Works For Me Wednesday: Blogging Tips

By MAD21

For this week's WFMW, Kristen asked us to share our favorite blogging tips. Even though it's almost been a year, I still feel new to the blogging world. But here are five things I've learned:

1. Care about what you are writing about. If you don't, your readers won't either.

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Works For Me Wednesday: Kitchen Love

By Alan

While we often talk about about food in terms of love. We love chocolate, and we love those beautiful plates of ours. Many courtships got started with dinner and a movie, and romantic meals fixed for each other. Families bond over the dinner table, and in the kitchen while making meals.

But, does the love extend to everything in the kitchen? What about the appliances? We expect them to work, but we don't always give them the attention or the care necessary for them to work at their best, or for the longest. Where's the love?

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Works For Me Wednesday: Sock-Loss Prevention

By MAD21

It seems that I am constantly coming across people talking about how they are so frustrated on laundry day due to the apparent disappearance of socks. They never leave in pairs... at least matching ones.

I've seen some good suggestions, and some bad, over the last few months. So I figured it was time to share what I do with those pesky socks that are determined to abandon their mate.

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Works For Me Wednesday: Who Goes First?

By MAD21

Picture, if you will, two sisters going into rest time. They always get a story before having to turn the lights out and be quiet. All of the things that need to be done before retreating to the bedroom get done. All is calm until... "It's MY turn to pick it out!" "NO! It's MYYY turn!" "NO! My turn!" ..... "MOoooOOOOMM!!"

It only takes so many days of this happening before you have no patience left and realize you need to find a better way to help your kids get along, and learn to take turns and share. (And be happy about it-HAHA!) Something needs to happen both for them, and for you.

Our girls are finally both old enough that they can do a lot of the same things, have a lot of opinions, and almost always want to go first or be the one who gets to choose something. I, like any parent, am always on the look out for fun ways to get things done. And this situation is no different.

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Works For Me Wednesday: Help! The Toys Are Taking Over!

By MAD

For this week's themed edition of WFMW, I get to turn the table on you, my reader. I get to ask, "What works for YOU?" Yay for me!

My girls are still at the young stage when their toys all take up a lot of space. Doll houses, little people houses (barnes, stables, amusement parks, train, circus, playgrounds... you get the idea), kitchen sets, dress-up clothes, big plastic cars, dress-up Elmo, dress-up Larry (veggie tale), train sets, big leggos, bouncy balls, hula-hoops, store sets, stuffed animals, and drawers full of all the assessories that go along with all this stuff.

Initially it wasn't too hard to either give toys away, or put them away until our younger daughter was old enough to want to play with them. But now our girls have similar interests and love to play with the same toys.

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