Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #38

I know, I'm a week late posting the link to the Mother's Day Carnival at Gretchen's but I'm right on time for Mother's Day.

Happy Mother's Day to all our mommy bloggers and readers. I hope you enjoy your day. It has to be better than mine: I'm sick and I'm studying for my final (at least I don't have to cook -- we're getting take out).

We will be having a Carnival next week and the following week, CyberCelt will be hosting both of them. Send your entries to her be noon on each Sunday.

May 20 - CoolAdzine for Marketers -- Tips for Successful Blogging

May 27 - Texas RV TravelC -- What are Your Plans for Summer?

Starting on Friday I will be taking a week off from blogging, that includes answering my emails and adding blogs to the blogroll. You can still send my email, I just won't respond until Memorial Day weekend.

Mother's Day Carnival

We are having a Mother's Day Carnival this week at Girls Can't Do What? Please email your entries to gretchen at girlscantwhat dot com

I am going to be very busy until the end of the month, if someone wants to host the Carnival, please email me.

Technorati Favorites Exchange

Here's a great idea to promote your blog, Technorati Favorites exchange.

The Blogging Chicks Carnival

No Carnival this week but I thought we would have one next week. I'd like to do a Mother's Day Carnival but I'm not sure which Sunday to have it. Mother's Day or the Sunday before Mother's Day. Let me know in the comment section.

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #37

Not exactly afternoon, I know. I'm going to be very busy for the next few weeks, so there might not be a Carnival for the next few weeks. If you want to host the Carnival, email me.

Some late additions that I didn't get to last week:

Mama Duck has some 3rd birthday party activity ideas.

Southern Girl: "Blog Fodder asked if there were teachers who'd left an impression on our lives, good or bad -- this is my tribute to two wonderful teachers in my life."

Here are the entries for this week:

Talia asks how we should deal with the mentally ill.

At New Zealand Reality TV there is a review of the first elimination on Dancing With The Stars

At Self-Help Book Reviews there are 312 Sanity Savers for Women

Angel: "What I've been pondering is what happens when bloggers disappear out of cyber space… When Bloggers Evaporate!"

Mama Duck has ideas for a train themed birthday party.

Darla would like to teach some etiquette lessons at Disneyland.

Pamela (The Dust Will Wait) invites you be her neighbor, because It was a Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood.

Christy: "I blogged about the sweetness of life, and the lessons I'm learning about trying to be a superwoman, plus a review of Murder on the Celtic."

Read how Julie at Another Chance Ranch gets stuck at the Den of Sin. Then check out the link in that story, she’s a blogging chick too.

We are having a Carnival this week

Email me your entry either today or tomorrow morning. The Carnival will be posted tomorrow afternoon. I have a lot of emails to get through, a lot of women are requesting to be added to the blogroll.

The Blog is loading slowly

For some reason the blogroll is loading slowly, I suggest you move it to the end of the sidebar or at the bottom of your page. Also, make sure that you load you posts before you load your sidebar. This makes sense even when blogrolling is working perfectly.

But please don't remove it from you blog! :-)

Tags: blogroll, blogrolling

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #36

If I forgot your entry, please email me and let me know. Please don't forget to link to the Carnival. If you want to submit an entry, email me today and I will include it. There will be a Carnival next week, no theme.

Don't forget that today is tax day (in America) but I think you have until Tuesday to file.

Talia posts a study that says dieting is a waste of time.

Laurel Wreath asks "What is in a name?"

Gretchen: "My 10 year old daughter gets an education" in "Mommy, What is Hooters?"

Christy "For the carnival, I have a book review of Coral Moon by Brandilyn Collins and a cute quote by my daughter Mia."

Swampwitch: Early Detection Saves Lives

CyberCelt shares some musings with us on CoolAdzine for Marketers. Leave a comment and you will be automatically entered into her April comment for cash contest.

Another Chance Ranch is debuting the Bovine Babes. You really should check them out.

Find out why Pamela at The Dust Will Wait is singing "Big Girls Don't Cry!."

Tags: Blogging Chicks Carnival

There is a Carnival this week

We will be having a Carnival this week but it won't have a theme. Email me your 1 line description and link.

BTW, you might be interested to know that I'm working very hard for the blogroll! We have had an influx of applications and we are currently at 700 blogs on the blogroll.

Tags: Carnival, blogroll

Happy Easter!

I hope that you all enjoy your celebration today. I've added some more entries to the Carnival. If you have the time, please check them out.

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #35 Easter/Passover

What happened guys? Didn't want to blog about Easter yet? If you want to email me something today or this week, feel free and I'll add it. Remember, there will not be a Carnival next Sunday. I'll leave this post up all week so that you can keep checking in to see what's been added. Remember that this Carnival is open to all female bloggers.

CyberCelt shares a heartfelt prayer on Texas RV Travel blog.

Mama Duck has ideas for what to put inside your toddler's Easter eggs this year.

