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Kids/Parenting

My favorite topic, of course: Hayden

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?

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Random MetaBlogging

The Year in Review: 2007 Top Posts on MamaBlogga

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.

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MetaBlogging

New Year’s Blogging Goals

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.