Here is the explanation of the event:

The purpose of this event is to bring families together that participate in once a month cooking days, especially those that do their cooking using Once A Month Mom menus. The evening’s events will include live food demonstrations, product demonstrations, product testing, appetizers, cocktails, meet and greets, and much more.

There will be several live food demonstrations done by Once A Month Mom author, Tricia Callahan. In addition, there will be opportunities to meet other once a month cooking families and potentially a cooking partner if you are looking for one. There will be also be products such as appliances and cooking equipment for participants to test out during their time at the event. Wine and appetizers will be served as participants mix and mingle.

In addition, we will be live stream videoing the event so that readers not in the immediate area can participate and get the information and resources provided during this event. We will also have a designated person live Tweeting the event through Twitter. We have capacity for up to 50 individuals to be present at the site location. We anticipate hundreds of participants via Twitter on the night of the event as well.

Event Date:
Saturday, October 10th, 6-9 pm

Event Site Location:
411 East Fifth Street, 3rd Floor** (FORGE Headquarters)
Dayton, Ohio

**Please note that there are NOT elevators at this location. You will be required to walk up three flights of stairs. I apologize to you whom that is a struggle or impossible to climb stairs. The location is one that was of limited cost and has a great cooking island. Please consider joining us via video stream and Twitter for everything that is happening and chances to win great prizes.

Sponsors/Giveaway Providers

This is a list to-date (10/1/09). Others will be added as they are confirmed, and believe me, there WILL be others. This is an event not to be missed!

• The Mushroom Channel
• Crocs
• Rubbermaid
• Carrabba’s
• Longaberger
• Blue Avocado
• Pampered Chef
• Hasbro’s Play-Doh
• Fisher Price/Mom Select
• Protect-A-Bed
• First Alert
• Progresso
• Hormel
• Velveeta
• La Bonita Ole Tortillas
• Azteca Meal Essentials
• Gerber
• Bob Evans

Product Sponsors For Review At Event

• Elk Creek Vineyards Halloween Wines
• Breville
• Hamilton-Beach
• The Ninja
• Tasty Bakers
• Cutco
• Pampered Chef
• Knork

Local Supporters

• Photography for the evening provided by Kate Pauling Photography
• Cafe Boulevard Restaurant/Cena Restaurant

RSVP

You MUST preregister as their are limited in-house spaces available. Also, you must be pre-registered below in order to win door prizes via Twitter.

In-House Tickets:

Register Now – Registration is FREE but you MUST register for a space. Space is limited to 50 participants!

Watching via Live Stream:

Not in the Dayton, Ohio area? No worries! At 6:00 pm on the 10th of October join us LIVE for the event! Simply go to http://stickam.com/onceamonthmom

Twitter Participants:

We will be using the hashtag #oamm. You want to pre-register below if you will be attending via Twitter so that you will be entered in the many door prize drawings. In the Name box enter your Twitter Handle and in the URL box enter your Twitter URL to the simply-linked link below. This way we can easily verify your participation the night of the event.

Example Name: @onceamonthmom; url: http://twitter.com/onceamonthmom

Related Information:

• Part 1 – Miscellaneous Kitchen Products – these are all the things that don’t fall into other categories
• Part 2 – Kid Products – Products to help entertain your kids while you are cooking (or to help the babysitter out)
• Part 3 – Appliances – Appliances that will be available for hands-on review at the event
• Part 4 – Food Products – It is a cooking blog, of course there is going to be food for all!

But here are the actual winners:

$50 Carraba’s Gift Certificate: Beth who said “I would love to win this. My husband is a wonderful friend and father to our 3 children. I would love to be able to take him out for some awesome Italian. Thank you for the chance.” Random Number: 111

$100 Home Depot Gift Card: Krista W. who said “I know exactly what he would buy…an outdoor bench to put beside our little waterfall pond – he’s been going on and on about how we need something to sit on out there, but he’s not all that skilled with tools, so making one has been seriously vexing him!” Random Number: 175

Congratulations!

Thank you to everyone who entered! Thanks also to Home Depot and Carrabba’s for sponsoring these Father’s Day gift giveaways.