We Are Now On Facebook!

Mom’s Many Projects is now on Facebook! You can now like us as a fan, keep up with new posts, join in discussions, etc.

My hope is that the site will not only grow as this blog grows, but will also add new content and interesting discussions that will complement Mom’s Many Projects.

Suggestions and comments are welcome, though the same rules apply as here.  Spam will not be tolerated and will be deleted!

See you there!

I’m A Little Behind…

…with my blog posts. It was the first week of the summer college term. So I’m afraid my blog went unmonitored last week while I got myself into my new schedule. I’m back this week though feeling as though I have my class schedule handled!

I have three posts I’m getting ready to go out for this week already: one about a couple of weddings, this week’s menu plan, and an update about my container garden.  I’m sure I’ll have a few more!

Theme Change

I’ve been wanting to find a more appropriate and minimalistic theme for my blog for a while now.  The original one was a quick decision to get my blog up and running, but never meant to be a permanent one.  I think the new theme allows the items I want on the blog to be highlighted instead of the background.

I also like that there is an RSS Feed button built in right up top, and the tabs pop down with a list of the sub-tabs (though it’s only the Genealogy Surnames that does that right now).

I hope you enjoy the new blog theme, too!

Financial Blogs/Twitter Lists

I’ve had some inquiry into the types of blogs I follow, so I’ve decided to randomly pick categories every so often and share the links to those blogs.  I’ll also include those I follow on Twitter in those categories!

Today I’ll start out with what are considered financial blogs.  They are not always 100% financial in scope, but generally fall within that category.  Some blogs are hard to define because, like mine, they cover many subjects.  If you feel your blog would fit better in another category, then please let me know! I’ll be happy to change it in my Google Reader!

1. Almost Frugal
2. Beachgirl’s Budget Blog
3. Fabulously Broke in the City
4. Frugal Dad
5. Get Rich Slowly
6. My Money Story
7. My Two Dollars

On Twitter I follow:

1. brokeinthecity — down to earth, knowledgeable, tell-it-like-it-is.
2. BudgetsAreSexy — very entertaining and informative!
3. DINKs_Finance — even though the advice is meant for couples w/o kids, I still find good info.
4. enemyofdebt — debt hater and loving it!
5. frugaldad — frugal dad…says it all.
6. punchdebt — self-proclaimed Debt Ninja.

I hope you enjoy these financial blog and twitter lists!

Too Many Google Reader Blog Subscriptions!

I had way too many blog subscriptions in my Google reader!  I knew I did, but really didn’t want to take the time to go through each one to decide which ones should be deleted.

Earlier in the week I found a post in a blog that I had not yet followed (I do now! It can be found here!) that described her Google reader overload along with her solution to begin cutting them down.

So I decided to try it her way with a few differences.  My way is a little more time consuming…I did not create a keeper file because I wanted my blogs separated by specific categories.  I am still working on them though…my Google reader is still a bit of a mess!  Other than that I did star items I was interested in to look at later/save.

I started out with almost 200 blog subscriptions–I wish I remembered the exact amount.  I thought I wrote it down, but I cannot find it now.  I know it was somewhere between 150 and 210, though I vaguely have a recollection in the 170s!  LOL!

See that’s what I get for not writing things down!  I’ll probably find it after I post this!

Anyhoo!  I’ve been deleting like crazy and I’m now down to 93!

There are a few categories that I have yet to go through: Genealogy, Personal, and Mind-Mapping.  I know there are some I can remove, but I need to spend some more time seeing which ones I like more first.

At the same time, I do want to find new and interesting (to me) blogs that don’t have posts that are too similar to the blogs I already subscribe to (the only exception is personal blogs). For example, I may have two blogs that both talk about the same subject constantly so I’ll delete the one I do not resonate with.

I’m very partial to personal blogs in any category that I can feel a connection to the person writing–someone I can relate to because we have similar lifestyles, interests, and/or issues.

If you have a blog that you think I may be interested in, feel free to leave it here in the comments for me.  But I will delete any that are spam (though my spam filter may catch it first anyway) — any kind of sales blog, company blogs, etc.

I hope to come up with an extended blog roll in the future to share with everyone and possibly highlight some of my favorites!

What does your Google reader look like?

It’s Been 30 Days!

I’ve now been posting on my new blog for 30 days!  I’m happy to report that I am totally satisfied with my decision to start fresh!

Here are the blog stats covering the last 30 days:

• 204 Total Views
• 38 Views on the Busiest Day (March 14, 2010)
• 29 Posts
• 8 Comments
• 11 Categories
• 373 Tags
• The Top Search: mom meal planning
• The Top Referrer: alphainventions.com with 22 views
• The Top Posts: Orthodontist News with 17 views and Hubby Got a Job! with 16 views

I’m pretty pleased with my first 30 days with the new blog!  Here’s to it getting better and better!

Hello and Welcome!

Welcome to the first post here at Mom’s Many Projects here on WordPress!  Some of you may remember a blog by the same name on Blogger.

Well, I’m starting it over here!

I was getting in a horrible rut and it was going downhill fast, though I have to admit I believe it was already at the bottom of the hill to begin with!  So I’m starting from scratch after doing some rethinking, some reading, and some planning.

It’s not going to be perfect!

But I’m hoping it’ll be interesting with posts of various topics.  I recommend taking a look at About first, which tells you a little bit about me along with what I hope to write in this blog.

As you can tell there really isn’t much more on the blog right now, but I’m hoping to change that as we go along.  I didn’t want to wait until I tweaked the entire blog before starting it up so it’ll grow and change as the posts increase.

I hope you enjoy the blog and become involved by making comments, suggestions, or asking questions!

Also, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter!