We are trying to achieve our mission through several different avenues. Although we are continuously finding new ways to recognize mothers, we have three primary ways of recognition through our Recipes, Life Tips and Mothers of the week. Each week one recipe, one life tip and one mother are selected to be featured for that entire week. Through these different avenues we hope to provide each mother with her own special time in the spotlight.

Every week a different mother is recognized for all of her hard work and effort. This award is special because we spend most of our time on this single award. With each mother we try to do a little something for them that would be unique and special, something that says someone's thinking about you. In addition, each mother of the week will have a little profile that is displayed on Spotlight Mothers so that you and all your friends can see that you are a Spotlight Mother. You can even put a photo album up on the site so that everyone can see you and your family.

There are two ways you can become elligeable for this award. One is to register online through our registration page, the other is to be nominated by someone else that already appreciates you, but wants everyone else to as well. We have tried to make registration as painless as possible, but we still need enough information so that we can give you something that is specifically catered to you. The other way to register is if a friend or family member nominated you online using our nomination page. We think it is wonderful when a friend, husband or grateful child nominates someone because they provide information and insight into what we should do for them in a more direct manner. They can tell us what you like and don't like, what you appreciate and don't appreciate. Once you have registered and created a profile you can update it at any time. If you are nominated, we will try to surprise you when you are selected and give you a month or so warning before your week comes up so that all your friends will be ready and waiting.

Another way Spotlight Mothers provides recognition and appreciation is through the recipes contained on this site. In most recipe books and online recipe sites, you have no clue as to where any of those recipes have come from. It is our belief that if a mother is going to cook something, she would rather try a friends recipe because of how much their friend raves about it than go searching through a cook book full of recipes which you have no idea where any of the recipes came from. The recipes on Spotlight Mothers have been posted by mothers just like you, but we have added a little twist. With each recipe you will find out who posted the recipe and the story about where it came from. For example, "Jane Doe could cook her famous ham every year on christmas eve because it has been her families tradition for the last 20 years. She serves it with mashed potatos and gravy with a side of yams." These are all details that you would never get in any other cook book. Since the details of who's recipe's these belong to are available, it provides another way in which a mother can be appreciated. Each week we will feature a different recipe and the owner will be able to have their recipe featured for the entire week. To post a recipe click here.

As you probably know, not all mothers like to cook or even have time for it, that is why we created our Life Tips. A life tip can be anything from how to get crayon off of your walls, to travelling with kids, to great shopping tips you may have come up with over the years. Just like the recipes, each life tip comes with a caption that says something about how you figured this out or how often you have to use it. We make sure that there is always a personal touch that goes with it and we feature it just like our recipes for an entire week. To add a life tip click here.