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My dearest, sweetest, loveliest readers, I know it probably drives you crazy that every time you come here, the theme has changed yet again. I’m breaking one of the biggest rules for how NOT to look like a new blogger. I’m supposed to find a theme and stick with it, so that every time you come here, you know exactly what to expect.

But, I am NOT SATISFIED. This theme that I have now, it’s close, but it’s just not quite right. I like the width, how it takes up most of the screen rather than be squished into the middle like so many free blog themes are. I like that it has room for my four BlogQuake ads, but, I don’t know, there’s just something missing. Something that says “hey look! It’s the MomReviews blog!”

*le sigh* I just want it to be perfect for YOU, because YOU are the ones coming here to read! It’s all you, you, YOU! So, I’ll keep looking, trying new things, and one of these days, I just might have to pay for a custom design so that it’s everything I want. Feel free to leave suggestions about themes, too. If I ever have one that you just don’t like, go ahead and say so, it won’t hurt my feelings, I promise

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I had been tagged by Perceptions of an Ambivert to do a viral linking post, which I haven’t done in a long time. There are advantages to participating in viral linking, including:

-One of the fastest ways to see your technorati authority explode!
-Increase your google pagerank fast
-Attract large volume of new traffic to your site

I prefer not to tag people, so please feel free to grab this list and post it yourself, don’t forgot to add your blog to the end of the list!

1.The Strategist Note Book
2.The Classy Life
3. Agenc Was Here
4.When Life Becomes a Book
5.The Haven
6.The FireWalker
7.crystrad
8.nadnuts
9.ThomasWelcome
10.Maitri
11.Dhanosh
12.Marketing Myself
13.Brawny Hunk
14.Motorparasi
15.Ash
16.Annette
17.Super Hero Extraordinare
18.Everyday should be Christmas
19.The Gadget Guru tech
20.Available Light
21.Dad’s Dish
22.What Goes Under the Sun
23.One Quart Low
24.Stephan Miller
25.Mental Poo
26.Search for Blogging
27.Renatodoxaguia
28.Angel Baby
29.The Sleeping Turtle Art Gallery
30.Hanna
31.JollyJo
32.Olga the traveling bra
33.Concept is addict
34.Postarelibero
35.Nokhathai
36.My Internet Marketing adventure
37.Conceptis Addict
38.MomReviews
39.In to the Rabbit Hole
40. Smile!Tomorrow could be a lot worse!
41.Wicked Whispers
42.Anand’s blog
43.I Don’t Want To Retire
44.MomCooks
45.Getting My Blog On

Happy linking!

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The stress of all the things I have to do before I leave for Florida on Friday is really starting to take it’s toll on me. I’m so lucky to have such an understanding husband, who, when I told him I was going into the bedroom and shutting the door so I could get my blogging done in peace, said simply, “okay”.

It’s no one’s fault but my own that I am in this situation. I love, love, LOVE blogging and product reviews and giveaways and everything that goes along with it, but sometimes I get myself into a situation where I have said yes to too many things at once. I keep it all scheduled on Outlook Calendar, but one day where something unexpected happens that pushes that day’s work to the next day, and pretty soon it’s snowballing out of control!

So, I’ve made a list, I’m working my way down, and I’m going to get it all done. Tomorrow I need to pay bills, grocery shop, and do laundry, so my plan is to *gasp* NOT TURN ON THE COMPUTER. I know, the world will not end, right?

It’s just taking a lot of fortitude to sit in here and listen to my daughter cry because she isn’t watching WonderPets or whatever, and not go out there. My husband can deal with it, and Kaitlyn will just have to deal with me not being right there as well. Will breathe in, will breathe out, will resist. Must stay here and WORK.

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Good morning, MomReviews readers! I realized this morning as I was writing a post on Table for Five that I have all this stuff going on over there that I haven’t even told you about. I know that some of you read both blogs but some don’t, so before I get to the giveaway, I’d like to let you know about some important things that are going on:

• You have until tomorrow, April 8th at 9 AM Eastern to enter the $200 American Express Gift Card giveaway I’m having! Please take a minute to visit the sponsor website http://tuitionbids.com, then go to THIS POST to leave your comment and be entered to win.
• If you have any dollar amount to spare, I have joined bloggers Caffeinated Elf, Karen Sugarpants and MissAnnThrope in raising money to help blogger Lisa from Clusterfook. She has beaten cancer twice but now that bitch is back. Lisa would like to take her kids to DisneyWorld, and we want to help! Please visit THIS POST and look for the PayPal donation button. If you don’t have a PayPal account, you can still donate using a credit card. We want to give Lisa and her girls a wonderful Disney vacation, and every little bit helps.
• Regular readers will know that one thing I look forward to every year is the BlogHer blogging conference, and I was saving money and donations to go, until our furnace broke and wiped out my savings account. BlogHer has announced a contest to give away a free conference pass, airfare and hotel, and I am asking for your help to win! On THIS POST, I have a link to the “Who’s your BlogHer Hero?” contest-if you think I demonstrate Passion, Innovation, and the Ability to Inspire a Community, please enter me to win. Use email address elizabeth@table4five.net, and my full name is Elizabeth Edwards. The contest is open until May 31st. Nominations are GREATLY appreciated!
• And finally, if you or someone you know could use a baby sling, I’m giving away a Scootababy. Read all about what a Scootababy is and enter to win one before this Friday, April 11th by visiting THIS POST.

See what I mean? No wonder I titled today’s first post on Table for Five “Just Another Manic Monday”! Oh yeah, and my husband left this morning for a business trip, too. Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!

Okay, now let’s get to the winner of the basket of Suave products sponsored by In the Motherhood and M80. I asked entrants to leave a comment telling me their favorite feature of the Sprint Palm Centro cell phone, and it seems that the Google Maps and the MP3 player were definitely some of the faves. I put the names into Random.org’s list randomizer, and the winner is…

Loretta from Just Not Martha! Congratulations Retta, and thanks everyone who entered. My next giveaway is a Baby Einstein DVD, plus I have reviews coming up of Kashi products, the InGrid Home Security System, and a Solar Science kit. And PLEASE, please visit those links at the top of the post. The BlogHer Hero contest is pretty much my only hope to go, and I really want to help Lisa get to Disney, too. Thanks EVERYBODY!!!!

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I’ve had a Twitter account for I guess a few months now, but in the last few days, I’ve been Twittering heavily.

Not familiar with Twitter? It’s like instant messaging with as few or as many people as you want, except you can only post 140 characters at a time. Brevity, humor, and cleverness are good assets to have for a Twitterer.

I’m still working on two out of three of those.

The way that you read what people are posting is by clicking a button marked “Follow” under their profile photo. So, for example, if you want to Follow what I post on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/Table4Five and click the Follow button (after you set up your account).

Unlike commenting on blog posts, Twitter lets you make short, instant connections with people in real time. I find that people who NEVER comment on my blogs are very friendly on Twitter-makes me feel better some days So come on, do what all the “cool” bloggers (like me, HAHAHAHAHA) are doing and come join Twitter!

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