There are two very different and very fabulous shows happening this Friday, April 16 — you need to be at both of them! — and we have free tickets for Durham Region Kids readers!

The Mamas & Chicks show is on from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., with free parking, stroller-friendly aisles, full kitchen and more. The show features tons of parent-geared businesses, including kid’s clothes, handmade blankets and hats, toys, eco-friendly items, food, family classes etc. At the Oshawa Holiday Inn. Enter the Mama & Chick photo contest!

Mingling Mamas & Mocktails is 6-10 p.m. at the Ajax Convention Centre. Leave the kids at home and have a break just for you! Enjoy a free mocktail and bra fitting, mingle with your girlfriends, learn to belly dance and more. Shop for women’s accessories, Mother’s and Father’s Day gifts, adult toys, gourmet yummies, breathtaking artwork and artisan wares, jewelry and some things for baby too.

We have 50 tickets for MAMAS & CHICKS, and 116 tickets for MINGLING MAMAS & MOCKTAILS on a first-come, first serve basis.

To win, visit the site of each show, and EMAIL ME the name of your favourite vendor: info@durhamregionkids.com

If you DO NOT hear back, your name will automatically go on a list at the show entrance for free entry. I will write you back when the tickets are spoken for.

Good luck and happy shopping!

Thanks to everyone who entered to win the family pack of four tickets to see Disney’s Playhouse LIVE! at the GM Centre next week. Thank goodness I do a random draw, because there is no way I could ever pick from all your deserving submissions.

I do think everyone will be happy with what comment www.random.org picked as the winner:

34. On January 13th, 2010 at 8:32 am, Amanda Gomes said:

hey Carly i would love to win these tickets for my family!! we are on a very tight budget as im putting my self through college right now so this would be remembered forever! my daughter runs around everyday at 7am and 10am doing the “hotdog” dance with mickey mouse! she loves it! it would make her year! lol love what your doing with the site thanks

Congrats Amanda! Check your email for details.

For everyone else, don’t forget the GM Centre has a great deal for Durham Region Baby readers. Click here for the info.

I have a family pack of four tickets for Playhouse Disney LIVE! January 21 at the GM Centre in Oshawa! See your Disney favourites including The Little Einsteins, Winnie the Pooh and Handy Manny. Oh, and Mickey Mouse, of course!

Winning is easy: Leave a comment below with why your family should win. We’ll pick and announce a winner on Thursday. Good luck!

The GM Centre has also put together a special price for our readers:

I told Lucy about this a few weeks ago, and she immediately put on her Cinderella dress, shucked her tutu underneath, grabbed her wand, and handed me the car keys.

OK, maybe not the car keys, but she has. not. stopped. talking. about the beautiful princesses, and the special show, and Mumma, did you know there will be dancing?

I can’t wait to take her.

And you can come, too! I have a family pack of four tickets to give away to Disney on Ice: Princess Classics today, for the opening night show on Fri., Dec. 18! The show runs until December 27 at the Rogers Centre.

Just leave a comment below by midnight Wednesday, December 9, and we’ll pick a winner tomorrow.

Good luck!

UPDATE @ 10:49 p.m. — I emailed the organizers with how great you all are and how in-demand the tickets are, and she has given me ANOTHER FAMILY PACK OF FOUR! So two lucky winners will be announced in the morning!

We’ve got 20 tickets to give away to this Saturday’s Market Moms show in Brooklin at the Winchester Golf Club!

First 20 people to leave a comment with an answer to this question get one: What would you buy yourself with one million dollars?