Are you looking to increase your exposure and following for your blog? *** 22 blogs have joined together to offer you a chance to win a MEGA ad campaign! ** The lucky winner will receive: A promotional post on ALL 22 blogs Premium Sidebar advertising for the entire month of January on ALL 22 blogs… [Read more…]
For today’s Top Ten Tuesday I want to share ten wonderful blogs that focus on the Chicago area: 1) ChiTown Moms 2) The Chicago Moms 3) ChiTown Cheapskate 4) Toddling Around Chicagoland 5) Super Suburbs 6) My Chicago Kids 7) West Of The Loop 8) Go West Young Mom 9) ParentSphere 10) Sassy Moms In… [Read more…]
While I love comments on my blog posts I end up deleting many of them. Why? Because they aren’t legit comments left by “real” people. When I came to my computer today I had 50 comments marked as “spam”. I thought I would share some of the funnier ones… “I was seriosuly at DefCon 5… [Read more…]
I have some exciting news! Making Time For Mommy is a Finalist in CBS Chicago’s “Most Valuable Blogger” contest! I would love if you could vote for me! There is no registering required, just a simple click on the button here and the vote button once you get to my page. You can vote daily.… [Read more…]
I am pleased to announce my ticket sponsor to the Type A Parent Conference is New Blog Hosting. New Blog Hosting offers affordable blog hosting and also blog design. I am excited to be helping represent this company for a number of reasons: In discussing how we would work together and what his goals were… [Read more…]
If you are stopping by from 5 Minutes For Mom, hello and welcome to the party! I participated last year and had SO MUCH FUN meeting new people! Since I am a huge list maker I thought I’d share 10 things about myself as a little icebreaker and invite you to share something about yourselves… [Read more…]
Sometimes looking at the site statistics for Making Time For Mommy make me laugh. Sometimes they make me cry. And sometimes they make me scratch my head in amazement. Here are ten random facts about my site according to WordPress: 1. Twitter has brought me more blog readers than any other site. 2. My biggest… [Read more…]
The above is a picture of myself, Renae, Anna, and Krissy in a limo on our way to Martha Stewart’s Blogger’s Night Out. This is a picture of me at an evening event with Morgan, Maria, and another blogger. ********** I have linked this post to: Wordless Wednesday Home 5 Minutes for Mom ~ Go… [Read more…]
Back in July I won a Sunshine Award from Staci at November Sunflower. Thank you so much Staci! :) “The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspire others in the blogging world.” Awards like this have some rules….. 1. Put the award on your blog and/or within your post. 2. Pass… [Read more…]
If you are stopping by from the Summer Blog Tour, hello and thanks for visiting! :) I am so excited to be participating and am looking forward to meeting all the great women that are involved in the Summer Blog Tour put on by Living My MoMent and The Work At Home Woman. If you… [Read more…]
Last month I received my very first blog award from Dinell over at Mommy D’s Kitchen. Thank you so much Dinell for choosing me to be one of the lucky recipients and sorry it’s taken me so long to pay it forward! I am giving this award to 10 bloggers whose words have spoken to… [Read more…]
ME!!! I am excited to announce that I have recently joined the Inexpensively team as a weekly contributor. I will be sharing about charities and how others can give “inexpensively”. Feel free to stop by and say “hi” to the other site contributors: A Proverbs Wife Broke as a Spoke Christian Clippers Grocery Shop for… [Read more…]
So my lovely blogging friend, Sarah Mae, from Like A Warm Cup Of Coffee is doing something fabulous to help a friend’s business and a charity at the same time. Watch the video above to find out all about it and then visit Sarah Mae’s blog post that explains it more. Oh and did I… [Read more…]
I am so excited to share this workshop with you, my friends. It started today but it’s not too late to get in on the action. This session runs through May 16th. To find out more information about the workshop you can visit their website. What I love about this workshop is that it is… [Read more…]
Subscribe So You Don’t Miss A Post! :) Thanks for visiting me today! I am so excited about this party and all the wonderful friends I will make. (Yes, you will be my friend immediately. I’ve been like that since I was little. Ask my mom. I’d be at the playground and anyone who I… [Read more…]
The Ultimate Blog Party that is! Don’t miss out on joining thousands of moms in mingling online! If you haven’t gotten your invitation to the party head on over to 5 Minutes For Mom and find out how you can join in! Everyone is invited and not only do you get to know other moms… [Read more…]
I’m joining in on Hershey’s Better Basket Blog Hop to help raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network. CMN is a non-profit whose mission, according to their website, is “to generate funds and awareness programs in partnership with and for the benefit of member hospitals/foundations and the children they are privileged to serve”. They “create… [Read more…]
HAPPY SATURDAY!! :) Hope you all are enjoying your weekend so far. I am spending time with my family this weekend but I wanted to invite everyone to share their blog with me. If you blog I would love for you to leave a comment below with the link to your favorite post you have… [Read more…]
Today I spent some time going through my RSS reader and wanted to share some great posts I came across. *Kristen’s post from ‘We Are THAT Family’ about her second day in Kenya with Compassion International. If you haven’t read it already (which you probably have because her blog is AMAZING… go read it now.… [Read more…]
I now have tickets for both BlogHer and the Relevant Conference. I am so excited to be going to both but sadly have to wait over five months for one and eight months for the other. I surely will talk about both in greater detail as the months go by but just couldn’t wait to… [Read more…]
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