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Even at Savvy HQ, where we make it our job to stay on top of all things new in the mom and baby world, we’re having a tough time keeping up with the evolution of the bottle. With all the choices available for water bottles, sippy cups and baby bottles (glass, BPA free, stainless steel and every variation thereof). We have a lot to choose from.
One of our latest fave options is the Pura Kiki range of bottles. These stainless steel bottles offer interchangeable lids for baby, toddler and adult so they are rather versatile and very sustainable. The people at Pura actually go so far as to say ‘Kiki is backed by an unprecedented lifetime warranty. Join the legions of happy Kiki users…your baby will thank you!’
We’re not sure your baby will actually ‘thank you’, but you might thank us if you win one of the prizes we have on offer—here’s more about the exclusive SavvyMom contest presented by our partner, Pura.
Once a week for the next 12 weeks one lucky SavvyMom reader will win* a Pura Gift Package valued at $50. Each winner will have their choice of:
Enter to win and get helpful tips on what to look for when picking an infant bottle.
For those of you who have taken the time to post, vote, or simply peruse through the photos entered in our Facebook photo contest over the last few months, thank you. We at SavvyHQ have loved seeing the amazing array of pics from pets to summer swimmers to back-to-school shots. If you haven’t had a chance to see them, take a peek at our winning photo albums.
For October, we’re adding a little bit of spice to the mix. Knowing there’s a spooky holiday approaching, and knowing we’ve got some amazingly savvy moms out there who have such great ideas to share… we’re asking for a little something extra.
So from October 18 to 27 (that’s right, just over one week!), we’re asking our readers to submit a photo and instructions for a truly spooky savvy Halloween craft. It can be something as simple as a drawing your child made! Here’s what we’re looking for:
Take a photo of the craft to post on our Facebook fan page and put the instructions in the comment box. Then get your friends to come out and vote! After a week, we’ll go through the selections and post our readers’ top five faves. The top five will be displayed in a photo album on our Facebook page. The SavvyHQ team will select the winning craft from the five options. As well as having their craft featured on our SavvyBlog, the winner will receive prize pack of five gorgeous kids’ books (a great excuse to cozy up and read together).
Here’s what to do:
If you’re voting for a fabulous photo:
See our contest rules for more details. The five crafts with the most Facebook fan votes will be displayed on an album on our page.
We will announce our winners at the end of the contest on our SavvyBlog and on our SavvyMom Facebook Fan Page where the top five choices will be on display in their very own savvy album. If you are the winner, be sure to share your glory with your friends and family!
Please note the following with respect to your submissions: Savvy Mom Media assumes all entries are photos of entrants who either own the photo or are authorized to distribute the photo, with all rights granted therein. SavvyMom Media is not liable for any copyright or privacy infringement on the part of the entrant. Submission of any entry acknowledges the right of Savvy Mom Media to use it for exhibition, promotion and publication purposes in any medium. By submitting a photo via the Facebook page, the user has accepted these terms and conditions. For contest rules and regulations, click here.
We moms definitely don’t have as much time as we used to for reading (unless you’re talking about homework agendas, notes from the preschool teacher or parenting handbooks on sleep training), but there’s nothing like a good book to take you away from it all. So I still try to carve out some reading time every week, even if that means waking up a bit early or staying up a bit late. And holidays usually provide me a little extra time to get through a book or two, especially now that my kids are old enough to entertain themselves when we fly out west to visit my in-laws, and I get a few hours on the plane with nothing to do but read.
So I’m already stacking up the books that I’ll aim to get through this holiday season. My list includes finishing The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, the last of ‘The Girl’ trilogy (which I am half-way through and dying to finish to find out what happens to Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomquist), and Beyond the Mountain by Steve House, an autobiographical account from one of the world’s best high-altitude mountain climbers. Coming from a mountain-loving family, I am always inspired by great alpine adventure tales as this one is sure to be. And of course, there is The Distant Hours, the next sure-to-be bestseller from Kate Morton, which I am looking forward to reading, too.
