If you’ve been here before, you probably already knew this, but I figured I’d make it official:
Are you totally into blogging, or your kids? Take my quiz to find out!
Of course, this quiz is not to indicate whether or not you have children, nor is it to indicate whether you love them more than you love your blog. It is for entertainment purposes only. It doesn’t matter whether you’re more of a blogger or more of a mom according to this quiz, you’re a mom and a blogger—and that’s okay. We know you love your kids more than your blog.
Take the MamaBlogga Mom Blogger quiz!
Wednesday, 19 September 2007 | 12 comments »
Categories: Random | Tags: awards, mom-blogger, mom-blogger-quiz, mom-bloggers
Remember back in April when we first published the Popular Parent Bloggers awards? Well, we’ve finally gotten around to updating the list! Check out the updated list (or the original one) today!
Saturday, 15 September 2007 | 15 comments »
Categories: Contests, MetaBlogging | Tags: awards, best-parent-bloggers, best-parent-blogs, mom-bloggers, momblog, mombloggers, parent-blogs, parents, popular-parent-bloggers, popular-parent-blogs
<Sing your own BlogOlympic Theme here>
Congratulations to absolutely everyone who participated in the 2007 BlogOlympics. You have all truly shown your mettle as community bloggers, striving to interact with the blogosphere, and you have my highest commendation—and, of course, my medal badges!
Some of you, upon reporting which events you completed, underestimated yourselves, so I went oahead and bumped you up a level 
. For those of you who completed more than one medal, congratulations! I’ve listed you here under the highest medal level you completed (besides, you didn’t want all three badges cluttering up your blog, did you?). So when reading these lists, remember that silver medalists also completed a bronze-level event, and gold medalists also completed silver- and bronze-level events.
Great job, all—and congratulations to our 19 20 medalists!
Bronze
Silver
Gold
The Medals
To insert the BlogOlympics medals in your blog, here’s the handy, dandy HTML code you can just cut and paste—you don’t even have to download & reupload the images!
Bronze
<a href="http://www.mamablogga.com/blogolympics/" title="Blog Olympics"><img src="http://s192.photobucket.com/albums/z41/MamaBlogga/th_bronzemedal.png"
alt="BlogOlympics Bronze Medalist" /></a>
Silver
<a href="http://www.mamablogga.com/blogolympics/" title="Blog Olympics"><img src="http://s192.photobucket.com/albums/z41/MamaBlogga/th_silvermedal.png"
alt="BlogOlympics Silver Medalist" /></a>
Gold
<a href="http://www.mamablogga.com/blogolympics/" title="Blog Olympics"><img src="http://s192.photobucket.com/albums/z41/MamaBlogga/th_goldmedal.png" alt="BlogOlympics Gold Medalist" /></a>
Participant
<a href="http://www.mamablogga.com/blogolympics/" title="Blog Olympics"><img src="http://s192.photobucket.com/albums/z41/MamaBlogga/th_participantbadge.png" alt="BlogOlympics Participant" /></a>
Again, congratulations to all the medalists and participants! What a wonderful effort you’ve made to improve the blogosphere—and the blogosphere is truly better for it. We’re lucky and glad to have such Olympians among the ranks of bloggers!
I did my best to hunt down all the winners; if I missed you, please contact me!
Friday, 24 August 2007 | 15 comments »
Categories: Contests | Tags: awards, blogolympics
I’ve been tagged by Deb for a middle name meme.
My middle name is Rebecca. I’m named after my great-grandmother on my dad’s side (well, we think her legal name was just Becca, but anyway). I really like my middle name.
Now I’m supposed to come up with adjectives to describe myself based on each letter of my middle name. I can’t remember the last time I tried to do one of these writing exercises.
R - Random. I have a tendency to suddenly jump from topic to topic in conversation. And sometimes I just don’t have the patience to go back and explain my train of thought.
E - Excited. When I first get into a project, I’m super enthusiastic! Sometimes that enthusiasm wanes long before I’m done. Sometimes I manage to finish it anyway.
B - Blogger. In case you hadn’t noticed.
E - Eclectic. Like most people, I have wide-ranging tastes in television shows, music and hobbies. I don’t think my tastes are particularly diverse, but they’re an interesting combination.
