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Mummy: I don’t know if you can tell (!) but you weren’t too impressed with the snow. This photo was taken in January, and as I write this in December you are far more keen on the snow. In fact, I have to try and stop you picking it up and getting your gloves soaking.

Mummy: This is you on your birthday.

Mummy: A really pretty photo, taken on a nice warm day.

Mummy: 60′s fashion is ‘in’ at the moment and you’re right on trend …

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Carnival
The Best of British Mummy Bloggers carnival is posted at Thames Valley Mums blog. Great job, I really need to submit better posts to these carnivals

Christmas & 2009
Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I’m soooo excited now! 2009 doesn’t look to be too bad either, I’ve had …

About a month ago I had another hairbrain idea to start an email list and promptly signed up for Aweber.
This isn’t a review of Aweber, but basically it’s a very cool site that manages your email list for you. You can create sign-up forms (like the one in the sidebar), and create really nice newsletters and it’s all really simple. Highly recommend it if you’re going to start a newsletter or whatever. I think I pay $19, which is what, around ?10 per month. A bit …

Raisngkids has identified a new kind of family unit, the ‘relay parents’.
Relay parents take turns of working and looking after the kids, working in ‘shifts’. They report that research shows that parents are spending more time with their kids but less time together or as a family unit.
How it works for us…
Over the past six months what was a part time job for me sometimes exceeded twenty-five or thirty hours. My husband works shifts and I slotted my shifts around his, we took turns of looking after our daughter. …

Building an email list isn’t something that can be rushed, which I guess is why I failed the challenge (in the sense that I didn’t make 100). It takes time to find the people that want what you’re are offering. It also takes time to figure out exactly what you’re offering. It takes time to build trust and the motivation for someone to sign up, this can’t be rushed or forced either. Here’s what I learned during the challenge.
Quality Not Quantity
Quality in the longterm will pay …

By the end of 2009 I predict that I’ll be earning (at least) ?500 per month online, working from home (or anywhere I want).
?500 may not seem much (or it may seem a lot), but this figure isn’t plucked from thin air, read on to find out why ?500 and how to find your target.
In my recent post ‘The Future of Work For Mums‘ I pondered the idea that multiple income streams were the future. In 2009 I plan to test the theory. Where possible I will shy …

Ring in the New Year with ?100. One savvy sleuth will win ?100 (or equivalent in Euros) worth of groceries to kick start the New Year!
Little Mummy and Allrecipes.co.uk have teamed up to give one lucky reader the chance to win ?100 in grocery vouchers. All you have to do is prove you know your mixed peel from your mincemeat!
To enter for your chance to win, simply follow these steps:
1. Find the answers to the five questions below
2. Take the first letter of each answer to make the secret code
3. …

The thought leaders in Social Media have been, well thinking. They’ve produced a PDF providing us their predictions for 2009. I’ve read the PDF, here’s what I think there is for us (the mum bloggers, the mumpreneurs or wannabe mumpreneurs, the work at home mums or wannabe work at home mums).
From David Armano
Organizations will come to terms with the reality that although it is now ?cheaper? to launch an initiative leveraging Web 2.0 technology?it requires qualified and passionate people to make them successful. This will not be …

This is a week long challenge to learn as much about email list building as possible, and build my own list to 100 subscribers. Join my VIP list to automatically be entered into all future prize draws.
Forums
I’m a member of one fairly large forum in the UK so I’ve added my newsletter link as my signature and have started posting more regularly. I’ve also written my own post inviting people to sign up. I think this will bring subscribers but I think it may be a slow burner. …

The urge not to post my videos this week was strong. You know when you see or hear yourself and you think, is that really me? I had that bad and didn’t want to post the videos. I felt really self-conscious but I forced myself to do it because;
I bought a Flip
I bought a portable digital video camera specifically so that I could take short video clips. It would be a complete waste not to use it. Blogging is a creative outlet, producing pictures, audio …