That should be enough for me—but how about you? We’ve got 10 copies of The Distant Hours to give away—just leave us a comment here and tell us what your reading plans are for the holidays.
(Winners will be chosen by random draw. Contest closes December 10.)
Finally - having kept my copy of “The Dragon Riders of Pern” away on a shelf for far too long.. I think I may have enough time over the holidays to finally wipe away the dust & emerse myself in dragonlore.
Such great book ideas from everyone! I was glad to see I had read at least some of them and am very relieved I finally managed to carve out some time to finish The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest last weekend.
We’ve got our winners and you should be hearing from us by email to coordinate delivery of your book.
Congratulations to Cheryl Embrett, Marti, Claudia Carson, Brenda, Cathy, Fay Meling, Melissa, Vanessa, Sandra B and Anne Miller! Enjoy your copy of The Distant Hours courtesy of Simon & Schuster.
Happy holidays to everyone and hoping you find some time to read.
To keep you healthy this winter, we’ve got a fantastic giveaway courtesy of Swiss Natural™, Canada’s trusted provider of naturally sourced nutritional supplements for more than 40 years.
The Swiss Natural gift pack is valued at over $150 dollars and includes seven different solutions for better health:
Enter now for your chance to win the gift of wellness!
Contest closes January 15, 2010. For complete rules, click here.
Congratulations to Joanne K., of North Bay who will be keeping healthy this year thanks to Swiss Natural™ and her new gift basket containing seven different Swiss Natural Solutions® for good health, valued at $150.
I would love to try these products - especially Solutions Sleep. A good night’s sleep in our house is a rare thing - this might be just the ‘solution’ we are looking for.
The new year is fast approaching and we’re hoping you all have had a wonderful (and relaxing) holiday so far. If you’ve been caught in the hustle and bustle, however and haven’t had much time to really catch up with the kids (let alone sit down), then we’ve got a little gift for you.
We’re giving away 3 family packs of 4 tickets to the upcoming Disney Live! Mickey’s Rockin’ Road Show in Toronto (January 14–16) and 2 packs of 4 and 1 pack of 2 tickets for Ottawa (January 8). Your kids will love watching Mickey, Goofy and Donald as they engage the audience on their wacky talent search. They’ll also love seeing Cinderella, Tigger, and Jessie, Buzz and Woody from Toy Story.
We think you’ll love the chance to just sit (when you’re not dancing along, that is)!
All you need to do to enter is post a comment below sharing your favourite Disney character (and the show you’d like to be eligible for: Toronto, or Ottawa). We’ll randomly draw 6 winners. We’ll contact the winners individually, but we’ll also post the winning names here tomorrow (so be sure to check back to see if you’re on that list!).
Good luck!
And we have our winners:
For Toronto: Treya Beaulieu, Anu Chopra, Kristina Podvalej
For Ottawa: (4 tickets) Jennifer Delorme, Kara Taylor, (2 tickets) Shelley Young
I will be contacting you all directly by email today with details on how to pick up your tickets and more today. Please look out for an email from R. Burnett.
Congrats to all of our winners and thanks to everyone who entered. Have a wonderful New Year’s Eve!
Robyn
And we have our winners!
For Toronto: Treya Beaulieu, Anu Chopra, Kristina Podvalej
For Ottawa (4 tickets): Jennifer Delorme, Kara Taylor
(2 tickets): Shelley Young
I will be contacting you all directly by email today with details on how to pick up your tickets and more today. Please look out for an email from R. Burnett.
Congrats to all of our winners and thanks to everyone who entered! Have a wonderful New Year’s Eve!
Robyn
Our children loves all the Disney characters but Mickey is their favourite. They would love to see the show in Toronto—it would be their first live show!
In 2010, we turned five and celebrated our savvy birthday by offering one lucky reader a chance to win a “Trip to Sip” in New York City courtesy of nourishtea and Tourcan Vacations. Our winner, Michele Miller Brown, won return airfare for two to NYC, accommodation for three nights at a four star hotel in Manhattan, tea for two at the Russian Tea Room or Central Park Boat House and a gift basket with the entire nourishtea line.
