Do you know a special mum that deserves to be recognised? Of course you do, us mums are fab *cough* and I bet someone special sprung to mind straight away.

Tesco’s Mum of the Year nominations are now open. Simply fill out the details of your special mum here – Nominate your mum of the year

Tesco are especially looking for mums who have;

Last year’s ‘People’s Choice Mum of the Year’ struck a chord with me as my brother is a soldier and has served in Afghaniston. Karen Upton showed great courage after losing her husband, while many would quite acceptably have fallen apart Karen went on to focus her grief on raising money for the Army Benevolent Fund. Here’s a bit more about why she deservedly won her Tesco Mum of the Year Award;

‘Brave’, ‘inspirational’ and ‘amazing’ are just some of the words you used to describe Karen on our Facebook page for the time she has devoted to helping bereaved families.

She’s inspired her children Ewan, 11, and Hollie, eight, to get involved too ? last year Ewan completed his own bike ride for the Afghan Appeal.

So have you decided who you’ll nominate? Nominate here now before 23rd September and have your special mum recognised.

So this is just a little round up post of odds and ends.

Littlemumpreneur is now up and running with some good articles for bloggers and/or aspiring mumpreneurs, here’s a few you may like.

How to set up a sponsors page and automatic sponsorship page

Mumpreneur Case Study: Katiepie Designs

The Concept of Pillar Posts

What is RSS?

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I’ve been nominated for two MAD Awards, the first is the ‘most innovative’ which is for the following;

The Most Innovative MAD Blog award recognises the blog that best encapsulates the spirit of innovation in blogging, whether it?s using video or podcasting or creating amazing content for readers to download.

The second is for ‘Best Looking Blog’ which is for theme and design. I’m afraid I can’t take credit for that, but it does give me a nice chance to thank Dave who takes care of both my blogs. Thanks Dave.

Nominations for the MADs close on 5th April 2010, the top five nominated blogs will go to a public vote.

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The mum blogger e-course has tipped over 300 active members now. I continue to add new lessons to the e-course, I’m currently working on some advanced lessons at the moment. You can still sign up for free here.

Coming up on littlemummy…. a friday foody meme, a review of Scotland’s theme park, an exciting trip, and the second guest post day.

Michelle left a comment, she noticed that I’d been AWOL, I’m back to explain myself!

Well, as you can see I’m still here, and still blogging. I’ve celebrated a birthday and have been inspired to change a few things, they are quite big things and it’s taking time,I should be honest too and say that I’ve been indulging in quite a bit of poker recently (and winning yay!).

Whats changing…?

Em, where to start really, I’ve been working a lot on Project 500 as well as the freelance project that kicked off in January (lots more to come on this). I’m working on updating this blog and getting articles on Bukisa, because I plan to get this blog back to parenting and start a new blog (more on that later). Also I plan to cull a few other projects. I know this is all very vague, but all will become apparent soon

In the meantime, if you read littlemummy for the parenting stuff then I’ll be back soon. If you are one of the new subscribers interested in working from home/making money/email newsletters etc etc watch this space, my new blog is coming!

Okay, I hope that explains things a bit, be back soon!

Littlemummy.com Winners

Congratulations to Terry and Alexis who won the CooKin Kids Ebook.

There’s still time to be a winner. Win ?100 groceries by entering this contest. Or sign up for automatic entry into all future prize draws.

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 some interesting conversations over the past few days which could make 2009 and Project 500 very interesting indeed.

My weekend consisted of the above

Child-Proofing

Erin went on ‘holiday’ to her aunties so we capitalised and did what all good parents do when they get a night off – we childproofed the livingroom.

Erin doesn’t really go far, but we have changed the livingroom around so she has a full corner for her toys and to play in. Alex somberly disconnected the surround sound until we have time to wire it up properly so that no cords are available to prying eyes, hands, mouths… We have installed plug protectors too.

Christmas Shopping

We more or less finished ‘helping’ Santa with presents for Erin. We haven’t gone mad, and to be honest we struggled finding toys that we really like for Erin. Her sensible pile includes the, Leapfrog LittleTouch LeapPad, LeapFrog Hug & Learn Baby Tad, Baby Barney, Mr Men book ends, my first baby doll, large building blocks, wooden blocks, stacking cups, books etc..

Welcome – brand new website as you can see!

Bookmark me though because if you found your way here already you’ll definitely be interested in what’s to come!

Bookmark me now, be the first!!