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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Starting today and every week thereafter, Fatherhood Adventures would round out the week that was by providing highlights of activities of Papa Sez and Mama Sez in the blogosphere. This is not just a summary that could be valuable for followers/ readers of our sites, but also a good overview for those who just happen to pass by to check out our sites. For us, it would mean a commitment to regularly review our efforts and to be able to make informed decisions regarding our work.
For now, the Weekly Highlights would just be a rundown of our blog posts, but may also include announcements and highlights of significant posts in terms of milestones, launches or personal favorites. In terms of feedback, popular articles for the month will also be identified and we may also highlight comments, reviews, ratings or other forms of feedback received from readers like you. All in all this would "force" us to stay on our toes and get data necessary for informed decision-making.
In this first Weekly Highlights, I am going to cover two weeks, instead of just the recent week. The review of our first sets of HubPages articles and Mama Sez's easy to follow recipes would be the endpoint of the period that would not be covered by this new system.
LAUNCHING OF ISLAND TRAVEL
A significant event for us during this period under review is the launch of our new travel blog--
Island Travel: A Summer Family Vacation. Three blog posts introduced the idea behind this new adventure:
- The Countdown Begins is where Mama Sez announced our intention to travel and to blog about it, which also signaled the start of the countdown.
- Happiness is an Island Travel Adventure relates our travel plans to my happiness project.
- Our Summer Family Vacation: An Island Travel Adventure explains that key factors that had been preventing us from embarking on such an activity are converging to make this adventure happen this time around.
The new travel blog site itself contains pages that explains the project, including
Welcome,
Why We're Doing It,
Travel Plan,
Travel Map,
Travel Calendar and
About Us.
To increase our reach, we also launched three contests in the
Island Travel Kick Off Promo. We hope you'd join the contests to win easy money by
guessing where we are,
blogging about the contests, or blogging about the photos we'll be posting at the site.
I also posted a blog about a promo to
win a Boracay vacation package.
Beyond this launch of a new travel blog, other concerns kept us busy as well.
MILESTONES IN PARENTING JOURNEY
PARENTING JOURNEY made great strides in the past two weeks. The first good news is topping the
Mommies Faves Blogs as the
No. 1 Top Blog for January. We hope you'd continue to support Parenting Journey this month and beyond. You can show support by clicking on the icon "Congrats! #1 Top Blog" at the right column, which would lead you to a landing page and another click to "Enter the Mommies Faves Blogs" to see the ranking.
Next is the launching of a series of articles on discipline every Friday. The first one is on
Discipline and Parenting Style, followed by
Discipline Methods: Communication and Role Modeling *Papa Sez's fave*. Watch out for the third one on Friday or better yet subscribe via email or RSS, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook by using the buttons at the lower right corner.
Semi-Vegetarian Detox Diet Plan: Healthy Parents for a Happy Family is our
most popular post for February in Parenting Journey. It outlines do's and don'ts of natural body cleansing detox diet.
The other two postings are about the
mixed emotions we have about our baby girl's developmental milestones, and a
camping activity that I attended with my two school age kids.
WEDDINGS & GRADUATION in HUBPAGES
Three new hubs were published by Mama Sez at
HubPages:
- Wedding Traditions from Around the World that introduced notable wedding customs and traditions in selected places.
- Weddings: Interesting Facts and Trivia from Around the World talks about the origins of wearing the wedding ring on the fourth finger of the left hand, of wedding cakes, of the bridal showers, and many more facts and trivia. *Papa Sez's fave* is the video on ring placement
- Great Graduation Gift Ideas provides some suggestions on what to give graduates as graduation season nears.
HAPPINESS MILESTONES
Our regularly updated blogs had broken through Google's Page Rank in just two to three months:
- Daily Happiness Tips has PR 2.
- Daily Laughs has PR 1.
- Happy Quotes Happy Images has PR 1.
Here are the most recent happiness tips posted during the period:
For our daily dose of laughter, here are the most recent posts:
Happy Images in the past two weeks:
*Papa Sez's fave* 
*most rated at yousaytoo.com*
Happy Quotes in the past two weeks:
"We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!" -Ken Keyes
"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved." -George Sand *Papa Sez's fave*
"There are three kinds of love, - unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind. The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe." -Sri Ramakrishna
"We love to the degree we're happy. While we are unhappy and attending to our fears, we are not loving. The self is always crying out for acceptance. When we deny it that acceptance, things get hairy. Our attention gets sucked into a void inside ourselves, leaving nothing left to give to another." -Jennifer Hautman
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