Recently, she shared some of her photos with us along with a few anecdotes about her trip:
“We had an incredible trip—thank you so much! And such a huge thanks to Vivek at Tourcan and Avi from nourishtea.
What a fabulous city. I was a little concerned that it might not be as fun going from Sunday to Wednesday as opposed to over a weekend, but I guess they call it the city that never sleeps for a reason! There was an incredible amount of energy (and people) everywhere all the time. We walked till our legs just couldn’t take any more!
Our lunch at the Russian Tea Room was a delicious experience, better than we could have anticipated. It is a beautiful room with great service and even better food. Here are photos of Central Park at Strawberry Fields, the menu cover at the Russian Tea Room (I just loved the dancing bears!).”
Thanks for sharing, Michele and for being a loyal reader! We’re so glad you had a great trip.
We always have contests up and running so be sure to enter one for your chance to win a fabulous prize.
My favourite books as a small child were The Little Engine That Could and The Paper Bag Princess. Or maybe I think they were my faves because I loved reading them to my own kids so much. Whatever the answer, my heart skips a beat when I think of those books. Like right now.
I know you have some favourite books too and I want to know what they are. If you’ll tell us your favourite kids’ book below, we’ll enter you into a draw to win the most recent collection of Robert Munsch stories—Mad About Munsch—put together by Scholastic Canada. The draw closes on January 21.
Books by Robert Munsch are a staple of every child’s book collection and a favourite among parents and kids. They’re fun, frivolous and downright silly. And they just keep getting better.
So tell us your favourites—is it Munsch, Seuss, Dahl or Carle? We would love to know. You might even see your name on SavvyMom one day!
Read full contest rules and regulations here.
My son favourite book is Somthing Good by Robert Munsch. I manage to get this book at a steep discount of less than half the price by using http://dealsforkids.ca on deals on kids.
I know the contest closed but I have to say, my all time favourite book from when I was a child to when I read it to my son, 14 yrs. ago to now that I’m reading it to my 2 yr. old daughter is: Winnie the Pooh, House At Pooh Corner. The classic, original Pooh Stories. We also used to listen to the tape cassette talking book read by an amazing story teller from the BBC. But we wore out the tapes! Makes me smile, just thinking about it.
In case you didn’t notice, we launched a new Tips section on our website last week. I would be surprised to learn that you hadn’t noticed because we have had hundreds of reader tips submitted already. I’m sure many are a response to the contest we launched, but there are so many more entries than usual. We’re pretty sure that means our readers want to share with us. What’s even better than the volume of tips submitted is the quality of tips being sent in. So many of them have been chosen by our editorial team and can now be viewed for everyone to read and benefit from.
The thing is, we know our readers are savvy and you have lots of little nuggets that you have picked up through your own experiences as moms. Some you might have learned from your own mom, your sister, your best friend or just figured out yourself.
Whatever they are, we want to hear them. Share the good stuff with us—the things that get you through the day and make you smile or help to avoid a tantrum. The really savvy ones will be posted on the site and perhaps even on the newsletter. Wouldn’t it be fun to see your name on SavvyMom?
Here is one of my faves so far:
“When using rubber gloves, fold the edges back to catch the drips running towards your arm. This is particularly helpful when cleaning the toilet.” Submitted by Nadia
Tell us those golden nuggets that help get you through your day. I would love to hear from you.
Submit your SavvyTip here.
Jody Picoult’s latest book, Sing You Home explores what it means to be a family, along the way addressing the questions of infertility, adoption, marriage, parenthood and what really makes up a traditional family in this day and age. And the book even comes with a CD of original songs with lyrics by Jodi.
She is an internationally bestselling author (and a mom of three no less) but I must confess this was the first of her 17 books I have read—but it won’t be the last. I could not put it down—it’s heart-wrenching and beautiful.
