Congratulations to Cindi Hoppes of Edwardsville, IL, winner of the Fibers.com $25 gift certificate giveaway! Thank you to everyone who entered the contest.

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NOTE: Today is Guest Blogger Day in the Blogathon, so today my guest blogger is Rachel Vidoni from East Coast Musings. You can find me over on Rachel’s blog with my post, “Germophobe Confessions.” I’m always in awe of parents who have the patience of Job—ones who have the ability to not only provide discipline [...]

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My blog seems to have rearranged itself, probably after the recent update I did to the current version of WordPress. Grrr. So now I have yet another thing to add to my already impossibly long to-do list: Figure out how to fix it. In the meantime, please excuse the weirdness on the home page until [...]

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I’m happy to announce the birth of another parenting blog, authored by Yours Truly. It’s on the Psychology Today website and it’s called “Outnumbered!” Seeing as it’s about my experiences being the parent of a larger-than-average family, I feel the title is more than appropriate. I plan to cover everything from childhood depression to seizures [...]

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After a 4-day hiatus, I wanted to write something profound, pass on some gem of parenting advice or otherwise compose a post worthy of a Stumble or Digg. It’s not going to happen though, folks, as I find myself sitting here feeling like I’m living among ice cubes with a headache that waves between pure [...]

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I will be moving my blog over to WordPress.org this weekend, so it may be offline for a couple days. I’m not sure how this will all work, but hopefully I’ll be back up and running by Monday. Thanks for your patience during this time!

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Just in case you haven’t increased your chances of winning the LeapFrog Tag Reading System bundle that I and 9 other bloggers are giving away by visiting their blogs, here’s another brief rundown of why I think these blogs are great. Blog Salad — Ron S. Doyle is one of the wittiest writers I know [...]

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I’m on The Writer’s [Inner] Journey today! The author, Meredith Resnick, wrote this: In honor of back to school I asked five of the writers I greatly admire to weigh in. With a very loose hat tip to the wonderful Raymond Carver–I wanted to know what these writers talk about when they talk about back [...]

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Now that the blogathon is officially over, I’m having major blogathon letdown. It’s rather like post-Christmas letdown, I think. We had quite a productive Twitter party this morning, discussing the positives that we all got out of this year’s blogathon. If you’re interested, you can read all about it here on WordCount. So, now it’s [...]

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It’s officially the last day of the blogathon today. I had such a great experience with it this year, much more so than last year. Here’s what I took away this time around: * Blogging every day is really, really hard, but incredibly satisfying. * I’m not a fan of blogging on the weekends. It [...]

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