From Conception to Birth - A Blog Post Is Born

7:00am - Begin feeding the children and start to brainstorm about the day's blog post.

8:00am - Wipe down children and consider writing about the healthy benefits of cereal for breakfast.

8:20am - Realize you have been reading the nutritional information on the back of the cereal box for the past 20 minutes.

8:30am - Clean cereal off the floor and consider writing a post about how many times you have to clean a house in a day when young children are present.

8:40am - The thought that you will either appear to be a whiner, inefficient house cleaner or boring squashes the idea of a cleaning post.

9:00am - Sit down to check email, community forums and Twitter trending topics for a possible blog post.

9:30am - You have now been playing Farmville for 30 minutes.

10:00am - You have now been reading all the entries on Twitter marked #iwishiknew and laughing at the typos other people do.

10:30am - You begin a post about funny typos and quickly delete it before your readers start pointing out all your errors.

11:00am - Now that the children are done with the coloring, playdough and alphabet work, you begin lunch.

11:30am - After preparing pb&j, grilled cheese, fruit and more cereal. You consider writing a post on picky children and nutrition.

11:35am - You skip that idea because you would hate to admit you just fed your child a pudding, gummy fruits and string cheese for lunch.

12:00pm - Put down children for nap. Check out community forums for a topic idea.

1:30pm - You have now been in a debate about hummus, skinny jeans and the latest episode of Dancing With The Stars for an hour and a half.

1:45 - Children up from a nap, light house keeping and dinner preparation.

*The times not represented here are a blur of laughs, tears, food, baths, diapers, potty training, etc.*

9:00pm - Find a blog hop that only requires the use of a picture for a blog post.

10:00pm - Just spent the last hour looking at baby pictures and crying. Consider chocolate chip cookie dough.

10:15pm - Decide on a picture and try to get it to load. Shake fist at Blogger's uploading system.

10:30pm - Post done.

1:00am - Wake up and think of the best blog post ever. Chuckle to yourself over the popularity of this topic and imagine yourself accepting the Bloggy Grammy.

7:00am - Wake up and can't remember what on earth you were wanting to write about...go look for another picture blog hop.

(By the way...I couldn't think of a blog post today because I have oatmeal brain.)

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

I have mentioned it before, but did you know about the FREE community that you can join which lets you participate in discussions, see new blog posts, tweets and so much more?

ahem....FREE

I am talking about it again, because The BlogFrog has been working their tadpole tails off and have grown their communities into full grown hoppin' frogs! With new options allowing for more customization, faster downloads and the ability to make your avatar look thinner (so I have heard!)

There are a ton of communities to choose from and you can join one, all or even make one of your own!

I have had a community with BlogFrog (right over there in my sidebar...join it if you haven't and be my neighbor) for many moons and have been blown away by their customer service! Not saying that I have had a lot of problems, but each time I approach them with an issue; not only is resolved quickly but they actually work with you to make your community better for your members.

So here is what I want from YOU. Join up with the BlogFrog and visit some communities (err...mine!) see what discussions are taking place, join in, start one of your own or even start your own community. This is a great group to work with for social networking!

You can check out the communities at The BlogFrog or join mine at The Crayon Box. I would truly love to see you there and help me make my community one hoppin' place to be.

Post It Note Tuesday

Click on the first post-it to join in on some Post-It fun! Create your own post-its and submit your link.
(Should have made this a Post It...D'Oh) Remember to visit my community in the sidebar to ask The Head Crayon (the husband) any question you want for him to answer on his first Vlog.