Topic Talk 2.2—Twilight
October 30, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · 2 Comments
Help these GNO Gals, including your virtual party co-hostesses, enjoy their 15 minutes 24 hours of fame. Give it up for:
- Brenda Jean at In the Treetop.
- Carissa at GoodNCrazy.
- Jen at Daily Mish Mash.
- Jyl at Mommy Gossip.
In the Treetop, talks about her addiction totally normal love of the Twilight series in her post entitled, “It’s Confession Time.” There’s more where this excerpt comes from. Read on….
I don’t need a Twilight fix. It’s not like I’m reading parts again until I can get book three…I was just “refreshing” my memory on those parts that I read at 3 a.m. the first time. Stop laughing. It’s not like I needed to look up the movie information and the trailers, or HAD to tell my son that his girlfriend and I would be going to see it. (He can tag along after all). Addicted? No way. Excuse me now, I have to go catch up on the dishes, laundry, baking and other stuff I somehow got behind on this weekend. What?
GoodNCrazy, in her post: “It’s a Love-Hate Thing,” Carissa describes her view of Twilight as looking something like this. Wonder what her opinion of the series is! Hmmmm.
Daily Mish Mash, likes t-shirts Edward would undeniably find sexy! Check them out to see how you, too, can mystify this man, er, vampire!
Mommy Gossip makes a compelling argument that she IS the next Stephenie Meyer. Do you buy it? Read this post and decide for yourself whether Jyl and Steph are one and the same.
Thanks to our featured GNO Gals for submitting their Twilight-related posts.
Today is one of your last chances to be featured during this week’s Twilight-related Topic Talk.Wanna be featured? Sign up at the bottom of this post, comment here, or e-mail us at mommygossipgno AT gmail DOT com and provide your BLOG URL, linking to the post you’d like featured.
Topic Talk 2.1—Twilight
October 29, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · 7 Comments
Drum roll please for today’s fabulous featured GNO Gals:
- Brandy at I’m Not Your Average Soccer Mom.
- Hannah at That Girl.
- Jazzy at Nerdlike.
- Jenni at Jiggety Jigg.
- Jessica at Bug and Bee.
- Sandra at On Living by Learning.
I’m Not Your Average Soccer Mom, first time GNO Gal, posts about how she discovered Twilight, became friends with our guest tweeter Lula, the fun she had at GNO, and her winning this week’s GNO giveaway. Congrats! Brandy.
That Girl and Nerdlike both go video on us, by posting Twilight-related YouTube links and this video. Thanks Hannah and Jazzy!
Jiggety Jigg posted about her Twilight-related shopping spree to Barnes & Noble. You gotta check out the goods she grabbed. Jenni, make sure to post a pic when you get the t-shirt. Sure you don’t want to get a lip ring? Edward may find it sexy 
!
Bug and Bee shares how judging a book by its cover can not only help you get over your fear of blood, but does yield great, albeit, obsessive, results. Jessica is a great story teller. Her post is a must read.
And finally, Sandra from On Living by Learning overviews each of the four books in the Twilight series (spoiler alert!) and provides a list of discussion question to use with your children or students. This post provides a great way to make literature more meaningful through inquiry-based learning.
Thanks to our featured GNO Gals for submitting their Twilight-related posts. Want to be featured? Sign up using Mr. Linky at the bottom of the post below. Instead of using your Twitter ID like you do when you RSVP for GNO, use your BLOG URL, linking to the post you’d like featured.
Click here for more information on Topic Talk. Sign up at the bottom of the post below, comment here, or e-mail us at mommygossipgno AT gmail DOT com to be featured this week. And remember, when signing up, make sure to enter your BLOG URL, linking to the post you’d like featured.
Topic Talk 2.0—Twilight
October 28, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · 4 Comments
Today’s five featured GNO Gals are passionate about Twilight. Please give a standing ovation and a rip roarin’ round of applause for:
- Chef Mom at Arthur’s Mommy and our Twitter friend at mandarella42.
- Julie at Journey to Family and on Twitter at juliebot.
- Leigh Anne at Lulaville and on Twitter at lula34.
- Scary Mommy and on Twitter at
- Stamp Happens and on Twitter at stampvamp.