LeftCoastOnlooker shares an Easter poem she tripped across & some thoughts from Ben Hur.

The Pink Flamingo is up and running, with my commentary on Palm Sunday. Needless to say I am in a snarky mood!

Michele of Life Under the Sun blogs about The Unexpected King. She also blogs about what Israel expected and what they should have expected here.

Irene blogs about the tradition in her church of giving an Easter candle to her godchild.

Mercy's Maid: "I wrote an entry about Pilate’s role in the crucifixion of Jesus."

Pamela: Parade of thoughts and Flowers.

Catez has a clip from the Jeus Christ Superstar movie of Yvonne Elliman singing I Don't Know How to love Him - and thoughts on Mary Magdalene, passion, and the reason for love as she meditates on Easter.

Swampwitch: Rye Grass Easter Baskets

Tags: Blogging Chicks Carnival, Easter

Don't forget that we have a Carnival tomorrow

I've only received one entry. The Carnival is open to all female bloggers and it's an Easter/Passover theme. It doesn't have to be religious since Easter is a national holiday (at least here in America).

Tags: Carnival, Easter, Passover

We will be having a Easter/Passover Carnival this Sunday

This Carnival is open to all female bloggers whether you are on the blogroll or not.

Feel free to email me your description and link by Saturday at 12 midnight (EST).

The following week, Easter Sunday, there will be no Carnival.

Tags: Carnival, Easter, Passover

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #34

If I missed your post email me. If you didn't make it this week, I'll probably won't be able to add you but you can send it and I can see what I can do. I'm going to be off the computer the rest of the day since I have a digest due this week. The first two entries are from last week's Carnival that didn't make it in (sorry, guys).

Lindsey at Suspension of Disbelief reviews the movie version of one of her favorite plays - Rent!

Irene: "Please find my favorite (and not so favorite!) TV shows as well as the
recent not-to-be- missed films on my blog."

What does lunchmeat have to do with King Solomon? Catez finds a common thread as she looks at living in community.

My husband and I (city-people that we are!) are one step closer to becoming chicken parents! This post includes links to the kinds of chickens we’re getting in a few months’ time.

Darla confesses why showers wipe the screams away.

MC Milker, The Not Quite Crunchy Parent writes about socially responsible shopping.

Mama Duck has ideas for using toddler energy for a cleaner house.

Malissa shares a funny situation in I look like my Dad.

Laurel talks about the best place to be, when life hits you hard.

CyberCelt asks if you want to eat food with human genes or drink milk from cloned animals on Endangered Spaces, her new environmental blog.

Gretchen asks "What do you have to strive for when you've already been number one? "

The Pink Flamingo is trying to recover from a massive hard drive crash.

Gattina: "I wrote about the 50th anniversary of Europe."

Talia: "Do you worry too much? How to check if you are risk of generalized anxiety disorder."

Terri: "My first carnival submission is an ode to my freezer."

Michele of Reformed Chicks Blabbing blogs about husbands taking their wife's last name when they marry.

We are having a Carnival tomorrow

There is no theme, so send me the link and a description of any post you want.

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #33 Movie/TV Theme

Please email me if you'd like to be added to the Carnival. Next week there won't be a theme.

I've rewritten the requirements page, you might want to read it because I mention the purpose of the blogroll and why I require everyone to display the blogroll.

I also collected all the links to the past Carnivals and put them in the Carnival post (there's a link for it in the menu above).

CyberCelt does not like network television, mostly because of the advertising. Click here to see an example of really poor advertising and, if you are offended as well, take action.

The Not Quite Crucnhy Parent tells Tales of a Fairy Garden

Michele of Life Under the Sun shares a video of Steve Harvey introducing Jesus Christ and why she has a love/hate relationship with TV.

Michelle has a list of the best movie soundtracks. Be sure to check the comments for additional suggestions.

Over at The Pink Flamingo I've listed a few of my favorite movies (it's at the bottom).

Tags: Blogging Chicks Carnival

Don't forget that there is a movie/TV Carnival tomorrow

Send me your submissions today!

Previous Post

Ignore the previous post, I decided to use a form to register the new blogging chicks. It gives people a third option to submit their data.

To Join

There's a problem with the forms. I need to find a new way to do them. Email me your url and I will send you the code when I can. It's taking me a month right now to get to them, though I'm trying to make the effort to get to them all this week. We shall see.

My email address: michele dot luts at gmail.com

Announcement: A Carnival on Emotional Eating

Talia is having a Carnival on Emotional Eating and is looking for contributions:

I am looking for anything on emotional eating – people’s personal struggles with stress or emotional eating or eating disorders, how they overcame those eating problems and any tips they’d like to share. I’m not looking for general dieting tips as this is covered elsewhere. Instead I’d like to focus on the emotional aspects of eating.

More information on the carnival is here including a link to submit

Tags: Carnival, Emotional Eating

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #32 Book Theme

If I forgot to add your entry to the list or you want to be added, please email me. Next week's theme is TV and movies: favorites, reviews, or why you don't like them.

