Here we go, our entries for the November 18th Best of The Mommy Bloggers carnival. Grab your tickets, your cotton candy and enjoy the show. Free for all to enjoy.
1. Of course since I’m the hostess I get to go first. I gave all of you bloggers a little love and kisses for being my friends in Connections.
2. Our dear initiator and last carnival hostess A Modern Mother, tells us how she paid for her own wedding in I Paid For My Own Wedding, Did I Tell You My Husband Is Scottish, but she never said if it was worth it, hmmm?
3.Three P’s In A Pod, helps us, help our little ones through transitions in Been There, Done That: Warding Off The Bogey Monster of Change.
4. Suburb Sanity should just accept that she is not June Cleaver in Are You A Mom? Then Just Give Up Now.
5.PHD In Parenting talks about the difference between discipline and punishment and where she stands in the middle in My Discipline Spectrum.
6. Peace With Cake helps us move forward with 10 Tips for Increasing Your Effectiveness (No Matter What You’re Trying To Do).
7. Thankfully for Moms On The Edge we all have grocery store anger, see her story in Death By A Broken Down Grocery Cart.
8. Magpie Musing’s daughter has a future with the Highway Department as told in Parsing The American Road System.
9. Wishes Dreams Love tells us to keep those index cards, they’re useful for grown-ups as well in Home Cleaning: Kitchen.
10. Project Happily Ever After tries to explain why we are all turning into piles of goo over a fictional character in Why I Wished I Married Edward The Vampire
11. Poor Leopard Spots, kitten wants to go to school now, inspiring The Most Dramatic Car Fit Yet.
12. Minnemom tells us how she became a travels writer in Once Upon A Time…
13. Gohn Crazy’s spider story come in two parts. Before and after swashbuckling hubby. Like I Need Yet Another Excuse and Darks Are In The Dryer.
14. Fear as explained by Ramblings Of An Harrassed Single Mom, something we all face.
15. Mom-O-Matic finds wisdom in the grocery store, (what is it about the grocery) in Shopping For Epiphanies.
16. Canireallyhaveitall tells us that maybe it’s better to realize we can’t do EVERYTHING in Going Back To Work.
17. And finally, since Infectious Chatter’s been busy moving, I submit to you one of my favorite episodes of her Sunday Signspotting series as she is the queen of captions and making me wet my pants.
Enjoy each other. I had a blast reading all of your entries and remember the next carnival will be December 2 and will be hosted at A Daily Dose of Toni. Please email entries to tpatton5 (at) gmail (dot) com.
For the schedule and more information see here.

10 Comments
November 18, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Thanks for putting this together.
I’m not even halfway through this yet and there are some real gems, can’t wait to read the rest.
November 18, 2008 at 3:24 pm
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November 18, 2008 at 4:32 pm
That’s fun – thanks for including me.
November 18, 2008 at 4:46 pm
This is great! I’ll be making the rounds throughout the day.
November 18, 2008 at 6:53 pm
This is such a great idea, I can’t wait to read through them all tonight. And thanks for including me, too!
November 19, 2008 at 1:41 am
I’m looking forward to reading these. Thanks for putting it together. . . wait ’til I call my mom and tell her I’ve joined the carnival!….
November 19, 2008 at 1:56 am
Thanks!!!
November 19, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Thank you so much for doing this. I had great fun reading all of the other blogs and think I have certainly found some keepers! Hope you had fun putting this together.
November 21, 2008 at 3:49 am
OHHH man! Sorry i missed it. but thank you for adding me. you are too sweet. I’ll have to check it out more closely when i get on the flip side and play along. sounds fun
November 21, 2008 at 3:54 am
Loved this- what a wonderful collection of posts. Thank you!