Chef Mom, is a master cake maker. And, in honor of our Twilight-themed GNO, she made a Twilight cake. She also named her first daughter Isabella and has her Alice costume all ready for Halloween. Yep! The apple below is the cake! Anyone recognize this picture? Talk about creative. Click below to see the rest of her post.
Julie gets the Twilight goods, because her hubbie is in the industry. Check out this pic from one of her many Twilight-related posts. Click to visit her site and when there, click on this pic to enlarge. The man behind the “mask” is hubby himself.
Leigh Anne, or Lula—our amazingly passionate Twilight friend and GNO guest tweeter this week—says that this, one of her many Twilight-related posts entitled “The End,” is her very favorite one, because it is “honest and forthright.” Click on the image to read more.
Scary Mommy brings the always appreciated other perspective in her Twilight-related post entitled, “I Don’t Want to Suck Your Blood.” Amazed that someone can NOT love Twilight? Relate with her? Read her explanation by clicking on the image below.
And finally, this Stampin’ mama from Stamp Happens professes her love for Edward and then couples her love of crafty cards with her passion for Twilight. There are more fun Twilight theme cards where this comes from. Check them out on her site, especially the team Edward cards her friend Eve made.
Thanks to our five featured GNO Gals for submitting their Twilight-related posts. Want to be featured? Sign up using Mr. Linky in this post. Instead of using your Twitter ID like you do when you RSVP for GNO, use your BLOG URL, linking to the post you’d like featured.
Click here for more information on Topic Talk. And remember, when signing up below, make sure to enter your BLOG URL, linking to the post you’d like featured.
Virtual Vampires Tuesday at Twitter
October 26, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · 26 Comments
RSVP Now for GNO! Party Details Below
Tip #1 for having a successful Halloween party: Invite hot vampires!
Tip #2: Invite vampire lovers.
Wanna get in the Halloween mood by partying hearty with GNO gals? What better way to reign in the season of trick or treating than by talking about all things….
Twilight
Don’t love Twilight? Come anyway. What would GNO be without lots of differing view points and off-topic side conversations? All are welcome!
Join us:
- DATE: Tuesday, October 28
- TIME: From 6 to 10 p.m. Pacific (7 Mountain, 8 Central, & 9 Eastern)
- PLACE: Twitter
- WHO: Guest tweeter, Leigh Ann (AKA Lula34), from Lulaville.
- TO DO: RSVP at Mr. Linky then click on the names listed there to “follow” them on Twitter.
- RSVP: Enter your twitter ID (e.g., jyl_mommygossip) in Mr. Linky and your twitter URL (e.g., http://twitter.com/jyl_mommygossip). NOTE: Please do not enter your blog URL here!
Topic Talk—Destination Chocolate!
October 26, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · 2 Comments
Get ready to lick your lips. This—our last Topic Talk post of the week—is going to make you sweet on traveling the globe just to get these rich and tasty treats!
Thanks to cajunmama at Traveling Mamas for submitting such a delectable travel-related post, recommending places from Florida to France to find the best chocolate desserts (and for letting us borrow pics from her blog to share with you… yummy!).
For other terrific travel posts, please refer to these GNO gal’s blogs:DeliciousBaby for giving us a wonderful potential itinerary for a family trip to Spain. This is a great post even if you are just dreaming of visiting Spain.
Jamie at The Heiner Clan for her fun description of the newfound love of her life, her navigation system—or “Navi” as she calls it!
Jen at Dahara Dreaming. Words don’t describe the creativity and know how that went into refurbishing just a regular chair into a Map Chair. This post is an absolute must see.
Thanks to everyone who included their blog URLs in Mr. Linky for Topic Talk. This Tuesday’s Topic will be Twilight. Submit past or current Twilight-related posts to mommygossipgno AT gmail DOT com for your chance to be featured here next week.
And, remember to stop back by on Monday or Tuesday, October 27 & 28 to RSVP and “follow” GNO participants.
Topic Talk—One GNO Gal’s Yummy Travel Tales
October 24, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · Leave a Comment
Are you hungry? Because today’s featured GNO gal, our friend Mara from The Mother of All Trips, speaks to our tummies and our parenting logic by writing a series of posts on where and what to eat while on vacation. After all, isn’t half the fun of vacationing eating? I mean, Switzerland isn’t known for its chocolate, Peru isn’t known for its Ceviche, and Japan isn’t known for its Kobe beef for nothing! Food is fun and memorable and enhances the overall travel experience.
