Grabbing the brass rings

Looking at Tommy, so determined to catch those rings on the Jardin de Luxembourg carousel in Paris makes me think of the work and determination it’s taken to get my new site up and running. A big part of that work was unglamorous and organizational. But if you’ve visited over the past couple of days, I hope you’ve noticed all the lovely ways you now have to browse. Those gorgeous headers in the left-hand sidebar all preside over links galore to my old content, allowing you the freedom to roam among my family’s travels and my musings about life on the road. Descriptions of what content goes in each of these sections is available in the About tab.

The picture also applies because I feel like I’ve found a prize in Cathy of Desperately Seeking WordPress. It’s thanks to all her hard work behind the scenes that my content is so gorgeously cataloged. Among many other things, those lovely links you see on the left are all thanks to her. She’s the brains behind the beauty and without her I would not have been able to make my content so accessible. I hope you’ll find something you like; if you don’t, please visit the Archives, which she also executed. It offers still more ways to search and browse for posts.

Of course, this is a work in progress. Eventually, you’ll be able to click on those lovely headings in the sidebar and see all of the posts in each category on one page. I’m also working all the time to refine how I have things sorted and if there’s a category here that doesn’t make sense or if I’m missing something you’d like to see, please let me know.

The picture on top is for Photo Friday at Delicious Baby, a completely fabulous place to get information about traveling with kids. I hope you’ll visit and check out the other participants’ photos! And for the end of the story: Tommy did manage to catch all the rings, only to dump them on the ground in his excitement moments later.

And you can grab a brass ring of your own. Tomorrow I’ll reveal just how you can enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card. But to find out you’ve got to either subscribe or come back to find out how!

[And one more small thing. For all of you who subscribed to the old Blogspot site in a reader – not my email subscribers – can you do me a favor and re-subscribe to the new site? The old feed is working but I also had to set up a new one. I'm going to be getting rid of the old one sometime soon so that the search engines' minds don't get blown. I'll keep sending friendly reminders for a week or so before I make that feed disappear.]