Hi! Welcome to this humble little website (if you’re new here) and welcome back (if you’re an old friend and regular reader). I’m Kelly and I write on a semi-regular basis for this blog. I write lots of education-related stuff and about issues of race and about my own adorable family. Right now, I’m working behind the scenes to create a whole new look (but with some old, familiar themes!) for Mocha Momma. It’s turned into quite the empire and I even have an intern to help manage this page. Her name is Ray Ray Dynomite. (Ok, that’s what I call her) She’s a longtime friend who helps publish and add things that I’ve always been too lazy to get around to doing. Like pictures and videos! Besides, it’s kind of great to have some help for the MM world domination scheme brand.
I’ll be back in November just in time for NaBloPoMo. Don’t know what that is? You can read all about it here. I just checked out the site just now and found an awesome writing prompt: If your house was on fire, what five things would you be glad to see go up in flames? (Feel free to answer THAT in the comments)
When you return, there will be a prettier interface and more sections for my *BlogHer sponsored posts and my own personal reviews of products. Now that I’ve been doing this for many years, I think it’s time for some changes. I like my writing schedule where I create posts in my head and then write while juggling motherhood and career and my own health-challenged mother and travel and life in general, but thank God I can write after dinner is made and the dog is walked and the kids’ homework is done my mom’s physical needs are cared for and the kitchen is clean and the fields are plowed and the chickens are fed and I can set this dang blog to auto-publish on its own. Thank you, WordPress, for making my life easier!
So, have fun with your Halloween costumes this month and your knitting and the pulling out of your soft Fall sweaters and your backyard bonfires and eating s’mores. I’ll be doing much of the same here. (Plus a little bit of rest for those sore ribs of mine.)
This is much of what I’ll be staring at while I take a bloggy break.
Feel free to leave me comments when you stop by (even out of habit) (even to tell me about the obnoxious over-use of parentheticals) because I always love getting those. They brighten my day!
*I’m finishing up some work I’m doing on the BlogHer and LG TextEd program and will update sparingly on this very post to let you know about those.
UPDATE: Check out the latest BlogHer post about decoding the texting lingo. Do you use any lingo other than LOL? Because that’s all I seem to use.
UPDATE (10/6/10): Check out the latest BlogHer post about setting boundaries with your kids and cell phone use. Do you set grounds rules for your teen’s mobile phone use?
Happy rest-of-October, friends!
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Enjoy a much needed break! See you on the other side.
5 things which can go up in flames:
1. My husband’s cycling shoes.
2. My husband’s cycling shorts.
3. My husband’s Camelpak that he uses while cycling.
4. My husband’s cycling socks.
5. My husband’s cycling gloves.
The sweat, man. The SWEAT.
(See you on the other side, friend.)
Can’t wait to see the revamped site! Will miss you, though! Get some rest and enjoy the break!
Oooh. This is easy. Some of my favorite dreams revolve around this theme!
1. the house
2. the house
3. the house
4. the house
5. then entire house
Really looking forward to the updates, though I love this one. And more enhanced Mocha Momma-ness rocks!
Looking forward to the big reveal (am I watching too much HGTV?)! And how did you know that I was knitting? Oh, wait, I’m almost always knitting…
I’ll have to think on that 5 things question…although I think “baseball card collection” will be on that list.
1. My gf’s Jagermeister hat
2. My gf’s Jagermeister hat
3. My gf’s Jagermeister hat
4. My gf’s Jagermeister hat
5. My gf’s Jagermeister hat
Seriously she could be wearing that thing completely naked and I’d shake my head at it. I’d still jump all over her, but I wouldn’t be 100% thrilled.
see you tomorrow, sugar1 ;~D xoxoxo
Good luck with the blog. Can’t wait to read more. The parking ticket I got can go up in smoke.LOL
Hey – good on you with the ambitious new venue – an ASSISTANT, for gosh sake?? I think the most welcome collateral damage in a conflagration chez Shag would be the way-more-5 (maybe 5 zillion) keepsakes I can’t bear to actually throw away, but which are really no more than clutter. That MIGHT include the house itself. And how can you get by without my favorite texting abbrev: WTF. The only other one I use is BTW, and I truly, truly HATE LOL. It seems (if you’ll paron me) like a total admission of nothing to say. I have never yet seen it employed in any context where the person writing it could at MOST have smiled briefly. When written as a ‘just joking’ it is usually offensive – as in “Wow you must be fat as a pig! LOL”. Yeah, right. So good luck with the new venue. And gosh – if it weren’t for parentheses, I couldn’t write. I LOVE them. I’d venture that they are either the cause of, or the only coherent form of expression for, ADHD. (I was going to just write ADD which would more accurately convey what I meant, but I was fearful that it would be read as ‘add’ only in capitals. I trust no one.)
Am I missing something? Where are you? Are you okay?
Oh you have been missed. I am anxiously awaiting your return and wishing you great Success
Oh, I’m still here. Waiting for my re-design and hoping for better functionality. The deadline appears to be JANUARY and I feel stuck. Not for lack of wanting to blog, either.
Thanks for missing me. I’m okay. I still needed this time off, though. SO much is going on I can’t even say.
I miss y’all, too.
Looking forward to checking out the new page K.
okay, do us all a favor, you know, us out here jonesin for the next articualte blog from an educator, single mom, empowered female in the world. Keep writing and just save in a publishing format, prettty please?
That way, whenever you are back up and bloggin, those of us patiently waiting get a big ole honkin present around christmas or the new year.
Deal?
btw, enjoy the time off, just blurb this and that and save as the mood strikes you. Always an opportunity for censorship/edits before posting on the new redesigned rocking apge right?
done with diahrea of the fingertips now.
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