C - Crazy. Before I met my husband, one of my criteria for a spouse was that he would be willing to dance to music being played by Brookstone in the airport. (It was “Twist ‘n’ Shout.” Come on, if there’s ever a case for public dancing, that’s it!) I don’t know if Ryan would really do that, though.
C - Clever. Speaking of Ryan, he submitted that one.
A - Assiduous. Dutiful. Workaholic. Committed. Should be committed?
I’m supposed to tag someone for each letter of my name, but I don’t think I even know bloggers with all those letters. So join in in the comments! I love names!
I’ve also received the Nice Matters Award from SingForHim @ RealLife (who was featured on ProBlogger this week!) and Jennifer @ The Life of a School Bus Driver. Thank you ladies!
Just about everyone that I’ve ever contacted in the blogosphere has been nothing but nice, so it’s hard to choose just three people to pass this award on to. But the people who’ve gone out of their way to help me is a little less hard:
- Michelle @ scribbit. She was one of my very first blogging friends and fans; which was really exciting!
- Jen @ Semantically Driven. She helped me with one of my first tutorials by writing instructions for switching to full feeds in TypePad.
- Kailani @ Island Life. The Carnival of Family Life was one of the first ways I received traffic and comments on my blog, and Kailani always tries to mention my latest pet project
So thank you, ladies, for always being so nice to me.
Edited to add: Deb, Mom of 3, also kindly named me as a nice blogger!
Monday, 20 August 2007 | 6 comments »
Categories: Random | Tags: awards, memes
I do have to start off the post with a little shoutout: Happy birthday to my sister, Jaime!
Time for the grand finale of the June MamaBlogga Group Writing Project.
That brings our total count of submissions—all most excellent!—to 39 40 (with one late entry). Even though I got a little off in my count during the week, we more than doubled from last time’s number!
All entries
Here is the complete list of entries that qualify for the prize:
Of course, we want to give a huge thank you to everyone who participated. I would love to know how each of you came to find the group writing project and decide to participate, and I hope that you’ll stick around MamaBlogga (and not just for next month’s GWP!).
Without further ado…
The winna!
Chosen at random, the winner of our a $30 Amazon.com gift certificate is <drum roll>…
Okay, Listen Up! by bellevelma
Congratulations, Bellevelma! The gift certificate is winging its way to you from Amazon right now! (I think it’s funny that the only person who specifically said what she’d do with the gift certificate happened to be the same entry randomly picked by the random integer generator, don’t you?)
Still working on your list? Even though we’ve awarded our prize, we’ll continue to accept, read, link to and comment on submissions through next week.
One late entry brought our grand total to 40. Thanks, Diane!
Monday, 2 July 2007 | 14 comments »
Categories: Contests | Tags: awards, group-writing-project, three-things
Whether you’re just visiting MamaBlogga for the first time or are an old friend, you may have missed some of the fun things that have been going on here. Here are the top ten most popular posts on MamaBlogga from June.
And more news: I want to thank Michelle of Scribbit and MommyZabs for nominating me as a Rockin’ Girl Blogger! Thank you both, ladies!
Now I’m supposed to nominate five more rockin’ girl bloggers (I hope that being nominated twice doesn’t mean I have to make it 10!). Man, that’s tough (especially since Michelle and Elizabeth both would have been on my list if they hadn’t nominated me!).
- Kasie Sallee, ~the art of life~. She’s on a mission to connect with other Artist Moms and offer support and encouragement. As a blogger with a mission, I love other bloggers with a mission!
- Shawn of Letters to my Daughters, in large part because I stopped by today and loved what I read of her interview with Karen Maezen Miller. And Shawn—zen to me is pausing to think while tickling your children, “This is it.” (I’m actually posting on something similar this week, so check in again!)
- Karen Andrews of Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum. I’m excited for your redesign! I just unveiled a new design on MamaBlogga today (okay, so I just changed it to a three column layout), so I know how you feel!
- Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home, even though I’m sure she already knows she is!
- And of course, my perennial favorites: like a clear blue sky by a good friend of mine and Leezy Lindsey, by another good friend of mine. (You should both post A LOT more. What? You have lives? Pfft.)
Thank you again!!
Monday, 2 July 2007 | 3 comments »
Categories: MetaBlogging | Tags: awards, top-10
