GIVEAWAY: Mothers Unite

EDIT 1.6.15: Congratulations Jamie Chaw! You have both won yourself a Magenta Zinnia Luxe Picnic Basket!

We keep one another sane from rants and laughter. There will always be stories to share about being mothers, being wives, being frustrated and being exhausted. Sometimes, we stay really silent but will always pick up from where we left off as easy as winter shakes leaves off its trees! We call ourselves Mothers Unite.

We are Serene, Sylvia, Iori and May.

I do not know how I ended up in their click because I was the odd one out. They were the glitzy, pretty Marcom girls while I was the salesperson driving numbers with a head of untameable hair. We never shared private conversations when we were colleagues and it's funny how we became a party (so naturally) only after we left the grand old dame. They say "birds of a feather flock together" but our profiles were all dissimilar! So, how did we end up forging a friendship so strong that we've now got our own Mothers Unite Logo? We share one common attribute - we have children.

There are major misconceptions about being mommy. You are more of a mom if you went through a drug-free vaginal birth. You are more of a mom only when you stay at home. You are more of a mom if you breastfed exclusively to your precious bubba. You are more of a mom if you used nappies to Save The Earth. You are more of a mom if...

Really? No.

You having to go through a C-Section, holding a full-time job, bottle-feeding your baby with formula or using disposable diapers DO NOT MAKE YOU LESS OF A MOM! Instead of being divided, stand united! All mothers are beautiful, heroic and strong - no matter how you choose to mother.

Our goal is not to prove to the next mother that we are in any way more superior than them. If we look closely enough, we actually share a common purpose:

"Nothing more than giving our children a chance to a good and purposeful life" 

So there we have the four of us, pushing forth towards a common goal and supporting one another with our whatsapp group chats. How many mommy groups have you in your whatsapp? This is new age socialisation for modern moms! 

As we have children just months apart from one another, this chat group kept us going on dark breastfeeding days when it proved too difficult with engorgement, mastitis, under-supply and lonely 3am-feed woes. When we finally saw the rainbow at the end of the tunnel (striving babies who finally suckled well), we rejoiced together with confetti and thumbs up emoticons. Play dates then became our excuse to high-tea and picnic get togethers. 

Today, we are all mommies of twos (three if you count the daddies). Our group is growing and play dates are getting wilder as the children age. 

On our latest outing, we went for a picnic with a lovely basket from Heaven's Bloom. Wouldn't it be nice if someone packed your picnic basket for you so that you can just enjoy a great day out, minus all the hard work? It was heaven sent especially for busy moms like us! We did not have to go super-marketing for drinks or put together a menu for this play date. We simply turned up at Marina Barrage with the Golden Magnolia basket hand-delivered to us, packed with everything we needed for a morning rendezvous! Not only did the basket came with premium vintage cheese and crackers, it included trash bags and mosquito patches as well! I must say the team thought this through with lots of love and care. We even had a mini bottle of Moscato to celebrate motherhood!

To commemorate Mothers, Heaven's Bloom wants to celebrate your Mother's Day with a Magenta Zinnia picnic basket! It is named "Magenta Zinnia" because the flower "Zinnia" means love, goodness and constancy. Aww.. isn't that what mommies are all about? Your special basket will include the bakes from Teaspoon of Love suitable for an evening tea party.

Magenta Zinnia basket includes Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Sable Cookies from Teaspoon of Love, 1 x 6.5" Lemon Loaf from Teaspoon of Love, 2 x Blueberry Muffin from Teaspoon of Love, 1 x 1 litre Apple Juice Drink, Seasonal fruits, 1 x 200ml Moscato, Picnic Cloth Mat, 4 x Ceramic Plates, Knives, Forks, Spoons and Champagne Glasses, 1 x  All in One Opener, 1 x Salt and Pepper shaker, 1 x Trash bag, 20 x Napkins, 1 x Wet Tissue and 8 x Mosquito Patches. 

It feeds a family of 4 and the basket is yours to keep! It comes with an insulated cooler compartment to keep your juices and fruits chilled too. You will be sure to have your Magenta Zinnia Luxe Picnic Basket delivered to your picnic venue!

For the giveaway, we are awarding a mommy and her family to one Magenta Zinnia Luxe Picnic Basket worth SGD185.

Steps to win the giveaway: 

1) link and share the blogpost with "I want to win a picnic for Mother's Day!" 
(set share to public)

2) comment on this blog the most loving thing your mother or grandmother had done for you
3) bonus entries when you follow @mmlittlee and @heavensbloom on instagram 
4) do leave your instagram account name (if you followed us) together with your email address after you shared your mother's day account

Giveaway ends on 30th April 2015, 2359 hours and the participant with the most touching entry wins! Results will be announced on the next day at A Million Little Echoes Facebook page. 

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We are 3 weeks away from Mother's Day which falls on 10th of May 2015. We celebrated our first Mother's Day with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at Botanic Gardens in 2013 and I must say it was an enchanting (but sweltering hot) evening. This is an annual Mother's Day Concert and it will be held at Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage (Details Here). Take a charming evening picnic with Tchaikovsky and Strauss with a Magenta Zinnia basket. It's time you start planning for a celebration with your loved ones! Tip: Go early because parking would be a problem!

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