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Not Me Monday… The Complete Rules!

mckmama77 — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:53:10 +0000

Click here to read all of my other Not Me! Monday posts.

To add this Not Me! Monday button to your sidebar or to your Not Me! Monday posts…

Simply copy this below code and paste it into your blog when it html mode.

When you use that code is the longer Not Me! button getting cut off on the sides? That will happen on some Blogger templates. Try this slightly smaller version of that button in that case:

Hey, friends! If the new longer Not Me! button that you’ve uploaded to your blog gets cut off when you post it in the body of you blog, then try this code instead:

Would you like the smaller, square button for your post instead? Or maybe to put in your sidebar?

Grab this code instead!

Want the Not my child! Monday button?

Here it is!

Need the smaller Not my! child button?

Here you go!

Here is what you need to do to play along with Not Me! Monday:

Include, somewhere in your post, a sentence about Not Me! Monday and link to my blog. If you aren’t sure how, you can simply copy and paste the following HTML code (everything that is in the white box below) into your post and the links will magically appear:

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by <a href="http://www.mycharmingkids.net" >MckMama</a>. You can head over to < target="_blank" href="http://www.mycharmingkids.net">her blog</a> to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
Grab the Not Me! Monday button by copying the code for the button from my left sidebar and pasting it into your post. This step is optional, because it wouldn’t really mess anything up about the process if you didn’t do it. But do it just for fun, if you find you need a little more fun in your life. And don’t we all?
Finish off your post by writing your own Not Me’s!
Use the Mr. Linky form below to enter your name or your blog’s name and a link directly to your Not Me! post.* (More on how to do this below…) Please keep the name used to describe your blog short. You do not need to type in the entire URL of your blog in the name section. Please use spaces between words and characters. This helps insure that Mr. Linky will function properly.
Finally, click over to others’ blogs and read their Not Me! Monday posts! I predict this will be a rip-roaring good time.

*How to link directly to your Not Me! post, not to your blog at large:

First, create your own Not Me! Monday post. Then, view your blog. Click on the title of your Not Me! Monday post. Then, that post title will appear in your URL bar. Highlight and copy all of what appears there–it will be your blog address plus some words indicating your Not Me! Monday post–and copy it, pasting it as the link you give to Mr. Linky below, not simply your blog address.

And, if you don’t have a blog or don’t want to do a Not Me! Monday of your own, feel free to still leave a comment on my post from today (Not on THIS post….go back to the current date’s post) about what you “did not” do this week if you want to!!!

Have fun!

Not Me! Monday is back!!

mckmama77 — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:17:00 +0000

Can you believe that it has been exactly seven weeks since my last Not Me! Monday post? I hardly can. And, if you don’t know what Not Me! Monday is, then you must be a relative newcomer. If that is the case, let me officially welcome you to my blog. I am glad you are along for the ride!

And, while I have you, let me explain Not Me! Monday.

A long time ago, I wrote this post on my blog. I thought it was funny to
‘fess up about some embarrassing things I’d done that week…by pretending I totally did not actually do them! When I got a great response to that post, with many folks leaving their Not Me’s in the comments, which left me in stitches, I decided to turn my idea into a blog carnival. I have not looked back since. You can read all of my old Not Me! Monday entries here.

And so it’s Not Me! Monday time again after a six week long hospitalization induced hiatus. I hope you enjoy reading my Not Me’s today, and perhaps you’ll write your own! Trust me, it’s great therapy to come clean about how we really live life. And getting the chance to link your blog up on my blog to send my MckTraffic over to your url to read your Not Me’s? Well that’s just the icing on the cake.

Still not sure how this goes? Just sit back and read.

This past week, I most definitely did not use a maxi pad in place of Stellan’s diaper because I had run out while we were on the plane home from Boston. And, even if I would have done that, I certainly wouldn’t have blogged about it. Nope. Not me!

And, even earlier in the week, when I found myself in Stellan’s hospital room needing a pad but this time not having one, I most certainly did not use one of my son’s size 3 diapers for myself until I could get something proper. Never!

And, upon returning home this week and settling into a routine, I most certainly did not attempt to take a shower quickly before Stellan’s home care nurse came the other day because I was fairly certain I was starting to smell. And when the nurse arrived a bit earlier than expected and I was still in the shower, I most certainly did not just throw on my pink bathrobe and answer the door like that, staying in my robe and nothing else during Stellan’s entire visit. That is insane. Who would do that!? Certainly not me!

Do you get the idea? So go ahead, be brutally honest! There is nothing more therapeutic than spilling your beans for all the world to see. Reading everyone else’s posts always makes me feel so much better about my own shortcomings in this adventure called motherhood!

Would you love to join the Not Me! Monday fun? Please read the rules first if you are new to this by either clicking on the Not Me! Monday button in my lower left sidebar, or just right here. There you’ll be able to get the gist and some fool-proof ways to publish your own Not Me! Monday post, as well as learn how to link back to my blog if you don’t already know how.

