This Blog “Blows My Dress Up” Contest

FIRST PLACE
• Arkie Mama’s entry Take a walk through our newsroom
SECOND PLACE:
• The Truffle with “But Mommy, I thought Grandpa went to heaven! What’s he doing in the toybox?”
THIRD PLACE:
• TeaTime Ramblings with “Hamster Dance?”

• Madame Rubies entered “I’m Sorry I Love You.”
• What’s Cooking with I Confess
• QuiptWhit submitted A Bedtime Story
• Bead Nerd has posted So there’s this guy I know
• Life is RANTastic entered Ballroom Blitz.
• Kab’s Creative Concepts offers My Alter Ego
• It Occurred To Me entered The Reaver Jordan
• The Educational Tour Marm added Hat and Pearls
  
• Musings of a chick entered EXCLUSIVE! Interview with COOKIE MONSTER and the REAL story behind “sometimes food”, plus other scandalous notes…
• Garnet’s Adventure posted Assembly House Rules
• and rudeness entered I know I whine and complain a lot about the cold but what I mean to say is at least there arent any cockroaches.
• Nancy at Erik Quinn: The Heart of a Family submitted Toy Review #1
• Tumbled Words added How I Interfere With Leon’s Well Being – Part 1
• The World According to Suze entered Zoe’s Gold (Colored) Medal
• Fourier Analyst submitted 2 OUT OF 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ME…:

[tag]This Eclectic Life’s This Blog Blows My Dress Up Contest[/tag] OTHER ENTRIES:

• Life is RANTastic entered with Shades of Gray (Thursday Thirteen #18)
• TeaTime Ramblings has submitted Is that perfume I smell?
• Rosemarie at Miscellaneous Matters entered Embarrassing Moment
  
• SusieJ entered This Elf Just Won’t Leave
• The Zen of Motherhood submitted So, You Think You’re Funny, Huh?
• Mama Milton is in with All skate, reverse direction
• Artist By Nature added 8 Things I Know–Pass It On
• The World According To Suz entered The Sugar Wagon Fling
• Tumbled Words submitted Leaks of the human kind
• Design Your Writing Life entered “He’s Not Using Quotation Marks”
• The Blogabillies entered My Mama’s “Recipe” – Good For What Ails You
  
• Solo-Mommy added The different degrees of SMART
• Hamelife has entered 10 Pastimes Strictly the Domain of Men
• Entertaining Angels submitted The PK’s Life
• Simply Nutmeg added Further Reflection on My Fear of Funerals
• Absolutely Bananas offers Squirrel Violence on the Rise
• Surviving Motherhood added one, and titled it This Blog Blows My Dress Up Contest
• Child Lost submitted Sense of Humor
• SAHMbles entered What not to Wear
• Carma’s Window posted Four Legs and an Interview
• Whee! All The Way Home entered My Little X-Girl
• and rudeness entered Extraordinary Is More Like It.
• Island Life added What’s That Smell?
• Olive Plants entered Bedlam
• A day in the life submitted Pink UFO
• ExPat Mom entered Messy Stuff.
• What’s A Quirk? submitted The Lone Shower Bug
• QuipWhit entered Summer Obsession
1ST CONTEST WINNERS:

1ST PLACE: Hamelife WITH:
• Impromptu Sex Education – Is It Always When You Least Expect It?
• A: A Nanosecond Q: The Length Of Time Between A Parent’s Ingenuity And Stupidity
• Bloody Mayhem At Spaghetti Conjunction

2ND PLACE: Pass The Chocolate:
• Dear Coffee Drinker
• The Ass, The Bitch & The Refrigerator
• I’ve Got Balls?!
  
  THIRD PLACEsubarctic mama:

• The Kindness of Strangers with Coats Full of Wiener Dogs
• Gingerbread Crack Houses
• Mortification in a Public Bathroom: In Which our Heroine Innocently Tries to Change a Diaper and Makes the Acquaintance of the Security Guard.
OTHER ENTRIES, IN ORDER OF SUBMISSION, INCLUDED::
1) Mrs. TeaMouse at Tea Time Ramblings
has entered the following for the contest:
• Knitting in bed and more signs you know you are addicted
• My Bad Day
• Afternoon Cravings and more

2) Rosemarie at Voice on Miscellaneous Matters had these entries:

• Upgrade This
• I said…
• sTePpIn’ Up My GaMe…RiSiN’ uP lIkE eLeVaToRs!

