btw...i was in a cheerful silly mood today as i often am when i am home...then my significant other says "wow, ever since you started your blog you have a p-" then he pauses very quickly "you have a lot of jokes". do you know what was about to come out of his lips?? yeah, he was about to say i have a personality...lol.

join us next time for some more blog therapy as we move forward on our journey to fabulosity

Mama

Health blogs provide a port in life's storms

Local bloggers find safe haven for sharing their health battles

11:57 AM CST on Tuesday, February 26, 2008

By KATHLEEN GREEN / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
dmngreen@sbcglobal.net

When Kathleen Weaver got her Type 2 diabetes diagnosis five years ago, she started the fight of her life. The disease that took her father wasn't about to get the best of her.

Denise McCallum of Fort Worth (left) talks to multiple sclerosis support group co-founders Teresa Wynne (center) and Tracy Brinton at Fielder Road Baptist Church in Arlington. "

Denise McCallum of Fort Worth (left) talks to multiple sclerosis support group co-founders Teresa Wynne (center) and Tracy Brinton at Fielder Road Baptist Church in Arlington.

"Living with him terminally ill for two years because of the diabetes and cardiovascular complications, it scared the hell out of me," says Ms. Weaver, who just turned 48. "That kind of slapped me in the face."

She was determined to live well past the age when her father died: 48. So she made it her mission to educate herself about the illness. The Internet became a trove of the latest research, advances and medicines.

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But her biggest source of help was a blog. Like many other Americans living with chronic conditions, she turned to faceless friends for support and information.

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Mom Blog Network™ Releases Dynamic Widget and New Tools for The Mom Blogger Community

Providing the latest technology for bloggers to self-promote and reach more readers by making it easier to share content and grow viral audience.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 12, 2008 -- Mom Blog Network™ (www.momblognetwork.com) is proud to introduce the latest developments for its members: a dynamic, customizable widget and a multi-platform 3rd party blog integration tool. Both of these new features are designed to give mom bloggers additional opportunities to promote their posts across the web, reaching more readers and driving traffic.

The widget was created to be an important channel for extended network syndication as it dynamically pulls in the "hottest" headlines from MomBlogNetwork.com and displays them in a stylish sidebar module. "We thought it would be great to give all bloggers and other site owners the chance to conveniently offer their readers the latest headlines and links to a broad and diverse range of mom bloggers," says Andra Davidson, co-founder and president of MothersClick.com, the social network and parenting site which operates the network. "Our motto is: 'What moms are talking about' and, in the true spirit of community, the widget really helps our members distribute their content more widely."

Our motto is: 'What moms are talking about' and, in the true spirit of community, the widget really helps our members distribute their content more widely.

The integration tool was developed with the active blogger in mind. It provides the elegance of inline promotion through the simplicity of cut-and-paste, easily adding some code to any existing blog. This step is required only once and, thereafter, the system automatically creates a "voting" button which appears on every new post.

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below was actually from yesterday mon. 2/25. my latptop died on me for no apparent reason. blogspot did save this for us though:

i have been in this country since 1984. i've always been american, but technically i was never american until today... i got my citizenship! i never thought i'd feel different, but i do and it feels good. i can vote in the country i've lived in for the last 24 years and i can even get a government job if i want! during my ceremony there was a letter from the president in an envelope which i read and found intriguing. in case you've never read a welcome letter into the country, here's what it reads:

Dear Fellow American,

I am pleased to congratulate you on becoming a United States citizen. You are now a part of a great and blessed Nation. I know your family and friends are proud of you on this special day.

Americans are united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, and that no insignificant person was ever born. Our country has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by principles that moce us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests, and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every citizen must uphold these principles. And every new citizen, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.

As you begin to participate fully in our democracy, remember that what you is as important as antyhing government does. I ask you to serve you new Nation of character. Americans are generous and strong and decent not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves. When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it. When this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against it.

Welcome to the joy, responsibility, and freedom of American citizenship. God bless you, and God bless America.

Sincerely,

George W. Bush

just some food for thought...

join us next time for some more blog therapy as we move forward on our journey to fabulosity

-Mama