(4049,1,'2012-08-07 13:58:44','2012-08-07 17:58:44','We\'ve just returned from our summer trip to sunny Miami. Now, you might wonder why on earth we\'d head to South Florida in the summer,  but please don\'t worry -- we made it just in time for the Olympics, which means that we spent a lot of time indoors watching incredibly fit people do incredibly fast things. While we sat on the couch.\n\n(Aside: I can\'t possibly be the only person who felt super fit after marathon sessions of athlete ogling? I could have sworn that my abs were tightening as I watched hours and hours of swimming and volleyball. I was starting to convince myself that this was really happening -- I even have a name for it, Bystander Fitness ™, which is kind of brilliant, right? -- but now we\'re on week two and I\'m pretty sure the bigger numbers on the scale are less due to muscle mass and more to increased hummus and chip consumption. While sitting on the couch. But it was nice while it lasted. Anyway!)\n\nSo I watched so much NBC in the last few days that I\'ve started to dream about the Olympics. To my complete surprise I wasn\'t dreaming of our boys in the American Swimming team:\n\n[slideshow id=2]\n\n(Seriously, what is wrong with me?)\n\nInstead I dreamt of a gymnast. And it wasn\'t even our hometown girl, Aly Raisman, or her smiling, adorable Fabulous Five teammates.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI probably didn\'t dream of them because I\'ll be there when our small town throws a parade or some other wholesome celebration to celebrate our very own gold medalist.\n\nSo there\'s no need to dream, maybe?\n\nInstead, I dreamt of fierce Russian star Aliya Mustafina.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4022\" title=\"tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo copy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nMore specifically I dreamt that Aliya and I went out for drinks (I don\'t remember what -- maybe milkshakes, since she\'s probably like 15 years old?)* and we had a fabulous time. Hey, this is a dream, so it could happen.\n\n*(Then again she\'s Russian, so maybe vodka shots?)\n\nIn my dream, Aliya was lovely. We chatted, though not about the swimmers (to my dismay) because of course she\'s too serious for that. <a href=\"http://www.aliyamustafina.ru/english/fearlesseyes.html\">\"The <em>boys</em> in my life <em>will</em> appear when they do,\"</a> she has said. Wow. I love her confidence.\n\nDespite NBC\'s storyline, this girl isn\'t a villain, just a young girl that can do amazing things under immense pressure.\n\nI mean, look! She can smile:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4021\" title=\"700\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nShe just chooses not to. (And would probably cut me if we were Facebook friends and I dared tag that photo.)\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4031\" title=\"f3wAt\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"604\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>What are you DOING? Untag me IMMEDIATELY!</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In my dream, I asked Aliya for her advice. (You can tell this is a dream because I\'m asking a teenager for advice.) (Also, because we were speaking in English. I\'m sure she speaks at least some English, because learning English isn\'t particularly special or exotic, but I just get the feeling that she\'s the type to pretend to not speak English just to mess with you. I think you know what I mean.)</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, I wanted to know how to do eye makeup like her. She took a look at my weak attempt at eye makeup and laughed in my face. Apparently, I\'m completely hopeless. No surprise there.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I asked her to teach me how to give bitchface. Because, by God, she is the Queen and I\'m in desperate need of that skill.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Those of you that know me know that I\'m a very <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/03/on-mr-rogers-and-honesty-and-kindness-everyday-tip-74.html\">nice person</a> (and <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2011/03/it-takes-strength-to-be-kind.html\">very proud of that fact</a>) and that it shows on my face. I can\'t help it! My usual expression is that of a content puppy.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4040\" title=\"smile puppy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"277\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Trust me, I\'m not complaining. Most of the time, my happy demeanor and face serve me well. People like happy people, and when you look nice, people put their guard down. That means that they\'re usually nice, and sometimes, it means that people have low expectations of you -- like that you can\'t possibly be smart or competitive because you\'re obviously nice and the two things are like oil and water. Of course that\'s not true, so I sometimes take advantage of that.