The Sewing Mom

Wow! Just think, you could win an IPod Shuffle! I found this contest at ToastTheTrends- Life and it’s really pretty simple. Post a link on your site, email the info to a friend or even comment on ToastTheTrends- Life and you get an entry into the contest. This is pretty cool and I for one wouldn’t mind winning an IPod! There needs to be a minimum of 50 entries for this contest to work, so head on over and make your entry known!

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Thanks to Amy at Whatever I Feel Like, I found a link to Life Hacks post of 101 Steps to Being a Better Blogger. This is a lot of steps, but I have made it my goal to become a better blogger. I am very new to this blog world and am learning as I go. To make it less intimidating, Marcus at My Thoughts is breaking it down step by step. I’m going to my best to follow along, how about you?

This is step 1.  As you can see, I have a lot of work to do!

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Do you ever have one of those days where you feel like you got so much done?  That’s how my morning went.  I started the day by doing a load of laundry and paying some bills.  Once my daughter got out of bed, I got her going too.  Got her to get a shower & get dressed so we could get out and run some errands.  I like getting errands done early before places start to get too crowded.  We headed out the door and I don’t think it was even 10 A.M.!  First we took the van in for an oil change.  Amazingly the place was able to take us right in and we were out of there by 11!  Then, off we went to have to pool water tested.  Another amazement,  the water was actually chemically balanced.  This was a first for us!  Since we bought the house in April, we’ve had the water tested every couple of weeks and each time we’ve been told to add this or that to bring it to the right balance.  It’s always something different, too little chlorine, too much chlorine, ph is high, ph is low, etc., etc….  Two weeks ago, I did a major cut back on the chemicals we were adding to the pool and today, it’s all in balance!  Now, I just have to keep it there.

Anyway, after getting the good news about the pool, we went into Hallmark.  My daughter is into the whole Webkinz craze and she wanted to see if they had anything new in the store.  She wound up buying 2 packages of their trading cards.    We left there and went to Wendy’s for lunch.  Got it to go and ran by the local Antique Mall who also carries Webkinz.  She wound up getting a cute little huskie dog and she got a chocolate lab to give a friend as a going away gift.  We then went to the ATM machine to do some banking and went on to put gas in the van.  Came on home and ate our lunch and worked on organizing some drawers.  Now I feel like I sit down and be on the computer without feeling like I didn’t get anything done today!