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Posted on 01-23-2008 at 01:00pm
The family is the country of the heart.
Filed Under (Family, MCB News, Parenting, Relationships) by Malia Carden on 01-23-2008

I just know you’re going to be totally floored when I tell you which editor position I was chosen for. Hang onto to your hats, put down your beverage of choice, wait for it….Family & Parenting. I know! Whodathunkit? I was seriously expecting a nod toward the political editor position so this really took me by surprise. But hey, I love a challenge and I’m up to trying new things.

When I started blogging way back in 2005, I’d never heard the term “MommyBlogger” but that quickly changed as I started reading more and more blogs. Most of my favorites turned out to be authored by moms. And most of my posts were about my adventures in motherhood as well. So, I guess I know a little bit about this topic. But I want to assure you that all my posts here will not be about poop, breastfeeding, the latest in children’s fashion, preschool woes, & puke. Family has all sorts of definitions and many of you write eloquently and humorously and poignantly about your families. Whether you are a single person, married with no children, adult caregiver for aging parents or even a “MommyBlogger”, your family shapes your life and many times are prime blog fodder!

So, a little about me…I’m Malia, I blog over here with my husband, DB. We have two children and one dog. I hang out at the YMCA, Chick-Fil-A, Target and Kroger. We’ve lived in Nashville for about 10 1/2 years. It’s home now and I hope to stick around. The Schermerhorn Symphony Center is my favorite place in Nashville. I like chocolate, coffee and Coca-Cola. (That, my friends is good bribe info, remember it.) Though I’m told you don’t have to bribe me, you’re just supposed to e-mail “us” at that email address at the top right part of the webpage. Oh well, I tried. Did I mention I’m terribly sarcastic?

I leave you with a few quotes about family:

Home is where they have to let you in.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you’ll be going, ‘you know, we’re alright. We are dang near royalty.’
Jeff Foxworthy

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
Anthony Brandt

[Title quote from: Giuseppe Mazzini (1805 - 1872)]

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Comments

GingerSnaps on 23 January, 2008 at 1:44 pm #

Woot! So glad to have vivalamalia on board!

;)


HollyW on 23 January, 2008 at 1:48 pm #

Yay, Malia! You’re one of the coolest mommies I know. Kudos.


Malia Carden on 23 January, 2008 at 1:54 pm #

::blushes::

And…
(1) I must add that the first quote is a variation of one from Robert Frost.
(2) Fathers blog regularly, too. I know that, I have several favorite authors and they will not be left out of this “category”.
(3)I use ellipses…way too much.

That’s all my disclaimers, for now.


GingerSnaps on 23 January, 2008 at 1:57 pm #

I use ellipses…way too much…too.


Kathy T. on 23 January, 2008 at 2:31 pm #

I really like the Anthony Brandt quote. And I really like reading some Malia! So… WOOT!


Newscoma on 23 January, 2008 at 2:37 pm #

:)


Mack on 23 January, 2008 at 4:21 pm #

(stocking up on coca cola, chocolate, and coffee)


Jackson Miller on 23 January, 2008 at 6:18 pm #

Malia, feel free to use ellipses all you want (though I don’t use them much). The don’t bother me (instead I put counter points in parentheses). Everyone has their own writing quirks (hopefully they don’t annoy anyone too much).


Kate O' on 23 January, 2008 at 6:51 pm #

I, for one, really have a tendency, perhaps even a proclivity, for the overuse, and maybe even the abuse, of commas, colons, and semicolons; I like to think, though, that, even if my use sometimes borders on the stylistically excessive, it is, by and large, grammatically correct.


Mari Ickes on 23 January, 2008 at 7:15 pm #

I just want to compliment Kate O’ on the usage of commas. As a former teacher, I must say I am impressed by it!!


Jim Voorhies on 24 January, 2008 at 8:17 am #

I, for one, really have a tendency, perhaps even a proclivity, for the overuse, and maybe even the abuse, of commas, colons, and semicolons; I like to think, though, that, even if my use sometimes borders on the stylistically excessive, it is, by and large, grammatically correct.

(wow. and i thought i got comma-tose too often…)