Building A Readership Beyond Your Blogging Community

The other day I had an in-depth email conversation with several of my online blogging pals about who’s reading our blogs. When looking at Google Analytics (and beyond), it’s clear that many bloggers are receiving visits from fellow bloggers. One of my buds reported that for her, it was as high as 85 percent of all visits to her site. She also noted that the bulk of her comments come from fellow bloggers. She feels that, to some extent, Read more

What I’m Really Thinking While Watching Kids' Cartoons

Caden officially outgrew watching cartoons about a year ago. Aless, on the other hand, has just reached the age of being totally intrigued by dancing sponges and doodling dogs. What does that mean for mom? Well, whether I like it or not, I'm subjected to watching hours of nausea inducing animated characters doing things that would cause us real people to get arrested. As you can tell, I'm not a big cartoon fan. Never have been. But I do Read more

The Crock Pot Crowd, A G+ Community

I've been an avid crock potter for more than 20 years and love sharing recipes, tips and stories with others who also enjoy this quick and easy cooking method. I often write here on the blog about what I've whipped up that day such as Crock Pot Cheesy Chicken Bake, Slow Cooker Wimpy Chili and Crock Pot Apple Pie Cake (to die for!). I've loved all the feedback I've received and enjoyed seeing the pictures of the creations you've Read more

Pitter-Patter Go Little Feet, She Is My Heart

Pitter-patter go little feet as she runs up behind me. Her arms wrapped tightly around my legs, the soft giggles begin. I reach back and gently grab her wrists, growling loudly like a bear. "GRRRRRRRR! I'll get you, Alessandra!" The giggles turn to laughter as I feel her collapse to the floor. Bent down, I softly kiss her forehead, taking in each smile and loving gaze from her eyes. She is my heart. Wild hair, big blue eyes, every step Read more

Welcome to MommiFried!

A blog about the adventures of a middle-aged mom suffering from Motherhood Unintentional Distraction Disorder, otherwise known as MUDD. MUDD is the inability to complete a thought or action without being distracted by 14 million other things related to motherhood: balancing work and home life, taking care of pets, changing poopy diapers, cooking, cleaning, shopping, changing poopy diapers...you see where this is going, right? If you're a mom, you've probably experienced two or three or 500,000 episodes of MUDD since Read more
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Ghetto Nuns and Margarita Handshakes

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Crystal in Cadenisms, Pontilicious Moments | 2 Comments

On our way to Wal-Mart yesterday and after leaving Applebee’s where one Pontilicious had several Happy Hour margaritas (have you ever seen the size of those puppies?!), we stopped at a convenience store in a rather – unpleasant? – part of town. This resulted in the following conversation:

PONTILICIOUS: Did you really lock the doors when I went inside?

ME: Yes!

PONTILICIOUS: Why? I was right there (points to inside of store). Literally, feet from you. Only that glass window was between us.

ME: I don’t care. This is not the best area of town. I didn’t want someone car jacking us or taking one of the kids. Read more

Oxen and Chimney Fires

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Crystal in Pontilicious Moments | Leave a comment

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ME: I’m glad we didn’t have a chimney fire yesterday. That scared the shit out of me.

PONTILICIOUS: I knew we didn’t have one.

ME: Well it was a relief to not see flames shooting out of the chimney.

PONTILICIOUS: What the hell? Read more

How warm is it outside?

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Crystal in Pontilicious Moments | 2 Comments

Fallen-Snowman

Sometimes you just gotta laugh…

PONTILICIOUS: (standing on front porch with door wide open to the living room) It’s so warm outside today!

ME: (shivering and cursing under my breath) It’s like 10 degrees out. It’s not warm. Read more

No, You Do NOT Have Low T

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Crystal in Pontilicious Moments | Leave a comment

Aless woke up at 3:30 again yesterday morning. Rather than sit there like a couple of mutant zombies, Pontilicious and I turned on some early morning programming otherwise known as the infomercial mosh pit of ick. It’s always the same old miracle stain removers, photoshopped abs and vacuum cleaners that could suck up small planets. OMG! There goes Uranus! Grab it! No, don’t, really. That’s just weird and gross. Read more

And the Bat Says “Beep Beep Beep”

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Crystal in Cadenisms, Pontilicious Moments | 2 Comments

PONTILICIOUS: Do bats have sonar?
ME: Yep. Bats do indeed have sonar.
PONTILICIOUS: Like the kind that goes “beep beep beep?”
ME: (paused – in a state of confusion and disbelief) Are you serious?
PONTILICIOUS: Maybe.
ME: You’re dead serious, aren’t you? Read more

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