CONTEST: Is Your Mom the Best in Fairfax County?
For a chance to win a $50 gift certificate, upload a photo of your mom and a note about why she rocks.
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This contest is now closed and we'll be notifying our winner shortly!
Poets write about them. Strong men cry in their presence. We honor them each year with a special day punctuated by hearts and flowers, and perhaps even breakfast in bed.
Don't just settle for all the customary ways to celebrate how awesome your mom is. Instead, upload a photograph of her to this article and write a caption telling us what's so great about the moms of Fairfax County.
Next Friday, May 11 at noon, we'll randomly pick a winner and call her the "Best Mom of Fairfax County."
Now that's a gift. But if that's not enough, we'll also award you a $50 gift certificate to spend any way you want on mom. (C'mon, dads, if your kids can't upload a photo of your wife, do it with them!)
The contest rules are attached.
Patch will also compile photos of moms from across the state for a "Moms of Virginia" photo gallery. We hope your Mom will be included.
(To submit your photo, click the Upload Photos and Video button above.)
Kim
4:45 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
FYI, I am the best mom in Fairfax County. If you talk to my kids, will you please remind them of that? ;)
Mary C. Stachyra
9:17 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Times like these I wish we had a "like" button for comments. :)
Amelie Krikorian
7:08 am on Thursday, May 3, 2012
Too funny. Yes, the actual "best moms" usually don't get recognition by their kids until they are at least 30 years old. Until then, "you're sooo meeeeean, mom, why are you grounding me just because I lied about doing my homework and played hooky from school?" LOL. "Best mom" from a kid's point of view is TOTALLY different from what actually constitutes a good mother. And forget getting husbands to acknowledge a good mom... "good wife" is again a different kettle of fish.
Susan Larson
10:05 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
@Mary, I agree! Great comment, Kim!
Susan Larson
8:49 am on Thursday, May 3, 2012
@Amelie - So true! Very well said.
Sean Moran
2:37 pm on Sunday, May 6, 2012
I agree with Amelie. If you raise your children the right way, you do what is right, not what is popular with the child. You aren't their best friend, but their parent.
Amelie Krikorian
6:24 pm on Sunday, May 6, 2012
Maybe we should change this to a "meanest mom" contest and have all the teenagers post the horrible things their parents have done to them... Like not giving them a NEW car but actually expecting them to make due with a hand me down, or (in my case) refusing to do behind the wheel without a certain GPA. Oh, the horror!
At the very least, we parents could get some laughs out of it. Always provided we cd rd teh txt msg w/o translation.
Whitney Rhodes
10:58 pm on Sunday, May 6, 2012
:D I love this idea.
Karen Goff
8:15 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
That is actually a good idea. Libelous and cruel, but good! :)
Uncle Smartypants
2:05 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
When she's not hitting the sauce, I guess she's okay.
Kim
3:49 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Son, is that you?
Richard Holmquist
4:51 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Kim, you're not his monther. His mom is GASP (Great Aunt Smarty Pants).
Ruth Tatlock
6:52 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
This is FUNNY!
My mother was born in 1891 and she was the bestest there ever was!
End of contest!
Susan Larson
9:16 am on Friday, May 11, 2012
From Twitter: mikemosswtop: @BurkePatch She's the best in the whole wide world, he said stretching his arms as far apart as possible.
Susan Larson
9:17 am on Friday, May 11, 2012
I'll be happy if my kids just remember to send a card!