I hope you diehard bloggers aren’t suffering massive finger fatigue from the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival. Or, if you are, I hope you at least win millions of good things. I don’t know if anyone will notice my little link here at the tail end, but what I’m offering is completely priceless: Free Publicity For Life For Your Blog.
One lucky winner will win a place on my sidebar for as long as your blog remains family-friendly, which I expect to be for life. We do have decency standards around here, but, depending on how funny you are, those standards aren’t too hard to meet.
If you don’t already have a button for your blog, I can make you a custom one from a graphic you send me or from what is already on your site. Oh, and if you’d like a scrolling box to display the html code for your button on your own sidebar (encouraging your own readers to display it), I’ll make you a scrolling code box. [Any html-ness I can lay claim to I owe to Dick and to those lovely ladies at Blogging Basics 101.]
For examples of buttons and to see what a scrolling html code box looks like, direct your attention to my striking sidebar. The MMSM button is an example of a button made from a graphic tweaked from a Picasso print. The Fortune Cookie Kit button I made from a photograph Shalece sent. The Daily Delight and June Cult buttons I made from graphics that were already on Tara’s and June’s sites, respectively. So, my sidebar: that’s where you could be. Just think of it: my many readers and unwitting-Google-searchers-who-land-here will see YOUR custom button winking out at them day and night. Honey, you can’t buy that kind of publicity. Well, you could, but, better to get it for free, right?
To qualify, I’d like you to help me get a head start on the next Makes-Me-Smile Monday Carnival on April 28th. The MMSM carnival is a different kind of carnival: no more Mr. Linky’s! Instead, if you follow the guidelines here, I’ll include a link to your post in my own MMSM post, with a short blurb about it. If you know your SEO (search engine optimization) and Google/Technorati stuff, links in actual posts are much more valuable than in Mr. Linky (not to disparage Mr. Linky; he’s certainly necessary for the million-link carnivals like the Bloggy Giveaway!).
This Monday’s topic was a request from Dick, who wants to see “tips on how to make your husband happy.” We’re totally not influenced by self-interest around here. And I don’t need any more sex tips, so I hope that doesn’t rule out the top five things that immediately sprang to your mind. The movie I thought of to go along with this is The Philadelphia Story. (or the more jazzy — literally — remake High Society). You don’t have to have seen either movie to write a post with great tips on how to keep a significant other happy, but it certainly wouldn’t be a bad use of a Saturday night.
But I digress. You should probably automatically qualify for the Powerball Lottery if you’ve actually read this far, but, getting back to the Free Publicity For Life For Your Blog (button, sidebar, scrolling box) contest, simply leave one tip on the making of a loved one (child/parent/friend/spouse) happy, and you’re entered. If thinking up a happy-making tip gets you thinking on a post you could write for the MMSM carnival, even better. But not necessary. (Well, not for this contest. For the betterment of mankind, maybe).
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My daughter and I visit my 85 year old grandparents every wednesday for lunch – they LOVE it – it brightens up their entire week!
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It’s the simple things that make my boys happy (2 sons and 1 hubby). Making their favorite dessert unexpectedly is a great way!
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My girls and I wait at the window for daddy to come home…. as soon as they see his car pulling in, they run squealing to greet him! It makes for happy girls and a VERY happy daddy!
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Listening. Just sitting and chatting about them (if they want to)
A good ear is almost always welcomed!
Making hubby happy? If dinner is planned, in the works, or on the table when he gets home, he is delighted! I also try to take time with him each night once the kids are in bed–we really look forward to it!
(Oh, and if I should be the winner, it will certainly be the motivation I need to keep my blog up-to-date! Funny that my last post (in 2006!) was about my resolve to keep my blog up-to-date! LOL. I have had friends and family encourage me to go back to writing, so perhaps this is JUST the push I need!
