A Blog With Substance

My sweet, sweet friend Jeannette, author of A Hippo With A Headband, passed this award to me, and I am honored that she thinks so highly of me.  I mean, I know I'm awesome.  It's nice that other people think so, too.  (kidding...totally kidding)  Seriously, I am honored that she thought of me to pass this along to.

•Thank the blogger who awarded it to you.

•Sum up your blogging philosophy, motivation, and experience using five (5) words.

•Pass it on to 10 other blogs which you feel have real substance.

So, five words that sum up my blogging philosophy.  This is kind of hard.  Let's say:

HONEST ~ LOYAL ~ FRIENDSHIP ~ HUMILITY ~ MOTIVATING

That was pretty hard, and I'm not even sure those are the right five words.  I may change them after I have had a while to mull it over. 

This next part is even harder for me, and that is selecting people to pass this award to.  That said, I am going to completely flake out and pass it to all of you who visit today.  Each and every one of you who stop by and leave encouraging words, well, you will never know how much that means to me.  I have this blog because I wanted somewhere to talk about myself.  No kid stories, no husband stories.  Just me stories. I don't want hundreds of readers over here like I have on my main blog.  I want all of those who visit here to know the real me, and I want that to be an intimate experience.  I want to be able to continue to be completely honest here, and with your support, I can be. 

Thank you for that.  I love you all!

For All Things...

...there is a reason.

The past few days I have been trying to figure out why my luck has gone in the crapper. Maybe luck is a wrong word choice, so let me explain.

I was doing really well with the paid posting. For a couple of months in a row I made over $750 a month. Then google took away my PR3. I thought this would be the perfect time to change that blog to a dot com. I do that, and the next day I get the PR3 back, but my blog no longer has that Url. That particular blog is now a PR0, and as most of you paid posters know, you don't get a lot of opps for with that ranking. I still have a PR2 on my kids blog, and have gotten a few opps for that one, but no where near what I was making.

I have been thinking about it, though, and believe there is a reason. All summer I have been tied to the computer, trying to grab opps when they become available. Maybe this is God's way of making me back off a little, and spend some quality time with my family. The past week has been great. I've been swimming with the girls, last night I sat on the kitchen floor with them and played with playdough. Today we went out to lunch and shopping, and I wasn't preoccupied, thinking about what opps I was missing. I enjoyed the time with my family, and the kids had a great time playing at the Chick-Fil-A playland. We seldom go here, so it was a treat for them.

My point? I am hoping that when google does another re-rank in the next couple of months, when the kids are back in school, that I get my PR3 back. Until then, I am going to enjoy my kids.

More Me

In my last post, I mentioned wanting to make this blog more "me".

Miss Donna responded with:

"I'm missing "the purple love" in here!!! And Where's the Elephants????"

And she was right. What is more me than elephants and purple?

So I went to work this morning, and redid things. Do you like it?

I love it!