Welcome to the Sunday Surf! Here are some of the best links I've read this past week.

We went on our first trip as a family of four this weekend. We kept it small: a road-and-ferry trip to a friend's wedding that brought us about four hours away, and a night in a cabin. Still, it was on bunk beds, so that counts for something.

And here we are, back in one piece! (Or, I guess, four pieces. It's not like we accidentally got melded together on the road.)

Enjoy some links, then!

World Breastfeeding Week

Enjoy breastfeeding-related posts here this week as well as on Natural Parents Network.

Feel free to link up your own breastfeeding posts on our bloghop linky, enjoy the ones listed there, and paste the code on your own blog to encourage the conversation. Happy WBW!

Submit to the August Carnival of Natural Parenting

Write for the August Carnival of Natural Parenting — submissions are due this Tuesday night, August 2, on the topic of Creating With Kids. Tell us how you and your little ones make messes and masterpieces.

Carnival round-up

Speaking of carnivals, I've created a linky page for blog carnivals of relevance to natural parents: Natural parenting blog carnivals

You can enter upcoming carnivals to the list, or take note of the submission deadlines so you can write in community with likeminded parents.

Submissions to the linky are moderated (to make sure carnivals are relevant) and will be removed as the live dates pass so it will keep (mostly) up to date. I'll leave carnivals up at least a bit past the live date so you have time to surf on over, as I've been enjoying doing.

From Natural Parents Network in a week on Ecological Responsibility

Giveaways!

I've created a new ongoing linky for natural parenting giveaways to draw attention to relevant giveaways. Instead of being lost in the bigger giveaway linky lists, jumbled in with products that don't speak to our lifestyles or values, your giveaways can shine in this list tailored to attachment parents interested in a natural lifestyle. It will also help highlight the "little-guy" prizes: products from WAHMs and Etsy shops, self-published books, and unique and niche offerings.

If you're a natural parenting blogger and are hosting a giveaway, enter it in the linky! Please note that entries are moderated, so it will take time for your submission to appear.

And if you're a natural parent, go check out the full list of giveaways to see what you can win!

There's also a Facebook page for giveaways by parenting bloggers created by Jennifer of Hybrid Rasta Mama. If you "like" the page, you can promote your own giveaways there as well or find out about new ones.

Here are the current giveaways around here:

• 2 Wool Dryer Balls from The Green Belle Shoppe by Shelly Rose Designs $17 {8.8; US/Can} — my new favorite eco-friendly laundry staple! These wool dryer balls will soften clothes and cut drying time — without chemicals or damage to your clothes. And they smell nice, too. Sweet!

• Episencial Natural Sunscreen Skincare Kit $30 ARV {8.24; US} — Have fun in the sun without any dangerous chemicals! This is an all-natural sunscreen and skincare line that's rated highly by the EWG and is safe even for newborns to use.
• NPN: What Not to Say book with helpful phrases for cooperative parenting $12 ARV {8/23; US/CAN}
• NPN: Online Book Discussion: Nonviolent Communication book & workbook $42 ARV {8.22; US/Can}
• NPN: Lonely Girl, Gracious God book about autism ~ 2 Winners, $12 ARV {8.17; Worldwide}
• NPN: Online Book Discussion: Nonviolent Communication book & workbook $42 ARV {8.22; US/Can}
• NPN: SmartKlean Laundry Ball ~ 3 Winners/$45 ARV {8/13; US/Can}
• NPN: EcaPants from Ecaware Baby for EC $17.95 ARV {8.9; Worldwide}
• NPN: Green Gamboni Jeans for cloth-diapered babies $48 ARV {8.9; US/Can.}
• NPN: Kickin Creations Diaper Safe Laundry Detergent $15 {8.8; US}
• NPN: Wool Prefold Belt $10 ARV {8.6; Worldwide}
• NPN: Linah Sora OS Pocket Diaper {8.5; US}
• NPN: Two Hip Peas in a Pod Pocket Diaper {8.4 US}
• NPN: Reusable Cloth Diaper Liners {8.3; Worldwide}
• NPN: MomsCrafts4U Set of 3 Cloth Pads $15 ARV {8.3; US/Can}

• NPN: Beka Wooden Building Blocks $96 ARV {8.1; Cont. US} — Ends TOMORROW!

You can find more shared items during the week at my public Google Reader recommendations feed.

Check out Authentic Parenting, Baby Dust Diaries, Navelgazing, Momma Jorje, I Thought I Knew Mama, Enjoy Birth, A Domesticated Woman's Adventures (various), Fabulous Mama Chronicles, Kelly Hogaboom (Fridays), The Parent Vortex (weekends), Ichigo Means Strawberry, TouchstoneZ, Hippie Housewife (Saturdays), Multiple Musings, Motherhood Moments, Mama and Baby Love, and A Little Bit of All of It for more Sunday Surfing! (If you also participate in a regular link list, whether on Sunday or not, let me know and I'll add your link.)

Feel free to add your recommendations in the comments. Happy reading!