Over the next few days I’ll be working through my heap of business cards visiting bloggers I met at BlogHer. I hope to feature 30 20 a bunch of them each day until I get through my heap of cards.
Candy from Barrier Free Travels happened to be the first person whom I traded cards with at the conference.
Jessica writes Zakka Life, a craft blog that I am looking forward to exploring more. Here’s just one example of her useful, interesting projects, some of which you can do with your kids.
Living-inTheory.com Sugar and I found ourselves having a meaningful conversation in a restroom, of all things.
I met Mena the founder of SixApart and her beautiful little daughter at a very crowded Typepad party on Saturday. She now writes for Nested.typepad.com and at her personal blog http://www.dollarshort.org.
Stephanie O’Dea writes A Year of Crockpotting and I think I am remembering correctly when I say that she may have a book deal soon.
I met Sahar from FatFighterTV.com on Sunday. Her site looks interesting, especially if you’re needing a little moral support in the weight loss department.
Esther video-blogs at Faint Starlight. When I went over to chat with her, I was delighted to learn that she and her husband are hoping to adopt from Ethiopia in the next few years.
Debbie (Delicious Baby ) and I traded cards at the Saturday evening Dooce keynote. Her site shares tips for traveling with children.
Sandie Chen writes movie reviews for Common Sense Media. If I am remembering the right person, she brought her adorable baby with her, which is how I got chatting with her in the first place.
Ayelet from Pursuing Adventures in My 40’s has another interesting-looking blog.
Zoe’s morning toast blog looks like a very interesting and eclectic mix. I won’t swear to it, but I think I met her outside the cheeseburger party (just as the whole mob was being evicted). Chilihead and I were headed to chat with Babywearing Steph whose room was right across the hall from the party, so we hid in the stairwell for a few minutes so as not to be part of the security sweep.
Susan of WhyMommy and Mothers With Cancer and I shared hugs and tears. It was so nice to see her warm smile and meet her in person.
Mary writes In Women We Trust. She and I had a great time talking gardening at the nightclub party on Friday night, even if we did have to holler to be heard over the din. I was telling her about the fun I’d been having meeting people, and how I’d been able to find common interests with so many different people. She laughed and said, “That’s called getting older!” If so, it is a nice side effect!
I was thrilled late on Saturday to finally find Carmen from Mom to the Screaming Masses. I’ve read her blog for years, and she is even more fun in person than on her blog.
OK, I’m tired now…more peeps later!
looks like so much fun! saw your picture over at shannon’s, and thought how nice it’d have been to meet all you nice ladies. 🙂
It was nice to meet you at BlogHer! The only thing better than getting to meet everyone in person is having the time to come home and look at so many new (to me) blogs in depth. I love the stories you are telling here & I’ll add you to my reader.
Debbie
Mary, it was so very nice to meet you—I’m saddened that we didn’t have the chance to speak longer. I found your blog years ago via Carmen, and was excited to meet you—your blog was one of the very few that I read for a very long time.
xox
steph
Stephanie was on Rachel Ray!! I was so proud to be a Crockpot 365 groupie that day 😉 I’ve been going to her blog daily for a while now, I love love love her recipes.
We were wondering what happened to you during all that hubbub of the cheeseburgher party! Ha!
Mary, I am so glad I got to spend time with you!
Steph
I loved meeting you too! It was incredible.
TEN KIDS???????????????? No offense but does your husband John know what condoms are???
Whenever I hear a blog friend has received a trollish comment (this time, via Twitter)…why do I feel the need to defend the author?
I can’t imagine leaving an intentionally rude comment; snark and fun is one thing, especially in light of the author…but otherwise?
I just don’t get it :/.
OOooo, 9 times out of 10, there’s never a link back to “their” blog, either….i n t e r e s t i n g…veddy interesting.
(GLAD you had a great time at BlogHer, happy to meet some of your need interpeeps 🙂 ).
Is it so hard to read that “about me” paragraph? Sheesh.
I love Zakka Life, been reading that for a while, and Common Sense Media is my one stop for all movies/books/games etc etc. I’ve left reviews there too (under another screen name). They have the most thoughtful, important reviews for moms to read.
Don’t you just love commentors who say dumb things and then leave no way for a response? Chickens!
Depending on how bad they are, I usually take them down, but sometimes I do leave them up.
Clearly this person did not read your blog at all. Simply reading the About Me section would have cleared that up. However, we have 7 and do not use condoms and never will. We are letting God choose our family size.
Ugh. Trolls make my head hurt.
It sounds like you had a wonderful time at BlogHer. I MUST make this a priority in the future. I would love to meet all of you in person!
Do not feed the Trolls.
Mary, I am glad you had a mawvelous time. You deserved some “me” time!
Cool to see all the people you met! Would have loved to have been there.
I love reading about your family. Having 10 kids is such a blessing and you do a fabulous job with being their mom!
I’ve come across your name a time or two, but I’ve never come and checked out your site. The “troll” issue encouraged me to. Your life is amazing! I see why people have so many great things to say about you. If you don’t mind I’d like to bookmark you and follow you on Twitter.
I’m glad an idiot commenter lead me your way!
Whenever people feel like they need to comment on our kids (“Don’t you know what causes that?”), my husband always says “Yeah. Do you need some tips? Advice?”
And we only have three. THREE!
Oh good grief. Flee, troll, FLEE.
Mary, I loved hanging out with you!
Children are a blessing condoms are not !
Trolls are funny. They should be flushed. That was my funny way of referencing our deep conversation in the bathroom. 😉
Thanks so much for mentioning me and for being a great mom to ten kids.
thank you for mentioning my site in your post, what an honor!
I’m going to check out some of the links now
It was wonderful to meet you, Mary!
Yes, I’m the doofus who commented twice. Apparently I’m up WAY past my bedtime. Sorry!