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Feed Me! Feed Me Now is my new monthly (weekly?) feature. Basically I have a feed reader full of favourites, however, I’d like to cast my net a bit further and find some new and exciting blogs to read. Here’s how it works;

If you think I’d enjoy reading your blog and you’d like an extra subscriber, leave your feed url in the comments below and I will subscribe.

On Saturday I will do a feed cull and get rid of all the blogs I didn’t enjoy enough to keep for another week. To give you an idea of what I’m interested in….

parenting, blogging, education, teaching, craft, activities, business, internet, money, food, entrepreneurship, cooking, home-making, DIY, house-building, travel….

Ok, Feed Me (I hope this works!!)

Write Ideas Down Straight Away

I get a lot of ideas last thing at night and first thing in the morning, regardless of when you get your ideas ensure you write them down or you risk losing them forever.

Write Posts at Naptime

This has always worked for me as it coincides with my best writing time, other alternatives include getting up earlier to blog or as a lot of parent bloggers do, go to bed later (eek!)

Finish Posts Before Reading RSS

Don’t get suckered into reading your 100 blog strong rss feed until you’ve finished your own posts. This is procrastination blog-stylee.

Write Posts in Advance

A classic tip that works especially well for mums as we don’t know when the next bout of teething will keep us from our second biggest passion in life….uh….I mean third

Don’t Get OSCD - Obesssive Stat Checking Disorder

This is a serious time suck and if you don’t want your blog to become sad and neglicted don’t even go there. Seriously. Beware

Choose Only One or Two Social BookMarking Sites

Choose one or two and focus all your time there, I enjoy stumbleupon and facebook, for you it may be MySpace and del.ici.ous. The old adage rings true it’s quality not quantity that counts when it comes to these sites.

Just a quick heads up to anyone who hasn’t heard of blogrush. It’s a new widget, see the blogrush box in my sidebar?, that promotes bloggers in your niche. As you can see mine displays my fellow parenting & family bloggers, in turn my posts will be displayed and promoted elsewhere. This is a great way to find new blogs and promote your own blog. Here’s how it works, in basic terms;

You get a credit everytime the widget is loaded ie. everytime someone visits your blog, you also get extra credits when you sign other people up. Each credit is worth one link on another widget on another blog, this gives you some reach to bloggers and readers that may never have discovered you. I’ve decided to give it a shot here on littlemummy.com and if you’d like to do the same, you can sign up here.

Oh yes, it’s free and you can opt out at any time so here’s that link again - get more visitors from blogrush.

A quick run down of where you can find me.

Subscribe to Littlemummy RSS Feed

Erica Douglas on Facebook

Littlemummy on MyBlogLog

Littlemummy on StumbleUpon

I also blog (albeit very occasionally of recent) at GNMParents.

My new blog will be launching in August at www.britishparentbloggers.com if you’d like to bookmark.

Please leave any links you’d like in the comments so I can link with you too. Thanks

Calling all British Parent Bloggers

I have set up a blog ring. This is a chance for readers to find other british based bloggers, for us to find more like minded people and increase our community. The only criteria for joining is that you are;

a) Blogging regularly on a topic that relates to parenting (others will be accepted on a case by case basis, ie splogs and spammers need not apply)

b) A Parent

c) Living in Britain

d) You must display the blog ring HTML on your site. To see what it looks like, scroll down and look under buttons & awards in the sidebar. If you need help with adding the HTML I’m happy to assist.

If you would like to join:

NOTE: We’re having issues with the HTML breaking people’s sites in Internet Explorer (including this one!) - so in the meantime, email me directly - we’ll have new code available soon.

Just a quick post to let you know I completed the above titled book. I’ve been reading a lot of non-fiction recently and this was a welcome change of pace. As good as the previous shopaholic instalments, it covers the story of Becky Bloomwood pregnant and ready for life as a mother, many twists, turns and ‘laugh out louds’ later the story ends happily (as always). This is a coffee and slice of cake read…you know, that twice yearly event when you miraculously get five minutes to yourself.

Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella

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Michelle recently awarded me this Rockin Blogger award, which I am now obliged to award to a few others.

So here we go - The Silent I, Mother at Large and An Ordinary Mom. Thanks for some great reading ladies.

As you may have already read I have been suffering with an absess and have spent the weekend on maximum strength painkillers, a little delirious to say the least. My excuses over, here are the final few entries for the carnival, which I managed to miss (sorry, sorry)

My Lemonade Stand presents Traditions are Good

Andromeda presents How To Kick a Bad Day To The Curb (I definitely need this post today)

Geek and Father presents Fighting For Your Relationship


Play Library presents Have You Been To a Spray Park? (Man that looks fun)

Marriage Actually presents 6 Ways To Encourage Your Spouse

Life Without School presents Renovations

With a massive 67 entries, that really is it, I’m off for a lie down!

Registration

There have been some great carnivals of late, I always particularly enjoy the carnivals that do something quirky with the categories. So welcome to The Carnival of Family Life School Edition, the buzzer’s going so settle down at your desks please. I’ve categorized as best I can, so I hope you’re all pleased with your classes.

Before we begin, a message from Mom is Teaching, We’re Learning All The Time

8.30am Art

Trinity Prep School is showcasing some of her brother’s fine artwork in An Art Show. She says

Some of them are so detailed and precise, they look more like photographs.

And, I’m inclined to agree with her, they really are very very good.

Photography’s on the timetable next with Editing Fun at REagent in Conneticut.

9.00am Textiles

Activist Mommy “Recycled Fashions are Hot”

HowToMe is doing a practical demonstration on How To Make a Door Stop or Door Holder

Me-ander presents Puzzled

9.30am English

Healthandfitnessfactorfiction presents The Write Stuff

Tupelo Kenyon offers a lesson in communication: Communication - Friend or Foe

Live the Power presents A Favourite Book

10.00am Biology

The topic today (like everyday) is functions of the bowel. Down with the kids presents the importance of the subject matter in You Could Sell Tickets…

The Pet Haven presents Dog “Hot Spots”

The foodchain is an interesting topic, read all about it this article which involves anoles, crickets and worms - A Foolish Mom and Her Money

FitBuff has some interesting information in Average IQ Score Determined by Birth Order?

Vbacadventure.com asks Is a Breech VBAC Possible?

Let’s Talk Babies discusses Smoking During Pregnancy

Building Blocks Blog presents Bumps and Bruises

11.10am Home Economics

Active Duty Military Money and Matters presents Last Night on Suze Orman

My Wealth Builder presents Save For Big Ticket Items

Living the Dream presents The High Price of Summer Fun
Lil Duck Duck presents 13 Outdoor Birthday Food Ideas

Facipiers and Stinky Toes presents They Called Him Tape-Head

Husbandhood advises on How To Treat a Second Degree Burn

Fun Playdates presents A Healthy Snack That Kids Will Love

INNside Innkeeping in Montana presents Green Light on Travelling

Saving Advice have some good ideas for free activies for the kids this summer.

We Survived the Teens presents Family Eats

12.40pm Lunch and Break in The Common Room

News From Hawkhill Acres presents Nothing in Particular
The Expatriate’s Kitchen presents 13 Mom Tricks

The Diaper Diaries presents Thank God I Just Cleaned it Yesterday

No credit needed discusses a busy weekend and shares some financial contemplations - Working for the Weekend

The Common Room presents She Won’t Mention Names. But That Was Hilarious

Miscellaneous Adventures presents Who’s Mothering Who?

All Rileyed Up presents It Hurts To Be This Popular

More4Kids provides tips on Choosing a Daycare

The So Called Me discusses daily life in Little Ones Everywhere!

