Bloggy Love

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Five Lovelylicious Blogs

I am so stoked today to have the opportunity to share Five Fabulous Blogs with you. There are a lot of blogs out there that I read daily and love to pieces, but here are 5 that I think you'll love too.

1.) Bryan has a 365 photo blog at My Life In Photos which features some incredible photography. I admire his determination to take a photo each and every day and I am constantly inspired by the truly amazing and creative photos that he takes day in and day out. I first "met" Brian when we participated in a photo challenge in April of 2010, during only my third month as a blogger. I don't always make it to his blog every day, but I always go back and look at each and every post. Go check him out, I think you'll leave just as inspired as I do. Here's one of my favorite posts ""f" is for fly", ironically it's from our alphabet photo challenge over a year ago. You can also catch him on Twitter @mylifeinphotos and on Facebook too at GreyPhoto.

2.) Almost any blogger you meet loves to talk "blogging" and Melissa from @adventuroo who I link up with on Thursdays as part of her Capture the Everyday series also hosts a fabulous blogging site called MomComm where she dispenses all matter of supremely helpful blogging advice from articles and posts she has written to those she comes across that she thinks would be helpful to her readers. My absolute favorite part of the site are her Blog Critiques that she does weekly. (Mine is in the queue for the future.) Her critiques provide loads of tips and tricks to make your blog more reader friendly and robust. So even if you aren't up to having your own blog reviewed you can still take away several bits of knowledge every week. To hear more from Melissa you can follow her on Twitter  @momcommblog and on Facebook at MomComm.

3.) Listen To Your Mother was created by Ann Imig in 2010 to showcase all the fabulous stories about mothers and motherhood that are out there. It's pretty terrific and totally inspiring. You can see the first show here and the ones from this year should be up soon. If you want to know when the new shows are up and if they'll be coming to your area in 2012 follow Listen To Your Mother on Twitter @LTYMshow.

4) Fadra blogs appropriately at  All Things Fadra where she talks about life, blogging and lots of other fun stuff. She's got great wit, a fantastic writing style and her vlogs are my absolute favorite part of her blog. Whether she is blogging or vlogging I always walk away from her posts nodding my head, laughing, thinking/pondering...I always walk away fulfilled as a reader. You can check out Fadra at her blog above or on Twitter @allthingsfadra and Facebook All Things Fadra

5.) Scars for Love is a new blog founded by Andrea Updyke as a place where women can share their c-section stories. It's a fabulous site that allows women to share their experiences whether they were happy or sad, planned or unplanned and even if you are a nurse or doctor. All stories are welcome and it's a site I wish had existed when I had experienced my own c-section. I can't always read every post as they are published as I still have some emotional healing to do from my own. But, I do read when I can and I love that she has created this little corner of the web for women to bond over a shared experience, however they got there. You can follow Scars for Love on Twitter @ScarsForLove and on Facebook Scars for Love.

What are some of your favorite blogs to check out?

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Graduation Dreams

When I graduated from High School I would never have imagined that my life would turn out as it has. For one, I took an actual typing class--not a computer class. Who knew that one day I would be blogging??

I also thought I'd be living in New York or LA. I had no idea that I would be an interpreter, live in the Baltimore/DC Metro area, be married or have kids.

Here's what I hope for Liam come graduation day in June of 2027.

I hope that he graduates at or near the top of his class because although grades are not everything, they do open doors. Doors to colleges, to opportunities, to a certain level of respect from peers and educators and most critically to scholarships which will be key to him attending his school of choice.

Speaking of which, I hope he goes away to school and stays in the dorms. Although I moved away to school I stayed off campus, 30 minutes away and it's something I always wish I had done differently. I wish I had had the myriad of experiences that happen from staying in close quarters with co-eds.

I also hope that he has a close knit group of friends that stay with him for the rest of his life. I think there is something incredibly valuable in having people around you have always known you.

Lastly, I hope he continues to have an incredible sense of self. Even though he's only 3--on the playground and at activities that we participate in he has a very strong sense of himself. Just the other day he had his school picnic where he wanted to play in the dirt with sticks, stones, leaves, etc. He was more than happy to play with other kids who wanted to join him, but when they went back to the playground he just kept on doing what he was already having a good time doing. I love that he stays true to himself.

Past graduation I hope that he finds a job that he loves, and a person that he can't live without. I hope he knows happiness and success in ways that we haven't even imagined.

No matter what happens we'll always be there for him and support him no matter what. And, we'll probably make a big deal about just everything wonderful that happens in life for him.

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