There is a new site especially for mom bloggers that is launching on August 1st with almost $4,000 worth of prizes. The site is MomDot.com and is seriously going to be THE place for mom bloggers to network and list their blogs.

I strongly urge all the mom bloggers out there to get your listing up at MomDot, and register for the forum too, to network, chat with and learn from other mom bloggers.

Go check out MomDot and what they have to offer, enter whatever giveaway they currently have running and post on your own blog about the grand opening on August 1st. Seriously, this is ground floor. Like buying Microsoft stock in the 80’s.

Plus, their button is fantastic!

I received this special “Sharing the Love” award from April at That Crazy Mom who received it from Dette at Muthahood Crib who received it from Sue at Stay at Home Mom, who received it from Spice from Spice World, who received it from Crystal at Memoirs of a Mommy.

From the Share the Love Award creator:

The rules of this award are: SHARE THE LOVE!!! Share this award with all those blogs out there that you love. All the people who make you smile. All those that make you laugh. All those that make your day. All those that leave uplifting comments on your blog. **All I ask, is that you include a link to this post with the award and ask your recipient to do the same**

As you may have recently seen on my side bar, I have finally created a custom blog award!! I have wanted to do this for a long time but never came up with something that “fit”. I didn’t want just anything. It had to be something that meant something to me. And what could mean more than Sharing the Love by giving you pieces of my heart??

So I created this award in Honor Of The Donor That Saved Noah’s Life. I share this award with those of you whose love and friendship have enriched my life and made my world a better place.

I hope by passing this award around the blogging world we can all help raise awareness of the need for Organ Donation.

I am proudly passing this award on to the following:

Jenn at The Peacock’s Nesting Place

Lauren at Supermom Central

Vanessa at Nessa’s Place

Deb at Mom of 3 Girls

Mannequin at Fractured Toy

Just be glad they were not wearing them when the picture was taken…

I was folding laundry and couldn’t resist.

I’m working on getting the new theme loaded. Don’t be alarmed if anything looks funny. It will be resolved soon.

The last few days I have been so focused on the new site design I have neglected (alas, I am NOT a supermom…) some of my other blogging activities. Now is the time to address a few things!

First, we have received an award.
Well, we have actually received the same award TWICE - 2 different bloggers have awarded us with the “Arte y Pico Blog” Award!

We’re quite honored to receive this award from our fellow bloggers, at Moomette’s Mama Mentor Blog and Life in The Lapadula house even if we have no idea what the title of it means!

We will display it proudly despite it being the ugliest thing I’ve seen in awhile!
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We are doing some minor remodeling here at What’s That Smell?

It’s not going to look much different, and most things will still be roughly in the same place, but hopefully easier to find!

Feel free to yell if you don’t like it - comment here or use our contact form.

In the meantime, if anything looks funny, just be patient, it will just be for a few hours!

Thanks!

We now have over 100 subscribers! If you are one of them, pat yourself on the back for us, we really appreciate it. If you are one of those touchy-feely types, go ahead and give yourself a hug.

If you haven’t subscribed, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING for? Don’t miss out on all the good fun stuff. Subscribing to our updates makes people happy. I’m happy. In fact, I’m doing a happy dance.

Don’t you want to be doing a happy dance?

If we could give away toasters to everyone who subscribes, we would, but we’re not independently wealthy, or any other kind of wealthy.

So, here’s the best we can do:

Where did all of our readers go?

Yesterday we had 82 subscribers and now we have only 32!

Where did you go?

Come back!

We miss you!

Was it something we said? Or did?

We’ll shower next time, I promise!

Oh, wait….I just looked at Feedburner and I think it screwed up. It’s not currently counting our email subscribers. Whew….must be a glitch….

Ok,

If you are a blogger you likely spend a lot of time noticing other people’s themes and then questioning the attractiveness and layout of your own theme.

At least daily I personally see a theme that I envy!

I would imagine most bloggers use the numerous FREE themes that are available on the web and tweak them as much as they can to make them a bit more personalized. I know that is what I have done here on What’s That Smell?.

If you use Wordpress and are a theme junky like me, you now have the opportunity to win a Premium Theme at WP Theme Designer.
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I’ve been tagged by Sassy at The Sassy Southerner for a Meme. A meme is essentially like those emails you receive where you edit the last persons answers to some questions about you and then forward it on to others so they can learn more about you. It’s a fun way to learn about other bloggers.

Here goes:

3 Places I Go All the Time
1. The grocery store. Not by choice really, but my kids have to eat.
2. The bathroom. I have to hide somewhere.
3. Target. I love Target!

3 People Who Email me
1. My Mom
2. The Nigerian lottery officials
3. My husband’s uncle

3 Favorite Places I Like to Eat
1. Any pizza parlor.
2. Any Mexican restaurant.
3. Chilis

3 Places I would rather be right now
I actually can’t think of any place I’d rather be besides here.

3 Projects I would like to get started
1. Clean our lower level.
2. Clean my daughter’s room.
3. Scrapbooking.

3 People who might do this
1. Cindi
2. Heather
3. Myra

3 TV Shows I could watch over and over
1. X-Files. I’m weird.
2. Hart to Hart. Welcome to my time warp.
3. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. I have a crush on Elliot.

If you participate, leave me a comment so I can check out your responses!

Way back, a long, long time ago… oh about 9 months or so, a blog was born.

You know it.

You must.

You’re reading it.

Back then, during the good old days, I wanted nothing more than to share my thoughts and feelings with the world…

wait…

Whoa, wrong opera…

Seriously, I saw this blog “thing” as a way for me to document my adventures in parenting, because they truly are adventures, bugs, guts, dirt and all. I hoped that some day it would serve as a fun way for my kids to see what they put me through…a digital journal of sorts, but one that I could share with family and friends. I also saw it as a way to share my knowledge of how to make money from home, and how to find great deals shopping online.
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