After a lifetime of insomnia Talia Mana is excited to find a great book on improving sleep. Read about Good Night's Sleep.

Ann M. writes, "I wrote about what what a dork I was when I worked in publishing."

Debi Martin: Recently Read: Book Reviews

A book meme at smithical

Michele of Life Under the Sun shares her favorite books of the Bible and asks you to share yours.

Gattina: "I have read a book about phobias. Maybe some blogging chicks suffer from blogphobia for this theme?" (warning: graphic graphic)

Owlhaven shares a review of The Mommy Manual

Southern Girl: "The beginning of Savory Sunday, a weekly feature with book reviews and recipes -- something for your mind and tummy."

Gretchen writes, "Have you ever wondered what a guy was thinking? What is going through his mind when he has that look on his face? If these are questions you want answered, pick up a copy of this new book For Young Women Only and get ready for an eye-opening look into the hearts and minds of the opposite sex."

Amanda over at following an unknown path has been lost in the 1600's while reading some awesome historical fiction. She invites us to stop by to make more reading recommendations for her.

The Not Quite Crunchy Parent reviews the Read-Aloud Handbook

Laurel Wreath shares one of her favorite book finds last year that she read during a fall reading challenge.

Who would ever guess that Of Making Many Books is all over this theme? Rebecca invites you to join her in a reading challenge, or to make up your own reading list!

Mama Duck has 13 toddler books

Wanna fun Book Meme? Robin at PENSIEVE is revisiting an oldie but a goodie and she wants to hear YOUR answers!

Tags: Carnival of the Blogging Chicks

Hey, people! We have a Carnival!

I would think that you all would have no problem with a book theme. Just dig into your archive and send me a link (and a description) to a book review or whatever that's related to books. As of now, I only have four entries.

BTW, the theme for next week's Carnival is favorite TV show or movie.

Tags: Carnival, books

Announcement: A search engine for women

Michelle of scribbit has created a search engine that searches the blogs of women:

It's a custom search engine powered by Google that searches select blogs on parenting, crafts, cooking, gardening and blogs by women. Normally when you search for a word or phrase Google returns millions of results, displaying the most popular based on their magic algorithms. For my custom search engine I have narrowed Google's parameters so that a search here will only return results from the blogs I've specified.

What does this mean?

Say you're writing a post on helping your child learn to read and would like to add to what others have written on the subject, by searching with this custom search engine you'd learn what Thrifty Mommy, Play Library, Rocks in My Dryer, Izzy Mom or the other thousand blogs on parenting have to say on the subject.

Read more about this new blog tool at http://scribbit.blogspot.com/

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #31

You know the drill, if I forgot your entry please let me know and if you want to enter, just email me. I'm taking Rebecca's suggestion and doing a book theme. It's board enough for you to do whatever you want with it. So, next week will be a book theme.

This week author and coach, Tasra Dawson shows us How to Get and Keep Your Purse Organized at Lessons from the Scrapbook Page.

Debi Martin: The Saga of the Spraying Choo, er, Toilet.

Gretchen: The Picture of Organized: A reflection of my Grandma, who passed away last month.

Bad Doggie at An Island Life

MC Milker, The Not Quite Crunchy Parent discusses when to start organized sports

Virginia borrowed this idea from fellow Blogging Chick: Gilmore Girls Fanatic—write a letter to your younger self offering advice from the future. Hindsight is always 20/20!

Lucy of An Ordinary Mom explains how "The Sound Of Music" describes most toddlers ... and teenagers.

Mama Duck chronicles 13 things that were thrown at her this week by the toddler.

Michele looks at the child care crises from her personal perspective.

Biker Betty writes "It's how you get treated differently depending on what you wear. When I wear my motorcycle protective gear I many times will be treated differently. I had a recent incident when subbing at a school and I had rode my motorcycle to work. Read all about it."

Erin blogged about prayer.

Michele of Life Under the Sun looks at the question of whether the Internet is good or bad in "Shift Happens."

Southern Girl says of her post,"It's about my dumpster-diving, trash-picking mother and how one's person's garbage is another's treasure."

Michele of Reformed Chicks Blabbing has been blogging (a lot) about the "Jesus" tomb controversy.

Tags: Carnival

Theme week is March 10th

This week, no theme. I messed up the date but it works in my favor so I'm keeping it. Send me a Carnival submission of anything you want by Sat 12 Midnight.

Also, continue to submit themes. Please make them general, it's easier that way.

Tags: Carnival

I won't be doing any Blogging Chicks business until next week

I'm going to be overwhelmed for the next few days ( if you are interested in why, you can read about it here). I'm taking this week off from the Carnival and we will have a theme Carnival next week, March 10th. You pick the theme. Leave me your choice of theme in the comment section.

Look, we all have to play nice here!

