Suzy Q Homemaker

I don't think there are enough adjectives in the English language to describe how terrified I felt about doing this interview.  Talking to people, especially strangers is way scarier to me than singing in front of hundreds or flashing my boobs during a community theater performance.  I hope I didn't sound like a complete goober.

Suzy Q Homemaker would like to welcome NBC Augusta viewers! 

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It happened.  I got all of my hair chopped off.  It wasn't supposed to be this short, but that's a long story I'll save for when I'm typing with both hands and Timothy isn't attached to my boob.  I'm trying to ease the transition to short hair by looking up cute headband patterns and browsing etsy for vintage barrettes.

So it's not a "new mom hair cut", right?

You'll see several posts from me this week because I somehow managed to schedule all of my events for this week!  Silly me!

First, I want to make sure to announce the beginning of the Blog Popz Summer Solstice Edition.  Be sure to check out all the prizes and nominate your favorite blogs.  My blog is home to the Mentor Pop, so for all those bloggers you admire, be sure to nominate them and give them a Blog Pop!

I have two giveaways going on right now and there aren't all that many entries so far.  For the Sun Clean & Fresh giveaway, there will be FIVE winners, so your chances of winning are really high!  The Summer Reading giveaway is pretty special to me and I'm really enjoying all the reading tips you all are leaving in the comments.

Lastly, stay up to date and be sure to read all of my nursing tank reviews in the Nursing Tank-A-Thon!

What are Blog Popz?
A blog award. A blogger recognition program. A virtual version of the lollipops you gave in school to friends and admirers. Each color represents a different theme. Get popz from authorized candy stores, receive them from admirers, and register your pop for a chance to win fantastic prizes for distributing and receiving the most popz.

I just started reading her blog last week and I can't turn away.  Manic Mother found out her 2-year-old has cancer.  Please go read her story and do what you can to help.  Her family is in need.

Thank you.

If you're looking for some new blogs to read and add to your blogroll, check out this list.  Here are 332 blogs who signed up for Momdot's Blog Link-a-Thon (including me!):

I love reading Trisha's posts over at Momdot.  She's honest, blunt, and she cracks me up!  During the entire month of May, to celebrate her 31st birthday, Momdot will feature 31 bloggers. Plus they'll have some pretty sweet contests.

You don't want to miss it!

FYI: Timothy totally barfed on me in the middle of writing this post. I'm talking shirt, pants, couch, himself.  So.  This blog party better be worth it.  :)

I'm sitting here waiting on a friend to come over.  She just got a whole bunch of stuff to scrapbook her trip to France and we're going to get our crop on.  So, to pass the time, I'll do the Small Talk Six again!  This week, we're asked to blog six things we love that are green.  Should be easy enough, right?  Here goes...
















See some other Small Talk Six posts & link to your own!

I know I'm not usually a meme person, but this is a good excuse for me to drool at everyone's flickr travel photos.  At Momdot, Small Talk Six asks us to post "6 places you would like to travel to if you had someone trustworthy to watch your children and pets.”






Other places I'd like to go:

3. Canada--I'd love to visit as many of the places where the "Anne" movies were filmed.  I know there are a lot, so it would be hard to just pick a few.

4. Six Flags!--We haven't been to Six Flags over GA since our honeymoon ten years ago and I really want to go again.

5. White Water--I've never been.  In fact, I was really little the last time I went to a water park.

6. Hilton Head--For our anniversary last year, Jamie surprised me by taking us down there for a night. I wish we could've stayed for a week.  Maybe next time we will!  In like five years...

See some other Small Talk Six people over at Momdot:

Hey you guys. If you've been living under a rock, you probably haven't heard of Momfaves. It's kind of like a Digg or similar ranking site, but it's especially for moms. Moms submit faves, moms vote on them. Pretty nifty! I submitted knitting and Girl Scout Cookies to Momfaves because those are clearly the most important things in life.

Want to help me out? This blog was submitted to Momfaves, y'all! So go join up and vote for me:


Thanks!

Haha, I wish.

Go read my guest post on Mom it Forward!

You'll be glad you did.

I'm honored!   A new blog pal of mine, Cissy from the all the great Baby Kid blogs, gave me this award.  I teamed up with Cissy and a few other bloggers to launch Blog Popz and I think she's just swell.

But this isn't about her...it's about me!!!

Alright, I'm supposed to list five addictions, so here goes:

1. Diet soda.  It's a toss-up between Diet Coke and my precious DDP (Diet Dr. Pepper).  Either way, I'm addicted and I'd probably need an intervention to stop drinking the nectars of the gods.
2. My morning coffee.  Without it, you'd better seriously hope that I don't get even slightly pissed off at you cause I will rip your head off and feed it to my goldfish.
3. Ghost Hunters.  This Wednesday, I was exhausted after a long night at choir rehearsal that ended in me locking the keys in the car and having to wait for Jamie to come get me & the boys.  We got home a few minutes after 10:00.  Jamie asked if we were just going to go to bed and I was like, "Um. No."  Ghost Hunters was coming on.  There was no way I was going to miss a new episode.
4. Blogging is my newest addiction.  I've been writing online since the early days of Livejournal and I even had an Opendiary that I quickly abandoned.  I started getting really serious about it this past year, though, and now that I've started making some fabulous new blogpals, I cannot go a day (hour, minute..) without checking my reader for new posts.
5. Crafting.  Of any sort.  I love knitting, scrapbooking, sewing, you name it--I like it!

I could probably add about five more addictions, but I think those belong at the top of my list.  So now I have to give this award to five bloggers.  I'll choose some of my new blogpals: Forever & Always (Ashley), Two of a Kind, Working on a Full House (Dee), My Organized Chaos (Tammi), and Crunchy Domestic Goddess (Amy).  I hope they don't mind me calling them pals as I've only recently added them to my reader and occasionally chatting it up with them on twitter.

Pssst!  If you want to tell your blogpals how awesome they are, you can also give them Blog Popz!