3) From her second blog, Growing With Julia, Rosemarie entered:

• Teething On A Cellular.
• Thou Shalt Not Steal
• Where’s the poop?

  4) Nancy, whose blog is titled Erik Quinn: The Heart of a Family, listed these three titles:

• Young At Art
• Presbyopic Ex-Party Girl
• Ode to Eric’s Binky

5)Gattina at Writer’s Cramps
sent her submissions:

• Manic Monday-Branch
• Italian Mammas-Tuesday Laugh
• Thank you for the Music

6) The Freelance Cynic submitted the following:

• Green
• Deep Thinner
• Shear Paradise

7) Scribbit’s entries include:

• Nouns That Should Be Celebrity Baby Names
  
• Oh Yea? So What Is YOUR Child Wearing?
• Where Are All the Cats Coming From?

8) The Rock Chick at Life is RANTastic has entered as well with these:

• Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
• Who are you? (who, who?) Thursday Thirteen #8
• Run Run Run Run Run Away (Thursday Thirteen #5)

9) The Home School Blogger has a site called Always a work in progress! She submitted these three posts:

• Mar. 9, 2006 – SiLLiNeSS!
• Mar. 17, 2006 – SiLLiNeSS!
  
• Mar. 24, 2006 – SiLLiNeSS!

10)These are the entries from Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum:

• Quieting the monsters…or how to feed your children
• Putting the case for showers
• ‘Things I don’t understand’ Friday

11) Mama Milton offered these:

• Oompa-Loompa alert
• Never alone
• Spongebob may be useful afterall

12) SusieJ entered, too, with these:

• The Hotel Pool
• No, it was just a baseball bat
• What ever happened with the boob tape?

13) Ally Bean at Crazy Dust in My Coffee shared these:

• We’re On The Gravy Train With Biscuit Wheels Now
• So I Get Lost And Blame It On The Army
• Keeping Our Love Alive

14) Stephanie at Bad Mom has entered her three:

• i think i’m going to…oh look, a chicken
• feast and famine
• it’s an illuuuusion

15) From My Mommy’s Place come these submissions:

• The Hair Is Mightier Than The Sword
• The Bizarro Husband
• Operation BuzzKill

16) Patois at Whee! All The Way Home submitted:

• Not the One-Armed Killer
• Teaching is a Gift. Gifting the Teacher.
• Blaine and the Gravel on the Manhole Cover

17) The three entries from Bleeding Espresso include:

• most popular dog in town
• fancying up the donkey
• drowning our sorrows

18) Lucy at LuLu’s Petals entered, also:

• Bettys secret
• fantasy
• Fruit tale

19) At Absolutely Bananas, Jenny sent these entries:

• There’s a fly in my soup
• My first yoga class. OR, my shirt is over my head and my belly is hanging down.

The perils of early morning walking

• 20) Bob at Bobbarama sent these entries:

• Soaring into uncharted waters
• A blogger’s lament
• I may not be safe for consumption
  21) Phara from Your Mirror or Mine submitted:

• The reason I will soon be admitted somewhere
• Dr. McSteamy needed in the laundry room..STAT
• Shaken or stirred?

22) Tales from a Former Michigander has entered:

• i stole that loaf of bread!
• photo of the day
• today I went into a men’s restroom

23) The Daily Rant submitted:

• Fight The Moth
• The Man Filter
• If You Need A Reason To Cook More Often, I Think I Have One

24) Tell Me About It has entered:

• Boof The Song
• Flies In My Eyes
• The Eyes Have It

25) Moodswingmommy at Am I Going Mad…or am I just a Mommy? sent these:

• How Strong Are Your Nerves?
• Public Service Announcement
• I Know I’m Not Alone