My friend Lisa is spilling the  beans on our master plan. Well, now if we go missing, our husbands will know where to look. Check her out here.

Come on down and watch some of us bloggers get out from behind the keyboard and get on stage. And the audience is encouraged to bring drinks (read: Pam’s liquid courage) in a thermos or whatever, or as we call it at my house, “mommy’s sippy cup.” 

It’s sort of a page-to-stage idea and should be fun. We could all use the support!!! Please RSVP here on Facebook.

See you there!

Forget the holidays, it’s the most wonderful time of the year right now! It’s National Grammar Day! Test your nerdiness with this quiz from my hero, Grammar Girl .

Post your answers as a comment (which I am holding for moderation so there are NO cheaters) anytime before midnight on March 4. The winner(s) will receive a FABULOUS prize! I’ll post answers and explainations tomorrow.  Here we go.

 Let’s play Correct the Celebrity!

1. Which album title has the spelling error?

a. “Dutchess,” by Fergie

b. “Growing Pains” by Mary J. Blige

c. “Graduation” by Kanye West

d. None of the above

 2. What’s wrong with this lyric by Justin Timberlake?

“When you cheated girl,

My heart bleeded girl.”

a. It’s perfect as it is. Leave Justin alone!

b. “Bleeded” is not a word. “Bled” is.

c. There should be commas before and after “girl”

d. Both b and c are correct. 

3. Circle the errors Paris Hilton made blogging about her new shoe collection.

(Hint: there are at least three!)

“Don’t worry, if you arent in Orange County, you can also get the shoes at Kitson, Zappos.com,

Endless.com, Bakers, Lord & Taylor and select specialty boutiques across the counrty”

4. Correct the following movie titles:

a. How She Move

b. The Pursuit of Happyness

c. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

d. The 40 Year Old Virgin

 5. Circle the error in this statement by Christina Aguilera:

Today is a very joyful and special day for Jordan and I as we welcome our first son into this world.

 6. What’s wrong with this David Hasselhoff quote?

“I am also doing a heart-rendering set on my life and the mistakes I have made.”

a. There should be a comma after life.

b. “heart-rendering” doesn’t need a hyphen.

c. “heart-rendering” should be “heart-rending”

d. The sentence is fine as is.

 7. One of Jessica Simpson’s boyfriends dumped her via text message. The related headline

contains an error. What is it?

Jessica Dumped in 118 Characters or Less

© 2008 SPOGG

I’ve been invited to be a part of the mommy-blogging-squad over at OC Family. They even gave me my very own blog over there! Check out my inaugural post!

And sorry for the portmanteau. I just couldn’t help myself.

The one time that you try to go anywhere without a diaper bag, the baby will inevitably have a diaper blowout, with poop up her back. It happened to me last week on a “quick” trip to Target. I looked at the mom next to me in the baby food isle and said, with horror on my face, “WHAT is that SMELL?” She was none the wiser.

What’s happening in Haiti right now is truly every parent’s worst nightmare–to have an injured, dying or missing child with no access to medical care or resources. 

There are so many Haiti-related donation scams circulating on Facebook and the web right now. I wanted to remind folks to donate to an organization like the American Red Cross, where you know your dollars will actually be spent in Haiti. 

Your gift to the American Red Cross will support emergency relief and recovery efforts to help those people affected by the earthquake in Haiti. Assistance provided by the American Red Cross may include sending relief supplies, mobilizing relief workers and providing financial resources and recovery.

 Click here to learn more or make a donation.

Anyone that knows me, knows about my unhealthy obsession with lip products.  I can’t go more than an hour with an application or gloss or balm. So you can imagine how happy I was when  Abby started to pretend apply lip stuff.  For Christmas, I got her one of those giant Lip Smackers. She loved that thing and carried it everywhere. She pretend applied it to all of her dolls and stuffed animals—even the dogs got some.

Eventually, she figured out how to get the cap off. She cautiously applied the giant stick to her lips and smiled sweetly. I was SO proud.  I even let her put some on me.

Then she licked her lips and bit of the end off of it. I ripped it out of her hands as she said “YUM!”  Horrifying. 

Guess it was too soon.

Please, take off your coats and stay a while. While you are thinking about it, bookmark this site so you can find me here in the future.  I needed a new blog that was stalker-proof (more on that later) and a little more my style.

Take a look around and tell me what you think. We’re still working out some of the bugs, so let me know what works for you and what doesn’t.

Thanks for stopping by, you are welcome any time.

I was just looking through some pictures of Ellie on her “birth day.” Don’t worry, they aren’t all graphic or anything. At least not in the way you’d expect. Upon closer inspection, I realized what she was really doing with her, um, middle finger.