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Sunday Linky Love for March 14

Panel Urges New Look at Caesarean Guidelines - NYTimes.com via Panel Urges New Look at Caesarean Guidelines - NYTimes.com (shared from Paperdroid) The NIH Consensus Statement on VBAC: A Step Forward via Birthing Beautiful Ideas NIH Releases Draft Consensus Statement on VBAC via Birthing Beautiful Ideas NIH Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Panel: Do Pregnant Women Have Full Decision Making Power? via RHRealityCheck.org Reply turned post, what about the woo? style via Mom's Tinfoil Hat Cruelty...

Epiphanie Bags Gives Away Canon 5D!

Epiphanie Bags, which makes really awesome camera bags for women that I only wish I could afford, is having a contest giving away a brand new Canon 5D Mark II! Go check out the bags and the...

Sunday Linky Love for March 07

The NIH VBAC Consensus Conference: Will It Pave the Road to Hell with Good Intentions? via Science & Sensibility Husband and Wife Childbirth via Blogcritics Sci/Tech A sacred trust dissolved via The Beginning of Motherhood For Those Who Deny That VBAC is a Vital Option via Birthing Beautiful Ideas "Women Need to Educate Themselves" via The...

7 Quick Takes Friday: Sink or Swim

7 Quick Things about how I pushed the kids out of the nest this week, homeschool-wise. 1. My main concern has always been less about the grade they get, and more about making them do the work, no matter how many times it takes, until they get it right. I quiz them over and over until they prove they know it, send papers back until every mistake is fixed. 2. Unfortunately, this has led to a certain laziness. They knew that if they just guessed, or even left answers blank, they'd get a...

Sunday Linky Love for February 28

At Home with Homeschoolers - Photo Essays - TIME via TIME.com Minimizing Negative Effects of Interventions: Preterm Contractions via BIRTH SENSE In Memoriam via Look at me I'm Romeo Sid Vicious R goes TEXAN. via debra parker | one girl please pray for this family. via debra parker | one...

Monday Linky Love for February 22

Honor Societies via xkcd.com A book He is writing via Domestic Felicity Thoughtful Thursday! “You Are My Role Model.” via My OB said WHAT?!? TOP 5: SONGS FOR A BAD DAY via ninebullets.net » RomeoSidVicious Mother-sized Activism: Tell NBC What You Think! | ICAN Blog via...

Beautiful Blogger Award!

I've been given an award! My lovely and kind friend Julie gave me this Beautiful Blogger award... about a month ago. And I saw it, and I thought, "Oh, that's so sweet! I'll come back and thank her and write up the post when I have a minute!" And then I totally forgot. Hrmmm... I hope that doesn't disqualify me from being a Beautiful Blogger! Maybe I could still be an Okay Blogger, or a Nice When She Remembers Blogger, huh? Before I forget again, I have a few duties as a...

7 Quick Takes Friday

1. On Saturday my best friend, Gretchen, and her husband, John, were visiting from Alaska and had a party at Gretchen's parents' house. It was small -- only four adults (and two kids) other than me -- but lots of fun! We played a trivia game called Wits & Wagers, which was made all the more fun by the fact that we didn't have the instructions. My project365 photo for Saturday was Gretchen and John: 2. Gretchen was asking me about the kids and school, and asked if we've gotten...

7 Quick Takes Friday: What'll I Think Of Next?

1. I totally forgot to do this meme today until my alarm went off to remind me to sign the Mr. Linky at midnight. I have absolutely no idea what I'll write about. Hrmmm.... 2. We're watching Dollhouse. Joss Whedon is freaky. Of course, that's freaky in a way I love, like Firefly. Dollhouse is becoming absolutely fascinating now that I can't figure out who is a bad guy and who is good. 3. Mark let me take a photo of him for my Project365 today. It's a pretty awesome shot of two...

7 Quick Takes Friday: The Non-Specific Titles Edition

1. I dislike non-specific titles for blog posts. When I look back through my archives, I don't want to see a dozen posts all named after a meme, all titled the exact same thing. But the nature of this 7 Quick Takes Friday meme makes it hard for me to figure out a good title -- on which of the 7 should I base it? Oh well, I am sure I will figure it out. 2. Yesterday when I got on my laptop for my daily computer time, one of the very first things I did was check to see if any of the...

Michelle Takes An Adventure!

So, last night I went on my very first ever Bloggy Get Together, to which I was invited by my dear friend and fellow blogger, Julie. I know you'll all be so disappointed, LOL, but I did not take my camera so this won't be a photo post. I'm just too shy to whip out that behemoth and start snapping shots of people I've just met for the first time IRL. As I said to Julie last night, it's ironic since I've been pretty much putting my whole life on the internet for going on ten years, but I am...

7 Quick Takes Friday

1. 7 Quick Takes Friday is a meme hosted at Conversion Diary, which I found via Julie. To play, you post -- get this -- 7 quick takes on Friday. I found out about it late in the day last Friday, and planned to start this week so I could post earlier, but I forgot. Oh well, better late than never, right? 2. It's absolutely amazing how I can have a hundred little bloggy ideas in my head all week -- and they all disappear as soon as I sit down to try and write 7 little blurbs. 3. I have...

AP and Murdoch accuse us of stealing the news

Mashable reports that Associated Press CEO Tom Curley and Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp, are lashing out at internet sites for stealing the news: Associated Press CEO Tom Curley and famed News Corp head honcho Rupert Murdoch told a meeting of media leaders in Beijing, China recently that news content creators were being exploited by third parties "such as Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook" and that "aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our...

My awesome husband wrote a bash script to get my...

My awesome husband wrote a bash script to get my FB to blog script working, and now it is automatically importing my status updates as new posts. Doesn't he just...

Mark and I just spent the last 30 minutes trying...

Mark and I just spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out why my FB to Blog script works in the browser, but not from the command line. Now that we having it working, I have to see if the cron job will work properly. Cross your fingers that you don't have to read anymore geek posts from me....

I think my blog should be importing my Facebook...

I think my blog should be importing my Facebook status now. Let's...

I am excited about ideas to totally automate my...

I am excited about ideas to totally automate my blog. Automatic posting of my FB status, automatic weekly links collection post. Considering automatic posting of my gallery photos, but don't necessarily want to post ALL photos to my...

I am trying to figure out a way to integrate my...

I am trying to figure out a way to integrate my blog with Facebook. I love my blog, and don't want to abandon it, but I don't have the time for long posts these days, and I love FB's format. When Mark gets up I think I will ask him to help me write a script to automatically post my FB status as a new blog...

would like to have more things to talk about than...

would like to have more things to talk about than just politics. Does anybody know any good websites where I could find interesting articles to share about God, photography, geeky stuff, or...

Does anybody get offended by my political posts?

Does anybody get offended by my political posts? I hope all of my friends and family know that I love and respect you all regardless of whether we agree on...