There is a wide diversity of opinion and beliefs on this blogroll and I'm trying to create an atmosphere in which everyone feels comfortable here. I would ask that you refrain from using incendiary language on the Metablog. Let's respect each other's right to believe what we want to believe, at least here on the Metablog.

BTW, I know I'm late on switching to the headlines from the new featured blog and I promise to give you extra time because of it. You'll have a month on the Metablog to make up for it.

The Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #30

Sorry the Carnival was late this week, I fell asleep! I should never have started a new blogroll and two new networks (if you don't know what I'm talking about, look at the previous posts) when I also have a really bad cold and recovering from surgery. Too much! And just as I was putting the finishing touches on it, I messed the whole thing up and had to start again!

If I forgot your post, email me and I will include it. Light fare this week guys, what's up with us? I didn't even have anything to submit. [I was able to come up with something and if I can do it, so can you. ] If you didn't submit a post, just grap an url of some post you liked and email it to me with a brief description! Come back later on and see if anyone decided to submit something.

Talia Mana interviews Therese Borchard about being a mother with depression and anxiety and an author of books on motherhood, marriage and Catholicism.

scribbit: "Five Points of Time Managment for Children"

Lucy of An Ordinary Mom talks about the daunting yet awe-inspiring task of being a mother.

Mama Duck shares ideas for overcoming fears about the scary drains.

Catez Stevens of Allthings2all has an interview with Gregory Laughery, Director of Swiss L'Abri and author of Living Spirituality. "We discuss rock concerts, spiritual optimism, authenticity, and living in community - among other things!"

Irene: "This week I am writing about Carnival, its history and related traditions from the antiquity to modern time celebrations."

local girl at An Island Life: Short, Fat, & Big-Headed

Erin rants about being a "second wife."

Michele from Life Under the Sun reviews Bridge to Terabithia and is surprised that it wasn't what she expected.

MC Milker Talks about "Giraffe Talk" at Not Quite Crunchy Parent.

Laurel Wreath reminds us God is in all the details of our life.

The Pink Flamingo is up with another report on the ongoing cat soap opera.

Gattina: "Funny story : Visit to a cimetary"

Rebecca needs some help with renaming her blog.

Tags: Blogging Chicks Carnival

I've Created a Blogging Chicks Network

At Feedburner. It's open to all women whether you are on the blogroll or not (though, the same restrictions apply: no hate sites, etc. go see the restrictions here).

Here is a synopsis of Feedburner Networks:

FeedBurner has launched a new service to give its publishers the ability to organize themselves into networks, groups of folks who publish similar content and want band together to leverage the power of many to cross-promote their content and get more attention.

Email me your url or leave a comment with your email address and url and I will mail you an invitation. When you email me make sure you say that you want to join the "Blogging Chicks Network."

I've also created one for the Christian Blogosphere, go here for details.

Tags: Blogging Chicks Network

Christian Blogosphere Blogroll

OK, it's not like I don't have anything else to do with my time but since the Christian Bloggers aren't accepting any new members, I figured I would start a blogroll for Christians. I want to promote Christian blogs the way I'm promoting women blogs.

Go here to find out more information about the requirements for joining the blogroll.

Tags: christian blogroll, blogosphere, Christianity, religion

Happy Valentine's Day, Chicks!!

So, I've already started eating my Valentine's Day chocolate, how about you? I've added another entry to the Love Carnival, go check it out!

The Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #29 Love Theme

I'm really bad about making sure everyone who emailed me makes it into the Carnival, so let me know if I forgot you. Please remember to link to the Carnival, especially if you're in it.

There will be a Carnival next week but there isn't a theme.

I have been going through the blogroll and deleting blogs that aren't displaying the blogroll (I also send an email letting them know that they've been dropped). Please make sure that you have the blogroll someplace where I can find it.

Local Girl of Island Life Finally Found Prince Charming

Fate hits Maritzia in He's all I never knew I always wanted

LeftCoastOnlooker shares the tale of two, who learned of God's love.

Janet writes "When I think about love, I think about my daughter. She is my one true love..."

Barbara: "Here is a story of how my husband and I fell in love."

Malissa rambles about her Valentines memories.

Laurel Wreath talks about expectations and Valentine's Day.

Mary posts Love is... Part Two (the grungy version), at Almost Somewhat Positive.

Michele explains what love has caused her to do.

CyberCelt wants you to experience romance on history on Valentine's Day over at Texas RV Travel blog.

Michele of Life Under the Sun decided to be different and wrote of the top ten reasons she loves blogging :-)

Gattina: What is love?

Erin: "I wrote about what I don't want to receive from my husband on Valentine's Day."

Julie Carobini's family puts their love in action as she launches Chocolate Beach. Check it out.

Sarah: "My title is "Love is...a timeline" and it's a time line of me and my husbands relationship from July of 98 til now."

Irene's post is entitled, Love Unconquered, "I am writing about different forms of love through poetry."

