This past week I had the pleasure of attending the Type-A Mom Conference in Asheville, North Carolina.  I definitely don’t label myself as a Mommy-blogger but that seems to be the term most loved by the mainstream media and marketing companies and since I’m a Mom who happens to write and who sometimes talks about her young’uns, I guess I’ll just have to shrug at the label and move forward.

In any case, at this gathering of intelligent, talented women (who also happen to be Moms) I was able to scoop up dozens of business cards so I could bring you – our much loved Shak readers – links to some outstanding online sites that have much ado about babies, children, politics, and sometimes drinking.

My favorite that I visited today was a post by Megan at Velveteen Mind.  As Megan is currently expecting a daughter, she had been struggling with finding a baby name.  Her whole post made me sigh and (I admit) get a little teary-eyed.  Here’s why,

After about 20 minutes of watching the Food Channel and deciding that “Brulee” just wouldn’t work, either, I flipped the channel to a lame romantic comedy that I had seen before but whose pretty stars distracted me well enough in my misery.

And then Jude Law said her name.

Her name.

Her name!

I pulled my roly-poly body from the bed, strolled (okay, possibly stomped) into the living room and stated her name.  Her name.

Maguire looked up, smiled, and simply said, “Done.”

Just like that, her name was delivered on the lips of a gorgeous philanderer who succumbed to the temptations that lace the humid air of New Orleans.

If this is the skill and beauty with which Mommy bloggers write, I think I may just have to embrace being called a Mommy-blogger from now on.

Photo is by me … the tiny cute foot of my newest niece Madelynn.