Blog Envy

I'm sure my friend Kelly would not mind if I showed all of you her blog. Now, this is a fellow American mom, living in Alsace with three kids, a foreign hubby and three languages. A few differences; the kids use French only at school and Dad's Estonian. Officially that makes them "OPOL" (one parent, one language) as well as Home vs. Community language people going on at once. Those, by the way, are the two main ways children learn languages.

Anyway, enough linguistic speak. Here's Kelly's blog;
http://www.preciousbabes.blogspot.com/

She's in a village about 14km from here but we used to be neigbors two addresses ago. Our oldest are two months apart and our middles are four. She opted for the Latter Plan with child no. 3. Kelly's a little younger than I am and had the luxury of getting one out of diapers before taking on the next...

As you can see, Kelly is a little more technically computer lit than I am. She showed me how to do the You Tube videos on my own blog. I haven't even figured out how to get rid of the "blogger" part of the address!

Now here's REAL "blog envy". This one is a good read;
http://www.wifeinthenorth.com/index.html

It's not even been going that long. Okay, she writes a lot less about birthdays and vacations. She is yet another Mom of Three, but living in the North of England having moved there from London. It gets a lot of hits and she seems pretty good with the technical end. At least her links work!

I read in the Sunday Times (London's, that is) that she's been offered a 200,000 pound sterling contract with Viking to publish it in book form. That's about $250,000! (At least I can find the dollar key...)

I mean, it's cute, it's interesting, she writes well...but 200,000 pounds well???

And her move didn't even involve a language barrier or crossing a border!!