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		<title>Kid-Terview Friday Is Back! With A Makeover?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I started a blog meme called Kid-Terview Friday where I featured a different child each Friday and an interview done with them by (usually) their moms. The interviews were really cute and some of the answers were so funny! I then ran out of interviews so Kid-Terview Friday had to take a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A while back I started a blog meme called Kid-Terview Friday where I featured a different child each Friday and an interview done with them by (usually) their moms. The interviews were really cute and some of the answers were so funny! I then ran out of interviews so Kid-Terview Friday had to take a break. I&#8217;m thinking of starting it up again but have a few changes/ twists I&#8217;d like to make and a few questions to ask you readers:</p>
<p>1. Is this meme something you&#8217;d be interested in participating in? I know there are so many out there!</p>
<p>2. If I made it a<em> monthly</em> thing instead would that make it more fun? I was thinking of  adding these options/changes in:</p>
<p>a) Either a typed out interview or a <em>video</em> of the child answering the interview questions.</p>
<p>b) Making this meme only video clips of an interview with your child OR just a funny/cute/precious moment you caught on camera that month.</p>
<p>c) Instead of me featuring just one interview a week on my blog, doing a monthly link up of videos and written interviews. Each mom who participates can just post the interview/ video clip on her blog and then link up on my blog. Then we could all blog hop and catch the cute video clips that were linked up. C&#8217;mon&#8230;we all think our children are stars and worthy of a little adulation.</p>
<p>What do you guys think? Would you link up and participate? I personally am leaning towards the video clips. I think they would be hysterical! We could call it &#8220;Precious Moments&#8221;  or something like that&#8230;.</p>
<p>Hmm&#8230;</p>
<p>What do you guys think? I know you must get some great moments caught on video of your children.</p>
<p><a href="http://melsmommyblog.typepad.com/momscoop/2009/05/kidterview-friday-2.html">Here&#8217;s</a> an old Kid-Terview Friday post from my old blog for you to take a peek at.</p>
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		<title>6 Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SimplyMel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby #3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew I was pregnant for six days. I know that&#8217;s not very long. But it was a six day celebration of new life. I know a lot of people would not have told everyone they were pregnant that early. I&#8217;m sure a lot of people are thinking that I probably wish I hadn&#8217;t told [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I knew I was pregnant for six days. I know that&#8217;s not very long. But it was a six day celebration of new life. I know a lot of people would not have told everyone they were pregnant that early. I&#8217;m sure a lot of people are thinking that I probably wish I hadn&#8217;t told everyone since I ended up losing the baby anyway.  Deciding when to tell your friends and family you&#8217;re expecting is a very personal decision for each couple. Mike and I have always told people right away. I mean, not long after the test comes out positive!! Since I believe life begins at conception I believe that tiny little being had a soul. It was a little <em>life.</em> A little person that is now in Heaven. I have many friends who have lost babies and we all agree they are playing together in Heaven now. What a comforting thought.  I had affectionately began to think of the baby as &#8220;Poppy&#8221; since it was the size of a poppy seed at the time.</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>Psalm 139:13-16<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong> For you created my  inmost being;<br />
you knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong><sup id="en-NIV-16254">14</sup> I praise you because I am  fearfully and wonderfully made;<br />
your works are wonderful,<br />
I know that full well.</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong><sup id="en-NIV-16255">15</sup> My frame was not hidden from you<br />
when I was made in the  secret place.<br />
When I was woven together in the depths of the  earth,</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong><sup id="en-NIV-16256">16</sup> your  eyes saw my unformed body.<br />
All the days ordained for me<br />
were written in your book<br />
before one of them came to be.</strong></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">God celebrates life at conception. He ordained Poppy&#8217;s life from the beginning to the very end.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Was it hard and awkward having to tell people <em>I just told</em> that I was pregnant that I <em>wasn&#8217;t pregnant</em> anymore?</p>
<p>Heck yes!!  I&#8217;ve had several awkward moments over the last few days. Several offers of congratulations to which I&#8217;ve had to reply that I lost the baby. One of the mom&#8217;s from Katelyn&#8217;s dance class asked me how I was feeling this past Saturday regarding the pregnancy. I had to tell her the news. She didn&#8217;t know what to say and it was <em>very</em> awkward.</p>
<p>Aaaaawkward! And more so for the other person, than for me!</p>
<p>But would I do things differently if I had the chance?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>When I get pregnant again (and I have hope that I will!) I will most likely tell everyone pretty quickly again. I&#8217;m glad we celebrated Poppy&#8217;s short life. I think he/she deserved it. Me telling people acknowledged that that little life was important. To us and to God. It deserved celebrating.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still kind of in shock. I had barely gotten used to the fact that I was pregnant before I began the descent into being unable to believe that I wasn&#8217;t anymore. It all feels like a distant dream now. Except that I have the physical reminder that it wasn&#8217;t a dream.</p>