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What? Listen, I\'m nice, but I\'m certainly not stupid. I can appreciate the power of good bitchface. It can come in so handy in everyday life; like when you don\'t want crazy people sitting next to you on the T or someone is boring you with yet another story about their <em>ahmazing</em> toddler or whatever.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I guess I must have won her over with my nice face (score!) because Dream Aliya told me the secret three step process of good bitchface.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>DREAM ALIYA SECRETS TO PROPER BITCHFACE. (IN MY DREAMS)</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, you think of hateful things. (I thought of driving on the Mass Pike. Massholes!)</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4028\" title=\"tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" />\n\nThen, you relax your face completely, while keeping the hateful thoughts in your soul. (Don\'t worry, it\'ll show through your eyes.)\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4043\" title=\"ah4X8\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ah4X8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"> The result? Eyes that cut glass, and not one hint of whether you are happy or angry or indifferent. Except for those eyes. Which will terrify whoever crosses their path.</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4025\" title=\"tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" />\n\nGod, I can\'t help it. I adore her magnificent bitchface.\n\n(This is so pathetic. You know how <em>Yesterday</em> came to Paul McCartney in a dream? I waste my brains most creative powers on eye makeup and bitchface. This is why I\'m not supremely successful, friends. Don\'t waste your dreams!)','I had a dream about bitchface','','inherit','open','open','','3993-revision-42','','','2012-08-07 13:58:44','2012-08-07 17:58:44','',3993,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/3993-revision-42.html',0,'revision','',0),(4050,1,'2012-08-07 14:00:46','2012-08-07 18:00:46','','womens-gold.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large','','inherit','open','open','','womens-gold-jpg-crop-rectangle3-large','','','2012-08-07 14:00:46','2012-08-07 18:00:46','',3993,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/womens-gold.jpg.CROP_.rectangle3-large.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4051,1,'2012-08-07 14:00:20','2012-08-07 18:00:20','We\'ve just returned from our summer trip to sunny Miami. Now, you might wonder why on earth we\'d head to the sweltering hole that is South Florida in the summer,  but please don\'t worry -- we made it just in time for the Olympics, which means that we spent a lot of time indoors watching incredibly fit people do incredibly fast things. While we sat on the couch and ate ice cream.\n\n(Aside: I can\'t possibly be the only person who felt super fit after marathon sessions of athlete ogling? I could have sworn that my abs were tightening as I watched hours and hours of swimming and volleyball. I was starting to convince myself that this was really happening -- I even have a name for it, Bystander Fitness ™, which is kind of brilliant, right? -- but now we\'re on week two and I\'m pretty sure the bigger numbers on the scale are less due to muscle mass and more to increased hummus and chip consumption. While sitting on the couch. But it was nice while it lasted. Anyway!)\n\nSo I watched so much NBC in the last few days that I\'ve started to dream about the Olympics. To my complete surprise I wasn\'t dreaming of our boys in the American Swimming team:\n\n[slideshow id=2]\n\n(Seriously, what is wrong with me?)\n\nInstead I dreamt of a gymnast. And it wasn\'t even our hometown girl, Aly Raisman, or her smiling, adorable Fabulous Five teammates.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI probably didn\'t dream of them because I\'ll be there when our small town throws a parade or some other wholesome celebration to celebrate our very own gold medalist.\n\nSo there\'s no need to dream, maybe?\n\nInstead, I dreamt of fierce Russian star Aliya Mustafina.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4022\" title=\"tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo copy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nMore specifically I dreamt that Aliya and I went out for drinks (I don\'t remember what -- maybe milkshakes, since she\'s probably like 15 years old?)* and we had a fabulous time. Hey, this is a dream, so it could happen.\n\n*(Then again she\'s Russian, so maybe vodka shots?)\n\nIn my dream, Aliya was lovely. We chatted, though not about the swimmers (to my dismay) because of course she\'s too serious for that. <a href=\"http://www.aliyamustafina.ru/english/fearlesseyes.html\">\"The <em>boys</em> in my life <em>will</em> appear when they do,\"</a> she has said. Wow. I love her confidence.\n\nDespite NBC\'s storyline, this girl isn\'t a villain, just a young girl that can do amazing things under immense pressure.