| PR Monday: Your Reputation |
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Last week I had a great lunch with some blogging friends and Chris Byrne, The Toy Guy. The topic of conversation eventually turned to moms and reviews and giveaways. We all agreed on this basic truth: Your reputation in blogging is all you really have. Being a somewhat anonymous venue it is hard sometimes to [...] |
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| Disneyland’s Club 33 |
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Ah, the mystery, the allure, the exclusivity, the food I sent back. WHAT? OK, yes, I did not like my order of monk fish and they noticed, took it back and brought me mac&cheese. Does it make me sound classier if I say it was “Truffle Mac&Cheese”?
Club 33 is a private club inside Disneyland. There [...] |
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| Chillaxin and Contemplating… |
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We are back from the 5 day mouse extravaganza. Photos, tips and a cool look at Disneyland’s Club33 coming at you in the near future.
I didn’t post yesterday cause, well, to be honest I didn’t feel like it. If you missed my PR Monday posting, I would suggest that you read Darren Rowse’s article on [...] |
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| PR Monday: PR VS. Advertising |
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Last week I complained about irrelevant pitches and why I think bloggers should start using the NO word. I got a few emails. Just a few but enough to make me want to clarify the difference in my mind (which is a scary place to be) and when the situation warrants you charging.
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| “Man”-staches and Me |
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This morning I asked Bob to teach Con how to shave using a razor. Connor has been shaving at least a year now but uses an electric shaver. I have asked him all week to shave and his response is that he can’t find his razor since we redid everything downstairs.
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| The Eagles: Assisted Living Tour |
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Want to feel young again? Get some tickets to go see the Eagles. I guarantee if you are under 50 you will feel like a child again.
More than half the people rockin the Mosh Pit (so 80’s of me) had walkers or canes.
OK, maybe I am exaggerating a teensy bit but not all that much, [...] |
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| PR Monday: Stop Selling Yourself Short! PLEASE! |
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Sadly it seems that the middle ground for the pitches I receive is rapidly disappearing. I either get really, really great pitches or really, really bad ones. This is one of those that falls in the really bad category. I want to share it with some of you to show WHY I think this is [...] |
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| Best Carterism EV’AH |
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Carter to Dad:
What is a housewife?
Sad thing? Neither of us had a clue how to explain that. Best example I could come up with in modern culture? Marge Simpson.
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| Special Needs Moms Sorority |
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I am not posting a PR Monday post today because I found this instead and as I am typing tears are running down my face. I didn’t have a particularly fabulous Mothers Day. It wasn’t for lack of trying on my husbands side. It was teenage drama and lots of work. But when I opened [...] |
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| Lionfish, Lunch and Me–No Lyin’! |
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One of my favorite parts of schooling the way we do is that we have the ability to take learning everywhere. Instead of just being limited to reading about things, we have the freedom to experience things up close and personal.
As a former classroom teacher I know how important field trips are. Kids learn by [...] |
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| PR Monday: Have a Pitch Posse? |
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I do and I couldn’t make it without them!
What the heck is a pitch posse you ask?
My terms for ‘my girls’….the ones who hook me up with pitches they are doing or need to pass on.
My pitch posse knows who they are so need to out them but my goodness they hook me up. Hint: [...] |
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| Who Moved My Fountain of Youth? |
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I am having a midlife crisis. Don’t laugh. I am.
After waking up and being shocked that, yes, that old, plump person staring me in the mirror was actually me I decided right there on my 38th birthday to change things. For Gods sake, Madonna is 50 and look at her!
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| PR Monday: Balancing Act |
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UGH! It is 5 pm on Monday and I still don’t have my PR Monday Post up. I usually write it on Sunday but we spent the weekend unsuccessfully furniture shopping. This AM I ran to Boot Camp, then ran home, picked up one kid for an appointment, dropped him off, turned right back around [...] |
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| Honey, Let Me Explain… |
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| Yup, I Drink The Kool-Aid. Want Some? |
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Sorry, I have to laugh at my own title.
Most of you know me in person, or at least fairly well through my blog, and may not have realized that I am a radical, hippy loving parent who allows my children to do whatever they want all day. Had you not noticed Carters unruly, hippy hair, [...] |
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| Happy Birthday Mom! |
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My mom turns 81 today. I would like to say that I gave her a wonderful gift. But I didn’t. She actually gave me one. Isn’t it always that way with moms?
I gave my mom a plane ticket to come visit for the week. But she gave me the hope and encouragement that at 81 [...] |
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| How To Ask For Blog Conference Sponsorship |
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Last week Tamara talked about why a newbie blogger should attend a conference. This week, I want to look at the nuts and bolts of how to attend a blog conference on someone else’s dime(s).
Let’s face it. Conferences are EXPENSIVE and if you are a mom making just enough to pay for your monthly coffee [...] |
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| Horrifically Funny For Sunday Comic |
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| Boot Camp Consequences & More |
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Remember this??
It led to this..
Which led to this…
and this…
and this…
AND THIS…
Which led to this…
and this….
Which is probably bad karma from when I posted this…
Oh, and just so you don’t think it is all about me…
The youngest went from this..
to this…
and now I am going to go do this…
while [...] |
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| Peer Pressure in Home Schooling – I Mean…Really? |
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I was very happy to connect with Beth and more than pleased to have her cover this topic here. I know I have participated in more than a few “what are you doing” conversations in my parenting time. For a homeschool mom I sure haven’t been writing much on the subject lately. I have, however, [...] |
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| Sunday Comic: Reason To Smile |
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| Why Newbie Bloggers Should Attend Blog Conferences |
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Please welcome Tamara as our fabulous PR Mondays guest poster today! She has some wonderful insight on conferences for you. This summer I am planning to be at the following conferences: EVO, Savvy Blogging Summit and BlogHer. I wrote a beginners guide to BlogHer last year.Let me know if you are going to any of [...] |
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| Six Pounds Down and One Sick Kiddo |
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Just a quickie update here. Weighed in at boot camp this AM. I am six pounds down which I am very proud of. Especially when you take into account how sick Carter has been. This is usually the time I EAT and I haven’t binged. The only bad thing I put in my mouth all [...] |
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| Me, Interrupted… |
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As if it wasn’t bad enough that my oldest is starting highschool soon, last week I turned 38. I am a deer in the headlights staring down the inevitable 40 which is looming closer and closer as I type this….
For my birthday my mom sent me this…
It’s me. At 16. My highschool swim team picture. [...] |
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