Tags: Carnival

Reminder: Carnival this week

We are having a theme this week in honor of Valentine's Day: Love! Write something about love and email me your description and url.

Next week there won't be a theme but there will be a Carnival.

Tags: Carnival

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #28

If I forgot your entry, please email me and let me know. Please don't forget to link to the Carnival. If you want to submit an entry, email me today and I will include it.

Next week the theme will be love in honor of Valentine's Day.

BTW, I had mentioned that I was going to make an announcement of a new feature for the Metablog but after some investigation, I determined it would not work out.

Laurel Wreath would like to introduce you to her cousin.

Maritzia writes about her sister-in-law and holds her up as a positive female role model in Hooray for Anja

There is a season: "It's about my "friend" - "Hope" ;-)"

Been to Vegas? Planning on going? Drink from Virginia's pool of knowledge on the subject of Sin City!

Gretchen says of her post, Unique Does Not Describe You,"Finding better ways to accurately explain who you are and what you represent."

Anna Venger discusses her theories about names and the significance of a new name in "What's in a Name"

Ann says of her post "It is about the first time I actually felt married--my husband had to lose an organ to truly make me understand what it all meant."

Michele of Life Under the Sun ponders her inability to ponder.

CyberCelt of CoolAdzine for Marketers laughs at terror and invites you to a blog party.

At Dreaming What Ifs... Karmyn R muses about selling a vehicle and the misunderstanding of her 3 year old in The Shape of Things.

Malissa's shares her inspiration journal idea with you.

Mama Duck has 13 musical toy gift ideas for toddlers.

Gattina: "The entry is called 'Prison Talk' and tells the story of a felon who wanted to go back to prison but was not let in!"

Liz contemplates what her life path or purpose in life is supposed to be.

The Pink Flamingo is going to a movie tomorrow (once a year) and is posting today. The Great Cat Soap Opera Is Reaching a Swan Song!

Talia Mana from Centre for Emotional Well-Being shares the benefits of furry friends (complete with adorable puppy photos) and why venting anger can cause heartache for women.

Julie at Another Chance Ranch laughed out loud when she posted this. It is the funniest thing she has seen in a long time. Check it out!

MCMilker updates her seasonal table to reflect the waning of Winter

I'm Just Saying: "The topic is sort of a photo blog about getting stuck in traffic trying to run errands in the rain."

In which Michele attempts to answer the question, "How do you do it?"

Irene: America, America

Tags: Blogging Chicks Carnival

Share the Love Awards and there is a Carnival this week

A lot of the Blogging Chicks have been nominated for a Share the Love awards. I didn't even know about it until someone emailed me that one of my blogs had been nominated. You can vote here, I'm sure you'll find some of your favorite bloggers on the list.

And there is a Carnival on Sunday but there will not be a theme. So email me a description and the url to your post by midnight (EST).

Tags: Carnival, blogs, award

MyBabyTV

I know that we have a lot of Mommy blogs on the blogroll, so I thought you might be interested in this:

MyBabyTV offers a simple, user-friendly process for uploading video content. Once uploading is complete, the file is submitted to a BabyTV.com moderator for posting approval. Moderator approval is required for all video submissions to ensure that BabyTV.com remains safe and family-friendly for the benefit of both users and advertisers.

Check it out here.

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #27 What I've Learned From Blogging

Let me know if I forgot your entry. If you want to participate, email me. We will not be having a theme Carnival next week, so you can email me any kind of post you want.

Julie avoided blogging in the past because she didn't understand it it. She's learned how therapeutic it can be.

Rebecca hasn't learned much from blogging, but Ms. Dewey sure is teaching her a lot!

Debi: "List of What I've Learned from Blogging"

Mary talks about where to draw the line in the weirdness department in Everything I needed to know, I learned from blogging.

Skittles: "It's about discovering what I say can be of interest and about friendships I've made. "

CyberCelt of CoolAdzine for Marketers blog shares What I Have Learned From Blogging. This is an updated and expanded version of her first submission to the Carnival of Blogging Chicks.

Michele from Reformed Chicks Blabbing celebrated her first year of blogging this month and she writes of the things she's learned from blogging.

Swampwitch at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes has posted the Top Ten Things She's Learned NOT to Post on Her Blog.

Gattina: "How I started with "next blog" and going further I found out that it is really amazing what different kind of subjects bloggers are writing about, sometimes really for a psychiatrist." (warning: graphic cartoon)

The Pink Flamingo is up and running with a Top Ten 10 Things I've Learned From Blogging - including how to talk to Windstream Telecom techies. (It's at the bottom of the post.)

Erin: "I basically wrote about how I feel like blogging has given me great friends and it's so therapeutic!"

Irene: What I've learned from blogging

Tags: Carnival

Canrival tomorrow

There is a theme, "What you've learned from blogging." Please email me a description and a link to the post by midnight (EST). Next week, not theme.

