More Inspiring Entries from ThinkGeek's GeekMom $1,000 Shopping Spree Contest!

ThinkGeek’s GeekMom $1,000 Shopping Spree contest is entering its final few days! If you haven’t yet entered, head on over to the ThinkGeek contest page and tell us why your geeky mom should win the amazing prize pack put together by ThinkGeek and GeekMom, or one of five honorable mentions. The haul includes: $1,000 ThinkGeek […]

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ThinkGeek's GeekMom $1,000 Shopping Spree contest is entering its final few days! If you haven't yet entered, head on over to the ThinkGeek contest page and tell us why your geeky mom should win the amazing prize pack put together by ThinkGeek and GeekMom, or one of five honorable mentions. The haul includes:

And 5 honorable mentions will receive a GeekMom t-shirt and one of the following:

Entries are still pouring in, and I have to say, I am simply blown away at how many deserving GeekMoms there are out there! Here is just a small sampling:

From Sarah Armstrong:

I had a slightly different childhood from most kids my age. While their parents celebrated the birth of their normal child, mine were overjoyed that one of my ears was rolled up like a Vulcan's. While they were watching Ah! Monsters, I was watching Zoom! on PBS. While they were getting read to, I was correcting my mother on words she skipped and reading to my preschool class. So when these kids went into the kitchen to make cookies with their mom, I did that as well, but I also made Flubber with her. My mom raised me to think of life not full of rules, but full of variables, to make experiences experiments. We would go outside every day and observe nature, take down notes in our science journals, and discuss as much science as a kid could. As I grew, so did my curiosity. Instead of simply watching and laughing at the Ferengi (let's face it, when you're 5, they look funny), I began to have discussions with my mom about their Rules of Acquisition and the how the customs of the Klingon could seem so brutish to us but be so normal to our ancestors. She sat me down one day and watched the original Star Wars trilogy with me so that I had a "good upbringing" and also drove me to every Star Wars sequel until I could go on my own. She now teaches science at a parochial school, has taught for 10 years, and uses the Big Bang Theory clips as examples during class. We sit together in the living room and watch any documentary on the Science channel and cry together when something goes wrong in Eureka. My mother even sits down, willingly watches me play any video game, and asks intelligent and in depth questions to better understand the games I have. Tears sprung into her eyes when I presented her with a science officer's badge from Star Trek last Christmas. I proudly nominate Mary-Margaret Armstrong, my nerd enabler, my teacher, my pupil, my Jedi master, my starship captain, my Player 2, my mother as a GeekMom.

From Luigi 911:

Our gadget loving, high heeled mother of invention leaves her BFF's slack jawed, twitchy-eyed and reaching for the bottle with her details of the latest app or Sci-fi movie. While she's no domestic goddess with a needle and thread, she creates highly detailed Halloween masterpieces like giant microbes, robots or mini-figures with re-purposed Styrofoam, Gorilla Tape and a staple gun. A 3 time Lego League coach, she proudly led our son's team to the title of 'Most Explosive" two years in a row. A Graphic Design Web Queen For Hire, she spends her days lording over websites and social realms and her evenings as homework director and culinary scientist. Did I mention this GeekMom also loves fast cars, power tools, District 12, caffeine, and of course...bacon!

From Jasmine:

Amber is the most amazing geekmom I have ever met. She helped raise me when we were kids, and now she has 2 little boys of her own. She works full time, cooks, cleans, shops, helps with school work, and still has time for so much more...nature hikes with the kids, treasure hunts, searching for fossils, and growing crystals. All these things are to help her sons grow up to be educated and have a wide variety of interests, which is something she wasn't really given the option of when she was their age. I love her, her husband loves her; but most importantly, her kids love her more than anything.

From Sabrina Pandora:

When I dress up in a Star Trek T-shirt dress for a convention, you are right there beside me, engineer red back to back with my science blue.

When we sit down to watch DS9 reruns, there you are in your inflatable Captain's chair, right next to mine.

When we transfer files, I plug them into the Tardis hub that you gave me.

When we lay down for the night, we swap comics from the library you built into the headboard of our bed.

We raise the little ones right, weaning them on stories of weast wars and the final frontier, of adventures across the eighth dimension and law enforcement in old Detroit. We watch the little ponies play, then show them how to master the universe. We teach them that robots can be disguised, and that the dark knight is hard but fair. We teach them to believe that a man can fly, and that our greatest adventure was when we left earth.

In all of this, you are patient, kind and always enthusiastic, because you are sharing your love for these things with the next generation. And it is that love that is contagious, because they in turn have come to love these things as well.

And in turn, I love you for it all the more.
To my GeekMom, my Wendie, the light of my life. My partner in crime, my reliable engineer, my Wonder Woman, my companion, my best friend, and the calm voice of reason in my universe. I love you, and today is your day.

Where shall we go? Name the destination, and we'll go there together. Warp factor seven!

From Z:

This GeekMom deserves more than the annual Worlds Best Mom title. She is such a dork at heart. ThinkGeek.com is constantly pulled up on our computer, and her wishlist is worth more than the car she drives (No kidding). She drags our kids out of bed every time so they don't miss the latest geeky stuff like: meteorites falling, museum festivals, nature walks, bookstore signings, comic book events, movie screenings, and more. This mom is proud to be a geek! We want to thank her with an amazing gift (or a thousand) this year, from the bottom of our hearts.

And from Noel:

First of all, my Mom is amazing because not only did she morph me into the geek that I am, she adopted me. She managed to take a child that wasn’t her own and love them, like they were. It’s a trait that she and Clark Kent’s mom both share, except she didn’t get the kid that could fly. My mom got the girl in combat boots that ripped open the first computer she ever had, and couldn’t put it back together.

She’s the woman who taught me a love of science when she homeschooled me and stuck me out on the back deck to do experiments. It is a legend in my family now that she would often say to people who had just called, “Hold on, I have to make sure my daughter isn’t burning down the house.” She introduced me to Dr. Who and has encouraged me in my costuming endeavors, which has included spray painting my backside gray in order for my Witch costume from L4D to be perfect, and giving me the idea to be a ‘blown up redshirt’ from the original Star Trek series when I couldn’t get the sleeve to go just right on the dress.

She was also always there in school, with some absolutely ridiculous saying about being as strong as a Klingon when I was getting bullied. She taught me to be strong, stand up for myself, and somehow managed to work Star Trek, Dr.Who, and Star Wars into all of those lessons.

I wouldn’t be where I am today without her, and being an IT geek for a fortune 500 company at 23 is pretty darn fun.

Inspired? You have until 11:59pm ET Friday, May 4, 2012 to enter, so there's still time to get your favorite mom in the running. Winners will be announced the week following so they can get their goodies by Mother's Day, May 13.