TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter, I’m sharing this meme with you. Did I mention this giveaway features $3,800 in prizes? For those of you that know me, you know I’m not exaggerating, because if I were, I’d exaggerate using an odd number. LOL!

Click here to check out the ginormous amount of goods.

To enter to win them, all you need to do is the following three things:

1. Answer the questions in this meme on your blog.
2. Make sure to post links back to TodaysMama.com and Provo Craft (using this link: http://bit.ly/4ikY3c ).
3. Tag your friends!

Create a Wishlist!

1. What 5 items are top on your holiday wish list?

• A piano
• A trip to India
• Maid service (even one a month would be heavenly!)
• A trip to New York City (I would love to get this gift early, so I can go this December!)
• A new printer like my old one (where the sheets feed into the copier)

2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?

Do my grandma’s banana cookies count? Honestly… there is no better handmade gift than that!

3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?

I’d love to knit a hat as long as someone else could do the knitting for me!

4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?

Holly Hobby Easy Bake Oven… hands down the best gift evah!

5. What items are top on your kids wish list this year?

• My 6YO wants an electric guitar.
• My 8YO wants us to get a piano. He’s willing to forego toys for it!

6. What is your favorite holiday food?

Where to begin?

• Reindeer cookies
• My MIL’s sugar cookies
• Saurkraut
• My mom’s prime rib roast
• Caramel Apple Spice from Starbuck’s
• Hot chocolate
• Veggie trays (especially if I got to chop the veggies)
• Olives (especially when eaten off my finger tips… tell me you did that as a kid too!)

7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?
Thankfully, nada (unless making reindeer cookies as neighbor gifts counts)!

8. What is your favorite holiday movie?
All of them! I love holiday movies!!! If I had to choose just one, I would probably say How The Grinch Stole Christmas, especially the part when his heart pops out of his chest!

9. Favorite holiday song?
I can’t choose just one:

• Oh Come All Ye Faithful
• We Three Kings/Star of Wonder by BNL & Sarah McLaughlin
• Bring the Torch, Jeanette Isabella
• That one by the Osmond’s that @troypattee dies for (can’t remember the name… not Puppy Love though!)

10. Favorite holiday pastime?
Giving!

Tag! You’re It!

Now, it’s tag time! I’d love to see answers to these questions from all of you, but since the task is to tag some of you and since tagging all of you would mean the rest of you would have no one to tag, here we go!

• Amy from Mom Spark
• Niri from Mommy Niri
• Robyn from Pensieve Robin
• Melissa from Isly
• Carissa from Good and Crazy People
• Angie from 7 Clown Circus
• Elizabeth from Parenting Pink
• Kim from Crafty Mama of 4
• Holly from June Cleaver Nirvana
• Jenny from Jenny on the Spot

As a mom, do you ever feel like you are pulled in a million directions? Struggle to balance the many roles you play? Wish you had a parent’s guidebook tailored to each of your children’s needs and personalities? Want to give back and make a difference, but don’t feel like you have the time or ways to do it?

If you answered yes to even one of these questions, you are not alone! As women and mothers, we are all walking on, what sometimes feels like an unsteady tight rope, trying to find that perfect balance and reach our many expectations.

The good news? The tasks we perform—you know, the ones we feel are merely ordinary—are more times than not, extraordinary. Or, with a little help and inspiration, can be!

What’s on the Lineup?

Click here to RSVP and join Mom It Forward, other Salt Lake City moms, and these speakers Thursday, March 12 at The Melting Pot for savory bites, motivating bits of information, bunches of inspiration, bounteous networking opportunities, and incredible prizes to help you put the extraordinary in, what sometimes feels like, just an ordinary life:

Changing the World One Mom at a Time: The Mom It Forward Mission—Carissa Rogers, mom of 3, owner of Apricot a Lot, and co-founder of Mom It Forward; Jyl Johnson Pattee, mom of 2 and co-founder of Mom It Forward

The Balancing Act of Motherhood: Setting Realistic Expectations—Rachael Herrscher, mom of 3, author of the Utah Mama’s Handbook, and CEO of Today’s Mama



Raising Happy and Successful Children: Taking It Up a Notch by Taking It Down a Notch—Muffy Mead Ferro, mom of 2, author of the best-seller Confessions of a Slacker Mom and Confessions of a Slacker Wife, which have been featured on Oprah, The Today Show, and in The New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post, and on NPR’s Talk of the Nation in addition to other media outlets. She has recently finished a third book, One Foot in Wyoming, and writes a monthly column for the website Today’s Mama.

The Difference One Mom Can Make: Empowering Women in Kenya—Rainee Baldwin, mom of 2, production manager at US Synthetic, and volunteer extraordinaire at The Pope Foundation

What’s In It for Me?

We recognize taking two hours of of your busy schedules is a serious time investment. Here’s the return we can promise on that investment:

A delicious lunch from The Melting Pot

Networking with other amazing moms

Motivational content from our guest speakers


The chance to win one of many prizes

Be sure to share this with your friends! Also, if you own a business and would like to sponsor a table, please contact us at momitforward [at] gmail [dot] com.

This event is sponsored by Today’s Mama and The Melting Pot!