I thought this was common knowledge, but apparently it isn’t, so I’ll share this sweet tip with you.

Let’s say that this is the URL to a post of yours which is getting traffic from Stumbleupon:
http://tryhandmade.com/passive-aggressive-lunch-notes/

Take off the ‘http://’ part and add it to the end of ‘http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/’ like this:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/tryhandmade.com/passive-aggressive-lunch-notes/

On the right side of the page you’ll see the name of the Stumbler who first discovered your page and you can thank them if you like.

So thanks Karen (Craftastophe), I’m glad you liked Lotta’s post. There will be another one next week!

And for the rest of you, have you seen that Lotta (Mom-O-Matic) has a column on my site Try Handmade? You really need to check out Crafting with Lotta, but be sure you’re not drinking anything that you don’t mind snorting all over your computer screen!

I went with Craig to his 11:40 appointment for a bone marrow biopsy. (Think medieval corkscrew into his hip bone.) They say it’s probably nothing, but you know… stressful anyway.

My mom picked up Charlie from school at 12:30, and took him on an adventure for an hour. (Thank you.)

Got Craig home by 1:15, and he went to buy Henry a new baseball mitt before the lidocaine in his hip wore off.

At 1:45 I picked Ed up from school. At 2:20 I picked up Henry.

3:30 I took the boys to their swim lessons.

At 5 Craig hobbled to Ed’s Tball game and watched from a chair while Charlie and I went to Henry’s baseball practice at 5:30.

Got home a little before 7 (now) and microwaved hot dogs for Charlie and Henry and hoped that Ed got pizza after his game.

I can forecast the future: I’ll be asleep by 9, and Craig will have beat me to it.

Hoping tomorrow is relentlessly boring.

Pancakes for breakfast??? You should have seen the looks they gave me. You would have thought I offered to make them steak.

I’ve clearly corrupted their brains more than I thought.

(Click through to the site if you can’t see this in your feed reader or email — sorry.)

Thanks Jenny and Eden for getting me hooked…

Come to me all you glorious Fluevogs…

I’m not knocking the practice, but since I’m not going to BlogHer this year, you’ll all have to let me know if it gets turned into a giant infomercial. Inquiring minds (and by that I mean “nosy types”) need to know!

$750? Save. $7,500? Save.

And I don’t understand who the ‘economists’ think would choose to go to the mall with any kind of government stimulus check right now.

So Mr. President, please don’t mail people money. As much as I would enjoy putting the cash in the bank, it won’t work. Find another way to get us out of this hole.