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Top 50 Mom Blogs, 2010

Babble's inaugural Top 50 Mom Blogger list began by saying that "mom bloggers make a difference." Well, it's 2010 now, and you'd have to be under a parenting stone not to know that already. Not only do they make "a" difference, but for many moms in cities and towns and burbs nationwide they make the difference, providing information, LOLs, "I've-been-there-sister" reassurance, and perhaps more than anything, the camaraderie that helps get you through the long, breakfast-till-you-put-them-down day.

As a collective, mom bloggers have given the previously too closed, too private, too go-through-it-alone experience of motherhood a voice. And does that voice travel! From major media figures including Lisa Belkin of the New York Times blog Motherlode to ma-without-pop operations such as Bacon Is My Enemy, these virtual sisters are broadcasting their real-mom experiences loud and clear.

And we couldn't be more happy to help them be heard. So for this year's Top 50, we had a group of mom blogger/parenting experts make their choices, then we dug over the data and compiled the 50 mom bloggers you should be following for 2010.

It was tough to trim it to 50, but that's where you come in. Please, please, nominate your favorites, too! Let the world know just how many and how great the mom bloggers out there are. We're all one big community, and the better we know each other, the more we all benefit. Look for your nominations on our 2011 list next year and, in the meantime, read, write, and link up. We're all in it together!
- The Babble Editors

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Heather Spohr | The Spohrs Are Multiplying

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Heather’s Rankings

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New readers to this blog will be impressed by its funny, breezy spirit, but it’s the heartfelt strength of the Spohr family that really impresses us. Anyone who faithfully reads mom blogs may be familiar with the blog button promoting the picture of a sweet little girl, asking “Are You a Friend of Maddie?” Maddie was Maddie Spohr, whose unexpected death a year ago was the driving force behind the heartbreakingly confessional but ultimately uplifting blog, The Spohrs Are Multiplying.

Written by mom Heather (dad Mike has his own), the Spohrs Are Multiplying reads like a diary, teaching us that life is short and sometimes bittersweet. Through thick and thin, it has attracted legions of fans devoted to the family.

3 Responses to “Top 50 Mom Blogs: all the Best Mom Blogs, including The Spohrs Are Multiplying”

  1. At last, soemnoe comes up with the “right” answer!

  2. Hope you’ll like these upbeat, tuneful CDs for moms & kids by award-winning songwriters (one taught 20 years), & audio book. Kids’ CDs reviewed by SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

    http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Gennaro

    FOR KIDS up to 9 years old
    1.BUBBLEBEE: SONGS FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART–
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bubblebee-songs-for-young/id134740209

    2.TALE OF ALADDIN & BUBBLEBEE…
    Audio book in rhyme-update of Aladdin legend–
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-tale-aladdin-bubblebee/id259945498

    3.BE A BUDDY, NOT A BULLY
    “Positivity” and favorites from the other CDs–
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/be-a-buddy-not-a-bully/id291765635

    FOR MOMS Songs with popular girls names-good for parties:
    4.NEW ROMANTIC LOVE SONGS FOR JESSICA, ASHLEY, EMILY, etc–
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-romantic-love-songs-for/id338387293

    5. MORE NEW ROMANTIC SONGS FOR ANNA, AMBER, SHELBY, etc–.
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/more-new-romantic-songs-for/id338387816

    6.GENNARO…FROM COOL TO HOT
    Funny songs:”Politicians Polka;” “A Moose with Moxie” “Hub City Hop” (in a movie), & Love songs–
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gennaro-from-cool-to-hot/id5999824

  3. Entertain and engage your kids in some fun and funny word play with an adorable puppy. http://www.shortythedreamer.com