I’m parked outside Raine’s tuition teacher’s house. My car CD is blaring. There’s a lovely evening breeze blowing and I’m blogging on my laptop.

It’s a one and a half hour wait but it’s quite a long way from my house. Instead of going home now and picking her up later, I figured why waste gas, I might as well stick around and use the time to blog. Seriously.

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Okay, here we are, all comfortably settled in to our new domain. Whew! There’s still some touch-ups I will be doing over the next few days to tie up the loose ends.

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Sorry for the long gap between posting. I’m still in the midst of packing my bags and moving Hip to be Mom to its new home on its own domain. We’re almost there now .

I’m late, says the March Hare. Yes, something I need to be saying right now as I’m late to Marie’s Mommyfest which is going on even as we speak.

I’d meant to put up a post last weekend but I guess I got swept up by Mother’s Day. Anyways, here I am, better late than never .

Hats off to Marie Ynami for this fabulous idea of a blog party. This is my first ever blog party and I’m excited.

Hi and nice to see you. I’m excited about making new friends and saying hi to those who know me from Marie’s Tuesday Toot meme. I’d love to visit your blogs, so please leave me a comment and I’ll stop by later.

I’m not really sure if I’m dressed right for the party . I’m casual as usual, tank top and shorts ready for what’s going to be a steaming 90+ degrees today.

I have three teens, all school-going, so I’m kept constantly busy with taxi runs, lunches, projects, sports. Any free time I have is spent sipping tea and blogging about my kids and sharing tidbits of my experience raising three kids.

I’m off to blog hop now before the kids get home .

Those of us with mommy blogs love to have other mommies (and daddies are welcome too) drop in and visit and leave us a note. I guess most of us who stay at home with the kids and blog in our free time have little time to socialize offline.

And so our blog becomes a really nice, and sometimes only, way to get and stay in touch with other parents. The thing though is we are all, at various times, caught up with family and kids, and our visits to other mommy blogs may be sporadic at best.

But here’s a great little email marketing tool that’s built just for bloggers. Zookoda offers a way for us to easily send out a summary of our most current blog posts to our readers telling them that we’ve got something new to say and to please stop by.

You can promote your blog on the one hand, and at the same time, give your readers a wake-up call to stop by and catch up with your latest posts.

You can even design professional emails that match your blog design and set them to be sent out at regular internals. Or if you have an announcement to make, this would work great too.

Zookoda also lets you monitor who the realtime statistics that lets you know how well your email campaign is doing. You should definitely plan on checking out Zookoda. It’s such a neat tool you’re just going to love what it does.