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Blogoversary Group Writing Project

It’s been waaaay too long, and the Fifth Blogoversaryfestathon wouldn’t be complete without one—a MamaBlogga Group Writing Project! Five years ago I started this blog, so the theme for the August Group Writing Project is “Five years from now.”

MamaBlogga Group Writing Project badgeAs always, feel free to go in any direction that appeals to you. Even if you don’t choose to participate, you can encourage others to participate!

  • Your post can take any form as long as it reflects this theme—this includes anything from serious to sarcastic, about your children, your future children, your pet, etc.
  • You can participate with a blog post, a podcast, a video, a page on your website, etc., etc. If you don’t have a website, contact me and I’ll be happy to publish your entry here on MamaBlogga.
  • Only NEW posts (i.e., posts have not been published prior to 15 July 2011) are eligible. Posts must be submitted through the submission form before Saturday, 23 July 2011.

Why participate?
There are lots of reasons to participate! All entries that meet the guidelines will be listed and linked to here on MamaBlogga. This an opportunity for you to discover new blogs (and for others to discover yours!). Also, see how you can get the most out of the GWP.

And, of course, there is one more incentive: one lucky post author, drawn at random, will receive a $30 gift certificate to Amazon.com (to be announced Monday, 25 July 2011).

Finally, we’d appreciate it if you linked to this post or to the guidelines/submission form on your entry post so that others can learn about the project and participate.

Get the badge!
Copy and paste this code to get the MamaBlogga GWP badge above (it includes a link back here, but I’d still appreciate a text link, too).

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Final week for GWP!

It’s the last week to enter the Group Writing Project!

Remember, to enter, all you have to do is blog or post about Feeling Fulfilled Fridays by doing any one of these things:

  • A blog post on things that make you feel accomplished (especially as a mother)
  • Your full “feeling accomplished” list
  • A Feeling Fulfilled Friday report
  • Spread the word about FFF or the GWP on Twitter, Facebook or another social network (your privacy settings must be such that I can see the post so I can count it!)

Each post is an entry into the random drawing for the prize—but you must use the form to submit each entry (it’s too easy for me to miss them otherwise!).

That’s right, you can have multiple entries!

The Prize
A $30 Amazon gift card.

(If we get a lot of entries, I’ll give away more than one gift card!)

So hurry and enter!

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Feeling Fulfilled Fridays 11

It’s feeling fulfilled Friday on MamaBlogga! Here’s how it works:

  1. Make a list of things that make you feel accomplished (but aren’t so huge that they take more than a day or a week)
  2. During the week, try to focus on those things that help us feel accomplished
  3. Report on feeling fulfilled Friday and enter the GWP to win an Amazon gift card!

Ugh. I’m flattened by a rough cold.

But we’ve had some good days this week. I’ve done pretty well on making healthy dinners (until tonight), and when my in-laws were here, we watched almost no TV (and they made me take a nap because I was sick, woot!). And I read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Catching Fire this week—two good books. AND I worked on school stuff with the kids at least a little.

AND I need to go lay back down.

How has your week been? How is your list coming?

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Feeling Fulfilled Fridays 10

Woot! It’s feeling fulfilled Friday on MamaBlogga, part of the October Group Writing Project! Here’s how it works:

  1. Make a list of things that make you feel accomplished (but aren’t so huge that they take more than a day or a week)
  2. During the week, try to focus on those things that help us feel accomplished
  3. Report on feeling fulfilled Friday
  4. Post on your blog and submit on the form for a chance to win an Amazon gift card in the GWP this month!

My week: this week we started a home-preschool co-op with a couple other families in our neighborhood. Rebecca’s still a little young for the class, but we’ve been working on the lessons at home. In fact, there’s even a curriculum for Rachel (who turned four months on Tuesday!). Her curriculum involves reading her a story, scriptures and a poem, listening to Mozart, playing games (this week, little piggies) and nursery rhymes.