Summer Grasses shares a story - Flowers

Kailani asks an interesting question in Stuck in Traffic

Be a Good Mum asks What Could You Learn From Your Kids Today?

Daddy Financials shares his experience of Being a New Dad

Life After 50 has some Fun Activities To Do With Your Grandchildren

1.20pm Social Studies

Mommy Poppins presents How To Teach Kids Manners with Cartoons

Can’t Holder Tongue talks about Friendship in Pool Puppy

Journey 2 Retirement presents Your Older Sibling Really is Smarter

Imaginif’s focus as always is on chid safety this time in The Culture of Dancing Corroboree for Child Safety

A Life Uncommon presents Little Dove in a Lie

PediaScribe discusses marriage in Three Things…

Marc and Angel presents The Two Most Important Practices in Life

A word of warning on relationships and DIY from hizzenherz - Catch Yourself a DIY Dreamboat

How does your mood and attitude affect others is the topic this week at Do You Weary in Well Doing? - If mamma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy

Enhance Life discusses decision making in Decide to Be Decisive

Twin Journey remembers nurturing in Co-Bedding and First Bath

2.00pm Physical Education

Reasoned Audacity presents The Camera Misses Nothing

My search for meaning, money…presents Thing’s I Learned at My Girls Swim Lessons

Melitsa’s ‘The crocodimes are coming’ activity reminds me of the many team building exercises we would do at cadets

2.30pm Geography

Home Schooling Aspergers presents End of Term Excursion: Aboriginal Culture

Why Homeschool discusses the Benefits of Travel

Hot Strategies presents Planning a Fishing Vacation For The Whole Family

3.00pm Religious Education

Mommin’ It Up founds a new faith “OLPP” in Losing My Religion (I can hear the R.E.M hymn playing now)

3.30pm Computing

Summer with Grandmother Wren presents Super Surfing for Kids

Home Time

It’s almost over! at Work at Home in Progress

Play2Relax has some prank ideas in her article on Sleepovers

Detention (for me)

Apologies to the Babytalkers, I missed their post

The Baby Bug

in typical teacher fashion, I will say this was done on purpose to test you guys (!) you passed by the way

Thanks everyone for your contributions, feel free to hang about for some chat, also if you want to subscribe it would be good to see you around.

Just a quick post to let you know that Yaro’s Blog Mastermind Program is now available.

There is an introductory offer - subscription for a monthly fee of $47 USD. To us Brits that’s £24.21, I know this because I have actually signed up myself!!

I started blogging a year ago, for fun, around about the same time I started reading Yaro’s blog in fact. As well as a mother with a keen interest in teaching, I’m also quite entrepreneurial and following Yaro’s advice I’ve managed to make some steady ‘pocket money’ from blogging. Let me make this clear, I have no intention of splattering my blog with adsense to make a few pennies but I don’t mind making some money to cover hosting costs and books from a little advertising, that I also feel is useful to visitors and readers.

The past four months I have made a small steady income that has covered my hosting, and some research books. I love blogging and I wan’t to improve for myself and for my audience, Yaro’s course should enhance my blogging skills as well as help me earn a little on the side.

If you think this appeals to you, you can sign up here.

There’s a full money back guarantee for 30 days and you can opt-out at any time.

This roundup finishes the Top 5 highlights. Enjoy!

How To Budget For a New Baby - 5 Top Tips. I wrote something similar a while back here.

5 Ways To Get Your Kid To Talk About School - as you can see I am still sifting through the Top 5 project to find the topical posts.

Five Ways To Make Money Scrapbooking. Is scrapbooking still alive and well, I’m afraid that particular hobby has ceased to be in my household, what with blogging…

Mamas! Read Your Blogs! - 5 reasons that mums who don’t read blogs should.

With my dream being to build a house (or at least have a custom design built for me) I had to include this top five - Top 5 Reasons Why Building is Better Than Buying

Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Become a Co-op Blogger - Great article, with lots of valid points.