the OTHER mother

10 Great Blogs You Just Might Love

Want to check out a few great blogs?

• City Mama
• Daddy, Papa & Me
• Hahn at Home
• Lesbiandad.net
• Liza Was Here
• Mombian
• Peter's Cross Station
• SprogBlog
• Up Popped A Fox
• Writing as Jo(e)

We Heart Saturdays

Poetry Month: The Home Stretch

It's the final week of National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo).  If you'd like to leave encouragement for me in my marathon writing project, visit my new poem blog here.

This picture is from a decades old chldren's book by Saul Bass called Henri's Walk to Paris. (via Grain Edit)

The Other Mother Recommends: Art Projects for Kids Blog

Pearl and Carrie are now old enough and occasionally even willing (!) to do an art project with me.  The way it works is: I ask if they'd like to do a project. Both say NO with great conviction. Then I say that's okay, and I start working on the project myself. At some point they begin to get interested and usually they join in.

Sunday we made bead necklaces.  I have been admiring (and waiting patiently until I could utilize) Kathy Barbro's blog Art Projects for Kids. It's dreamy! Kathy often derives her projects from real artists or from real artistic techniques. My sense is that these projects bring out the best and most creative from the child, and the end products are often very beautiful.

We're Still Here

Thanks for Thanking, Bloggers

Thanks for celebrating Blog Reader Appreciation Day 2009.  Over 100 people from across the globe signed up on Bloggers United and you can read their posts from the Bloggers Unite site. Here's a list of other participants:

Balanced on the Edge

Callista's Ramblings

Everything Old is New Again

genderkid

Going LIke Sixty

Hahn at Home

I'm Not One To Blog But....

Lesbian Dad

Lez Get Real

Mombian

Old School Music Lover

Peaches & Coconuts

Peter's Cross Station

SMS Book Reviews

StidMama

Survivors Can Thrive

Texas 2 Tennessee

Up Popped a Fox

Writers in the Schools Blog

To be added to this list, just leave your link as a comment. I will do the rest!

Thank You, Gentle Readers

This is just to say, dear readers: thanks.

Thanks for putting up with my incessant questions, my wacky blog carnivals, my excessive sharing of my toddlers' "art", my photos ad nauseum, and my five years worth of poems and stories. I appreciate your participation in this community more than you might guess.

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Today is Blog Reader Appreciation Day. Feel free to post a tribute to your readers on your own blog.  Over 100 people from across the globe signed up on Bloggers United. You can sign up there or simply leave a comment and I will add you to this list of participants:

Everything Old is New Again

genderkid

Going LIke Sixty

Hahn at Home

I'm Not One To Blog But....

Lesbian Dad

Lez Get Real

Mombian

Old School Music Lover

Peaches & Coconuts

Peter's Cross Station

SMS Book Reviews

StidMama

Survivors Can Thrive

Texas 2 Tennessee

Up Popped a Fox

Writers in the Schools (with special poetry month give-aways!)

Thursday, April 16th, is Blog Reader Appeciation Day 2009

Bloggers depend on loyal readers but rarely get a chance to really thank them. Blog Reader Appreciation Day gives bloggers a chance to pour on the love!

After the taxes are filed, on Thursday, April 16, please join us in thanking and celebrating your blog readers with special tributes, posts, contests, and give-aways.

Sign in here or simply leave your url as a comment below.

Feel free to chose a badge for your post and use the tag:

brad2009

Earth Day Poetry

Kiss the ocean
Flip to the land
Open your mouth

by Carrie, age 3

I hug the Indian
Ocean
I tear the
seaweed
It drips rain

by Pearl, age 5

Sew the sand
while the
sun whispers
and sisters
sail away, way
way to Africa.

by Pearl, age 5