Thursday Thirteen-4th

13 of the best writing sites on the web today:

1. Writing Time
2. The Poetry Market E-zine
3. The Freelance Writing Organization
4. Once Written
5. Mom Writers Literary Magazine
6. Media Bistro
7. LuLu
8. Kid Magazine Writers
9. Gutenberg
10. Agent Query
11. Constant-Content
12. Editor and Publisher Jobs
13. Writer’s Digest Magazine

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Family Fun Time

If any of you are fans of my other blog Kerith’s Korner of Momdum, you may have noticed the Family Fun Friday as disappeared. It is still around but I had a brain storm about it. Then we kept getting sick and it kind of took a back seat.

I have so much fun doing the activities with my kids that I thought that maybe I would try to start a Meme about having Family Fun Time with stuff found on the internet.

There is so much on the internet, that most of the time, a person doesn’t really know where to go for kid friendly and fun stuff. So every week or 2 I am going to give out Family Fun Time assignments, so to speak, on Kerith’s Korner of Momdum. I will give a few web sites concerneing the subject matter at hand. Then we all will go and do our Family Fun Time. Then you can E-Mail (cathicollins@gmail.com) with your story and pictures and links to your blog. I will post them and then give out another great assignment.

Feel free to take any banners I post. I will make more later and post them.

Our first Family Fun Time is Holly Hobbie. You can click here or go anywhere on the web and find family fun stuff concerning Holly Hobbie. Maybe you want to make paper dolls and play with them with your kids. Maybe you want to buy a Holly Hobbie movie and watch it with your kids. Maybe you want to make a day of Holly Hobbie with your kids. What ever you want to do….have fun with it.

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Did Ya Know….

The most valuable bathtub in the world is valued at $5 million.  It is solid gold.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Happy Thanksgiving!

Multi-tasking is Served Best In The Bathroom

(as seen in SheWhoBlogs)

Yes, you heard me…multi-tasking IS served best in the bathroom.  Any of you ladies out there who have children at home or used to have children at home know exactly what I am talking about.  I don’t care if you have one kid (you lucky bastards) or several (yea…i have 4), you are on a non-stop kiddie boat of poop, spit-up, and the most in-depth conversations about Care Bears and Transformers you thought you would never have in your lifetime!

I love my kids.  They are one of the main reasons I started blogging.  I am hoping that, one day, I will make a living at problogging.  I want to be able to make some money and stay at home to raise my kids.  I want my family to be able to have everything and I am willing to work at this blogging profession to make it happen.

With that said, time is like gold to me.  I treasure every second I have.  I am up at 5 A.M. to start the coffee (NO COFFEE-NO BLOGGIE),check e-mails, write some blog posts, network with my SheWhoBlog ladies, facebook friends, NaBloPoMo buddies, comment on Fun Mondays, Wordless Wednesday, Thursday Thirteen, Winter Bazaar, and do my Family Fun Friday’s with my kids.  There is naptime where I can do all that over again and more.  Then after the day is done, supper is fixed and eaten, children are tucked in tight, and my hubby and I have actually had an adult conversation, I am back on the blogging bandwagon–re-doing all of the above–again!

As this is my day, the bathroom is the only place where I can be alone with my thoughts.  I bet I am not the only one either.  While you are sitting there, why not do the only thing a blogging mother who ate a burrito and coffee for lunch can do in this situation–BRAINSTORM!

• Keep a small notebook and pen in the bathroom (in the medicine cabinet) so you always have a place to put your golden thoughts.
• Always have a “bathroom reader” of some sort.  The best writers are readers as well.
• Lock the door.  Once my kids were old enough to figure out a doorknob, we put a simple hook lock on our bathroom door.
• Remember to wash your hands…you are a blogger, not an animal!

I know these “tips” may seem strange to you.  And yes, my hubby thinks I am crazy for having a notebook in the bathroom.  But it helps me to create and become a stronger blogger.  So enjoy your bathroom time–brainstorm–create–and don’t forget to light a match!

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Thursday 13–3rd Edition

13 Blogs Every Problogger Must Have Bookmarked:

1. Problogger
2. Alister Cameron
3. Zen Habits
4. Skelliewag
5. Freelance Switch
6. Daily Blog Tips
7. Newest On The Net
8. Blogging Experiment
9. Dazzling Donna
10. Chris G
11. Robin Good
12. Gray Wolf’s SEO Blog
13. Entrepreneur’s Journey

These are by far my favorites!  I read each one every week and have implemented tips I have found in each one.  Now lets hope they pay off!

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10 Fantastic Tips To Get Influenza To Ruin Your Blogging Career

My family has been sick on and off for about a month and a half.  But then, out of nowhere, my son brings home Influenza-A.K.A. The Flu.  This Flu is so nasty it knocked all six of us on our butts.  This Flu is so powerful that half of my son’s class called in sick on the same day.  This Flu is so dangerous that it made our local news due to nearly 100 missing kids last week from school.  I don’t have any idea on how to beat the Flu.  She is a sinister, deceptive lady that I hope none of my readers (I wish I had more than 1 reader) ever come across.  But I do know how she can kill your blogging career…and I would like to share those time-tested tips with you fantastically healthy people today:

1. Make sure your kids are nice and friendly to other kids so they are touching and playing with every dog-gone kid on the playground.
2. Remember to greet your child at the door every day after school with a hug and a kiss so Influenzacan have time to fester in your blogging body.
3. Make sure your toddler chews on and licks every stinkin’ toy you own so even your babies have a chance to catch the Flu Express. 
4. Tell your kids to share their Halloween candy because you can never have enough festering Flu Bugs in one house.
5. Always have your kids give daddy a kiss and hug before bed.  You don’t want him left out of the Influenza carnival, do you?
6. Make sure you kid plays on the computer and coughs all over it.  Make it a good cough now, everyone who gets near the computer must get the Flu!
7. Spy on your little one to double check he is drinking out of the milk jug.  It is very important to let Influenza know she is welcome in your dairy products.
8. Make sure that when your babies spit up that your toddler puts her finger in it and “tests” it.  We can’t be too careful when it come the Influenza Circus.
9. Now make sure to eat extra helpings of your Halloween candy.  We must have a full tummy of bad-for-you food when Influenza decides to show her face.
10. Be prepared for 5-7 days of non-stop flu-filled fun that the whole family will share and enjoy. 
11. This is an extra tip on me:  make sure your toilet is clean, all your pots and bowls are clean, and your bathtub is free of bath toys…because you can and will ride the Influenza Express anywhere…and remember…these Influenza tips can be applied to school and other jobs!  Now go…The Flu is waiting!

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For the writer in all of us.

I found this poem and I thought of all of us bloggers/writers who are blogging everyday and writing novels in a month–

I Take It You Already Know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough.

Others may stumble, but not you,

On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.

Well done!  And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps.

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead–it’s said like bed, not bead.

For goodness sake, don’t call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat.

They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother.

Nor both in bother, broth in brother,

And here is not a match for there,

Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.

And then there’s dose and rose and lose—

Just look them up–and goose and choose.

And cork and work and card and ward.

And font and front and word and sword.

And do and go, then thwart and cart.

Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start.

A dreadful language?  Man alive,

I’d mastered it when I was five!

                                         —-Anonymous

You can laugh….it’s O.K.  Our English language is the horrible beast we love!

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SORRY BUT…

YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING HAS BEEN INTERRUPTED BY THE SICKIES (again…can you believe it…i know…my kids get everything…and then are kind enough to give it to me)