...and I can't wait. Our entire family loves watching So You Think You Can Dance. It's where our 3-year-old learned to breakdance. I've got it blocked on our calendar...2 full hours for the season premiere. Here's a sneak peek at what's coming...
You may have already read this or received it by email, but in case you haven't, here's to moms everywhere...
Why God Made Moms
Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:
Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.
How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.
What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.
Why did God give you Your mother and not some other mom?
A daily dose of laughter. Bundles of joy. Free entertainment.
Life is good. Work at Apple is great. My new iPhone is amazing.
If you haven't seen an iPhone firsthand, it really is incredible. The maps feature saved me three times the first weekend I had it. It's the new love in my life and I'm not even a techie. If you're planning to get a new iPod, GPS or cell phone, don't. Just get an iPhone. It can do it all.
Saw this irreverent video for the first time last week. Pretty funny, especially if you watch the original video and try to figure out how it was made. Someone has way too much time on their hands.
If you are raising teenagers or even just one teen like I am, you will love this short clip of Phil Callaway. He's a speaker, author and humorist. I had the pleasure of listening to him speak at a writing conference a few years ago. What a genuine heart and gift of laughter.
Check it out and remember to laugh today.
Kelley Clayton, one of our sponsors for the End of Summer Blog-Abration is a Cookie Lee "jewelry lady." She sent me an email recently with some of the cutest pink jewelry celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I thought I'd share it with you as well. If you're interested in making a purchase, you can check out Kelley's site.
I remember checking this blog widget out when I first started Lessons from the Scrapbook Page. So when I stumbled upon it again at Mommy Life, I thought I'd see if the dollar value had changed at all.
It has...quite a bit. In fact, according to this, the value of my blog has increased by nearly $350,000. Look at that dollar amount in the image...if only I could take that to the bank and cash it in!
How about you? What's your blog worth?
Last week I posted a contest looking for the most addicted blogger. Now that I think about it, I guess that wasn't the best thing to reward. Aren't we supposed to reward "good" behavior???
Either way, we've got a tie with two winners that need some time out from the computer. I'm sending each of them some scrapbooking goodies to entice them away from their blogging—even if just for a moment!
Found this fun quiz over at Casual Friday Everyday. When I speak and coach about blogging, I warn people not to get addicted. But coming from an addict, I don't know how effective that advice is. Take the quiz and find out how addicted you are!
When you've taken your quiz and posted it, come back and let me know in the comments by Sunday, August 5th. I'll send a prize to the person with the highest addiction ranking (you're on your honor here!).
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Camy Tang, author of the Sushi Series tagged me with some fun questions about readers and writers so I thought I'd play along.
What's the one book or writing project you haven't written but still hope to?
I still really want to write a fiction series with scrapbooking as an element in the story. I don't want it to be the whole story, but a part of it. It would be fun to take some of the real women's stories in Real Women Scrap and fictionalize them. I've started the fiction a few times, but haven't made the time to really plug away at it like a novel requires. I do have a first chapter done though...maybe I'll post it sometime!
If you had one entire day in which to do nothing but read, what book would you start with?
The Audrey Hepburn Treasures
What was your first writing "instrument" (besides pen and paper)?
I guess it was my iMac laptop that I got off ebay four years ago. It was my first laptop and my first ebay purchase. Unfortunately, it has a very strange smell to it now that makes it completely unusable. I would love to get a new laptop but can't justify the cost yet. Maybe the laptop fairy will drop one on my doorstep...or make the yucky smell on my current one disappear.
What's your best guess as to how many books you read in a month?
Wow, wish I kept better track of this, but I'd say in a good month I probably read 7 or so books. That would be a combination of fiction and non-fiction. Generally when I read fiction, I'm done in 2 days. For non-fiction, I spread out my reading over time and often don't finish the entire book. Once I get the message, I move on to the next one.
What's your favorite writing "machine" you've ever owned?
I don't have a favorite. I've never really had a "machine" that was ideal. If I could choose an ideal, I think it would be a new Mac laptop with all the bells and whistles, quick speed, wireless internet, lots of storage, big screen...all the things that would make my life as a writer easy, mobile, and user friendly.
Think historical fiction: what's your favorite time period in which to read?
Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres to read. How can I possibly pick one favorite time period? There are so many...
