Zero Campaign. Our time, treasure and talent (Yes, tossing red balloons across four states is VERY talented!) went toward reducing preventable childhood deaths from 25,000 a day to ZERO.
5.11.09 Bad Mother with Ayelet Waldman
Zen Mommy and Practical Mommy teamed up with three other outspoken and prolific mom bloggers to discuss best-selling author, Ayelet Waldman’s memoir, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace. They interviewed Ayelet live on MyMommyManual.com on May 11, a week after the book’s release and as part of a book tour that also included a session with Terry Gross on Fresh Air and another on the Today Show.
Suzanne and Ria invited moms in their community to then join them again a week later on May 18 to continue the Bad Mother conversation and how this issue is reflected in many women’s lives.
“You guys are amazing! I’ve been writing for ten years and this has definitely been the most fun, the most interesting, the most creative interaction I’ve ever had with readers and I’m so grateful to you all. You’re the bomb.” ~ Ayelet Waldman
5.02.09 It’s ALL About MOM!
Over 350 people attended My Mommy Manual’s Pre-Mother’s Day Celebration, It’s ALL About MOM that was co-hosted at the Brentwood Center of Health on Saturday, May 2, a week BEFORE Mother’s Day from 10am – 2 pm. The My Mommy Manual team took their “practical and inspired” tips, this time beyond the online world entirely and into the real world. My Mommy Manual connected with St. Louis businesses, inviting them to share their practical and inspired tips for Mother’s Day.
The event featured wine tasting, massages, and sweet treats from local businesses to help mom unwind and escape while dad and the kids shopped. Twenty of the hippest boutiques and mommy-friendly businesses in St. Louis were there sporting both practical and inspired Mother’s Day gifts. Kids had fun creating personalized eye pillows and bracelets for their moms.
There was a diverse group of partners for “It’s All About Mom,” including Build-A-Bear Workshop®, TLC for Kids, Time for Dinner, The Market at Busch’s Grove, Dotdotdash, Angelina Accoutrements, Mandy’s Candies and Kangaroo Kids.
4.11.09 Pajama Party
My Mommy Manual hosted a virtual Pajama Party to help raise money for Mom It Forward and The 12 for 12K Challenge’s joint mission for April/May to help empower women entrepreneurs in Kenya. Their intention was to transform their mission of “connecting through practical and inspired tips” beyond the written page and into a LIVE experience!
Practical Mommy and Zen Mommy were on Ustream.tv for the first ever known Pajama Party LIVE on Tuesday, April 14 from 8-11pm CST. They raised money for the cause, with people joining the party in their PJ’s from home for giggles, live music, and of course, Practical and Inspired Tips from business experts including Guy Kawasaki!
In 3 hours, we had 1,382 site visitors, 46 Winners, and raised $1,207 for Yehu.org
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