I couldn’t help but laugh today when I read Extraordinary Mom’s post on “Bribery aheam- I Mean Reward.”  How many of us haven’t used bribery to get ouroung one to do something?  She’s currently going through the potty training phase, so lets all head over there and pop in with a few ideas. I know we’ve bribed with hot wheel cars and for the girls once they were completely done it was a Barbie Doll. What did your child get as a potty training reward?
MommyMaria is talking about the word’s little people say, I must admit they can crack me …read more

In 2007 I started writing a feature called “my favorite blog this week.” I got a bit distracted last month with the Generous December Group Writing Project and didn’t update the feature as regularly as I meant to. In 2008, I hope to discover even more blogs that keep me reading and keep me interested.
Here are the blogs I loved in 2007:

There were four complete days in the Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned Group Writing Project. The participating blogs wrote posts that were contradictory, funny, sad, frightening, frustrated and altogether wonderful I know that other GWPs have had more entries, but I would argue that they have never had such high literary quality. I am proud to have attracted each of these writers to this contest with a prize worth just $24.95.
Here is the complete list of entries and the announcement of the winner: