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Once in a while, it’s important to stop, catch your breath, and look at your accomplishments before you move on to the next thing — to put a stake in the ground that says, “I made it this far!”

Today, we’re rolling out a couple of notifications to help you celebrate your blog activity milestones. From now on, whenever you hit a milestone for how many followers your blog has (5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and beyond), you’ll get a badge:

We also created badges to celebrate when you receive lots of likes from visitors:

In addition to celebrating your achievements, we wanted to notify you when you’ve had a particularly good day for receiving likes or new followers. From now on, we’ll let you know of your best days for such activity:

Keep in mind that we’ve only started counting your best days this March.

We all blog for different…

It was the owls that first caught me, dark eyes so wise and brilliant with life.

Then I noticed the other little birds, dark bodies reminiscent of the sparrows of my Virginia youth.  The artist, Angie Pickman, is based in the midwest of Kansas. I don’t make it out that way very often and so when I see glimpses of her work in my email box via her blog I am thankful for the internet for allowing me to see such creative beauty made out of black paper.

Without ever seeing her blog posts about music, one can sense the lyricism in Angie’s cut paper work.  I’ve told her — and I am being sincere — that she has redefined my sense of black paper and negative space.  Given that she does post on occasion about music and that her paper cuts titles sometimes refer to birdsong, I asked her…

 

… I am finding paper so fascinating this year. 😉

The man with whom I am involved I tend to describe as a science guy who works with light.  He says that’s not quite accurate but it works for me.  Since the beginning of our relationship we have  shared many an illuminated experience that we have described quite differently.  There was the infamous halo around the moon.  I will forever describe sunlight on water as “dancing” but now I also see the resulting light-filled ripples as “caustic.”  Most recently we have talked of rainbows.

I see rainbows all around on earth.  I am amazed at the places I find them like on the back of this silver tray left forgotten in a corner closet.   Or the rainbows formed on the surface of CDs left out of their case on a table near a sunny window.

I see them less often in the sky mostly because I usually…

I almost feel like there’s a story in this image, of the sun shining through flowers, like a red orb rising.

2 Pairs In-Stock Skechers Fitness Footwear (Shape-ups, Tone-ups Fitness, Shape-ups LiV, GOrun, GOwalk, ProSpeed, ProTR, ProResistance, Tone-ups RUN) Giveaway on Mommy Kat and Kids

 

Other giveaways on Mommy Kat and Kids:

• Dino Dan: Dino TrackersDVD-Review and Giveaway
• Upper Canada Soap Celebrates the Naturally Signature Collection with The Awesome Canadian Woman-Review and Giveaway
• Katie M. Berggren-Painting Intimate Moments of Motherhood-Review and Giveaway
• Taylor Joelle Designs Baby Boutique-Review and Giveaway
• Pambra’s The Original Bra Liner-Review and Giveaway
• Book By You Personalized Novels-Review and Giveaway
• Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Easter Adventure DVD-Review and Giveaway
• Zax’s Original Kid’s Bruise Cream-Review and Giveaway
• Booty Buns Cloth Diapers-Review and Giveaway
• IronKids Gummy Vitamins for Kids-The Fun Way to Take Your Vitamins!-Giveaway
• Stories in Music The Soldier’s Tale CD-Review and Giveaway
• Fall in Love With Swapopolis-$200 swapopolis.com Giveaway!
• Butt Bench Bathtub Seat-Review and Giveaway
• Get Romantic this Valentine’s Day with EdenFantasys-Giveaway
• Spongeables Pedi-Scrub Foot Buffer-Review…