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Has Facebook Lowered Blog Traffic and Comments?

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Where I used to get an average of 60-80 comments a post. While I can still pull in 3-digit comments on the important posts, I am often lucky to get 30 or 40 comments now. (Sometimes I am annoying and flat out ask people to comment so my poor mother will stop calling me with worry that my blog is sucking up a storm. She's cute that way.)  Read more >

Discouraged: I Don't Know If I Can Keep Homeschooling

Discouraged Woman

Maybe these are some of the "tough times" people who are awesome homeschoolers warned me about, or maybe I just REALLY SUCK AT THIS and should just realize it already. I just don't know how much of this is normal and ok, or if I am ruining his education and if he is going to end up being homeless and singing on the steps of some cathedral to sell bags of birdseed to fee pigeons in the park.  Read more >

I Work From Home ... and I Homeschool

Homeschool Kitchen Mess

We are going into week 2 of our homeschooling adventure. It's been QUITE the whirlwind.And I am learning a REALLY valuable lesson with homeschooling. EVERYTHING IS EDUCATION. Everything. Helping bathe the baby? Learning. Grocery shopping with me? Learning. Running after the baby so he doesn't tear all the books off the shelf at Borders while I am trying to figure out what literature to buy you for next month? Learning.  Read more >

Exclusive Series: My First Day of Homeschooling

Homeschooling

I know, I know... homeschooling and Brazilian waxing are not exactly terms that you would find sitting side-by-side in a thesaurus, and please pardon the comparison. And yet, that is EXACTLY the comparison I am about to use. Because as I thought about it, the reactions to the announcement that I was homeschooling my 6th grader were AWFULLY similar to when I said I got my 1st Brazilian wax.  Read more >

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Full Name
Loralee Choate
Member Since
July 2006
About Me: 

Loralee is a wife, mother, and blogger living in the wilds of Utah. She is mother to 4 handsome gentlemen, aged 15, 12 and 2, and a sweet little 4-month-old that passed away in 2003 of SIDS. She has been blogging since 2005 at the blog, Loralee’s Looney Tunes. She loves chirping on the internet as @looneytunes on Twitter and was named by Babble.com in the Top 50 Moms on Twitter in 2011. Throughout her years online she has formed a fabulous community, been a speaker at several national blogging conferences like BlogHer, Mom 2.0 and The Creative Connection Event, lectured and given workshops on social media and blogging, worked on major social media campaigns and events with brands like BlogHer, McDonald’s USA, The Gap, GE, Coke USA, Master Card and Universal Studios. Loralee has been featured on local and national media like KSL, KVNU, The Deseret News UPR, National Talk Radio and Parents Magazine and has also had some unique and fabulous experiences like being a spokesperson for ChemDry, filming with The Pioneer Women at her ranch, interviewing Steve Carell and Julie Andrews, and going to The White House by personal invitation. Aside from her personal and social media brand, Loralee is thrilled to work as Director of Internet Operations for Where Women Cook and is creator of the Where Women Cook blog, Amuse Bouche.

She is also a classically trained opera singer that is well versed in tromping around on stage in corsets and playing men, alcoholics, witches, nuns, evil stepmothers and woman of ill repute.

Location: 
Logan, Utah
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funny, grief, blogger, blog, mormon, tall, red head, SIDS, Infant death, Maltese, dogs, puppies, Utah, Mom blogger, LDS

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