Tomrrow is the closing date for the MAD Blog Awards, the very last chance to vote for Patch of Puddles in the two categories you can vote for it in.
I’ve just done mine. I didn’t vote for myself (at least, I don’t think I did!) but I wanted to tell you some of the great blogs that I struggled to choose between, love reading, have got to know the writers of or just generally admire the sticking power of.
I tell a lie, according to the email I just got, I gave myself one vote. Oops.. 🙄
In no particular order, you could do worse than add the following to your RSS feed.
MammyWoo – we are up against each other in Post of the Year but gods I admire her. Gutsy and hilariously funny, she will make you weep and snort all at once.
Northern Mum – most relieved not to be up against her this year in a voted category. I love her to bits and don’t mind at all that she beat me last year. *cough* very funny with a knack for a comic turn of phrase. (Bit odd, admittedly… But you can’t argue with a woman prepared to occupy my son with glimpses of cleavage).
Pregnancy and Baby has it covered, in my humble opinion, between Me, the Man and the Baby and SAHMumLovingit. They were the only two I could cope with reading while I was pregnant, so no offence to anyone else. I’m not quite back to baby blogs yet 🙂 all the other ones I’ve read in the last year have been of the ‘make you cry’ variety.
I had a tough time choosing nominations, never mind votes, between Science Sparks, The Imagination Tree, Red Ted Art and Littlesheep Learning.
I’ve called a little in love with The Boy and Me too and highly recommend you check her out and her 366 project too.
I’m up against Slugs on the Refrigerator in Blog of the Year, so good karma for me if you vote for her in craft 😉 I did 🙂
I think IamTypecast and LoveAllBlogs deserve a look for helpful and innovative blogs, as does GeekisNewChic and her other blog MummyTips, DorkyMum and Baby Budgeting.
Ps, if you haven’t found it yet and you have an iPad, get FeeddlerPro to read blogs on. It’s fabulous 🙂 (and that isn’t sponsored!)
Thanks for mentioning me (luckily I’m not in the same finalist category as Science Sparks, The Imagination Tree, Red Ted Art as I’m in small business!)
Thank you merry. up against you with family budgeting in best blog post maybe we should make a cvideo with us all reading our posts how good are you at editing? Thanks fo rmentioning me and I’ll see you there x
I edited a video yesterday that I’m quite proud of. I’m up for doing that 🙂
Aww, thanks! There were a fair few votes for you in my voting too!! Thanks for including me in such lovely company!
Aww, thank you for the lovely mention. What you said reminds me of why it took me so long to kinda tweet and communicate with you, I remember your twitter bio saying that you didn’t want to follow those with baby boys, or something along those lines. After reading your blog, I totally understood why, I had a baby boy (Oli) myself at the time so didn’t want to draw attention to that. I’m glad now we have a online friendship, I look forward to seeing you again at the MADs and hopefully we can have a proper natter! 🙂 x
Thanks for the mention Merry! Looking forward to seeing you again in September!