\n\nI mean, look! She can smile:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4021\" title=\"700\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nShe just chooses not to. (And would probably cut me if we were Facebook friends and I dared tag that photo.)\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4031\" title=\"f3wAt\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"604\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>What are you DOING? Untag me IMMEDIATELY!</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In my dream, I asked Aliya for her advice. (You can tell this is a dream because I\'m asking a teenager for advice.) (Also, because we were speaking in English. I\'m sure she speaks at least some English, because learning English isn\'t particularly special or exotic, but I just get the feeling that she\'s the type to pretend to not speak English just to mess with you. I think you know what I mean.)</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, I wanted to know how to do eye makeup like her. She took a look at my weak attempt at eye makeup and laughed in my face. Apparently, I\'m completely hopeless. No surprise there.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I asked her to teach me how to give bitchface. Because, by God, she is the Queen and I\'m in desperate need of that skill.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Those of you that know me know that I\'m a very <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/03/on-mr-rogers-and-honesty-and-kindness-everyday-tip-74.html\">nice person</a> (and <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2011/03/it-takes-strength-to-be-kind.html\">very proud of that fact</a>) and that it shows on my face. I can\'t help it! My usual expression is that of a content puppy.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4040\" title=\"smile puppy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"277\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Trust me, I\'m not complaining. Most of the time, my happy demeanor and face serve me well. People like happy people, and when you look nice, people put their guard down. That means that they\'re usually nice, and sometimes, it means that people have low expectations of you -- like that you can\'t possibly be smart or competitive because you\'re obviously nice and the two things are like oil and water. Of course that\'s not true, so I sometimes take advantage of that.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What? Listen, I\'m nice, but I\'m certainly not stupid. I can appreciate the power of good bitchface. It can come in so handy in everyday life; like when you don\'t want crazy people sitting next to you on the T or someone is boring you with yet another story about their <em>ahmazing</em> toddler or whatever.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I guess I must have won her over with my nice face (score!) because Dream Aliya told me the secret three step process of good bitchface.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>DREAM ALIYA SECRETS TO PROPER BITCHFACE. (IN MY DREAMS)</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, you think of hateful things. (I thought of driving on the Mass Pike. Massholes!)</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4028\" title=\"tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" />\n\nThen, you relax your face completely, while keeping the hateful thoughts in your soul. (Don\'t worry, it\'ll show through your eyes.)\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4043\" title=\"ah4X8\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ah4X8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"> The result? Eyes that cut glass, and not one hint of whether you are happy or angry or indifferent. Except for those eyes. Which will terrify whoever crosses their path.</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4025\" title=\"tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" />\n\nGod, I can\'t help it. I adore her magnificent bitchface. YOU GO ON GIRL.\n\n(This is so pathetic. You know how <em>Yesterday</em> came to Paul McCartney in a dream? I waste my brain\'s most creative powers on eye makeup and bitchface. This is why I\'m not supremely successful, friends. Don\'t waste your dreams!)','I had a dream about bitchface','','inherit','open','open','','3993-revision-43','','','2012-08-07 14:00:20','2012-08-07 18:00:20','',3993,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/3993-revision-43.html',0,'revision','',0),(4052,1,'2012-08-07 14:03:02','2012-08-07 18:03:02','We\'ve just returned from our summer trip to sunny Miami. Now, you might wonder why on earth we\'d head to the sweltering hole that is South Florida in the summer,  but please don\'t worry -- we made it just in time for the Olympics, which means that we spent a lot of time indoors watching incredibly fit people do incredibly fast things. While we sat on the couch and ate ice cream.