And to sweeten the pot a little, I am offering a giveaway for today’s carnival. Everyone who writes their own post, links back here to my blog in their own post and signs up with Mr. Linky below (All you have to do is add your name—Please be brief! Long names/titles will be deleted because they throw Mr. Linky’s columns off.–and your url.) will be entered in a drawing to win a delightful hand stamped necklace from Circle of Sentiments.

The one I have has a little star charm and is sterling silver, but they also come in copper and gold-filled. The giveaway is for one necklace with a few discs…one for each of your children, perhaps? What a perfect gift to give around Mother’s Day! Simple and understated, sentimental and fun. I just dig personalized stuff! If I didn’t already have one, I’d beg my husband. Oh, and also, if I begged. Which I totally don’t. Usually.

So, have fun Not Me-ing! (Can I verb that!?) and good luck! I’ll announce the winner of the drawing when Monday is all over and done with!

Not Me Monday Friday, an email

mckmama77 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:45:00 +0000

UPDATED:

Click here to see the video of the latest news story about Stellan. (But, of course, if you read my blog, you already know all the new details!) Below the written article, you can view all the videos and stories that KSTP has run about us during the past few weeks.

Additionally, although contrary to what would seem to be popular belief, there is no prize for being the first commenter on any of my posts, I may indeed have to come up with a prize for the person who is the 10 millionth hit on my blog. In my very lower left sidebar, you’ll see the statcounter, amazingly approaching that big number. I can hardly wrap my mind around how crazy that is.

For a prize? How about this: If you are the 10 millionth hit, and you take a photo of it [be it via screen shot, point and shoot camera, cell phone or even Polaroid (do they still make those?)], your prize will be that I’ll post your photo, link to you and write about you on my blog. I know that’s not exactly generous, but I am lacking in time to get to the post office right now, so a virtual prize will have to do.

Good luck! You know, if I believed in luck.

ORIGINAL POST:

The following post is based upon an actual email I received from a gal named Becky today. Becky, a self-described creep of Matt Logelin’s, lives in the Thawed Tundra and inserted herself into our lives recently. Determined to help our family with child care and errand running during Stellan’s hospitalization, Becky has been a God-send, literally. I’d link to her blog as well, but she’s apparently too busy with her philanthropic ways to keep one. I could link directly to the Google Earth map of her house, but I doubt her husband would appreciate that.

Anyway, even though I never knew Becky before Matt’s blog connected us, it turns out she is IRL* friends with my IRL* friend Alyssa.

*In Real Life

Are you keeping track of this? There will be a test.

Anyway, Becky’s email today went something like this:

Hey beautiful, gorgeous, orange-shirt-wearing MckMama (Aside by me: I did mention that this is loosely based on her actual email, right?),

I had a blast playing with your oldest three MckKids today. We had a picnic and played scarecrow. Do you know that game? If not, it’s best not to request an explanation as it was something about me cawing around the yard the boys screaming boo at me.

(Aside by me: Although I’ve not heard of scarecrow before, this sounds about right to me. The boys have another game called bee wherein the adult runs around buzzing after them while they, in turn, scream. Bee is similar to, though not altogether entirely the same as, dinosaur where, you guessed it, the adult runs around roaring like a dinosaur and the boys flee while, you guessed it, screaming.)

Alyssa came over while I watched your MckKids today and we took them to the park down the block. Although it’s Friday, it might be most appropriate to finish this email in the spirit of your utterly fabulous blog carnival, Not Me! Monday:

Upon arriving at your house this morning, I did not find Big Mac playing outside in his jammies and leave him in said jammies, even for the park trip, so that his clothes would be clean for preschool.

Alyssa did not tell your children to “Say boogers!” when she was trying to distract the kids while I fumbled with my phone for a picture of them on the slide because we know that you don’t like your children to use slang words like boogers.

Upon arrival at your house this morning, I did not find Small Fry in jeans that were probably MckNugget’s (Aside by me: They were.), a sweatshirt that might be MckMuffin’s (Aside by me: It was.) and tights that were most likely hers.

Some guy in the park did not say to me “She looks like Cindy Lou Who,” leaving me to wonder if he’s the only person in the state that doesn’t read your blog and know that that thought has already been covered!

Big Mac did not feel the need to accessorize Alyssa’s baby while he sat next to her in the car by putting his Bob The Builder sunglasses on her tiny face.

So there you have it. Proof that your other MckChildren, who miss you terribly, are, in fact, being rather well cared for in your absense!

Love,

Becky

(Aside by me: I can neither confirm nor deny reports that Becky’s email wrapped up with the following post script:

“Your children, albeit strangely dressed and, today, terribly sandy, are the most beautiful, well-behaved, angelic cherubs I have ever had occasion to lay eyes upon.”)

Ahem.

Not Me! Monday…the complete rules.

mckmama77 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:50:00 +0000