If you’re a fan of Jodi Picoult’s, you may be excited to know that she is coming to Canada as part of her book launch and will be in Toronto on March 10 at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library and in Vancouver on March 13 at St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church.
Wanna read Sing You Home? We’ve got 10 copies of this great book to give away. Just leave a comment on the blog here before March 31 and we will conduct a random draw from all of them.
For complete contest rules and regulations, click here.
And we have our winners:
I’ve heard a lot about this book, and can’t wait to read it!
I’ve seen some great reviews. I haven’t read anything by this author yet, but looking forward to reading this one!
One of the first things we teach our kids is how to recognize colours. But ‘green’ isn’t as simple as it once was. It’s now a whole way of living that impacts everything we do as well as our planet.
So how do you explain that?
E Is for Environment by Ian James Corlett is a great way to start.
Also the author of E Is for Ethics, and writer of many popular kids’ TV series such as Being Ian and Rolie Polie Olie, Ian knows lots about kids and speaking their language.
This sweet book is a series of stories following Lucy and Elliot as they learn environmental lessons at home, school and at play. Each story is followed with questions for you to share with your own kids as a discussion starter. It’s also filled with interesting enviro-facts that kids are sure to glom onto. You can learn more about Ian and his book through this video and you can also check out a chapter excerpt of his book.
Because this month we’re all about ‘green’, we’re giving away five copies of E Is for Environment to our readers. To enter, simply post a response to this blog before April 30 sharing a tidbit on how you have helped to teach your kids how to help the environment. We’ll conduct a random draw from all of them to choose our winners.
For complete contest rules and regulations, click here.
Thank you to everyone who submitted their comment, sharing their favourite eco-friendly tip. Congratulations to Siobhan K., Sabrina W., Tracy P., Suzanne C. and Judy W., winners of Ian James Corlett’s new release, “E is for Environment”.
We started a worm composter and our son loves it!
Two summers ago, I discovered author Jennifer Weiner and whiled away a cottage weekend reading Best Friends Forever (naturally a tale of two best friends). Then last summer, another cottage weekend was entirely occupied by Fly Away Home, a story of a mother and two daughters who find themselves closer than they ever have been after a series of complicated family problems.
So this summer I was excited to discover that Jennifer’s writing has kept up with my reading (because summer seems to be the only time I can actually get through an entire book) and that she had a new title that addresses surrogacy, egg donorship, the rights of a parent and what it means to be a mother, through a fast-moving story of that brings together the lives of some fascinating characters—a student, a housewife and a socialite.
We’ve got five copies to give away to you, dear readers, so just leave a comment here about your favourite place to read in the summer (the hammock, the dock, the treehouse?) until August 31, 2011, and we will conduct a random draw from all of them.
Congrats to our winners: Karen W., Zoe K., Sheryl M., Tammy C. and Kim B.
summer reading is ALWAYS the best, we have a big old comfy lazy boy that sits facing the lake infront of large sliding glass doors, it is the best to curl up in that chair with a favourite book so you can gaze out at the lake while engrossed in a great book. This book is of particular interest as it deals with infertility, something very personal to me and my spouse!
At the cottage by flashlight just before drifting off to sleep. It makes me feel like a kid again (like I am staying up past my bedtime!).
Wondering what happened with the ‘Baby’ contest run by the Ottawa radio station I wrote about last week? We have the update.
To recap: Ottawa radio station, Hot 89.9 ran a contest where the grand prize was three IVF (in vitro fertilization) treatments for a lucky couple valued at $35,000. Five couples were in the running, trying to garner as many public votes as they could in order to win. They shared their reasons for wanting a baby and their struggles to get pregnant—all very personal and heartbreaking.
The contest stirred up a great deal of attention. Issues ranged from treating a baby as a commodity or ‘prize’ (when that wasn’t really the prize in the first place), to how they intended to choose what couple should win the ‘baby’ prize…the list goes on. Despite the negative media attention it attracted, reader responses were quite in favour of the contest.
On Tuesday, October 11, they sat everyone down and announced that they all won.
All five couples.
