The Sunday Scoop & A Recipe!

This morning we had a special breakfast - Monkey Bread!  It was fun to make something new, and I love starting out the day with something sweet.  Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

2 (12 ounce) packages refrigerated biscuit dough            3/4 cup white sugar

3 T ground cinnamon            1 stick of butter or margarine       extra sugar for sprinkiling

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a bundt pan.  Mix together 3/4 cup of sugar and cinnamon.

2.  Quarter the biscuits with kitchen shears.  (Dip shears into water to prevent them from getting sticky!). Dip biscuits into sugar mixture, and place in a greased bundt pan.  Do this until all biscuits are used.

  

3.  Melt butter.  Pour over biscuits.  Sprinkle with a little sugar.

4.  Bake in the preheated oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Here are my finds from around the blogosphere for this week!  Enjoy!

Photography:  Photography Tips (Lots of Great Topics!) | I Heart Faces

Scrapbooking: Make your own rosettes | Scrapbook Update

Organization For the Busy Mom: Wonderful Goal Tracking Tool | 42 Goals

Blogging: Creating and Defining Meaningful Content | Theta Mom

Faith:  Winter Wonder | Jennifer Schmidt for Incourage

Did you write a great post this week?

I would love to feature your post on my Sunday Scoop!  Please send me an email (katiederman@comcast.net) with this information:

Your Name

Name of Your Blog

Post Title and Link to the Post

Category of Your Post

The First Sunday Scoop of 2011

This year, instead of just featuring one or two blogs each week, I will highlight great posts that I find during the week.  I chose categories that I find useful in my life as a new mom.  Enjoy!

Parenting Resources: Positive Parenting Webinar : Inspired to Action

Food: 5 Major Pitfalls of Dieting : Well Grounded Life

Fitness: Have Fun While You Exercise : She Knows

Taking YOUR Time (Self Care and Hobbies): 2011 Project Life Is Here : Becky Higgins

Organization For the Busy Mom: 5 Simple Ways to Organize Your Home : Organizing Junkie


Blogging: Simple Blogging E-Book : Small Notebook

Fashion and Beauty Tips: Bronzer, The Miracle Worker : Babblings of a Mommy

Did you write a great post this week?

I would love to feature your post on my Sunday Scoop!  Please send me an email (katiederman@comcast.net) with this information:

Your Name

Name of Your Blog

Post Title and Link to the Post

Category of Your Post

Sunday Scoop

One of my favorite times of the week!  Time to spotlight a few of you wonderful bloggers who make life easier and inspire me!  For this week's post, I am taking some time to seek out some new blogs as well as share a fabulous new blogging network.

For great organizational ideas, check out Maria's blog, MeckMom.com.  She has wonderful ideas for school-age children, as well as some very cute craft ideas.  If you are short on time, check out the post on the readers Top-20 favorite ideas.  Quick, concise, and very cool!



Feeling Crafty, but need some direction?  Don't miss UCreate!  Kari is full of amazing ideas, and has guest crafters that bring fresh ideas frequently, too.  If you are anything like me and need a deadline to get you motivated, she has a Create With Me section, where you can use the monthly tutorial to craft along with fellow followers.  September's pumpkin tutorial is adorable, and just in time to welcome Fall.

Make and Takes is a fantastic idea blog for recipes, crafting, home projects, and fun kid stuff.  I could spend hours sifting through the many great ideas, but then I would never actually try one!  I received a hooded towel similar to the one here as a gift for Mr. Cheeks, and he loves it!  These are quick and make wonderful gifts.

Networking with other bloggers makes blogging SO much more fun.  I have found several blogging networks very helpful, but want to make sure everyone knows about my newest favorite - Mama's Little Nestwork!  Mama Hen has a wonderfully positive blog, and is one of the best I know at leaving thoughtful comments.  She took the comment love one step further by creating her own "Nestwork" to encourage others to do the same.  She features several bloggers each week, and also shares what I would call "kindness inspiration".  Mama Hen reminds you about the importance of being and kind and positive person - what a great member of the blogging community!  Join the Nestwork as a great way to meet new bloggers.

Today's Sunday Scoop - Peek At My Paper!

Preparing for this week's Sunday Scoop was so exciting!  I loved getting all of the emails from bloggers that would like to be featured, and am creating a weekly schedule so I can feature you all!  My choice for this week's featured blogger was chosen for her inspiration to take more pictures of every day life.  She is working on something called Project Life, and has inspired me to do the project, too!
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It's Your Turn to Shine!

Those who follow me know that I have found one of the best aspects of blogging to be the sense of community amongst those involved.  Since I am a working mom, I miss out on having a group of moms that I can confide in.  Blogging has filled that void, and offered me every resource imaginable.  So many resources, in fact, I need another day in the week to put them all into action.

I think it is important to spotlight those who share a unique message in their blog, whether it be heartfelt, humorous, spiritual, or otherwise beneficial to all who read it.  One particularly HOT Sunday in Atlanta, I found a very enticing picture of Ice Cream, and got the idea for the Sunday Scoop.  Ending the week featuring great blogs seemed like a great idea to me.

The more I get into blogging (and honestly, the more I have returned to work), I am not sure that I am the best person to seek out blogs, as there are SO many.  So, I am putting a spin on the Sunday Scoop, and inviting those of you who would like to be featured to let me know, and we will put YOU on center stage. Comment Love will be flowing, and you may even find yourself with some new followers.

Don't be shy!  The best way to gain readership is to put yourself out there, and the talent in the blogopshere is amazing.  Check out the "Featured On The Sunday Scoop" page to learn more about being featured.  I can't wait to feature some new blogs this week!

The Sunday Scoop

It has been a hectic week in our house, leaving little time for anything but taking care of Mr. Cheeks.  But, with a sick baby comes some of those little cuddle moments I've missed so much!

I have found time here and there to jump on the computer, and I have two blogs to share in this week's Sunday Scoop.  I am also in the finishing stages of creating a Sunday Scoop button that you can grab and play along, if you are looking for a way to share some of what you found in the blogosphere each week!  So here are my two new favorites....
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The Sunday Scoop

O Blog, Where Art Thou?  I've missed you so!  The whole work, life, BLOG balance is a little more challenging than expected, and I just need to get out from under that comfy duvet and meet the computer again.

So here I am, in the peaceful serenity of Sunday morning, ready to highlight some great finds from this weeks blog reading.  I am going to do this in a little different format today, because I was actually given my first blog award, and it allows me to pass on the award to some of my favorite blogs!
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The Sunday Scoop

Is it bad that it is 6:47 am and I'm thinking about Ice Cream?  Could be the sweltering heat we are experiencing here in the South.  It is already almost 80 degrees this morning!!

All kidding aside, I thought I would start a new weekly post called the Sunday Scoop to share all of the great blogs and posts I found online throughout the week.  There is SO much creativity, intelligence, humor, and sharing happening out there, and great ideas should definitely be passed on.
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