<p>It was hard to have to take those pregnancy tickers down off my sidebar. I had so much fun putting them up. I&#8217;m still getting pregnancy updates and tips from Baby Center. I definitely need to unsubscribe from those.</p>
<p>Since the girls are now back into their old room our third room is empty. We put the crib up in there. It was Mike&#8217;s idea. I told him I didn&#8217;t want it set up yet. I had been excited about setting it up before. But now I don&#8217;t see the point of having it set up in there until I know I&#8221;m pregnant again. Mike thinks it&#8217;s a good reminder that we <em>will be</em> using that crib again in the future. So we might as well have it ready.  That made me smile.</p>
<p>A few days ago Katelyn said to me &#8221; Mama, I&#8217;m sorry our baby died.&#8221;  That broke my heart but also was one of the sweetest things I&#8217;d hear all day.</p>
<p>I have to tell you all THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. The comments, messages, e-mails, phone calls and cards have been <em><strong>amazing.</strong></em> We&#8217;ve been blown away by the love, support and prayers.</p>
<p>In fact, I&#8217;ve started feeling guilty about it!  You guys have truly been &#8220;weeping with those who weep&#8221;.  I don&#8217;t feel as if I deserve all of this support. I mean, my baby was only  the size of a poppy seed. I know so many people who have lost babies who were the size of full term babies and even bigger. You guys have truly given validity to my baby&#8217;s life and Mike and I truly appreciate that. Some of your sweet and caring comments have even made me cry. In a good way!</p>
<p>Mike has been wonderful during all this. Obviously he was hurt by this as well but he&#8217;s let me do all the crying, moaning and sleeping.  He wrote me the sweetest e-mail from work on Thursday. That&#8217;s a big deal because usually while he&#8217;s at work, I never hear from him! Unless it&#8217;s something he really needs me to do. It&#8217;s a running joke with us. But he wrote me an awesome and encouraging e-mail.</p>
<p>Right now I&#8217;m doing better day by day. I want to get back to normal. The past two weeks I&#8217;ve eaten horribly and haven&#8217;t exercised a bit. I know that&#8217;s contributing to my lethargy as well.  I want to get back into God&#8217;s word. I don&#8217;t want to be angry anymore and I certainly don&#8217;t want to get cynical and bitter.</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>Phillipians 4:8<br />
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<blockquote><p><em><strong>Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is  right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if  anything is excellent or praiseworthy—<strong>think</strong> about such things.</strong></em></p></blockquote>
<p>I want to devote my thoughts to the Lord and focus on His goodness so I don&#8217;t focus on things I have no control over.  And I will continue hoping and praying that the Lord will give us another child.</p>
<p>A little quick blog business:</p>
<p>My brother has kindly converted my blog to <a href="http://www.disqus.com">Disqus</a> which is sort of like a &#8220;universal&#8221; commenting system. You can sign up with Disqus to have your own profile and then every time you leave a comment you can just sign in with your Disqus info. By doing this you&#8217;ll you have your own profile picture and you can see a history of your comment and any comments in reply to yours. If you don&#8217;t want to sign up with Disqus you can just leave your name and e-mail in the section provided for that and still leave a comment.  It will certainly make replying to your comments a whole lot easier. You will get my reply right to your e-mail inbox. I won&#8217;t have to reply in the comment section and hope you saw ir OR reply via e-mail individually to everybody.</p>
<p>Thank you again for your continued support and love. And for all the comments!</p>
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		<title>Welcome To My New Blog!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SimplyMel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this is it! My new site is finally being launched. Take a look around. My brother did all the work and he did a FANTASTIC job. If you like what you see you can check out his web design site/blog  at Made From Wool.See my blog badge at the bottom right in my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, this is it! My new site is finally being launched. Take a look around. My brother did all the work and he did a FANTASTIC job. If you like what you see you can check out his web design site/blog  at <a href="http://www.madefromwool.com" target="_blank">Made From Wool</a>.See my blog badge at the bottom right in my sidebar? Isn&#8217;t it cool? Please feel free to copy and paste it into <em>your</em> sidebar.  If you&#8217;re just starting out reading my blog you can click on the link to the right over there in my sidebar and read my old blog to catch up.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still adding all the buttons and pages so you&#8217;ll see more things added as the days go by. And if you were in my blog roll before but don&#8217;t see yourself now it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m still adding to that too.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m so excited about this new phase of my blogging. So&#8230;take a look around. And as usual- leave a comment! I&#8217;d love to hear from you.</p>
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