\n\n(Aside: I can\'t possibly be the only person who felt super fit after marathon sessions of athlete ogling? I could have sworn that my abs were tightening as I watched hours and hours of swimming and volleyball. I was starting to convince myself that this was really happening -- I even have a name for it, Bystander Fitness ™, which is kind of brilliant, right? -- but now we\'re on week two and I\'m pretty sure the bigger numbers on the scale are less due to muscle mass and more to increased hummus and chip consumption. While sitting on the couch. But it was nice while it lasted. Anyway!)\n\nSo I watched so much NBC in the last few days that I\'ve started to dream about the Olympics. To my complete surprise I wasn\'t dreaming of our boys in the American Swimming team:\n\n[slideshow id=2]\n\n(Seriously, what is wrong with me?)\n\nInstead I dreamt of a gymnast. And it wasn\'t even our hometown girl, Aly Raisman, or her smiling, adorable Fabulous Five teammates.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/womens-gold.jpg.CROP_.rectangle3-large.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4050\" title=\"womens-gold.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/womens-gold.jpg.CROP_.rectangle3-large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"346\" /></a>\n\nI probably didn\'t dream of them because I\'ll be there when our small town throws a parade or some other wholesome celebration to celebrate our very own gold medalist.\n\nSo there\'s no need to dream, maybe?\n\nInstead, I dreamt of fierce Russian star Aliya Mustafina.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4022\" title=\"tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo copy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nMore specifically I dreamt that Aliya and I went out for drinks (I don\'t remember what -- maybe milkshakes, since she\'s probably like 15 years old?)* and we had a fabulous time. Hey, this is a dream, so it could happen.\n\n*(Then again she\'s Russian, so maybe vodka shots?)\n\nIn my dream, Aliya was lovely. We chatted, though not about the swimmers (to my dismay) because of course she\'s too serious for that. <a href=\"http://www.aliyamustafina.ru/english/fearlesseyes.html\">\"The <em>boys</em> in my life <em>will</em> appear when they do,\"</a> she has said. Wow. I love her confidence.\n\nDespite NBC\'s storyline, this girl isn\'t a villain, just a young girl that can do amazing things under immense pressure.\n\nI mean, look! She can smile:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4021\" title=\"700\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nShe just chooses not to. (And would probably cut me if we were Facebook friends and I dared tag that photo.)\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4031\" title=\"f3wAt\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"604\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>What are you DOING? Untag me IMMEDIATELY!</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In my dream, I asked Aliya for her advice. (You can tell this is a dream because I\'m asking a teenager for advice.) (Also, because we were speaking in English. I\'m sure she speaks at least some English, because learning English isn\'t particularly special or exotic, but I just get the feeling that she\'s the type to pretend to not speak English just to mess with you. I think you know what I mean.)</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, I wanted to know how to do eye makeup like her. She took a look at my weak attempt at eye makeup and laughed in my face. Apparently, I\'m completely hopeless. No surprise there.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I asked her to teach me how to give bitchface. Because, by God, she is the Queen and I\'m in desperate need of that skill.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Those of you that know me know that I\'m a very <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/03/on-mr-rogers-and-honesty-and-kindness-everyday-tip-74.html\">nice person</a> (and <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2011/03/it-takes-strength-to-be-kind.html\">very proud of that fact</a>) and that it shows on my face. I can\'t help it! My usual expression is that of a content puppy.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4040\" title=\"smile puppy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"277\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Trust me, I\'m not complaining. Most of the time, my happy demeanor and face serve me well. People tend to like happy people, and when you look nice, people put their guard down. That means that they\'re usually nice to you even if it is against their nature, and sometimes, it means that people have low expectations of you -- like that you can\'t possibly be smart or competitive because you\'re obviously nice and the two things are like oil and water. Of course that\'s not true, so I sometimes take advantage of that.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What? Listen, I\'m nice, but I\'m certainly not stupid. I can appreciate the power of good bitchface. It can come in so handy in everyday life; like when you don\'t want crazy people sitting next to you on the T or someone is boring you with yet another story about their <em>ahmazing</em> toddler or whatever.