The morning show host, Jeff Mauler claims that the stories of these couples were so moving, that they worked to extend the contest budget to accommodate them all, not wanting to break anyone’s heart any further.
But the questions remain…is this a result of human decency and goodwill or corporate crisis management? Does it matter, as long as the end result makes everyone a winner?
Since I’m such a glass half-full kind of girl, I like to focus on the families who won. The radio station made the right call in the end by harnessing the emotions surrounding the contest and giving everyone the chance to conceive.
Indeed, everyone was a winner—just don’t expect to see SavvyMom running the same kind of contest. We’ll be clear about what the prize is from the get-go.
What do you think?
I think the contest is great!!! They are not winning a baby, they are winning the financing for the IVF cycles that they probably would have borrowed money to cover! It is like winning the lottery, or it would be for me at least! We went through 6 total cycles before having our little miracle baby. Now we owe thousands of dollars in credit card debt and are thinking of trying for number two. If you would like to hear IVF cost savings tips, please visit….http://ivfsuccessstories.info/2011/09/free-ivf-meds/
What if… it’s a question we all ask at one point or another. It’s the question that grips the three women in Ellen Hopkins’ latest book, Triangles. We asked Ellen if she would share her thoughts on why this book would appeal to our mom readers, and here was her response:
“Triangles explores what it means to be a woman approaching midlife, when all those annoying questions hit. Most of them start with, ‘What if…’ What if I would have gone to college, or to a different college, or not gone at all? What if I would have married my first boyfriend, or not married him, or not married at all? What if I would have had children younger, had them older, not had them at all? Second guessing our decisions is a universal human trait, and Triangles is all about three women—two sisters and a best friend—second guessing their lives. Holly, Marissa and Andrea are all moms, struggling to make sense of where their decisions have led them. Their children have issues of their own. Sometimes the women notice. Sometimes they don’t, even when they keep reminding themselves that they need to be proactive. This is parenting, of course. No woman rates one hundred percent job performance, despite every best intention. I think moms will love Triangles because they’ll see reflections of their friends, sisters, mothers, or maybe even themselves—of who they are, were, or maybe will become. And they’ll better understand the importance of being a mom. Even one with flaws.” - Ellen Hopkins
Congratulations to Louise C., Sandro S., Pam F., Diane O., Ellisia H., Jennifer G., Doris D., Michelle M., Mary N., Amy R. who all won a copy of Triangles to enjoy!
Would love to read this book Triangles…here’s hoping for the win!!
What, just one book!? Soul Cravings is a book I am trying to finish; it is about our quest to fill an ache inside of us that the author details is filled by God. I am reading (slowly but surely) How to have a new husband by Friday by Dr. Leman (but don’t let the title fool you. I also have Grisham’s The Associate on my reading table, but I haven’t gotten very far in that either.
This week I enjoyed another date night with my five year-old son, Will. This time we were off to Arthur Christmas with complimentary tickets provided to us at SavvyMom through Sony Pictures (the perks of a savvy job).
Will loves movie night (as do I). He loves the late night, the licorice treat, the special one-on-one time with Mom.
I love smelling his hair as he sits on my lap, wrapping my arms around his middle and holding his little hand (that’s getting bigger and bigger with each passing date). And I love feeling his entire body shake with laughter.
He’s been wanting to see Arthur Christmas for quite some time now, ever since the billboard ad went up outside my mother’s condo. In fact, on several occasions he has reminded me of the November 23 release date (which makes me laugh). There was a lot of excitement leading up to this date—and let me tell you, it did not disappoint as Arthur Christmas was a huge hit.
How does Santa deliver all those presents in one night? It’s an age-old question that curious little minds all over the world have been asking for generations…a question that I have never been able to answer all that well myself. Now parents have their answer and it’s delivered in a clever, funny and original way in the movie.
How have you answered the question of how Santa is able to deliver ALL those gifts to ALL those children in one night? We would love to know.
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Looove winning free things hope I get this one! As a single mom do not spend much on cosmetic things would be a treat!