That aside though? Michelle shares stories about her four kids, gives tips on kid-friendly crafts and activities (I’ve used many of her tips in my own home with raging success!), recipes to please the whole family, and as if that weren’t enough she also has regular giveaways with fantastic prizes.

If you want some great blog reading along with some great ideas, I insist that you go check out Scribbit immediately!

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Featured Mom blog: Scribbit

FireMom is married to FireDad and she offers up a great mish-mash of cute kid stories, even cuter kid stories, fire safety/prevention tips, and a huge amount of good reading. Be careful when you click the link. Once you’re there you just might find yourself so sucked in by her fantastic writing that you’ll be perusing the archives for hours. Enjoy!

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Featured Mom blog: Stop, Drop, and Blog

Still, cooking is not something I can escape. I still have a family to feed and I like to try to do it well. Enter Ordering Disorder. Written by Chris, it will provide you with a plethora of tasty recipes that fit two important bits of criteria – healthy food and quick/easy to make.

Know why you can guarantee that they’re quick and easy? Chris has seven children. You know darn well that she doesn’t have time to make a five-course Martha Stewart meal, especially now that some of her kids are involved in organized sports. Meals need to be fast, but they also need to be kid-approved or what’s the point?

I have made several of her meals and they’ve all tasted great, taken little time and effort, used healthy ingredients, and were a hit with our whole family. Check it out!

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Featured Mom blog: Ordering Disorder

I’ve found that most Mom Blogs are written by mothers in their 20s or 30s, with a few in their 40s. They write, like I do, about their young children. Many of them are still feeling like new moms and share their stories to relate to others. However, the first blog I’d like to feature is actually a mother who has grown children and several grandchildren who are already teenagers. While it’s fun to read stories from mothers who are going through the same things I am, you know what? Sometimes it’s just refreshing to read someone who has already gone through it and lived to tell the tale.

One Mother of a Blog features everything from personal anecdotes (which should at least get you smiling, possibly even laughing) to quilting tales with beautiful photos, to recipes that are so tempting they’ll make your mouth water. Check out One Mother of a Blog and enjoy knowing that even on those days when tantrums and picky eaters make you want to tear your hair out, you really can survive parenting and live to tell the tale!

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Featured Mom blogger: One Mother of a Blog

However, with us, it’s mostly little things. He’ll put on a movie for them at a time when I probably wouldn’t, telling them that maybe they should go play with their 5000 toys instead. That sort of thing. It’s nothing major.

But if you’re fighting over parenting issues all the time and you’re at an impasse, would you let the Internet help you? The website SideTaker.com offers you the chance to settle disputes. It’s not just for parenting either, it can be any argument.

But let’s say you’re saying that the kids should watch a max of two hours of television and your husband thinks four is fine. You go to SideTaker, and you enter in your argument. Then you get your husband to go and enter in his side of things (no fair writing both sides yourself, this isn’t debate club!). Next, sit back and wait while the Internet drops in and tells you what they think.

What do you think? Interesting concept or totally crazy? I can’t say that I would let the Internet decide what’s best for my family but it might be kind of fun to “win”.

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Solve your disputes online?

Knowing that this fourth child is really made out of rubber, I didn’t run to get the baby down. Instead, I ran and got my camera to take this shot.

I was reminded of this today when I saw Lil Duck’s “You Know You’re A Mom When…” post. Here’s what got me, “A quiet house alerts you that something is wrong.” Quiet either means:

1. Someone’s Very, Very Much In Danger or Hurt
2. Someone’s Very, Very Much Up To No Good

Thankfully, it’s usually the second one rather than the first.

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Moms Are A Different Breed

While most of us are still toting some wounds from the recent departure of our favorite Wiggle, and lingering sadness over the death of Steve Irwin, it’s nice to see that these two are teaming up to tour the US. Um, Bindi and the Wiggles, not Steve Irwin and the yellow Wiggle.

The young wildlife warrior said her high-energy show, called Bindi And The Crocmen, would have Americans on their feet. The Crocmen are three men who will perform alongside her.

“We’re doing some dances, which will be really fun because all the people get to get up and dance along with us,” Bindi said in the interview.

The concerts are part of the annual G’Day USA: Australia Week 2007 festivities, which her father had supported in recent years.

Bindi is also preparing to launch her TV show, Bindi The Jungle Girl. It will go to air in the US early next year.

I’m trying hard not to say something a little mean about stage mothers, but doesn’t it feel just a bit soon to be touring after Dad’s death? Or, do you think she/they are just trying to not deal with the sadness?

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Bindi Irwin Tours With The Wiggles

Kati Kim has emerged a hero after keeping her wits about her and bringing her two young children to safety after their 10 day ordeal snowed in their car.

They ran the heater in their station wagon until the car was out of gas, then burned all the tires in a desperate attempt to keep warm. When the food ran out, Kati Kim breastfed her two young daughters to keep them alive.

Another tip here if you are ever in a situation like this. If you are no longer breastfeeding, allowing your children to drink small amounts of your blood (from a pricked finger) can sustain them similarly. I once read about a lady who kept her toddler alive more than a week this way when they were both buried in the rubble.

Kati’s husband, cNet blogger James Kim, has not yet been found. He left on foot on day 8 because he feared for their safety if help didn’t come soon. We can only hope he’s found safe and sound soon. While we rejoice at the safe homecoming of the pretty Mrs. Kim and her adorable daughters, our heart goes out to the family as they anguish over their son, husband and daddy.

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Breastfeeding And Smarts Saved Kim’s Kids

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Want To Geek Your Holidays?

That’s rather scary, considering a less discerning customer with a slightly older child might have just given the computer over to daughter without even doing a cursory glance. It’s one thing to miss a folder hidden in the system area, but to not even check the desktop? That’s really shoddy…

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Porn On A MacBook Bought From The Apple Store