Lets do a wordfilled wednesday also. Leave a link in Mr. Linky to your best post on your blog in the past week. THen we can go around and read everyones best work! (ps it also helps your rankings to leave linky posts!)
Every post on MomDot is awesome, so we cant pick just one. LOL! Although, we did like talking about Trends when You Were Younger
Your turn!
So what do YOU think this little guy was saying after we caught him?
1) I am super sick. Not like the flu, but i have lost my voice almost entirely and I cant stop my coughing. So much that my abdomen feels like it does when you do too many situps!
2) I promise you I will get to them. I have to go back to the grind and get some orders out and its going to keep me super busy tonight and tomorrow. We do have a feature blogger tomorrow, so please come back and read her interview. You will love her. Don’t forget to say Happy Birthday to today’s feature, kim!
3) The contests roll on. We know they take over the front page, so as quickly as I post one, I try to post some content also. Just go through, there are 10 going on right now I think. They start playing out on Thursday and we start announcing winners everyday after that….so it should be steady. I have come up w/ a way to run contests w/o it interfering w/ the regular stuff, so give me a week or two and there will be a slight look change that will help w/ it. Onward and upward.
4) I love you guys. I really do. This is a blast. Its a blast to talk and its a blast to be chatted WITH. Thank you for being my source of daily entertainment and for supporting other bloggers and mom businesses. Please know that you may leave your site link in ANY of the comments when you are placing a comment. I don’t consider it spam unless your sending us to a porn site..then I will delete it. LOL! But remember that we are about cross promotion. Its ok to share readers. We WANT you to talk about your site, your experience, your links..no need to ask for permission.
5) Thursday I plan on coming back here with some networking posts, cross promotion, and marketing your site. I have been getting a lot of questions on how to get out there, so I am going to do my best to share.
Talk to yall tommorow !
trisha
I. Love. This. Idea.
How great is it when a mom can not only come up with a business she enjoys, but find an item that teaches children (and adults!) in such a brilliant way.
A little about Bitty Brailles concepts and beliefs:
Bitty Braille is a new children’s collection and the bitty division of Julie*Ann Handmade Goods, a small central NY based creative indie company. The owner/designer, Julie Dutt, is the driving force behind the company. Married to an Army guy and mom to three homeschooled children, life is often hectic, almost always fun and definitely not boring!
Personalized Braille name pendants and birthstone Braille initial charms were the first products in the Braille line of goodies. Bitty Braille infant and toddler tees are the next step.
The concept is to introduce Braille to the young in addition to offering a unique, hip and trendy collection of tees. They are custom handcrafted by the owner/designer in her central NY home studio on 100% cotton American Apparel tees.
Bitty Braille has offered us a CUSTOMIZED short sleeve tee for your boy or girl, newborn to 4t (value $28). Think of what a conversation starter this shirt will be with your child’s name in Braille! I think Charlotte should definitely be getting one for Christmas. Its practically ingenious! Support this mom by sharing her business with others and shopping her in the future!
To win:
Just leave us a comment about this product!
To gain a second entry, blog about one of our posts or share Bitty Braille with your readers. We will pull a winner on Saturday August 2nd!
My MIL isnt a terrible person, but she is freaking lazy. We moved ALL THE WAY back to this location, just an hour from her (we used to live about 14 hours away and have lived too far to drive for about 8 years) specifically so we can raise our daughter near both sets of grandparents.
One hour a way.
Our lives go like this:
DH: “Hey, mom, you want to watch Charlotte this weekend so Trisha and I can go out?”
MIL: “Uh…I may have something to do.”
DH: “What?”
MIL: “Dad has to cut the grass“
They didnt even come to our house for EASTER SUNDAY…all of a sudden, she had to work. She went in, on an office closed day, to show a house, on easter sunday, that was not going to sell…and they wouldnt even come before or after the showing…for a holiday. Our first holiday home here.
Seriously, this is every single time we ask them to watch Charlotte..something else is more important. I think they are really really lazy. Thats all it is. And she is a really, really good little girl. I just wish her grandparents wanted to see her. My dad, on the other hand, works 14 hours a day and commutes an hour daily to and from work, and still goes out of his way. He feels guilty if he doesn’t see her for a week.
My grandmother is coming to see me this weekend from Iowa. I haven’t seen her in two years or more. I am THRILLED. Then she is driving up to my dads to see him and taking charlotte with her. My aunt and 3 cousins are also coming. So my DH calls his mom to see if charlotte could sleep at their house (its in the same small town, just about 15 away from my parents). We wanted my parents/grandmother to drop charlotte off about an hour before bedtime nightly so she had her own room and they would pick her up in the am. Just SLEEP there. My dad doesn’t have room for those 5 people plus Charlotte, but my grandmother wants to maximize her time seeing Charlotte, understandably. His parents said: “But we work“. And…….
Still waiting here to figure out how they working correlates w/ her sleeping at night at her grandparents house. I work. Chris works. My parents work. Brush her teeth and put her to bed. Get her up, get her some cerel and pass her off. I am convinced this interrupts their nightly bourbon and war movie time.