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I guess I must have won her over with my nice face (score!) because Dream Aliya told me the secret three step process of good bitchface.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(DREAM) ALIYA MUSTAFINA\'S SECRETS TO PROPER BITCHFACE. (IN MY DREAMS)</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, you think of hateful things. (I thought of driving on the Mass Pike. Massholes!)</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4028\" title=\"tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" />\n\nThen, you relax your face completely, while keeping the hateful thoughts in your soul. (Don\'t worry, it\'ll show through your eyes.)\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4043\" title=\"ah4X8\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ah4X8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"> The result? Eyes that cut glass, and not one hint of whether you are happy or angry or indifferent. Except for those eyes. Which will terrify whoever crosses their path.</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4025\" title=\"tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" />\n\nGod, I can\'t help it. I adore her magnificent bitchface. YOU GO ON GIRL.\n\n(This is so pathetic. You know how <em>Yesterday</em> came to Paul McCartney in a dream? I waste my brain\'s most creative powers on eye makeup and bitchface. This is why I\'m not supremely successful, friends. Don\'t waste your dreams!)','I had a dream about bitchface','','inherit','open','open','','3993-revision-44','','','2012-08-07 14:03:02','2012-08-07 18:03:02','',3993,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/3993-revision-44.html',0,'revision','',0),(4053,1,'2012-08-07 14:03:02','2012-08-07 18:03:02','We\'ve just returned from our summer trip to sunny Miami. Now, you might wonder why on earth we\'d head to the sweltering hole that is South Florida in the summer,  but please don\'t worry -- we made it just in time for the Olympics, which means that we spent a lot of time indoors watching incredibly fit people do incredibly fast things. While we sat on the couch and ate ice cream.\n\n(Aside: I can\'t possibly be the only person who felt super fit after marathon sessions of athlete ogling? I could have sworn that my abs were tightening as I watched hours and hours of swimming and volleyball. I was starting to convince myself that this was really happening -- I even have a name for it, Bystander Fitness ™, which is kind of brilliant, right? -- but now we\'re on week two and I\'m pretty sure the bigger numbers on the scale are less due to muscle mass and more to increased hummus and chip consumption. While sitting on the couch. But it was nice while it lasted. Anyway!)\n\nSo I watched so much NBC in the last few days that I\'ve started to dream about the Olympics. To my complete surprise I wasn\'t dreaming of our boys in the American Swimming team:\n\n[slideshow id=2]\n\n(Seriously, what is wrong with me?)\n\nInstead I dreamt of a gymnast. And it wasn\'t even our hometown girl, Aly Raisman, or her smiling, adorable Fabulous Five teammates.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/womens-gold.jpg.CROP_.rectangle3-large.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4050\" title=\"womens-gold.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/womens-gold.jpg.CROP_.rectangle3-large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"346\" /></a>\n\nI probably didn\'t dream of them because I\'ll be there when our small town throws a parade or some other wholesome celebration to celebrate our very own gold medalist.\n\nSo there\'s no need to dream, maybe?\n\nInstead, I dreamt of fierce Russian star Aliya Mustafina.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4022\" title=\"tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo copy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nMore specifically I dreamt that Aliya and I went out for drinks (I don\'t remember what -- maybe milkshakes, since she\'s probably like 15 years old?)* and we had a fabulous time. Hey, this is a dream, so it could happen.\n\n*(Then again she\'s Russian, so maybe vodka shots?)\n\nIn my dream, Aliya was lovely. We chatted, though not about the swimmers (to my dismay) because of course she\'s too serious for that. <a href=\"http://www.aliyamustafina.ru/english/fearlesseyes.html\">\"The <em>boys</em> in my life <em>will</em> appear when they do,\"</a> she has said. Wow. I love her confidence.\n\nDespite NBC\'s storyline, this girl isn\'t a villain, just a young girl that can do amazing things under immense pressure.\n\nI mean, look! She can smile:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4021\" title=\"700\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nShe just chooses not to. (And would probably cut me if we were Facebook friends and I dared tag that photo.)\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4031\" title=\"f3wAt\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"604\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>What are you DOING? Untag me IMMEDIATELY!