E. L. Lane Writer

First, I want to give a huge thank you to  Jessica Burgess . Thank you! I am truly honored and excited to be nominated. Jessica is a homeschool, motherhood, and product review blogger. She loves her family, all-natural products and treatments, and homeschooling her kids. She writes about homeschooling her five children, product reviews, interviews entrepreneurs, and more. Get to know her better on her blog  What's happening with Jessica?!  She's a genuine person and it really comes through in her writing. I am excited to get to know other bloggers through this exciting opportunity. I also see this as an opportunity to continue to learn and grow as a blogger so that I can make better content for you, my beloved readers. Check out the rules and my nominees below. The Rules “The award is a way to be discovered but also to connect and support the blogging community. A great idea in promoting your own blog and others. Originally it was given out to blog...

Do you remember a time before you became a mom? A time when you’d see moms giving their children a tablet to watch cartoons while having lunch? Or changing their babies’ diapers right in the booth where they were eating? And you thought, “I will never do that when I have a kid.” But then, you find yourself with a shrieking human being in your arms that depends on you for everything, and you find yourself slowly letting go of all those expectations and doing all of those same things you said you’d never do. Well, it turns out that you’re not alone. I asked other moms this question: What is something you said you’d never do as a parent, but ended up doing? I started off the #momconfessions, “I said I’d never put a leash on my child. I bought one when she turned two.” Below are the #momconfessions that some honest, kickass Instagram moms shared: Le t Me Count the Ways “Gosh. Haha... What a great question! Where do I start? Bed sharing, breastfeeding past one year, ...

I am excited and truly honored to be receiving my first nomination for a blogging award. I want to give a huge “Thank You!” to Romina with her blog  Mini Mummi Blogger  for nominating my blog for the “Bloggers Recognition Award.” What is the Blogger Recognition Award? The Blogger Recognition Award is given to bloggers by bloggers to show appreciation for the hard work and dedication put into their blog. This is an amazing award to be presented with, because from my experience starting a new blog is, “No walk in the park.” It requires tons of energy, time, patience and a wide variety of skills–some of which you might have to learn. So, receiving this award is a great honor and each blogger who receives it should be proud of what they have accomplished, but should also remember this isn’t the finish line, just a milestone. There is always more growth and knowledge to obtain. Take this award wear it with pride and keep building your blog. What is Mini Mu...

Photo taken from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Felix_from_ISS_03_sept_2007_1138Z.jpg  *This post contains affiliate links. What does this mean? If you click a link on this page, then you create a profile or buy a product/service, I get a commission for that. You don’t pay more for the service, but you help me make a little money to support my blogging addiction. I'm a Miamian, born and raised, so I've witnessed several hurricanes ravage my beautiful city. My first (and scariest) hurricane was Andrew in 1992. But, more recently, Hurricane Irma paid us a nasty little visit. Miami lost some trees, phone service, electricity, cable , and internet for a while, but parts of the Florida Keys were destroyed. My family and I were lucky enough to have survived the storm with minimal hiccups, and, now, I want to share some tips on how to prepare your family for the storm. 1. A few months before hurricane season starts, make your house as hurricane pr...

Getting my learning on. Learning to "Vlog Like a Boss" with Amy Schmittauer. **This post contains affiliate links. What does this mean? If you click a link on this page, then you create a profile or buy a product/service, I get a commission for that. You don’t pay more for the service, but you help me make a little money to support my blogging addiction. I started vlogging last month, and I even wrote a blog post about what I learned from vlogging on my own , but the biggest lesson I learned about vlogging on my own is how little I actually knew about vlogging . So when I found “Vlog Like a Boss,” I was excited to learn how a professional YouTuber makes her videos, so that I can try and do the same. You can read about how I found the class here. Here’s an outline of the things I learned about in Amy Schmittauer ’s class, “Vlog Like a Boss” on CreativeLive : Screen cap of "Vlog Like a Boss" on CreativeLive. Tips on how to get comfortab...

Screencap of Shareasale.com  landing page - a website where merchants and affiliates find each other. *This post contains affiliate links. What does this mean? If you click a link on this page, then you create a profile or buy a product/service, I get a commission for that. You don’t pay more for the service, but you help me make a little money to support my blogging addiction. When I first started on my blogging journey I was doing it for fun, but as time went on I realized that there’s a lot more to this blogging thing than I had anticipated. Long hours of sitting at a computer researching the next place/thing to review, going out and having an experience to share (paying for those experiences myself), typing, editing, and re-typing quality content for my readers. It's a lot of fun, but, also, expensive and a lot of work! So, I started looking into options for making money from my blog, and I learned that bloggers can become affiliate marketers for products, servic...

This year my husband and I bought matching Star Wars shirts for ourselves and our three-year-old. (The shirts were on sale at the Disney Store. Woot woot. *happy dance*) So we were extra ready to go to Supercon as a family for the first time in our daughter's life.   **At the very end, I give some "Shoutouts" to a couple of artists and a writer who stood out to me, so don't forget to scroll all the way down to check them out.** We had so much fun. There are some things that went very well,  but there are other things that we'll do differently next year.  Happy to be headed to Supercon! Her daddy was happy to be taking his little girl to her first con! Here's a list of tips to help make your day at a con with a toddler an enjoyable one: 1.  Head over to the con during nap time.  If your kiddo falls asleep easily in the car, take advantage of that to let your kiddo nap on the way to the con. Our daughter napped from 12:00 p.m...