While all of Mara’s posts are worth reading, the one entitled, “Just Say No to Fast Food” is a must. It provides practical tips for not taking the path of least resistance and giving into fast-food eating habits while on vacation.
In her post she writes:
So how do you find your way past the golden arches? I have a few suggestions for your next road trip. Please bear in mind that I’m not asking you to see out fancy restaurants but local family places and diners that are as appropriate for kids as fast food restaurants. The idea here is that you’ll have decent food (not necessarily healthy, although of course that is ideal) at a reasonable price and will put some money into the economy of the communities you are traveling through. And sometimes if you take this approach you may end up surprised by a really great find – something that will never happen in a fast food restaurant whose entire premise is that no one who walks through the door will ever be surprised by anything that is put in front of them.
Thanks to Mara at The Mother of All Trips for sharing her practical and motivating Topic Talk posts about travel. (Note: The picture above was borrowed from her blog.)
For other terrific travel posts, please refer to these gno gal’s blogs:Deb at Dirty Socks & Pizza tells about her family vacation to Maui. It was touching to read about how much her teenage son appreciated and loved the events she had planned for them. But, capturing that appreciation on film? Priceless!
Kitchengirl and contributor at the UpTake—Atrractions Blog gets us in the Halloween spirit by providing a list of the top-ten pumpkin patches in the US.
Heathery, at Middle Georgia Mommy, tells about roadtripping it RV style, family and all, cross country. (The RV photo is from her blog.)
We will be featuring our final four gno gal’s Topic Talk posts regarding our travel theme tomorrow. If you have a terrific post and would like to be considered, scroll down a few posts and sign up using Mr. Linky. Make sure to link to your blog URL and not your Twitter URL.
Reminder: Next week’s GNO theme will be Twilight. Have you written a Twilight post already? Think about the Topic Talk posts you can still write or have written in the past. Submit them HERE! Send us a link via e-mail at mommygossipgno AT gmail DOT com. Or just leave us a comment with a link to your post! We want to feature YOUR Topic Talk!
Topic Talk—GNO Gal’s Travel Photos
October 24, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · 3 Comments
While visiting GNO gals’ Topic Talk posts, we found some great travel-related photos. Our favorite was not one you would necessarily see in National Geographic, but it was one that we could relate to in a parenting sort of a way. It was posted by our Twitter friend SarahLCC at SaraLifiC soterrifiC. She tells the story best in her own words, so visit her site and laugh your heart out.
For other terrific travel photos, visit these terrific GNO gals’ blogs:
cinnamonhonig at Cinnamon & Honey for her breathtaking shot of the Vermont mountains.
daNanner at Musings. She links to many previous travel posts and several photobucket pages, highlighting trips to places like Vegas, California, and the Columbia River Gorge. Our favorite picture though is the one of her little girl asleep in the car on, what must have been, a very long road trip!
And last but not least… LuxeTips for her recent pics from her family roadtrip to her girlfriend’s wedding. What a fun photo story!
Check back tomorrow to see more fun Topic Talk posts from other GNO gals! And, be getting read to submit your Twilight-related posts for next week’s Topic Talk.
Our First Featured GNO Gal
October 23, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · 3 Comments
Who Is the Featured GNO Gal & Blog Today?
Drum roll please ….. (imagine drum roll here)….. Give it up for our Twitter friend and co-GNO goer, backpacktobuggy and her blog of the same name—Backpack to Buggy.
Her recent post entitled “Five super low-budget, family destinations for Fall” provides great travel tips without spending a fortune. She provides great links for and recommendations about seasonal celebrations, friends and family vacations, enjoying nature, hosting visitors, and visiting Hawaii.
While talking about hosting visitors, she writes:
A spin on the ‘staycation,’ when you host out of town guests, you can play both tour guide and traveler. Be sure to visit new places or try new things with your guest. When our friend drops in later this year, I plan to visit the renovated (and expensive) California Academy of Sciences and take him on a “cheese” tour of the area.
Thanks backtobuggy for sharing her wonderful travel-related GNO Topic Talk with us. Check out this post and others at her Back to Buggy blog. (Note: The pictures above are from her site. Go there to learn more.)
