My Brushes With Fame 2011

This collage shows only part of the fantastic things that happened to me this year.
If you don't know all of the people in the photos, you should!  See their listings below the collage!

1. Start of Dan for Mayor Fred Ewanuick -he was the Parade Marshall for the Oktoberfest Parade (& apologized for not being Ellen)
2. Actress Patty Sullivan (Diane is in this pic & I took it) See her on CBC or starring on stage (after her maternity leave that is)
3. Yummy Mummy Extrodinare Erica Ehm (@ Kathy Buckworth's book launch)
4. Brendan O'Carroll creator of Mrs. Brown's Boys (in Toronto)
5. Members of the band Mariana's Trench @ Hockeyfest
6. Kathy Buckworth author/humourist @ her Springridge Farms event
7. Fitz The Whip Vanderpool Boxing Champion @ Kidspark
8. Brenda Halloran Mayor of Waterloo @MeFest
9. Sue Warden of HGTV Canada's Craftscapes @ Season's Christmas Show
10. Carlos Benevides Radio personality of 91.5 The Beat & Moustache enthusiast @ Movember Kick Off
11. Dee Brun aka The Cocktail Deeva, what doesn't she do? Author, Bar Chef, Humourist TIARA WEARER!!!! @ Toronto Home Show
12. Mike Holmes of HGTV's Holmes on Homes @ WLU
13. John Placko of the Maple Leaf commercials @ ShesConnected Conference
14. Silks the Prize Guy Radio personality of 91.5 the Beat who we always run into at random places (as you can see by the pic)
15. Academy Award Winning Procducer of Titanic & Avatar Jon Landau @ The Museum (also w/ his Oscar!)
16. Scott Stratten author/public speaker who was awesome enough to mention MeFest in his book (page 236 go look it up-I know you own it)

YAY ME! & YAY FOR MY PALS!

It's my first day off in 2010 (yes I did work on the 1st & 2nd of January-pizza never sleeps you know).
It's time to get down to blogging blissfulness!

Last week I mentioned I wasn't doing the whole Resolution thing, instead I'm tracking what I've accomplished. Find out why here

http://thesunshineisin.blogspot.com/2009/12/gathering-of-accomplishments.html

So here's a log of what I was able to do last year (by the way it's mostly from my blogs & my bad memory, so if I forgot something please let me know)

January 2009
2008 had ended on a great note. My best pal Diane & I had just hosted our 1st MeFest event & vendors were asking us to organize another one for the spring!

Also in January I started this blog
& tried my best to make it fun & interesting to all.

I read THE POWER OF NICE that I received the month before from a gift exchange. I loved the book & found out that there was a 2nd one coming out called THE POWER OF SMALL (which describes me perfectly on so many levels!) . I contacted the site & asked if it would be available in Canada. They weren't sure so they sent me a copy of it!

Not too much happened in February as we were in full swing for our 2nd MeFest

March 2009 I met Carol & learned a lot about blogging! She's one smart cookie!

Then April 2009 hit WITH A BANG! We hosted another successful MeFest. We started a Those2Girls blog & doing weekly postings for the http://stufftodowithyourkidsinkw.blogspot.com/

What was next TWITTER. Okay I can't say enough about how much I love twitter. I think I learned the power of twitter the night we helped @BoredMommy win the title of the Mammavation Mommy. Not quite what she expected, but that night so many women connected to help her gain her title.
AWESOME was the only way to describe that night.

So May 2009 was a lot of downtime (which really means learning to tweet)

June 2009 We started a cleaning challenge on the Those2Girls blog. I didn't accomplish as much as Diane did, but I did give it go.

You see I was too busy becoming an official YummyMummyClub member (2nd row at the bottom, pic on the right)

July 2009 was very rainy here in KW, but this was the best pic of the summer

In August I did an interview for Prospere Magazine featuring @Hullabaloo519

I also started writing a blog for parents of Tweens. Here you can see how my son made it in the newspaper

September 2009 We went to the Hockey Hall of Fame & everyone's favorite chuckle the LEGO post happened

What else happened that month? We got our Tiara pic! We started a mission to get Diane's daughter to #1 for a mall shopping spree thanks to our twitter & facebook friends & wrote an article for the YummyMummyClub

Along came October 2009 which currently holds the reigning BEST DAY EVER We had our 3rd (& very successful) MeFest. Also that day I got to meet a lot of my Yummy Mummy pals at Nursery School Musical. That was an amazing day!

Next up twitter was a buzz with everyone trying to win Tassimo machines. We were trying to get them for ourselves & each other. That's the best thing about twitter! We're all in this together.

I also wrote this http://www.mommyagogo.ca/index.cfm?pagePath=BABY_TALK/Archives/October_2009/Lasting_Power_in_A_Boy_s_World&id=16841

Guess what arrived in November? http://thesunshineisin.blogspot.com/2009/11/cheers-to-tassimo-hot-chocolate.html

& I got to meet another twitter pal @BusterRhinosBBQ & look what he brought me http://thesunshineisin.blogspot.com/2009/11/tweeting-meeting-making-dinner.html

December came & the idea came for this post (inspired by this post I wrote for AMotherWorld )

I thought it was time to kick back & think of all of my accomplishments & then this happened.... I'm now a monthly contributer to WonderMoms

But enough about me. Here's what's going on with my pals & what they've accomplished, about to accomplish &/or changing their outlook towards 2010

@JackiYo is about to try something new

@AmericanNanny is favouring revelations

@CocktailDeeva is going to give it the old college try

http://twitter.com/amotherworld is pondering the what ifs???

@1ofthose2girls is setting some goals

@NoFlashCards is doing what she loves most

What are you doing? I'd love to see your New Year's post & link it to this. Just leave a comment with your blog URL

Come celebrate with us!

Gathering of Accomplishments

For the holidays I wrote an article on AMotherWorld about celebrating your accomplishments rather than making resolutions (it's the article on the right side of the page).

I'm hoping to make a list for what I've accomplished for 2009, but I don't want to just toot my own horn, I want to crank it up & celebrate everyone's accomplishments!

I'm hoping all the bloggers out there will write a post about all that they've accomplished this year & post the link to their post in the comments section of this blog.

Then next week I can compile them all & we can have a little party here on my blog.

So what made you proud of yourself this year?