I’m not going to BlogHer this weekend. Why? Because at registration time, I had recently lost my job and didn’t know how I could ever afford to pay all of our bills, let alone fly to Chicago for a blogging conference. Now that I’m wildly successful with my writing business, Phenomenal Content LLC, I found myself without a ticket because the conference was sold out! And while I may be incredibly jealous of all of the women who get to meet each other in person this weekend, I’m pretty happy to be at home with my family. So I thought I’d write about the 10 best reasons why I’m exciting about staying home.
- By writing about staying home this weekend, I have a chance to win $100 for a Non-BlogHer scholarship! For that to happen, I need you to comment. Please leave me a comment below. Feel free to tell me what you had for lunch or the cute thing your kid just did. Just please leave me a comment!
- I get go to a great local mom networking event at Tumbing Tykes on Friday night. I’m bringing TJ along. The kids get to play with each other and have a little pizza party while the moms connect with other business moms!
- I get to sleep in my comfy king size bed every night. No strange hotel rooms for me!
- I get to kiss my husband and son whenever I want.
- I’ll be getting my groceries as per my usual Saturday routine. Four generations go shopping together each week: me, TJ, my mom, and my grandma. Family tradition wins!
- No jet lag.
- I can change into my pajamas pretty much whenever I want. No fancy parties to dress up for!
- Homemade dinner. Tom (hubby) made his special gourmet cheeseburgers tonight. Tomorrow night? I might make calzones. (With dough made in our bread machine.)
- Another family tradition: we’ll be spending Sunday with my parents and Tom’s mom, having “Sunday dinner” around noon and hanging out at my parents’ house for half the afternoon.
- Sleeping in! Tom gets to sleep in on Saturday morning, and I get to sleep in on Sunday! No getting up early for conference sessions or early morning flights.
If you’re at BlogHer, please comment to help me win the contest. Why? Because you’re doing something awesome already. Don’t I deserve a little bit of awesome, too?
If you’re not at BlogHer, please leave me a comment, too. Maybe you just don’t feel like making your own post for the contest, or maybe you want to (hint hint) comment with a link to your own contest post so we can scratch each other’s backs. (15 winners means we can both win, right?)
And just for the fun of it, why not head on over to my Best Mom T-Shirt Giveaway and get yourself an extra entry for commenting here!
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Great list …Homemade dinner ( i should have had that on mine) LOL. Thanks for the comment, good luck
Toenail clippings are not very tasty.
Nice work on your business. Amazing you did it so fast.
Christina, hard to keep up with all your activities, reason #11 – so you can launch a new site, busiestmomever maybe, alright, Kidding aside you’re doing great keep it up!!
My favorite part about being home is saying goodnight & reading to my girls each night. I really miss that when I travel, even tho bedtime is sometimes the worst part of our day right now. See http://intentionalbirth.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/night-time-parenting/ for our recent struggles.
Good luck to you!
Good luck! I’m trying to win as well! If you stop by and comment It’ll enter to win a prize!
Hugs and kisses rock. Hope you had a great weekend.
Would love some comment love in return!
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You go on losing the job and getting your own business up and booming! I want you to win but Blog Her was great and even though your reasons to stay home were great, there was a pajama party so #7 isn’t really ummm accurate.
Good luck!!!
i practiced with my band saturday and was greeted an hour after waking sunday with a 12 pack, bottle of vodka, and bottle of jaeger. i remember about 4 hours total out of those two days.
So was your weekend everything you hoped? I got spend mine with my hubby, but I’ve been fighting off a flu bug, so no steak dinner for me.
I think it’s cool that you would rather spend time with your family than go to some far-away contest.
Fun list. Sounds like you’re living the life =)
I also think that it’s cool that my mom’s best friend also decided to skip out on a big event to stay with her family.
I love your list!!!!!!! Definitely great reasons!!
that is so great that you go shopping with your grandma and mom. I wish my family got along that well and were that close.
I am thinking of starting a blog, but right now I am posting articles at my website http://www.delaneyjp.com
Why I should be on your blogroll???? Because I’m AWESOME!
I really hope you win this 
Gourmet cheeseburgers and calzones!? omg you are making me hungry lol
Good luck with the contest! I’m entered too but have less than 25 comments I do believe:(
good luck
sweet
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