Tags: Carnival

Switching to Beta Blogger

I know that it's no longer called Beta but for the purposes of this post, I'm calling it that. I've gotten a number of emails from people who have switched from Blogger to Beta and then lose the blogroll in the switch. I have no problem resending the code but I'm concerned that you might not remember everything that you had in your sidebar, so I thought I would offer a suggestion. Before you switch save your template by copying it into a text program like Notepad. Then you can copy the code from your sidebar to your new blog.

If you switched recently before you saved a copy of your template, you could Google your blog name, then select "Cached." BTW, this is a good trick to use if you messed up your sidebar and didn't back it up recently, an old copy of your blog is still available via Google (that's what "cached" means). This happened to me recently, I had made some additions to my sidebar a couple weeks previously and I went to replace a comment in my sidebar, not knowing that my stupid touchpad had selected everything below the comment and I deleted everything and then saved my template without verifying that it was ok. I was able to get the code back by googling my blog, then selecting "Cached" and then right click on mouse and select "View Page Source" from the menu. Then I just copied the sidebar material that was missing.

Tags: blogging, blogs

I've added couple more entries to the Carnival

So, go check them out.

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #26

If I forgot your entry, please email me and let me know. Please don't forget to link to the Carnival. If you want to submit an entry, email me today and I will include it.

Talia from the Centre for Emotional Well-Being asks ‘Is the cure worse than the illness?’ in part 1 of this 2 part blog post on taking antidepressants for depression, anxiety and bipolar illness.

Laurel Wreath wants to know, why do I have to be thankful in all things.

LeftCoastOnlooker wants you to know her f-i-l is one of the special people we sometimes get the privelege of having in our lives, and she invites you to play a game with her students!

Rebecca describes her first (and only) real relationship and why it was such a flop.

Michelle from scribbit: You Have to Know the Right Question to Ask.

Virginia explains why Spellchecker is your friend—and her one exception to this rule.

CyberCelt of Texas RV Travel blog hopes to make a small difference in the world by making more people aware of the plight of the people of Darfur. Will you Help The People of Darfur?

Mary (mert) starts the "story of us" in part one of You had me at "you kind of annoy me", in which she sets the back drop for meeting her future husband.

According to Lisa, "You can never have too many cell phones – or keys...."

anna blogs about her quite home.

Michele of Reformed Chicks Blabbing asks the question: "Since when are SAHM considered trophy wives?"

Malissa at Malissa's Merry Go Round says "You know you're from Wisconsin if..."

Gattina: "My post for blogging chicks is called: Using a Computer at 6o? The fear so many elder women have to touch a computer."

SJ Reidhead from The Pink Flamingo says, "I have a question: What is your Greatest Treasure? Check today's Pink Flamingo for more. I would love to hear from you about it."

Lucy from An Ordinary Mom shares some witty observations from her 5 year old daughter.

Reminder: there is a Carnival tomorrow

Don't forget to send in your entry.

No theme this week for the Carnival

Submit what you want. Make sure you send me a description and your url for the post. Next week we will be having a theme, what you learned from blogging.

Tags: carnival, blogging chicks, blogroll

The headlines are up!

I was able to put up all seven of the headlines, so there is no one on the waiting list. If you want to be the first one displayed in a month, email me.

Tags: blogging chicks

We have the 5!

Five (actually six) bloggers have already responded but you can still email your url so that you can be on the waiting lists, I will tell you what number you are so that you know when your headlines will be up on the Metablog. You don't have to install the Metablog headlines while you are waiting. I will email you in a month to remind to install it. If I get the headlines up tonight, then they will be up until Feb. 17.

Don't be bummed if you didn't make it, I have something else in the works to help promote your blog. I will try to get it ready to announce this week, next week at the latest. :-)

Tags: blogging, bloggers

An Advertising Offer

I mention that I would be offering you an opportunity to advertise your headlines on the sidebar of the Metablog. The first five people who install the following code on their sidebar and email me their url, will be put on the sidebar of the Metablog for a month.

<script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BloggingChicks?format=sigpro" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript><p>Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: <a href="http://not-a-real-namespace/http://not-a-real-namespace/http://not-a-real-namespace/http://feeds.feedburner.com/BloggingChicks"></a><br/>Powered by FeedBurner</p> </noscript>

And the rest will be put on a waiting list and the next five will be displayed for two weeks at the end of the month. And when we have gone through the list, we will start back at the beginning and work through the list. I will continually add new people to the list if you want to join later. You only have to display the Blogging Chicks headlines while we are displaying your headlines. Look at it as a reciprocal headlines exchange. I only have one caveat and that is you refrain from swearing in your headline (just in the headline) during the time that you are displayed here.

Now, anyone who wants to know what's been posted at the Metablog (especially what's going on with the Carnival and something else that I will be announcing this week that would benefit your readers) might want to add the code to your sidebar.

