I am really enjoying this vlogging thing.  I posted another vlog at Newbaby.com today.  Check it out here.

Also, if you aren’t already following me on Twitter I’d love for you to. Here is my personal Twitter account, and today I created one for my ministry too. You can find that one here.

By the way, in case you’re a new reader and aren’t aware of my ministry. I have a ministry to tween and teen girls and their moms called Beauty by Design Ministries, my mission is “turning the hearts of girls towards God”.

So, if you’re a mom of a girl then you should sign up for my ezine by going to the website and filling out the subscription form in the box at the top right.  You won’t regret it.  I promise.  I only send out 1 email per week in the form of an ezine.

I am planning to get back to podcasting too here very soon.  My podcast is for moms of girls too.  This is my passion, turning girls towards God that is and connecting moms and daughters. It is because of my strong relationship with my mother that I learned so much about God and I have such a strong relationship with Christ.  That is why I promote that relationship so much.

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Wow, It’s time to do this again?? I completely forgot until someone linked here saying they got the idea of a “weekend” recap from me.  EEKKK!!

Anyway, this week honestly has been quite the “blur”.  I started out the week in hopes of having baby #3 quickly. However, as I sit here with him still “baking” as some say, you can tell that didn’t happen.  Hopefully tomorrow is the ever fateful day.  I am going to the doctor at 10 am on Monday, pray he puts me in for induction.

So, recapping this week. Monday was the doctor’s appointment. I had dilated but since then nothing.  Tuesday and Wednesday my mom and grandmother came over to help out with the kids and house. Praise God that was a blessing.  Thursday I had to go it alone, and Friday Greg ended up off because his state car went capoot.  We went out to lunch and out for supper, yay no cooking and had a good time spending time together.

I made mammoth to do lists this week in an effort to “stay busy”, which I pretty much did working online on my websites and installing two Wordpress blogs and doing customizations for two clients.  This is sort of one of those “hobbies” I get paid to do.  I know it’s not something I really have “time” for, but it’s relaxing and fun to me, I know I’m wierd, a nerd, go read yesterday’s post you’ll understand why I say that.  But seriously, I learned Wordpress over time and I have come to love tweaking and playing with it.  Fortunately for me there are people out there who hate doing this sort of thing but want a website or blog set up so they pay me.  Win-win!

So, between all that and doing ministry related stuff, I booked a speaking engagement this week and worked out the details on that, I’ll be in Senatobia, MS speaking to Moms and daughters at First United Methodist Church on Saturday, August 23.  Excited! I have stayed busy this week, ever so impatiently waiting for baby Brady to make his arrival.  I am beyond ready and hope upon hope tomorrow is the BIG day!

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Yes, it’s all real. Sometimes people ask, “How real are you on your blog?” or “Are you the same person in real life as in online /blog life?” To which I must answer a resounding “YES”. This is me, the real me. My life is an open book. I am not hiding anything, not running from anything, not trying to escape anything when I blog. I blog because I love it. It is fun, it allows me to write without having to worry about grammatical errors or being right or wrong or if it sounds right, it’s just my thoughts that is all it is.

I also continue to blog because I LOVE the blogging community. Never before have I made so many connections with so many people. Moms, momprenuers, WAHMs, SAHMS, others, all who blog and have this as our sometimes only connection but its amazing to see. I’ve met moms who are Christian but I’ve also met some who claim to have no religion yet I still connect with them. It’s awesome and I love it.

I feel it’s a great way to share and you know what every single testimony I share and blessing that I tell about is real. God is working in my life just like I’m telling you. I am struggling with the issues I blog about I am not making them up. I do set the goals I set, I don’t just put those up here to look good. This is real and I am loving every minute of being real with you.

How about you, is your blog real, do you love blogging, do you enjoy the mom blog and other blog communities you are a part of, is the online world as much a part of your life as the offline…. how do you feel? Tell me about it here or blog about it and return here to post the link in the comments. I want to hear from you!

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Yes, it’s true. I’m starting a review blog. This is something I’ve been interested in since I saw the first one. Not sure whose it was but I was always intrigued by them. Then, lately I have gotten a few requests for me to do a review for them. So I thought, “why not”. Being someone who likes a good project, I thought I”d begin working on this in my “spare” time. Not that I have much of it for now, but I hope to soon.

Just to give you an idea about the types of things I am looking to review or that would be a good fit for me, areas of interest include, but not limited to:

• baby items,
• toddler items,
• preschool items,
• organizing items,
• Christian items,
• WAHM items,
• blogging related products/services,
• scrapbooking items,
• cooking products.
• books.

Click here for a PDF of my stats for May to give you an idea of what type of traffic my mom blog receives. To learn more about me and my interests read My 100 Things and About pages.

The reviews will be posted here, my new review blog.

I will be available to begin reviews as of July 1st. Be the first to be reviewed, begin submitting items, products or services for review immediately. I look forward to hearing from you.

To submit reviews email me at reviews @ lifefrommylaptop.com (no spaces) or fill out the following form here.

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When I saw this…

I was excited too, Wow! I thought I’m featured at the Mom Bloggers Club. This is a super cool, chick club I just joined probably weeks ago because yes, I am a MOM blogger. And I love to connect with other mom bloggers. So, this was a fabulous place to do so. I was even so inspired by the network/club itself that I formed my own network for my newest venture, Organized Life by Design.

Though I love my new network, I am still fascinated with how well the Mom Blogger’s Club is run and it still is an inspiration and somewhat of a challenge to me to do as well with my own network/club. It is updated almost by the hour it seems and the owner The Mom Salon does sooo well with it. I wonder if she isn’t constantly working on the site, that or she has a fabulous team of people working for her.

I know my favorite part of the Mom Blogger’s Club “look” is their graphics, I am soo envious of the awesome graphics that I have started trying to create my own graphics, so again they’ve inspired me to take action. I love anybody that does that! I like to be inspired.

So, I was honored to see my face on the main page of the network this morning. Hope you’ll come check out what all the fuss is about over at The Mom Bloggers Club.

P.S. The Mom Salon or your fabulous graphics team if you’re reading this…. “How did you lighten my face and make my photo look so much better?”

Edited to add: The Mom Blogger’s Owner who is known on the site as The Mom Salon is actually named Jennifer James. I was hoping to find out her real name!!!

Plus, I obviously got excited before I scrolled because after going back to The Mom Blogger’s Club I found this: 

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