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Today I added a Pininterest Pin It Button for all my blogger blogs. This is a great way to get traffic, even for your old blog posts.

With more and more information available online, people’s attention are getting less and less. People are reading less and less and now, they just want to look at pictures before deciding whether to read. I suppose that is why Pininterest is so popular.

Pininterest has a section called “Goodies” which includes Pin It Button for websites. However, I couldn’t quite figure out how to use that for this or for my blogger blogs. For this wordpress blog, I merely searched for Pininterest Plugin and installed the first plugin I saw out of the various available.

As for my blogger blogs, I used this – Pininterest Pin It Buttons And Follow Buttons For Blogger and WordPress from Spice Up Your Blog.com

I implemented the step by step instructions from that blog on how to install the pininterest Pin In Button for all my blogger blogs. Great! Now, visitors will have more than one ways to share content from my blog. My Parenting Blog especially is full of images of crafts to share whilst my Quotes Blog has many beautiful Quotes and Images.

Happy Pinning.

It is not hard to make someone happy. Giving a true and genuine compliment will surely make someone’s day. So, if you observe somebody doing something right, why not tell them about it? You will be rewarded with a big smile.

The other day, I was queuing up at Mc Donalds to buy lunch for the family. The line was very long. There were only two cashiers. I was observing one of them. He was serving the small boy and his father before me. Although he was very busy, he had a big smile for the boy who was obviously very delighted to order. Then he gave the boy three toys to choose from for his Happy Meal. The boy chose one and smiled. The guy smiled back at him and said “Thank you for ordering, please come again.” Then he looked at the father and said “Anything else?” No customer was too small for him. He thanked the little boy for ordering.

When it came to my turn, he took my order, noted everything in his head, then everything went into the packages in a jiffy, and he turned around and asked for the amount. I gave it to him and said “You are very fast.” He stopped in his momentarily in his tracks obviously surprised but smiled in return.

I think  he deserved a complement. Sometimes the best complements come from a stranger at the most unexpected of times. I shall always remember how an irrate customer thanked me over the phone, asked me how long I was working for the company and said “You are very good. I believe you will go far.”

Why not make someone happy today? If you see someone who deserves a complement, say it. Don’t keep it to yourself. Don’t write it on  your blog. Tell the person and get rewarded with a big smile. Happy Tuesday!

MOM = Mind Over Matter (My Latest CafePress Design)

I haven’t been blogging much lately. I have been so engrossed with self publishing my books and my squidoo lenses and creating designs for my cafepress shop. At the back of my mind are more poems I want to write and perhaps publishing some rhyming children’s books. So much to do so little time.

We didn’t celebrate Mother’s Day because the kids are having school tests. Besides, the man of the house believes that Mother’s Day are supposed to be celebrated by the kids with their mother so this mother will have to wait till her kids grow up enough to want to do something for their Mother. Well, this mom secretly wishes that the man would be involved in teaching them how to appreciate their mother by helping them to plan but then because May also happens to be my daughter’s birthday and our wedding anniversary, and too many celebrations tire him. lol.

So it was business as usual. this mom had to teach the kids, queue up in a long queue to buy takeout McDonald’s meal for the family because that’s the man’s idea of celebrating Mother’s Day. Then at the end of the day, one of the kids wanted this mother to play ball with him while the other wants me to play writing conversations with her while this mom tried to dry her hair with the hair dryer. This mother said, “Hey, whatever happened to my breakfast in bed and cards, and flowers and gifts and massage?” So the little one hurried over to give this mum a hug. lol.

That hug is worth all the presents and cards or flowers in the world.

At night, this mom was back to worrying about the girl because she was having a fever and a bad cough and her period came. So this mum had to spend 4 hours rubbing her back and tummy because it was painful from too much coughing.

Yes, it is business as usual for this mother but it does not matter.

What this mom wants most in this world is for her kids to be healthy and happy and good people.

I have not been blogging much lately. I have been busy writing Squidoo Lenses and publishing my books. I find that after blogging for 8 years, I have to move on to other things in order to keep myself motivated. Oh, I won’t close my blogs, that is for sure. Doing other things, gives me more things to blog about!

My latest online venture is starting a CafePress Shop. I have started the shop with a niche for moms who like funny quotes to lighten up their day. I am not a good artist but I am good with words and I love Quotes, that is why I decided to concentrate my shop on Gifts for Mothers with Funny Mom Quotes.

It is easy to do many things online like starting a blog, writing Squidoo lenses, even starting up shop and publishing your own book! However, do not be fooled into thinking that because these things are easy to do, it is easy to make money online. Many of these things do not make money online. It is the process of doing them which is fun and fulfilling.

These days I carry a notebook around with me, to jot down all my thoughts and ideas and writings. If I don’t, I forget them and they are lost. Starting on new things like writing a book and starting a store has made things interesting again, just like the early days of blogging. The good thing is my books and items are print on demand so I don’t have to come up with any money for this hobby. That is a good thing because otherwise I would not have the financing to do any of these things which I love. I enjoy doing them even if I don’t sell a single item or book. Isn’t that crazy? I guess that is what they call passion.

Below is the my facebook page for my second book. Have you liked it yet?

“I know I’m a bumbling idiot, but you don’t have to make me feel like one.”

“I know that I should not let my self value be tied to the opinion of others but if someone keeps on telling me that I make them feel very tired and I am a liability to them, I can’t help but feel low and my self worth takes a dip.”

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