I'm happy to host a guest post of helpful tips on
taking a vacation from blogging but keeping your blog going over at
LaurenWayne.com.
Dionna of Code Name: Mama wrote this post for me
during my blogging babymoon, and now
she's taking her own!
New babies, vacations, outside obligations, blogging burn-out. All bloggers need a break sometimes — it can even be healthy to plan a regular break into your annual blogging schedule. If you're worried about losing readers and subscribers during your absence, here are some tips that might help ease your mind.
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Welcome to the Sunday Surf! Here are some of the
best links I've read this past week.
I had a very gratitude-filled Thanksgiving, celebrated with family and new friends and delicious food made by other people. But the best part is, I can now start listening to
Christmas music without feeling sheepish! Happy first Sunday of
Advent, if you celebrate that sort of thing. I love something cozy to enjoy as the days grow ever darker.
On to the link roundup, which I did mostly all today:
If you want to contribute to the Wordless Wednesday posts at Natural Parents Network (and we’d love to have you!), our fabulous WW editors, Jorje & Rebekah, have posted the December topics and deadlines at the NPN Forums. Send your holiday pictures in now and sit back and relax the rest of December!
What a fun idea to honor the bloggers we love with what they desire most: comments!
Christy will give you lots of comment love this next month if you sign up your blog, big or small, so go for it. Will you sign up for the challenge, too, and focus on giving comment love this month?
Such a fabulous collection of activities to do through Advent! I have to admit I’m nowhere near ambitious enough to do one a day, but maybe one a week?
Two fabulous sensory tub setups, here & here: http://onelovelivity.com/childofnatureblog/super-simple-cornmeal-beach-sensory-tub/ I love the colors and care Terri’s put into hers! We recently made one for Mikko out of some dried goods we had languishing in the pantry — much less pretty but still a huge hit.
Helpful tips for traditional, baby-friendly foods to start with! (Did I mention Alrik’s 6 months? Woot!)
We all need some poetry, and we all need this message.
Get your gratitude on
Let's Take the Metro's Gratitude Challenge was an uplifting success. Check out the linked-up posts and enjoy the thankfulness!
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National Novel Progress Month
Three days left! We can do it!
How's your progress?
Remember, Teresa from
Mom Grooves is
offering each of our fabulous NaNoProgMo participants a gift — truly! So if you're following along or want to join, just email her your address and she'll mail you a little writerly pick-me-up. More details at:
How's your "prog"?
You can also see how my progress is going here:
Halfway or two-thirds? Find out what I've learned about writing, balance, and fear. Since I wrote that, I've finished my novel to the point that I'm having Sam take another look at it. Whenever he gets around to it.
Hint, hint, ahem. In the meanwhile, I'm working on the
NPN Cloth Diapering book! Also a fun job.
We have
a linky, button and a progress meter available, so join us!
Yes, still. We can always keep going next month, too, right?
Amanda of Let's Take the Metro had a great idea for Thanksgiving: The Gratitude Challenge. We're all listing 100 things we're grateful for. Here are mine. What surprised me was how easy this list was to write, and how many more items I could add.
on hold last December and save it for this December. I kept remembering at Christmastime that I'd wanted to see it again, and of course there were always a dozen other holds on it, so there was no chance of getting it from the library till March. Last year I finally realized: Put it on hold anyway, and suspend the hold till December. I'm now first in line and can get it whenever I please. Ha!
I'm Lauren Wayne, writer and natural parent. I embrace attached parenting with an emphasis toward green living. 
