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Can I just say that Hayden has been just all kinds of cute lately?

We spent over two weeks visiting my family—and Hayden was really good on the plane both ways! On the very last leg of our trip, he fell asleep on the plane. They’d arranged for him to have his own seat (not a very full flight), and by the time we reached cruising altitude, he was out. A few minutes later, he slumped over. I caught him in time to make Marty his pillow—and he slept for virtually all of the flight.

He’s also getting to be quite the talker. He repeats lots of words (my sisters started teaching him colors), but he’s also started repeating lots of words. However, most of his speech is still gibberish (emphatic, emotive gibberish, though).

What’s going on in your children’s lives right now? What accomplishments are you proud of?

I’m pretty much amazed by how much MamaBlogga grew in 2007. Here are the top 25 posts (and pages) from last year:

1. Popular Parent Bloggers
2. Pregnancy and Maternity Costumes
3. Five Things Moms Do Right
4. The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from Blogger to WordPress
5. Four Ways to Encourage Comments on Your Blog
6. Group Writing Project (Submission form)
7. Seven Ways to Master FeedBurner
8. Get the Most out of Guest Blogging
9. Baby Safe Ant Control—kill ants, not your kids
10. Get Your Child to Go to Bed!
11. Full Feeds: the Full Story
12. The Mom Blogger Quiz
13. The Giant Compendium of Teething Tips
14. About MamaBlogga
15. Five Ways to Win Links—and Technorati’s Heart
16. Seven Ways to Brand Your Blog
17. The original MamaBlogga Group Writing Project
18. Getting Started with FeedBurner
19. Advice to Mom Bloggers: Headers
20. Quick Guide to Google Analytics for Bloggers
21. Safely Move Your Blog
22. How to Organize Your Closets
23. July Group Writing Project
24. BlogOlympics
25. Take Advantage of MamaBlogga

Look back over the list, find your favorites and let me know what you liked best this year! Most of all, thank you for making MamaBlogga what it is today! I could’ve have done it without you—because I didn’t do it. You did.

I wrote about setting goals for your blog in August and got a lot of good responses. Now that New Year’s is rolling around, it’s a good time to think about setting goals for your blog (and, of course, other areas of your life, too, if you want).

As a very quick review of my previous post, blogging goals (like all other goals) should be:

• Recorded
• Specific
• Measurable
• Personal
• Discrete
• Achievable

As part of recording my blogging goals, which are also very manageable (very important for busy moms!), I left a comment over on the post What are your blogging New Year’s Resolutions? at Misc Mum:

Blogging goal: comment on 10 different blogs each week (not for work), at least 2 of them blogs I’ve never commented on before.

Feel free to share your blogging goals at Misc Mum or here!

You might also enjoy reading Setting blog goals for the New Year by ProBlogger.