I’ve been very blessed to have this blog. First it was a called A Readable Feast, part of the ClubMom blog program that started in the summer of 2006. The ClubMom people were great. They gave me a free pass to the BlogHer 2006 conference, which jumpstarted many fine relationships with other bloggers and with the BlogHer people.

When they ended the program in November 2007, they were nice enough to let me take my content with me. I moved it over here to My Readable Feast hosted by the nice folks at One By One Media and quickly built up traffic, readership and page rank.

But now I’m so busy with other opportunities and blogs, that I feel it’s time to take a break. It’s the best course of action since I’m not too passionate about children’s book and cooking activities these days. Sort of like my kids – we must be close to summer vacation.

Looking to buy a blog?

I’m also considering selling this blog. Yes, this blog may be for sale if the right person or opportunity comes along. So, if you’re interested in acquiring My Readable Feast contact me at am@the-write-spot.com and we can discuss.

Until then, here’s where you can find me:

• A Mama’s Rant – my mom review blog
• This Mama Cooks! On a Diet – my personal journey of weight loss, getting healthy, cooking and dieting
• This Mama Cooks! Reviews – my food, diet, health, weight loss, and fitness review blog
• The Write Spot – my social media consulting blog

And elsewhere:

• Rocky Mountain Mom’s Blog
• Mom Central Food
• Mom Central Goes Green
• Mom Central Technology
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Welcome to My Readable Feast, the new version of A Readable Feast, my former blog on ClubMom.

Here’s the deal. It’s a mess. I haven’t decided on my blog’s theme (look) yet. And I don’t have enough time to fix things up. But be patient…I’m working on it and hope to have everything cleaned up by the end of the month.

Until then, come by and see me at A Mama’s Rant, This Mama Cooks! or at The Write Spot.

 I’ve just been informed by the folks at ClubMom that they’ve cancelled the ClubMom Mom Blogs program and will stop hosting our blogs as of January 31, 2008.

Now stop making faces at them. They were very nice about it and offered very generous terms. They’re even letting us keep our content, the banner artwork, and our blog’s name. (That’s huge because most blog networks don’t let you keep your content.)

So I’m looking into buying a domain name and hosting A Readable Feast elsewhere. It’s going to be a lot of work and require an investment of time and money. With that in mind, I won’t be posting and will probably wait until the move to start blogging regularly again.

If you’re a frequent reader, please have patience. I’ll be in touch via this blog to let you know where you can find me.

If you are a publicist or publisher and have sent me books or DVDs to review or give away, I will post a few more times to fulfill my obligation to you here or at my mommy blog, A Mama’s Rant.

I’ve enjoyed my time immensely at ClubMom and have been proud to call myself a ClubMom blogger. I’m sad to go, but excited about taking A Readable Feast out on my own.

UPDATE: Since the domain name has already been registered, I’ll be changing this blog’s name to “My Readable Feast.” You’ll eventually find me at www.myreadablefeast.com.

I’m taking time out from pumpkin recipes to feature The Carnival of Recipes “It’s a Small World” edition. Let’s see what everyone has presented as kid-friendly recipes.

First, there’s my friend Michelle D. who blogs infrequently at My Year to Get Skinny. She’s taken a cake decorating teaching job at Michael’s and made this fabulous cake, which I’m sure any little girl would die for.

Shawn at Everything and Nothing gives us camping recipes for foil packets and campfire cobbler in The Great Outdoors.

Mel Rimmer presents Recipe – Cheesey Number Sixes posted at Bean-Sprouts.

Chef Tom presents Chicken Fingers with Honey Sauce posted at Chef Tom Cooks – Recipe Blog.

Laura Williams presents Laura Williams’ Musings: Slow-Cooked Sloppy Joes posted at Laura Williams’ Musings.

GP presents Tools of the Kitchen Trade and a recipe for New York crumbcake posted at Innside Montana-Your Home at the Range.

Amanda Harris presents Recipes: Breaded Chicken Cutlets posted at Pajama Mommy Community.

Annette Berlin presents Annette’s Classic Pasta Salad posted at F r u g a l J o u r n e y.

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I will be hosting the Carnival of the Recipes on October 21. So please send me your tried-and-true kid-tested and kid-approved recipes. You can do this three ways:

1. By commenting below. Don’t forget to provide a link to your recipe post (not just to your blog) and your name and the name of your blog.
2. You can email me the link at recipe.carnival@gmail.com along with your name and the name of your blog.
3. You can go through Blog Carnival to add your recipe post in a quick minute. Just click on the box below.