For other terrific travel posts, visit these three GNO gal’s blogs:
Wandermom (AKA Michelle from Wanderlust and Lipstick, AKA our fabulous guest tweeter and giveaway queen) who talks about skiing with kids.
Cindy Schultz from Our Journey who talks about fun travel to the Magic Kingdom.
And Kaye from The Butler Family Diaries who shares an embarrassing travel moment and a fun slide show.
We will be featuring more fun posts tomorrow, so please check back!
The Talk of the Town
October 21, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · 15 Comments
What Is Topic Talk?
Mommy Gossip—GNO parties follow a theme—a topic to discuss in case we ever run into a the proverbial lull in the conversation (yah! right!). Following GNO, we encourage GNO Gals to post about the party’s theme and sign up for a chance to be one of 25 great GNO Gals that are selected and featured here for the five days following GNO!
How Do I Participate?
- Sign up using Mr. Linky (posted during GNO each week).
- E-mail us in advance at mommygossipgno AT gmail DOT com. Include your name and a link to the blog post you’d like us to feature.
- Spread the gossipy goodness about Topic Talk by including a Mommy Gossip—GNO link or our button in your post or sidebar.
- Click on the other Topic Talk participants and comment on their blogs.
Note: This is not intended to replace Wordful Wednesday, Wordless Wednesday, Thursday Thirteen, PhotoStory Friday, or the other memes but rather to compliment them. Feel free to use your Topic Talk as its own post or in conjunction with one of the other carnivals.
Preemie to Giant in Only 5 Weeks!
October 21, 2008 by jyl johnson pattee · 1 Comment
What’s at the top of the charts, has 140 characters or less, spans the globe, recently moved into a new home, and has 300 beats per minute (BPM)? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Wonder Woman? Yes, sort of! It certainly tweet tweets like a bird, has learned to fly, and is a wonder with women.
What is it? It’s Twitter Girl’s Night Out—now Mommy Gossip—GNO. At last week’s Tuesday event, more than 100 gossiping gals showed up for this virtual par-tay. Can you handle that many new followers, tweeple? And the BPM? Yes, my tweeties, that is tweets per minute to us—300 of them to be precise—made us the top-trending Twitter group for the evening. We’re pop-U-lar thanks to all the fabulous gossiping gals who have joined this virtual “in” crowd! What Was the Gossip About? At Mommy Gossip—GNO, we are the queens of gossip… but of the good variety. No rudeness or disrespect here. Michelle Duffy, member of the Travel Moms TwitterMoms group and Wanderlust & Lipstick blog, was our first guest tweeter. She came bearing gifts in the form of giveaways for 7 lucky GNO Gals. Her travel-related chit chat sparked tweeters to share vacay memories, ask trip tips, and recommend travel hot spots. But the party didn’t end there. The Mommy Gossip—GNO blog featured four of our twitterin’ friends each day for four days after the main event—the post-parties of all post-parties, if you will. Ahem… In true girl’s night out fashion, we didn’t stay on course during the party—the conversation course, that is. Why stay on the beaten path when there are so many off-road trails to explore—meaning tangents for us multi-tasking moms? In this vein, one of the most memorable and highly participated in discussions we had surrounded the theme of fundraising. Why just talk when we can take action, right? So, Mommy Gossip—GNO co-hostesses Jyl at MommyGossip and Carissa at GoodNCrazy are busy birds, putting together a GNO Fundraiser for the holidays, which will be kicked off at a GNO event in mid-November. E-mail mommygossipgno AT gmail DOT com to volunteer, donate items for the auction, or for more information. So… What’s Next? We are just getting this par-tay started. In addition to our weekly GNO, these fun features are in the works. Check back often to see others yet to come.
In the meantime, join us this Tuesday, October 28 to chat about all things Twilight with guest tweeter Lula34 from Lulaville—a mommy blogger who is full of Southern charm and Pennington Gap personality and about as passionate as they come for all things Twilight! To see how this GNO baby grew from a preemie to a giant in 5 weeks, read Carissa’s blog at GoodNCrazy. To become part of the Twitter Moms Mommy Gossip—GNO Group, visit our group page on Twitter Moms. To RSVP, learn about each week’s topic, and become part of the Mommy Gossip—GNO in-crowd, visit our blog.
