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I am a Great Mother!

by oh amanda on January 26, 2011

in motherhood

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Before I had children, I was a great mother.

I knew the parenting style I wanted and I was ready to go! I knew how my kids would act and how I’d react. I knew the best way to raise my kids and I was ready for the challenge of working it out!

Then I had children.

And everything I knew was thrown out the window. And to make matters worse, great parenting ideas seem to ebb and flow. Some days my approach works perfectly. Other days it seems to be the catalyst for more bad behavior!

{read the rest of my post at Motherhood…Your Way}

photo by shoothead

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My New Favorite

by oh amanda on September 4, 2010

in me

kids coloring

Photo :: :: :: Lydia and Asa coloring together.

Partnership :: :: :: Me and Life…Your Way {Mandi from Organizing Your Way is launching a new and amazing site called Life Your Way which covers everything from green living to blogging to motherhood to finances. And I’m going to be one of two contributors on the Motherhood channel! The other blogger? Kat from Inspired to Action! How great is that team? Well, I’m the third wheel for sure. I’m so excited to be a part of it. It launches Labor Day, please check it out!}

Housekeeping Idea :: :: :: Creating a Cleaning Calendar For Chores at Organizing Your Way

Storage Ideas :: :: :: 12 Beautiful Storage Ideas {Organization Craft} at Tip Junkie

Kid Friendly Snack :: :: :: Graham Crackers from Weelicious {homemade graham crackers? yum!}

Perfect Beautiful Post :: :: :: How You Might Really Be Pregnant and Not Know It Yet by Ann at Holy Experience {this is her intro post to the Compassion Blogging trip to Guatemala which begins next week! Please make sure to follow their journey!}

linked to saturday stumbles

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Blog Hop 2010

by oh amanda on August 5, 2010

in blogging

Every once in awhile there’s a fun blog party* that asks you to introduce yourself in a blog post. These posts are hard to write. Because, I’ve already written an About Me page. It’s full of all kinds of hogwash information. And every single day I write drivel inspiring posts from my everyday life. So, really, what else is there to say? Well, as a true social media freakazoid, I never lack for things to talk about. I update my every move on the web. Obsessively. So, now, I am going to share 6 randomly selected updates from my twitter stream.

I can feel the anticipation already.

Here we go…

oohamanda

(This is to show you how well-read I am. Also to impress you with my early morning exercise-y-ness.)


twitter

(this shows what a great home-manager I am.)


motherhood

(This was spoken by my 4 year old daughter, Lydia. Asa is my 1 year old.)


mom bloggers

(Makes you wanna stick around if these are the responses I’m getting on my blog, doesn’t it?)

twitter

And the twitpic…

super glue

(You love me already, don’t you?)


twitter

(And that is me in a nutshell.)


Don’t you want to follow me on twitter now?

I’m just as ravishing on Facebook!

And if you get my updates in your feedreader or inbox? You’ll never lack for entertainment.

Leave me a comment and I might even tweet about YOU today!

*Today is one of those days: Robin at Pensieve
is hosting a BlogHop for all those folks (like most of the blogosphere)
who are not partying at the big blogging conference, BlogHer this weekend.

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Seven Links Challenge: Top Ten {Tuesday}

July 26, 2010 blogging

A few days ago (maybe weeks?) Darren at ProBlogger posted a little blogging exercise: The Seven Links Challenge. He gave seven prompts about your blog–links to find out more about yourself and your blog. I starred it in my reader and decided to give it a whirl…of course, I had to add #8-10. So, hopefully [...]

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Inspired.

June 24, 2010 motherhood

I am loving these thank-you-mom posts inspired by theMotherhood and P&G’s ThankYouMom.com! As I was deciding who to thank, I knew it had to be someone who had not just inspired me as a blogger (because there are many of those) and not just inspired me as a mother (I have many non-blogger mom heroes), [...]

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Thank You Mucho

June 21, 2010 blogging

Remember back in the bloggy day when bloggers would hand out awards to their favorite bloggers? I remember the first one I got: The Thinking Blogger Award (Who in the blue blazes gave me THAT?). Anywhoo…I haven’t seen those around the blogsphere lately (maybe it’s just because no one wants to give me one?! yikes!) [...]

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Top Ten {Tuesday}: How To Make Your Readers Happy

March 23, 2010 blogging

Thank you so much for all the great response to How To Make A Blogger Happy last week! This week is Part 2: Top Ten Ways To Make Your READERS Happy! 1. Full Feeds This is for those readers that read your blog in a feedreader. You can set up your blog to show FULL [...]

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