Another way to be informed about what's going on here, at the Metablog is to subscribe to our feed, either by email or one of your favorite RSS readers. There is a form and a chicklet in the sidebar. I plan to post more informational stuff here, so you might want to keep checking back.

If anyone has problems installing the code, email me.

Tags: blogroll, blogging chicks, headlines

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #25

Sorry the Carnival was late this morning, I fell asleep last night before the deadline for the Carnival and this morning I had technical difficulties, someone's blog made Firefox crash. If I forgot your entry, let me know. If you are in the Carnival this week, please make sure you link to it. I will add any late-comers later today.

Updated: Of course I missed one:
Amanda is playing a guessing game on following an unknown path . Can you tell what the photo is of?

Good Night, Friend is a tribute to Swampwitch's Boxer, Junior. Follow Junior on his Memory Walk.

Mama Duck shares why stickers before coffee are a bad, bad thing at Lil Duck Duck

The Wooden Porch: "I once was lost". On Friday, January 12th, two kidnapped boys were found. One had been missing for four days, the other four years.

Anna Venger speaks out on pornography and the continuing double standards for morality in "What's Good for the Goose".

CyberCelt just returned from a two-week Christmas vacation and wants to share it with you on Texas RV Travel blog.

Laurel Wreath tells her son not to grow up too fast.

Why Owlhaven and Snowboarding don't mix.

Gattina: "A little about tourist life at the Red Sea (Egypt)"

In which Rebecca was going to make up a meme ... but didn't.

The Pink Flamingo: I have a whole slew of topics today as we remember Wyatt Earp who died on this day in 1929.

Michele of Life Under the Sun asks "What's in a name?"

Tonight Pamela,The Dust Will Wait, was watching it snow, sitting by the fire.. and she thought about her good friend who has spent her life giving - and how she let Pamela own a piece of a miracle.

Talia: "My blog entry is a review of a book 'I can make you thin' by Paul McKenna"

Julie at Another Chance Ranch has a few Words of Wisdom for you.

Tags: Carnival

Did you guys forget we are having a Carnival?

There is no theme, so send me a link and description to whatever post you want.

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #24 Looking Back or Forward

We're back! We will be having a weekly Carnival here on the Metablog at least through the month of January and probably February. Next week we will not be having a theme so you can enter anything you want. Be sure to check back this week for a special announcement and the opportunity to advertise your blog on the Metablog.

If I forgot your entry, please email me so that I can include it. Please don't forget to link to the Carnival, especially if you are in it.

Michele of Life Under the Sun shares her New Years resolutions and her reason for making them.

MumaJuile reflects on past New Year's resolutions, why they did or did not work, and makes a new resolution for 2007.

Mary from Owlhaven decides some things need to change at her house and writes about The Owlhaven, 2007 Edition

Mama Duck presents Our year in photos.

Amanda takes a pictorial look back at the year 2006 on her blog following an unknown path.

What's Your Vision? Award-winning author and blogger, Tasra Dawson, shares how to create a new vision for 2007. Learn how to make your vision a reality at Lessons from the Scrapbook Page.

Jana's weight loss and exercise resolution - continued from last year.

Gattina says of her post, "I wrote about New Year's Eve in Egypt at the Red Sea. Resolutions are not for me, they come and go lol!"

Sunrunner looks forward to thirteen things to expect in the New Year.

Camy dives into her goals for 2007, including a few writerly things from
her contract.

Welcome to 2007! says Rebecca at Of Making Many Books. She shares 17 resolutions for herself, and one for you.

Talia Mana writes of "The 10 Biggest Mistakes People Make with New Year's Resolutions"

Local Girl at An Island Life is Finally Back Home

God is leading At A Hen's Pace and her family on an uncertain journey this year.

SJ Reidhead of The Pink Flamingo blogs about "The Church in Iraq, Nancy I, and Very Funny Fake Headlines"

Malissa at Malissa's Merry Go Round wraps up 2006 in Blog in Review.

Tags: Carnival

Too much spam!

The daily spam on this blog has finally made me put verification on the posts. I'm sorry, I know that can be a pain but I've had it with deleting the posts each day.

Tags: spam

The Purpose of the Metablog

I thought it might be helpful to repeat the purpose of the Metablog. We have so many new blogs added and I don't think the new people are getting what we are about. The purpose of the Metablog is to advertise the blogs on the blogroll and to that purpose we have Carnivals as well as announcements about any special event on the blogs.

Another purpose of the blogroll is to offer helps and tips on blogging which you will find by clicking on the "Blogging Resources" tab. I will be adding to those resources in the coming weeks before I return to seminary. If you've written a post that you think would be helpful to other bloggers, email the link to me and I will post it on the Metablog, if I think it's helpful.

Also, in the coming weeks I will be offering a way for you to promote your content (as headlines) here on the Metablog, if you promote the content of the Metablog on your blog. Details will follow (eventually :-) You can see an example of what it might look like by checking out the headlines of my blog Life Under the Sun on the sidebar.