</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In my dream, I asked Aliya for her advice. (You can tell this is a dream because I\'m asking a teenager for advice.) (Also, because we were speaking in English. I\'m sure she speaks at least some English, because learning English isn\'t particularly special or exotic, but I just get the feeling that she\'s the type to pretend to not speak English just to mess with you. I think you know what I mean.)</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, I wanted to know how to do eye makeup like her. She took a look at my weak attempt at eye makeup and laughed in my face. Apparently, I\'m completely hopeless. No surprise there.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I asked her to teach me how to give bitchface. Because, by God, she is the Queen and I\'m in desperate need of that skill.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Those of you that know me know that I\'m a very <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/03/on-mr-rogers-and-honesty-and-kindness-everyday-tip-74.html\">nice person</a> (and <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2011/03/it-takes-strength-to-be-kind.html\">very proud of that fact</a>) and that it shows on my face. I can\'t help it! My usual expression is that of a content puppy.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4040\" title=\"smile puppy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"277\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Trust me, I\'m not complaining. Most of the time, my happy demeanor and face serve me well. People tend to like happy people, and when you look nice, people put their guard down. That means that they\'re usually nice to you even if it is against their nature, and sometimes, it means that people have low expectations of you -- like that you can\'t possibly be smart or competitive because you\'re obviously nice and the two things are like oil and water. Of course that\'s not true, so I sometimes take advantage of that.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What? Listen, I\'m nice, but I\'m certainly not stupid. I can appreciate the power of good bitchface. It can come in so handy in everyday life; like when you don\'t want crazy people sitting next to you on the T or someone is boring you with yet another story about their <em>ahmazing</em> toddler or whatever.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I guess I must have won her over with my nice face (score!) because Dream Aliya told me the secret three step process of good bitchface.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(DREAM) ALIYA MUSTAFINA\'S SECRETS TO PROPER BITCHFACE. (IN MY DREAMS)</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, you think of hateful things. (I thought of driving on the Mass Pike. Massholes!)</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4028\" title=\"tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" />\n\nThen, you relax your face completely, while keeping the hateful thoughts in your soul. (Don\'t worry, it\'ll show through your eyes.)\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4043\" title=\"ah4X8\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ah4X8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"> The result? Eyes that cut glass, and not one hint of whether you are happy or angry or indifferent. Except for those eyes. Which will terrify whoever crosses their path.</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4025\" title=\"tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" />\n\nGod, I can\'t help it. I adore her magnificent bitchface. YOU GO ON GIRL.\n\n(This is so pathetic. You know how <em>Yesterday</em> came to Paul McCartney in a dream? I waste my brain\'s most creative powers on eye makeup and bitchface. This is why I\'m not supremely successful, friends. Don\'t waste your dreams!)','I had a dream about bitchface','','inherit','open','open','','3993-revision-45','','','2012-08-07 14:03:02','2012-08-07 18:03:02','',3993,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/3993-revision-45.html',0,'revision','',0),(4054,1,'2012-08-07 14:06:50','2012-08-07 18:06:50','We\'ve just returned from our summer trip to sunny Miami. Now, you might wonder why on earth we\'d head to the sweltering hole that is South Florida in the summer,  but please don\'t worry -- we made it just in time for the Olympics, which means that we spent a lot of time indoors watching incredibly fit people do incredibly fast things. While we sat on the couch and ate ice cream.\n\n(Aside: I can\'t possibly be the only person who felt super fit after marathon sessions of athlete ogling? I could have sworn that my abs were tightening as I watched hours and hours of swimming and volleyball. I was starting to convince myself that this was really happening -- I even have a name for it, Bystander Fitness ™, which is kind of brilliant, right? -- but now we\'re on week two and I\'m pretty sure the bigger numbers on the scale are less due to muscle mass and more to increased hummus and chip consumption. While sitting on the couch. But it was nice while it lasted. Anyway!)