On Sunday, I had the great pleasure of meeting and hanging out with some great local mommies.

To be honest, this was really the first time I got together with a group of moms since I had my daughter. Most of my friends don’t yet have kids and those who do, don’t live close-by.

Since I’m a working mami, I don’t often get to share in the “typical” mommy outings that a lot of stay at home moms attend, such as play dates, mommy & me time, and other mommy meetups.

And, since my daughter doesn’t attend day-care, but is instead taken care of by her abuela, I don’t even get to meet other moms with kids her age.

So when I heard that Ted Murphy of Izea and Wendy Piersall of Sparkplugging.com got together with the folks at Seaworld to offer some local moms a chance to hang out for the day, I jumped!

Want to hear the best part about it all?

They were all bloggers too! Ok, that’s probably the second-best part about it.

The BEST part of it was that it was FREE!

Who did I hang out with?

• @missbritt – Miss Britt
• @morningsidemom – Morningside Mom
• @Military_Mom – Blog 4 Mom
• @eggmarketing – The Marketing Eggspert

All great women, with great families.

The kids were well behaved and the husbands did a pretty good job too. I have to give a special thank you to my husband who was very supportive and took one for the team when he climbed up into the nets & tunnels in Shamu’s Happy Harbor so that the other mommies and I could have a chance to chat.

It was a very fun day and I had a great time sharing with other mommies who had very similar interests, complaints, and celebrations.

Thanks again @tedmurphy and @emom!

Miss Britt and I
image via @eggmarketing

I was recently asked by a co-worker about which blogs I follow. She reads a few blogs, but is fairly new to the blogging world and was curious to see what my list consists of.

I subscribe to many blogs, but there are a few out there that I consistently read.

In no particular order, 10 blogs you should consider reading:

1. Problogger
   • Site: http://www.problogger.net
   • RSS Feed
2. Simplemom
   • Site: http://simplemom.net
   • RSS Feed
3. Sparkplugging
   • Site: http://www.sparkplugging.com
   • RSS Feed (for entire network)
4. JessicaKnows
   • Site: http://jessicaknows.com
   • RSS Feed
5. Rapid eLearning Blog
   • Site: http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning
   • RSS Feed
6. Just Creative Design
   • Site: http://justcreativedesign.com
   • RSS Feed
7. Moms At Work
   • Site: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features_momsatwork
   • RSS Feed
8. The Bloggess
   • Site: http://thebloggess.com
   • RSS Feed
9. Mutha Mae
   • Site: http://muthamae.com
   • RSS Feed
10. Visit the Coqui
    • Site: http://www.visit-the-coqui.com
    • RSS Feed

As you can see, it’s a diverse list with a variety of topics. But, it’s reflective of me…currently at least.

Let’s hear from you. Which blogs do you enjoy reading? I can always add more to my reading list.

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I went to my first tweet-up on Friday night. I was hesitant to go since it was at 10:30 pm and though I’d like to think I’m still a partying, clubbing kinda girl, truth is, that being a mami makes 10:30 my bed-time. Plus you know, there’s the whole I have a daughter thing.

But, there were some big names attending. I saw a tweet late Thursday night (can’t remember from who) that there was a tweet-up scheduled and that Chris Brogan, Wendy Piersall, Brian Clark, Ted Murphy, and Jeremy Shoemaker were all going to be in Orlando. That would be @chrisbrogan, @emom, @copyblogger, @tedmurphy, and @shoemoney in twitter-speak.

Why where they all in Orlando on the same night?

After asking around a bit on Twitter, I found out they were here for an IZEA Blogger Advisory Board Meeting.

So I start thinking…

I want to meet eMom!

I’ve never really seen a tweet-up in Orlando been done.

How often would all these folks be together at the same time and ummm around the corner from me?

I put all my hesitation aside and decided to go.

The result?

Wendy, Susan, and me
Photo via Wendy

I ended up meeting Susan Payton, who was super nice and offered for us to ride together. She already knew Wendy from writing on her Sparkplugging network. Wendy greeted me with a hug, not a handshake. Great, isn’t it?

I also got a chance to talk with Chris Brogan who made me laugh when he said that Orlando is “a cultural vacuum cleaner.” I told him I am Puerto Rican, so I guess I proved his point. He later asked me on twitter if that was rude.

All in all, it was a great time and I’m glad I went. I know I could have done better in talking about ModernMami.com, but I guess I was a little nervous. But, hopefully my face/name will be remembered a bit.

Do you have any tweet-up experiences to share? I’d love to hear about them in the comments.