Tags: blogging, blogroll

Blogging Chicks Carvinal

We will be having a Carnival this week so make sure you get your post written early! I've decided to widen the theme a little bit to include what you're planning to do in the future, either resolutions or future plans for your blog or dieting or vacations or whatever. So, you can either blog about your Christmas/Holiday or your plans for the future. Email me by midnight (EST) on Saturday.

Updated: If you want to do a year in review post, you can submit that as well. So, the theme would be looking back or forward.

Tags: Carnival

Decor Next Door

Here's a great new service, post a picture to their website and ask decorating questions. Plus you can see what others think of your design choices by getting you room rated.

Tags: decorate, interior design

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all the Blogging Chicks and to those who read this blog. I hope all your lives are filled with peace and joy in the coming year.

We will be having a Carnival next Sunday here on the Metablog. I thought we could have a theme:" What I did on my Christmas/Winter/Holiday break." I figured you would be writing a post like that anyway and I thought it would be fun for us to catch up with what everyone is doing.

Tags: Carnvial

A Blogging Chicks Christmas

I know that I said there won't be much posting but I've been going through the blogroll, checking to make sure that everyone still has the blogroll on their blog (we lost about twenty blogs, though this time I emailed everyone and some of the bloggers didn't know they didn't have the blogroll on their blog, so we didn't lose as many as we could have). And while I was checking I noticed how many of the Blogging Chicks have decorated for Christmas. Here are some:

Her Majesty's Throne (so cute, you have to check it out),
Here is-A-Blog-4-Chilady,
Joyful Mom,
My So-Called Homeschool,
Jottings From Jersey,
Just a Spoon Full of Sugar,
Lifecruiser,
The Looney Bin,
Momma's So Called Life (which she's renamed Momma's So Called Christmas Life -- I'm assuming that's temporary so I'm not changing it on the blogroll),
Mia Shaken Not Stirred (go check it out it is sooo cute!),
Wooden Porch, Suspension of Disbelief,
Temporarily Me, Rocks In My Dryer,
WebKittyn Warbles,
Whisperings From the Wings
Write from Karen

Sobeit makes you want to drink hot chocolate while you read the blog. And Yellow Rose Garden invokes memories of Christmas movies.

And there is a very timely parking video at Home is Where You Start From (very funny).

I did a little decorating on my blogs, but nothing compared to everyone else's. But I do have a cute Christmas video here (Madagaskar).

So, go check out all the decorated blogs, it will be like going to look at your neighborhood's Christmas decorations on Christmas Eve.

If you've decorated for either Hanuka, Christmas, or winter, feel free to leave a link in the comments section.

Happy Hanukkah !

To all our Jewish Blogging Chicks and readers, Happy Hanukkah! I'm sorry it took me so long to say it. I hope you enjoy your time of celebration with your families and friends.

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #23 Christmas

Late on posting the Carnival. Sorry! I was out of town over the weekend and then when I got home, I'd forgotten all about it.

It's up at Owlhaven.

The Blogging Chicks are losing in every category!

Even Shannon! I would be bummed if not one of the Blogging Chicks won. Please consider voting, and if you voted already thanks, and please do it again :-)

We have three in the parenting category: Shannon of Rocks in the Dryer, Karenrani of Troll Baby and Lisa of Lil' Duck Duck. You can vote for them here.

In the Diarist category: Mrs. Lifecruiser of Lifecruiser.com and JenLo of Thinks by Me. You can vote for them here.

In the Top 1001-1750 blogs: Holy Mama! You can vote for her here.

In the Best Of The Rest (8501+) Talia of The Centre for Emotional Well-Being! You can vote for her blog here.

And finally, you can vote for my blog Reformed Chicks Blabbing in the Best New Blog category here.

You can vote daily until Dec. 15.

Tags: 2006 Weblog Awards

Sweet Scent Awards

Hey, I was just informed by At A Hen's Pace that there are a number of Blogging Chicks who are up for these awards. Please go support your fellow Blogging Chicks. At A Hen's Pace is up for Best Homeschool Blog.

Tags: sweet scent awards, Christian Women Online

Christmas Carnival

Here is the email address for this Sunday's Carnival: owlhaven at aol dot com.

Remember that we will be off for two weeks after that and when we return we will have the Carnival here for the month of January.

Also, keep checking back here for tips and resources in a couple weeks.

Tags: Christmas, carnival

Carnival of the Blogging Chicks #22 Laughter

The Carnival is up. If you forgot and still want to enter, you can do so since Rebecca is updating the list all day.

Don't forget that next week is our Christmas Carnival and it's open to everyone.

Tags: Carnival, Christmas

Laughter Carnival

Hey Ladies! I know that you guys have something you can submit. I've been to your blogs and I've read some of your posts. There are tons of kids stories out there. Shannon had the funniest story I've read on the Internet about her son licking the toilet water. Go to her blog and ask her to submit it :-)

Tags: Carnival