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Party with me on Facebook! 10/23

Hey everyone!! I would love if you came and partied with me on facebook today! I’ve got a lot of prizes to giveaway.

Why party today?

A couple of reasons.

– I had a lot of leftover samples from my Halloween party last week.

– I’ve reached over 1000 followers on facebook, and I just feel overwhelming gratitude for you guys!

– There’s a Mompact Twitter Party this Thursday, and these are samples I received from mompact

For today’s party head over here

http://www.facebook.com/homemaidsimple

So if you can’t make it to my party today, make sure you join us Thursday on Twitter! These parties are always lots of fun. I’ve made many friends, and gleaned their minds for parenting tips.

For Thursday’s party you can RSVP here

http://www.mallerysdeals.com/2012/10/22/rsvp-moms-night-out-twitter-party/

Hope to see you at one or both!

Just a sneak peek at what you could win!

October 23, 2012
Facebooking Diagnosies – Think About It

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What is on your mind? Tell us about it, and then link up at the bottom of this post!

Yestrday Prince L woke up with a puffy eye. I assumed he was just really tired, as he hadn’t been sleeping as well lately. Then he started acting just odd. He didn’t really want to open his eyes, almost as if the lights hurt. He became extremely cuddly, and just wanted me to hold him all day long, wrapped in a blanket. Unless he’s sleeping, he never closes his eyes, or lets me hold him for long. He would rather be looking at everything and moving around as best he can. So I started thinking maybe these symptoms were in relation to his puffy eye. Since Mark and I had both been suffering allergies on and off, I chalked it up to that.

To be safe though, I posted about it on facebook, and even added a cute picture.

Not looking for a diagnosis exactly, I just wanted to share my cute cuddly guy with his puffy eye. Well, a number of my friends immediately got on and said it looked like pink eye! I was feeling so lucky that after 4 kids we had never experienced this awful sounding virus. So pink eye hadn’t even crossed my mind before it was mentioned on facebook. I started looking up the signs and symptoms of Pink Eye on google, and told Mark our weekend plans might be canceled because of it.

Mark called his brother, who happens to work in the medical field. He said looking at the picture it didn’t look like Pink Eye. He’s almost always been right when we call him. So I pushed my worries aside, and decided to wait it out. Then I decided maybe I should play it safe. We haven’t been to a doctor since moving, and Prince L needed his 6 month check anyways. So off I went to find a doctor.

Source: themetapicture.com via Kaitlin on Pinterest

We have 1 doctor in our small town, and he was gone for the weekend (It’s fall break here). On to the next town over. I found one that could see us before we left for our vacation, and got in to see him this morning as we headed out of town. I am so glad I didn’t wait!

Although it is NOT pink eye, it is a bacterial infection, and needs some eye drops. Although it’s not going to be fun putting these eye drops into a 6 month old, it will be much better than watching his puffy red eye, an worrying that it hurts him.

So thanks Facebook Friends for sending me in a mild panic, but also for putting the worry there, because something was wrong.

Have you ever Facebook Diagnosed yourself or kids? Were they right? Did you send yourself into a panic with all the possibilities of what could be wrong? I’d love to hear about it!

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October 18, 2012
Real life friends vs Online friends – Think About It!
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This week’s topic

Are facebook {online} friendships easier to maintain than real life friendships?

To really get us thinking today let’s look at the key words here –

Friendship – is a relationship between two people who hold mutual affection for each other (wikipedia)

Maintain – to keep in an existing state (as of repair, efficiency, or validity) : preserve from failure or decline (merriam-webster)

So what we’re looking at today is preserving our relationships with people we like. Is it easier to do this with our online friends? Or in real life?

Online friends. We have them. In this day and age, just about everyone has some sort of online social profile. It has brought people back together who lost contact. At the beginning of Facebook, I remember becoming so excited because I got to catch up with so many of my childhood friends. When your family moves across the country, it is very easy to lose contact with friends. Back then, there wasn’t Facebook. After a few months, I stopped sending letters, as I found new friends. So when Facebook came up, I was ecstatic. It allowed me to rekindle those long lost friendships.

The downside of online friends, is that if you have too many, some get lost. Instead of maintaining that friendship, they become stagnant, and sometimes forgotten.

Real Life Friends. Are fun! You can go out to lunch, or for ice cream, and experience the love and laughter you get in those situations. Are real life friends harder to maintain? Yes, because it takes more work than just turning on your computer. However, in my opinion, real life friends bring much more quality to your life. With our recent move, my friends took me out for ice cream before we left. It was some of the most fun I’ve had in awhile. These were friends that I would get together for playdates with our kids, watch each others kids so we could run errands, or help out when someone was sick. Online friends can offer support through words, but physically they’re not there.

I found myself in quite the pickle after our move. I knew no one around, and our internet took forever to hook up. So I was out both real life friends (that were nearby), and online friends. We finally got the internet hooked back up, and I just delved right back in, talking to friends like I’d never left. My real life friends are also some of my online friends. The aspect of our friendship has changed now, because we are not close by. I can’t run over and borrow a cup of sugar if needed. I miss that.

So what was really exciting? My neighbor stopped by yesterday and we sat on our front porch just chatting like we were old friends. She is so fun, and I can’t wait to put in the effort to get to know her more, and really grow this friendship. It’s more work, but it brings greater results in the end.

*To all my online friends reading this – I love you guys! I wish we all lived close by and could relax on a porch while our kids play. I would put effort into our friendship to make that last, but until we do meet, I will enjoy our online interactions!

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