Monday, Mondays

Sundays are for sipping coffee and reading the Sunday paper. Sundays are for singing in church and going to brunch with the family.

Sundays are for writing blog posts.

Wait, what did I just write?

Mondays are a big blogging day. New material is a must for a blog’s readers. But instead of writing a new blog post, I curled up on the couch while the frigid February rain pinged on the windows. As my children ran around the living room hitting a red balloon back and forth, I read my book. I did the dishes. I installed a new smoke and carbon monoxide detector. (Yes, I really did!)

On Sunday nights I usually sit on the couch, a blank computer screen on my lap, and The Good Wife on television. Usually, I plan on writing a blog post. My plans go down the drain as I become engrossed in the plot, put the laptop to the side and close it so I can enjoy my show. (Last night was the Grammy’s, which I should have watched and didn’t. Did you?)

For my blog, however, this is not a good routine.

So I had an idea as I was thinking about what to post on Mondays. I need some sort of motivation so that my Monday posts don’t become my Tuesday posts–or even worse, my Friday posts!

Let’s have a Monday blog hop! If you published a blog post today, enter your link below. If you don’t blog, you can still “like” the links down below. To join the blog hop, just click “Get the code here,” then copy and paste the code into your own post. The more blogs that join in, the more fun it will be! (Plus, I need an excuse to use a linky.) I’ll feature the post that receives the most “likes” next Monday. You can link back to my blog, but it’s not necessary.

meme free mondays

Do you have as much trouble writing a Monday blog post as I do?



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Pull Up a Chair — It’s My SITS Day!

Welcome to Lemon Drop Pie!

I blog under the name of Ginny Marie, and I’ve been blogging since 2008. My family members have blog names, too, and they’ve learned them very well! In this short video, they introduce themselves. Ed has a slight cold, so his voice sounds deeper than usual. He always makes me laugh, though, just like he does here while I’m videotaping him.


View video here.

I’ve been a member of SITS (The Secret’s in the Sauce) ever since their logo was a high heeled shoe on a leopard print background. SITSĀ  is such a great support site for blogs! Yet I always held back from filling out the featured blogger form. My blog had an inferiority complex.

Attending Bloggy Boot Camp in Chicago, 2011, really helped give me a much needed blog boost. I finally had the courage to move Lemon Drop Pie to WordPress. I met Renee, owner of Studio Bold, and she gave us so many great ideas on how to design our own blogs! I created an Inspiration Board on Pinterest, and used it to help me design my current header.

In honor of that old SITS leopard print button, here are a couple Lemon Drop Pie headers from the past:

My very first header
My second header; the girls on a ride at Kiddie Land

Now my daughters have grown much older, but I still love looking back at these old pictures!

I’ve been writing daily in November for NaBloPoMo, so I hope you take the time to look around.

I’m also on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Lemon Drop Pie during this very busy week!

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