Blogging isn’t always as easy as it looks. Now in my fourth year of blogging, things are a little different (as I’m sure many of you “old timers” can attest). I still get a lot of ideas for posts. Sometimes, they’re thoughts.
Topics: MetaBlogging, stuck

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Once upon a time, there was a mystique to working one’s own land. Owning a farm was considered by a large part of society to be the pinnacle of achievement—you’d “arrived” once you obtained acreage. Hard work was a virtue,...
Topics: Fulfillment, hard work, mother's work, the work of motherhood, Work

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The other day I had a virulent strain of the hiccups. I groaned about it and Hayden asked, “What?”“I just want these hiccups to be done.”“Well,” he counseled, “they will just go away by themselves, when...
Topics: baby logic, hiccups, loveys, marty, oven mitts, Pictures, pinky, toddler logic

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Over the years, we’ve talked a lot about building communities around our blogs—connecting one on one with our readers, and encouraging them to connect to one another. I went back through some of the best posts we’ve had on those topics..
Topics: blog community, comments, community, MetaBlogging

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Happy Halloween, everyone! I hope you had a good one. We had fun—can you tell what we were? (Hint: we’re in a specific order here. Technically, we could use two more people, too.)(The answer.)How was your Halloween?Note to self: fix the rest..
Topics: halloween, Pictures

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