\n\nSo I watched so much NBC in the last few days that I\'ve started to dream about the Olympics. To my complete surprise I wasn\'t dreaming of our boys in the American Swimming team:\n\n[slideshow id=2]\n\n(Seriously, what is wrong with me?)\n\nInstead I dreamt of a gymnast. And it wasn\'t even our hometown girl, Aly Raisman, or her smiling, adorable Fabulous Five teammates.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/womens-gold.jpg.CROP_.rectangle3-large.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4050\" title=\"womens-gold.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/womens-gold.jpg.CROP_.rectangle3-large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"346\" /></a>\n\nI probably didn\'t dream of them because you KNOW I\'ll be there when our small town (did I mention I live mere steps from her high school? *cough cough*) throws a parade or some other wholesome event to celebrate our very own gold medalist. From right here, in small town MA.\n\nSo there\'s no need to dream, maybe?\n\nInstead, I dreamt of the other Aly --  fierce Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina and her wide set eyes.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4022\" title=\"tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo copy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m83er5scSz1qm0fgo-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nMore specifically I dreamt that Aliya and I went out for drinks (I don\'t remember what -- maybe milkshakes, since she\'s probably like 15 years old?)* and we had a fabulous time. Hey, this is a dream, so it could happen.\n\n*(Then again she\'s Russian, so maybe vodka shots?)\n\nIn my dream, Aliya was lovely. We chatted, though not about the swimmers (to my dismay) because of course she\'s too serious for that. <a href=\"http://www.aliyamustafina.ru/english/fearlesseyes.html\">\"The <em>boys</em> in my life <em>will</em> appear when they do,\"</a> she has said. Wow. I love her confidence. If I had a teen daughter that is <em>exactly</em> what I would want her to say.\n\nDespite NBC\'s storyline, this girl isn\'t a villain, just a young girl that can do amazing things under immense pressure.\n\nI mean, look! She can smile:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4021\" title=\"700\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nShe just chooses not to. (And would probably cut me if we were Facebook friends and I dared tag that photo.)\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4031\" title=\"f3wAt\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/f3wAt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"604\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>What are you DOING? You are UNFRIENDED IMMEDIATELY!</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In my dream, I asked Aliya for her advice.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(You can tell this is a dream because I\'m asking a teenager for advice.)</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Also, because we were speaking in English. I\'m sure she speaks at least some English, because learning English isn\'t particularly special or exotic, but I just get the feeling that she\'s the type to pretend to not speak English just to mess with you. I think you know what I mean.)</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, I wanted to know how to do eye makeup like her. She took a look at my weak attempt at eye makeup and laughed in my face. Apparently, I\'m completely hopeless. No surprise there.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I also asked her to teach me how to give bitchface. Because, by God, she is the Queen and I\'m in desperate need of that skill.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Those of you that know me know that I\'m a very <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/03/on-mr-rogers-and-honesty-and-kindness-everyday-tip-74.html\">nice person</a> (and <a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/2011/03/it-takes-strength-to-be-kind.html\">very proud of that fact</a>) and that it shows on my face. I can\'t help it! My usual expression is that of a content puppy.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4040\" title=\"smile puppy\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smile-puppy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"277\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Trust me, I\'m not complaining. Most of the time, my happy demeanor and face serve me well. People tend to like happy people, and when you look nice, people put their guard down. That means that they\'re usually nice to you even if it is against their nature, and sometimes, it means that people have low expectations of you -- like that you can\'t possibly be smart or competitive because you\'re obviously nice and the two things are like oil and water. Of course that\'s not true, so I sometimes take advantage of that.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What? Listen, I\'m nice, but I\'m certainly not stupid. I can appreciate the power of good bitchface. It can come in so handy in everyday life; like when you don\'t want crazy people sitting next to you on the T or someone is boring you with yet another story about their <em>ahmazing</em> toddler or whatever.