For Rebecca and Hayden, they learn letters, numbers, shapes, colors and a little vocabulary. Hayden is excelling so far—for the first time, he’s really eager to write the letter A all by himself. Rebecca, on the other hand, enjoys spending time together, but of course a lot of the lessons don’t “stick.” She’s only two, though; I don’t expect her to learn everything.

Teaching the kids something new is on my accomplishment list—but, notably, their learning something is not. When I made my list, I thought of a lot more things than what I put on there. It’s hard not to feel accomplished when the kids are angels, do whatever I want, and prove that they are the geniuses I’m convinced they are. And of course it’s okay to have those things on your list—it’s your list. For me, though,those things are out of my control, and feeling accomplished—and fulfilled—is too important to leave up to the mercy of my children’s whims.

What do you think? Would/did you include things that are out of your control on your accomplishment list?

And don’t forget: Post about your FFF and enter to win!

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My accomplishment list

The foundation of Feeling Fulfilled Fridays is focusing on what makes us feel accomplished, as inspired by a post on Seagull Fountain. I thought about things that make me feel accomplished (mostly as a mother but also a person), things that I can do in a relatively short amount of time, Feeling Fulfilled Fridays badgeperhaps daily.

I hope that as I focus on these simple things, I’ll be able to build on that sense of accomplishment and at the end of the day, I’ll be able to look back and see that I did something.

So here’s my list!

  • Read scriptures with the kids.
  • Exercise.
  • Make a healthy dinner and serve it before 7 PM.
  • Play with the kids.
  • Remain patient.
  • Recording precious moments.
  • Do laundry promptly.
  • Teach the kids something new.
  • Finish a good book.
  • Reach other stories to the kids.
  • Have a clean house.
  • Enforce rules (or chores).
  • Publish a good blog post.
  • Go out with the kids, especially for something fun for them.
  • Defuse or anticipate tantrums.

What makes you feel super accomplished? Blog your list for an entry in the October Group Writing Project!

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Feeling Fulfilled Fridays 9

It’s feeling fulfilled Friday on MamaBlogga! Here’s how it works:

  1. Make a list of things that make you feel accomplished (but aren’t so huge that they take more than a day or a week)
  2. During the week, try to focus on those things that help us feel accomplished
  3. Report on feeling fulfilled Friday

And it’s time for a Group Writing Project!

My week: All things considered, it’s been a pretty good week. Although I seem to be pathologically incapable of getting in bed before midnight, and Rachel pathologically incapable of sleeping past six all of a sudden, I knew I was going to have to make an extra effort to remain sane this week. And of course, sometimes when you strive to be everything you can for your kids, all they can do is demand more. But hey, sometimes when you make the extra effort, it actually works!

Group Writing Project!
It’s been over a year since the last Group Writing Project on MamaBlogga. As a quick refresher, a GWP is when we all write on the same topic, to see lots of different peoples’ perspective on a topic. This time, the details will be a little different. Instead of one entry a piece submitted over a week, we’re going to have lots of possible entries per person, over the course of the month!

How to enter:
During the month of October, participate in Feeling Fulfilled Fridays. You can enter blog posts on things that make you feel accomplished (especially as a mother), your “feeling accomplished” list, and of course, a Feeling Fulfilled Friday report.

Blog entries must be new, posted in October 2010, and you must use the form to submit each entry (it’s too easy for me to miss them otherwise!).

Other ways to enter: spread the word about the Feeling Fulfilled Friday GWP on Twitter, Facebook or another social network. (But I must be able to see your post—if your Tweets are protected or your Facebook privacy so high that I can’t see the posts, I can’t count them!) Again, use the form to let me know.

What you win
Yes, seriously. There’s a prize. Maybe more than one—depending on how many entries we get.

At least one post, chosen at random, will receive a gift card to Amazon.com! Woot! Fill up your Kindle—or make a downpayment on one!

Get the GWP badge

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