Wouldnt you want to spend time w/ this face?
Your mother in law crazy?
I did eat the cheesecake. I took your advice, a horse did NOT sneeze on it, a kitten did…and it was chocolate, so if there was any extra snot, it blended it.
Yum.
Get on your feet and give a warm welcome and round of applause to our newest Feature Blogger, Kim from What’s That Smell?! Today is KIMS BIRTHDAY!! So go over and say Happy Birthday, OLD LADY!!!!!!!
(leave Kim a Birthday message in the comments!! Use words like ancient, old, decrypted)
Also, we are very happy to announce that Kims fathers cancer in in remission.
1. Congrats on being a MomDot Feature Blogger! Why don’t you start by introducing yourself to our readers!
I am a “30-something” married SAHM to a 4 year old son and 8 month old daughter. I am a “recovering former working mom” and used to be an Architect. Staying home is my dream and although it’s sometimes tougher than working, it has far more rewards! I do miss my morning commute with nothing but my iPod and coffee, but we have 3 bathrooms so I can usually hide out for awhile before being found! Lori is also a SAHM with 3 kids. We used to work together as Architects some 13 years ago (I was 10 at the time), but have both seen the light! We call ourselves “Accidental Mommies” because we were never quite sure we were cut out for the “mommy business”. We named the blog ‘What’s That Smell’ because I was blessed with a super smeller and at least daily say that very phrase – parenthood does that. Lori calls me “Stinky” because of it.
2. How did you arrive on the blogosphere? What got you interested in blogging?
I have no idea how I got here really, but I got interested in blogging because it was a neat way to share my experiences as a mom with friends and family and keep a record of stories about my kids and my general feelings about life as a SAHM. I also liked the idea of connecting with other moms because the world of a SAHM is often very small. The internet provides a whole new avenue to connect and socialize even with your kids underfoot! I dragged Lori here with me!
3. Can you give the MomDot readers a “sneak peek” into what’s coming up next for your blog? Any new events, giveaways, interviews, etc.?
Every day more and more wonderful things happen. We will always have giveaways so long as I can keep finding sponsors. I love telling someone they won a prize, almost as much as I like winning one myself! We plan on adding to our catalog of product reviews, continue our paid surveys series, and branch out into other how-to type series for moms, with the next one planned to help moms get into blogging. Eventually we would also like to take our design gallery to the next step and make it a full fledged business of its own and add other types of web design to our portfolio.
4. If your life could be a Reality TV show, which one would it be?
Nanny 911 crossed with Fear Factor
5. Remind us never to babysit! What are your goals for your blog? What’s the next step towards reaching those goals?
I want to continue what I am doing, growing in readership, meeting new people, and giving away great prizes. I also want to help other moms who are looking to grow their blogs.
6. How did you get into designing blog buttons? Did you design your own blog? (I love mine, btw!)
It was purely accidental (no pun intended). I designed my button and then through Entrecard and reading other blogs, I noticed that the 125×125 blog button was a standard size but that not a lot of people had them, and many that did obviously didn’t have the tools to do it so it stood out and grabbed people’s attention. I volunteered to make some for a group of moms and it took off from there! Through my job as an Architect I had done a lot of graphic and architectural design using Adobe Photoshop and so I have the tools and the skills to design the blog buttons. I used a template for my blog but it is highly modified and combined with some design elements from another template. (you can purchase one for $5 here)
6. I can totally relate to the cooking nightmares you blog about! I have finally mastered boiling water! LOL! What’s your specialty?
I can heat up a frozen corn dog without setting fire to the kitchen..usually.
Interviewed by Contributing Writer, Bridgette
I live in Mobile, Alabama just right outside of Florida, where our parents are. This is where I grew up..and now its only an hour from here, woo hoo! I will going up to my dads next week because my grandmother is coming into town, so Ill get some beach time.
And I wanted to do a shoutout to one of my fellow blogging buddies (and friend), MMJ. I took this picture on our big internet girls trip/meetup last month….sometimes you gotta be careful, Ill blog about you. In your PJs. Flipping the Bird. Drunk.
Where are you from?
Today we were at the beach and came upon a wedding….. This is a totally serious wedding. In public. At a resort. Run by a pregnant nun….and apparently a very interesting bridal party. The real question is “Do you think the groom went home with more than the bride?” read more at your own risk! [...]
I love shoes. Heels. Flats. Boots. Flip-Flops. All shoes. Every change of season I buy new shoes. I always like to stay up to date on the whats fashionable in the shoe world. I can tell you that this Spring, BOBS from Skechers are whats in. Two words to get you excited for these shoes: [...]
I’m from Boston. Born and raised. I have lived here my whole life. I love my city (or as we refer to it as “town”). As much as I would love to live in a warmer climate- this is my home. These are my roots. What happened yesterday at the marathon has shook me to [...]
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I was just over on facebook announcing all the things I get to do in May. My 12 yr wedding anniversary…anyone that has been married at all knows h ow big of a feat that is. Mothers day, which I will actually be spending on the beach with some of my best blogging buddies. Not [...]
