1. The Invisible Woman (currently the most popular post of all time on MamaBlogga)
2. I Am a Mother. Are yoU?
3. Appreciating motherhood
4. How to express gratitude to a mother
5. Appreciating the eternally important role of motherhood
6. Handling Negative Comments, Part II
7. How can husbands support their wives?
8. Move over, Daddy
9. The growing vocabulary of a growing boy
10. Feel less pressure, enjoy your family more

We also had a couple notable posts that weren’t new in May, but were pretty popular:

• Making Mother’s Day Merry (April 2008)
• Happy Mother’s Day (originally posted for Mother’s Day 2007)
• HONORing motherhood (April 2008)

Thanks for reading!

• The big transition: a big boy bed
• What Love Is
• Not-so-Amish Friendship Bread Instructions
• Dear Other Mothers
• Should I say anything?
• Fighting (for) fulfillment
• January Group Writing Project Finale
• Me Time for moms
• Going it alone: blog design
• The argument I’ll be having for the rest of my life

1. New Year’s Blogging Goals
2. Handling negative blog comments
3. What works for you?
4. Finding the right blog designer
5. January Group Writing Project
6. And some pictures
7. For the boy who has everything
8. Sometimes it really is just by example
9. I’m molasses in January
10. My favorite topic, of course: Hayden

What was your favorite post from last month? What would you like to see more of ’round these parts? Let me know!

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.

1. Pregnancy and Maternity Costumes (probably my most popular post of all time!)
2. October Group Writing Project (as well as Days 3-6 and the October GWP Finale)
3. The Mom Blogger Quiz
4. Share Your Best Indoor Toddler Games
5. Today, While the Blossoms
6. Cultural currency
7. Blog comments and you
8. Like father, like . . .
9. Wendy Piersall and my second conference
10. You did it!

But during the month, we had some fun happenings here on MamaBlogga: here are the most popular posts from September!

1. Four Ways to Encourage Comments on Your Blog
2. The updated Popular Parent Bloggers list
3. September Group Writing Project (and days One, Two, Three, Four, Five and the Finale)
4. The Mom Blogger Quiz
5. How can I show a mother that I appreciate what she does?
6. Motherhood isn’t
7. Hayden’s First Word
8. The sometimes impossible balancing act of motherhood
9. A MamaBlogga milestone
10. To be a better mother

Keep your eyes peeled for next week’s Group Writing Project!

1. Seven Ways to Master FeedBurner
2. Get the most out of guest blogging
3. The BlogOlympics (and the accompanying posts: The Upcoming BlogOlympics, Gearing up for the closing ceremonies, and The BlogOlympics Closing Ceremonies)
4. 7 Steps to Brand Your Blog
5. Blog Carnivals, Start to Finish
6. Setting goals for your blog
7. Living our life
8. Sons and daughters
9. I’m jealous (and the followup, I was jealous, is not to be missed!)
10. I do want a badge

The BlogOlympics were clearly a big hit—and thanks to the medalists for making them that way!

I’ve had a few people ask if there will be a way to participate even though the time limit is over, or when we’ll hold the next one. I’ve been toying with the idea of letting people continue to complete events (within a two-week time frame) to earn a badge; what do my BlogOlympics medalists think of that idea?

The most visited posts in July include posts on blogging, mom blogging, the monthly GWP and parenting—basically, everything I write about!

• Take advantage of MamaBlogga
• Safely Move Your Blog (eMoms Group Research Project)
• Quick Guide to Google Analytics for Bloggers
• Five Ways to Win Links—and Technorati’s Heart
• July MamaBlogga Group Writing Project
• 5 Steps to Getting Started with FeedBurner (and don’t miss the follow up, Seven Ways to Master FeedBurner, which didn’t have time to become as popular because it was posted on the last day of the month!)
• Hayden’s secret identity
• Web surfin’ meme
• Baby Safe Ant Control—kill ants, not your kids
• Teaching Toddlers Financial Responsibility

In Other News…
In other blogging news, yesterday er, today I reached my one thousandth actual comment! (The “actual” discounts the nearly 2000 spam comments I’ve received.)

Unfortunately, it had to be one by . . . me. How anticlimactic.

• Advice to Mom Bloggers: Stick it
• The Carnival of Family Life
• MamaBlogga Group Writing Project, June 2007 (and also the Finale of the May GWP, and June GWP days 1 and 2)
• Get your child to go to bed with a bedtime routine
• What’s for dinner?
• You’re an enabler, and I thank you for it
• Let’s Change the World!
• Why fulfillment?
• A hug, metaphorically speaking
• Connect with MamaBlogga!

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!).

1. 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!
2. 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!)
3. 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!
4. Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home, even though I’m sure she already knows she is!
5. 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!!