I'm feeling a little lonely over at my new blog, http://www.comeonhome.net/ .

I am trying to figure out how to email all of my followers here at once to tell them I've moved.

Anyone have a clue how to do this? To email over 200 people individually could take a while : -)

Thanks!

A few weeks ago, I posed a question to my readers:

What makes a blog "good".

I got a variety of answers- some as comments, and some through email.

Here are some of them:

Most people like a nice looking blog, but it's the content that keeps 'em coming back.

The majority of respondants said they didn't mind someone selling an item, having a give-away or doing reviews on their blog but they liked seeing a little of the personal touch with it. This included pics of the kids, cute stories about kids and other family-type content.

If it's all sell, sell, sell they are likely to click the big X in the corner and get out of there.

They want to see a face behind the name.......a profile along with a pic on the splash page.

Most admitted they kind of liked the Google friend follower button, although some wondered about the loyalty of some of these "friends".

Straight text with no line breaks, titles or pics is a no-no! White space between paragraphs makes a blog easier to read.

And speaking of ease of reading, strange colors combos like black backgrounds with green text, or bright yellow background with florescent orange text may be cool, but it's very hard to read.

Too many ads are a big turn-off. I have to admit, I've seen some blogs that are ALL ads along with a sentence or two, and there was no profile- Jack the Ripper could have written that blog! Why would I buy something from a "no-one?"

Ironically, as I was waiting for comments to pour in :-), I happened to run into a lot of blogs that were ALL review and nothing personal.

I decided to write a post on my Advice For Work At Home blog about it. But before I could, another blogger blogged something similar.

I waited to see the response she got from her post before I wrote my post.

My guess was right- it was a heated topic!

Read my post here- the link for the other bloggers post is there.

I would love to see what your comments are on that post!

Friday Fragments

Duh.....

Ok, so I'm sitting here yesterday working on a blog, when suddenly I hear a "twack!"

A bird had flown into the window!

Dumb birds! Don't they know I keep the windows dirty on purpose just so they won't fly into them...........really!

Jack-a who?

I'm going to look at some Jack-a-Poo (Jack Russell/Poodle) puppies tonight. Based on the pics I've seen online, I think I like this one best:




One day after school (and before the folks were home...) my friend and I were in my bedroom smoking cigarets and blowing smoke out the little hole in the window screen listening to albums........when my brother knocked on the door.


The Princess and I are in charge of the party. The princess was supposed to call around about cakes today, but she was called away.....

Had to go help a homeschooling friend with their kids today!

Anywho.....

Don't forget Field Trip Fridays....to see ours, go to the homeschooling page.

And remember to join the gals tonight for Virtual Girls Night Out!

I have been finding some great blogs lately. I am seriously addicted. Thus my new venture........don't want to bore you'all who don't care.....if you care, it involves blogging (surprise). That venture is going great. I put two testimonies on my website and I have a few more coming in.....

I also ran into this little Monkey around the net. Monkey was recently diagnosed with neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a malignant (cancerous) tumor  that develops from nerve tissue. It occurs in infants and children.

The family can really use your prayers and support. Please stop by their website and wish Monkey well....

News...and need your opinions....

In my last post, I asked, What makes a blog "good". If you are interested in giving your opinion, you can leave a comment or email me.

If you want you can check out the post for some of what I'm looking for. I've had a great response so far, but the more the better!

Friday Fragments

Worlds are colliding....


Have you ever felt like your worlds were colliding? Sometimes I feel like that, but not for THIS reason...



I know, another Seinfeld clip- but it's a good show for a laugh before retiring- better than murder and mayhem!

Don't really know what I did this week....

I just don't understand how another week has gone by. And why it went by so fast. Again!

The only thing I had going on at night this week was Girl Scout Bridging. I had one girl (out of a whole four!) bridge from cadettes to senior. She is going into 9th grade and has been in scouts since kindergarten.

The woman coordinating the bridging says she remembers bridging the girls MOTHER years ago! The mother is a lifetime Girl Scout.........

I can't believe how much I don't know....

I recently met (online :-) Cindy Haskins-Popp the author of The Health and Food Forum blog. She has had a couple of posts lately about food labels........I was shocked at how much I didn't know. There are even different organic labels! I just assumed they were all the same grade. You know what happens when we assume...........don't know what we consume!

So if you're into healthy eating and such, check it out.

Nothing ever goes as planned...

I wanted to get in a field trip today, but it's been pretty gloomy out so anything outside is out - does that even make sense?

I thought maybe a movie if the weather stunk.

But then.......last night at bridging, Princess Der had to go chasing and punching a boy she kind of "likes". He is homeschooled and in the same co-op and youth group, etc....

Anyway, he grabbed her hand and twisted. She just woke up and said it still hurts..........

Poo!

So we may take a field trip to the docs....that's what you get for punching boys!

Don't forget about Friday Follow and Virtual Girls night out and I'll see you all around the blogoshere sometime over the weekend!



Later!