Mothers give, hug, hurt, kiss, cry, share, pray, dream, and so much more. Most of all, you love. It is time to celebrate motherhood and all you do.

For the next two weeks, we will be holding giveaways to have a ton of Mother’s Day fun.

For a different twist, we are kicking off our Mother’s Day 2008 Giveaway event with a special $1,000 Mother’s Day Photo Contest, sponsored by Egg Beaters. To read all about how you can win a $1000, click over to our Mother’s Day Photo Contest post. (This photo contest is open to bloggers AND non-bloggers, as well as both Canadian and US shipping addresses.)

The other giveaways in our Mother’s Day 2008 Giveaway will run in the same way as we usually run our events. To enter all the other giveaways in this Mother’s Day event you just need to:

• Add a comment on the giveaway you want to enter. PLEASE note: You need to enter each giveaway individually so we know who wants to be entered in what giveaway. So make sure you click over to each giveaway and leave your comment there.
• Either link back to this post and include a “Mother’s Day 2008 Giveaway” button in that post or on your sidebar (to get the code scroll to the bottom of this post,) or link to the individual giveaways you choose to enter. (If you post and include the button, either in your post or on your sidebar, and link back here, you are good for all the giveaways. No more linking required.)
• As always, non bloggers are welcome to participate! We understand you can’t link – but please spread the word to your friends.
• Some giveaways may be open to Canadian shipping addresses. Please check individual giveaways.

Click on each of the links below and comment on the giveaways you wish to enter:

PLEASE REMEMBER: You need to click over and comment on each giveaway you want to enter. We will be linking to all of the giveaways in this post and we need to know who wants to be entered in WHAT giveaway. Remember you can enter in as many of the giveaways as you want. We will CLOSE the comments on THIS post so that people do not get confused and comment here to win the prizes. Head over to each giveaway you are interested in and comment at THOSE posts.

Mother’s Day 2008 Giveaway Posts

Click over and comment on each giveaway that you want to enter.

1. The first contest in our Mother’s Day 2008 event is a special Photo Contest. This photo contest will be run differently than the rest of the giveaways. To win a $1000 American Express Gift Card, courtesy of Egg Beaters, you need to enter a photo representing what Motherhood means to you. For all the details, visit our post Your Picture is Worth a $1000.
2. Our second contest is for a Kodak ESP 3 All-in-One Printer. To enter to win, click over and enter at the contest post.
3. Our third contest is for a personalized set of notecards from Come Together. To enter to win (U.S. only), leave a comment on that post.
4. Our fourth contest is for a fabulous The SAK Dakota Shopper handbag. This contest is only open to US shipping addresses. Enter by commenting on that post.
5. With our fifth contest, we are celebrating nursing mothers with a giveaway for a Cuddoozle Nursing Pillow, plus a small Body Hugger Pillow. To enter to win (U.S. only), leave a comment on that post.
6. Get in on the carnival fun with our sixth contest. In this Favorite Motherhood Moment contest, you can enter to win one of ten SanDisk Cruzer® Gator USB Flash Drive by sharing your motherhood memories. (This contest is open to bloggers and non-bloggers, as well as both US and Canadian shipping addresses.) Click over to the Motherhood Moments Contest post to read more about how to join in.
7. The seventh contest is for $75 in Outback Steakhouse gift cards. If you’re hungry for Outback, click here to enter.
8. Our eighth contest is for a Bundle of Books worth over $120. If you love to read, you’ll find something here that you love. To enter, check out the entire list of books and leave a comment telling us which one interests you most.
9. Our ninth contest is for two products: a Chickin Feed Nutrition tracking chart and Lily on the Fly starter meal-planning kit. Enter by leaving a comment at the post.

We have MORE exciting contests still to come! Keep checking back. You DON’T want to miss them!!!

PLEASE NOTE: Entries for all giveaways will be closed Friday, May 9th at 9pm Eastern and winners will be announced on Mother’s Day, May 11th, 2008.

Make sure you check back at “5 Minutes for Mom” on May 11th to see if you won a prize. We’ll be emailing you as well and you will have one week to claim your prize. If we don’t hear back from you, we’ll have to give the prize to someone else, so you might want to keep an eye on your junk mail folder. But to be sure check back at “5 Minutes for Mom” on Mother’s Day, May 11th.

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