Let’s see…the thing that I do to make my husband the most happy is to shut-up!!! I delight in making my very closed off husband talk in depth about his hopes, dreams, fears, FEELINGS, and he HATES it. Sometimes he’ll get in bed, look at me and say, “Do you want to talk??” (He has a look of sheer terror on his face as he waits for my answer.) He is most happy when my response to that question is, “No, I’m tired…why don’t you just watch SportsCenter.” It takes so little!! He’s happy, I’m rested…we all win!!
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Calling my daughters (who recently moved to college/starting family) and inviting them to lunch…just us. Girl talk that only a mother and ‘grown’ daughter can have : )
A way to make a loved one happy is to cheerfully do things that they want to do even though you would rather not. My son LOVES making muffins with me, but I like to do it myself because it is quicker and cleaner. But it makes him so happy that seeing him happy makes me glad that I let him do it.
this is going to be a great opportunity for someone! The thing I do for my son, boy2001, is to let him get away with something once in a while! he knows he’s done wrong, he knows I know he’s done wrong, and he knows I am letting him get away with sneaking that extra cookie, or stealing his sister’s carebear or…
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Reading to my girls. That’s good for them AND they love it! We try to do it a lot!
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What a great idea. My tip: Listen to them, whomever they me be. It makes them happy every time.
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Breakfast in bed!
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Hey, don’t forget my giveaways!
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Surprising someone with their favorite food is a high sign of love in our household.
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Putting notes in your children’s lunch box if they take one to school makes them happy, if they don’t put a note on their mirror before they wake up, or at their breakfast place!
To make my boy happy, I take him outdoors to run with his dogs. For hours. While I chase them all around. I think that’s his favorite thing in the whole world besides his plastic shovel, but then, he is only two!
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My sister is going to college out of state and misses my daughter very much, when Sara started walking, I took video of it and sent it to her and it helped her feel like she was involved.
Sometimes when my hubby is at work, I will send him a text message, just saying- I love you.
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I’m not married, but I try to occassionally show my roommates that I love them. I’ll leave them a card in a place I know they’ll look, I’ll take out their bathroom trash, I’ll clean up my junk, etc.
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I’m not sure I DO make my husband happy, but I’ll give it a shot.
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A decadent homemade chocolate cake is always the way to make my husband and sons smile.
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Smoothies are one way to make my blessing happy!
Hey there, I missed this past weeks MMSM. It was A Week here.
How to make someone happy? Always smile – when they wake up, when they say goodbye for the day, when you finally see them again.
And when you say goodnight, don’t just say I love you, tell them what you loved about them that day (you helped your baby brother, you remembered to come home early for my meeting, you wrote all your letters by yourself).
My two cents!
My son is pretty easy to please. He usually just needs some juice and/or a kid friendly DVD. Or a costume. He will stay busy for minutes on end.
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My daughter loves when I come with diet coke. I don’t do it often, but boy can I get a hug when I do. I’m audreyoka at cox.net
I care and show love to my husband’s kids like they were my own. I have 5 he has 3 and they are all the same in the way I am with them. My husband really loves this and lets me know.
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people feel happy when you take the time to listen to them…
I make people happy by giving them my totally undivided attention. And a big smile. Who wouldn’t want that?
Thanks for a terrific giveaway!
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Make my husband happy? Give him an uniterrupted afternoon of watching ESPN.
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My sons make grandma happy by making her “love cards” . Very cute.
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Thanks for this prize! I really really need a button designed! And scrolly code is cool too! And publicity! Wow! So, here is one for my husband, this one’s for you Dick!
Let him take a nap, totally uninterrupted (that means keeping the girl children in the living room with me, which can be tricky, they love to pounce their Dad when he’s resting!).
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Do something unexpected to make someone happy. It can be any little thing like a note in the lunchbox or a piece of candy slipped in a pocket. I would love some free advertising. Thanks for the giveaway!
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My 4 year old has been writing “mom” everywhere, which makes me happy, but I think her excitement about learning has made her even happier…
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