I’m going on a blog trip! Marie at Mommy Fest / Mommy Community had this great idea for us to do a Road Trip theme blog party. Each day is going to have a theme and I just may SHOCK you all by posting every day of it. No promises though. I’m easily distracted, ya know. (In fact, as I write this I am currently distracted at PKMU, but I’ll tell you about that later… I don’t want you getting distracted too before you even finish reading MY post. She can wait. 
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So… wanna join me on the road trip? Maybe we can do a caravan kinda thing. (OK, the song “Convoy” just popped into my head. Randon. And weird. Anyone else remember that song?). You can get details of how the Blog Trip is going to work, the itinerary for the week, and the Day One (Sept 1) Mr Linky, enough info to have you totally ready to cruise.
The theme of the first day, other than getting all packed up, the car loaded and stuff, is to do a little welcome message.
Welcome.
OK, moving along. What? All right, that was kinda blunt and rude. But I did mean it in the nicest way. Honest. I’ll see if I can do better. (Don’t blame me, I’m still distracted).
Welcome to Shake The Salt. I’m Christy and I am really excited about my new blog here. It officially launched on July 25! I want to get one of those cool Blogiversary buttons, but I can’t decide which date to use. I created the blog on June 20. Doing all the background stuff and getting the design done took a little bit, so I wasn’t really posting here. I started posting regularly on July 18 I think, but didn’t officially “launch” the blog until July 25. So, I’m confused. 
I’m a thirty-something mama to a sweet two-year-old little handful of a boy and wife to a very busy fireman. It is yet to be seen if our family will be blessed with a little sibling for B. We live in the country & love it. I love, love, love frugal shopping – it really is like a game to me! I score awesome deals and have a crazy stockpile! I enjoy doing product reviews – it is such fun to see some of the amazing ideas fellow moms come up with & to check out things that are new or at least new-to-me. Shake The Salt is all about promoting fellow moms!
I have a giveaway going on until 11:59 PM EST Tuesday, September 2, 2008, for a beautiful hand stamped initial charms necklace from J. Lawson Designs. I have one (with my son’s initials on it) and LOVE it. Be sure to enter for your chance(s) to win.
I am wrapping up the Launch Party (all the winners have been announced on the blog) and I am working through the list contacting winners and sponsors. So, if you are reading this, and are a winner or sponsor and I haven’t touched base with you, I will really soon.
I’ve started posting random questions, so if you are bored play along. :p If you like free stuff, I post some every week. And if I haven’t frightened you away yet, you are more than welcome to come follow me on Twitter. That way, I’ll have another chance. 
OK, not sure if I followed the guideless exactly (probably not) but this post has gotten super long and I’m sure you are ready to move along already, right? Go check out who else is taking a blog trip!
Hungry? We have this awesome little barbeque place in our small town that just rocks. They recently moved from their “hole-in-the-wall” building because Walgreen’s purchased the property. (Woo hoo! We are getting a Walgreen’s!). The line at lunch time extends outside of the building! 
