Love, Care and Share

March 9, 2012 By

I was planning another post to round the week off, a writing prompt for Write On Edge as I haven’t done a prompt in months.

I just wasn’t feeling it. I wrote 100 words and it just felt forced.

I believe readers can tell when posts are only written because the writer only wrote that for the sake of writing something (I’m a little pleased I managed to fit ‘written’, ‘writer’, ‘wrote’ and ‘writing’ in one sentence).

So instead, I decided it would be better for me to share someone else’s words with you today.

I practice the philosophy of ‘Love, Care and Share’, you see.

The following are some of the posts I loved in one way or another – it moved me to tears (damn hormones), it made me think, I felt less alone and yes, made me laugh. If you have some spare time this Friday or over the weekend, I urge you to indulge me and click on one or more of these posts I wish I had the words to write.

This story of a cookbook had me tearing up, over at Poor Man’s Feast: The Kindest Cookbook.

I could absolutely relate to this one at The Huffington Post about non-parents judging parents.

My heart hurt for Shell when I read her post about her difficult week at Things I Can’t Say.

I LOL’ed at this funny, illustrated post by Mayor Gia about hugging, or rather, please-don’t-hug-me.

I miss my Barbie dolls, thanks to the simply wonderful Mark at Our Simple Lives who shared his friend’s amazing Barbie collection.

Have a happy Friday and a fabulous weekend!

I leave you with this adorable toddler and his water cracker habit.

Toddler eating water cracker

Do you have a favorite post to share with me? Yours or someone else’s? Would love to read it! (if I haven’t already)

*This post is very similar to Friday Tapas by What She Said, and I confess that I actually wrote this without even thinking I was borrowing Kristin’s concept. I just needed a filler to round up the week. BUT, I probably got the idea from her and it was stored in my subconscious. So credit Kristin, I must. Thank you Kristin, forgive my faux pas for having to add this in after publishing!

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Filed Under: Recap, Writing

The Week That Was

April 23, 2011 By

This time last week, was the start of what looked to be a terrible week.

I ate bad chicken and had a case of stomach flu. Chocolate helps everything right? Which got me to thinking about this brownie recipe, which I just had to share.
Following my recovery, I took my Monkey out for a playdate, involving breakfast and some time at a play gym. And this happened. Toddler meltdown. Mama meltdown.
Hence, said toddler took over the blog to prove to the world that he was not always that bad. 
Things started to pick up a little on Thursday when I got an email from Tammy of World’s Worst Moms, saying she was featuring my little story, yay! Be warned if you haven’t read it, it involves poop. A lot of poop.
Thursday is my favorite day when it comes to writing. Because it’s Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. I love the weekly prompts (saves me from thinking hah!). This week, I chose to write about something students should know, with some anecdotes from my teacher sister.
This year, I pledged to be positive. There were moments this week when I felt down, burdened and just meh, but slowly, things looked up. My Monkey appeared to have reverted to his usual cheeky self, no tantrums in sight. And so his Mama decided to take the plunge and try writing a prompt from the red dress club’s weekly red writing hood.
From the two prompts, one jumped out at me. It was a post that seemed to write itself. Here I write a letter to my deepest, darkest fear – that of failure.

And whaddya know? I knew the week had really turned itself around when I received really good feedback and comments from that last post, especially from really good writers like Cheryl from Mommypants, Jenni from MommyNaniBooBoo and Jill from Scary Mommy. That has really encouraged me to keep going, so thank you!

Next week, I have a couple of exciting things happening, can’t wait!

P/S* I also took the plunge and started a Facebook fan page, so do stop by and Like! 

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Filed Under: Blogging, Recap