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I guess I must have won her over with my nice face (score!) because Dream Aliya told me the secret three step process of good bitchface.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(DREAM) ALIYA MUSTAFINA\'S SECRETS TO PROPER BITCHFACE. (IN MY DREAMS)</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, you think of hateful things. (I thought of driving on the Mass Pike. Massholes!)</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4028\" title=\"tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m8cr26Xj151rxga3jo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" />\n\nThen, you relax your face completely, while keeping the hateful thoughts in your soul. (Don\'t worry, it\'ll still show through your eyes. Like your hips, they don\'t lie.)\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4043\" title=\"ah4X8\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ah4X8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"> The result? Eyes that cut glass, and not one hint of whether you are happy or angry or indifferent. Except for those eyes. Which will terrify whoever crosses their path.</p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4025\" title=\"tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_m85qj9L7c11qailtxo1_500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" />\n\nGod, I can\'t help it. I adore her magnificent bitchface. YOU GO ON GIRL.\n\n(This is so pathetic. You know how <em>Yesterday</em> came to Paul McCartney in a dream? I waste my brain\'s most creative powers on eye makeup and bitchface. This is why I\'m not supremely successful, friends. Don\'t waste your dreams!)','I had a dream about bitchface','','inherit','open','open','','3993-revision-46','','','2012-08-07 14:06:50','2012-08-07 18:06:50','',3993,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/3993-revision-46.html',0,'revision','',0),(4055,1,'2012-08-08 10:56:24','2012-08-08 14:56:24','<strong>UPDATED ON 8/9/12: A big huge thank you for your comments yesterday! Your comments on this post alone are worth over $10,000 -- and will help over 500 children get the vaccines they need. But Blogust is just beginning -- <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/\">check out the main Blogust page every day in August</a> to find which blog is hosting fundraising comments for the day. You can comment on every blog that\'s participating on the relay, and every comment left every day in August is worth $20. Our goal to raise $200, 000 by the end of the month is on track. THANK YOU.</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>{Psst! Today\'s host is none other than Catherine Connors of <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/2012/08/we-are-vast-and-we-contain-multitudes/\">HerBadMother.com</a> -- please go comment on her post and let\'s keep the relay going!}</strong>\r\n\r\n<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></span></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post and spreading the word you can make a real difference.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Thanks to our sponsors EVERY COMMENT is worth $20 per comment up to a maximum of $200,000 to vaccinate 10,000 children. THAT\'S RIGHT: $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. And yes, 10,000 comments -- including yours! Let\'s do it!</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August,</a> are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there! Read on to see how your comments so far have inspired and additional $170,000 donation: </strong> </em>\r\n\r\nOFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION\r\n<blockquote>Thanks to you - and the incredible response to Blogust 2012 - <strong>you\'ve inspired an additional donor to make a generous pledge of $170,000</strong> to this amazing blog relay and what it can achieve this month.\r\n\r\nIf we all reach this target, combined with the initial $30,000, we will be providing lifesaving vaccines to help protect 10,000 children in developing countries against some of the deadliest diseases.\r\n\r\nYour comments count.  And your donations, large and small, and the actions of the whole community, including our dear friend Anne Geddes, have helped inspire this amazing response.\r\n\r\nFor every comment made as part of Blogust 2012, $20 will be donated to Shot@Life to help provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries up to the additional $170,000 contribution made possible by this generous gift. <strong>We need your help to reach this goal of protecting 10,000 kids.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis response is an amazing tribute to you.  While we were already inspired when you helped us reach our initial goal of $30,000, we are equally as inspired knowing you will help us reach this new goal.  Keep posting.  Keep donating.  Tell your friends about Blogust.  Our actions together can make a huge impact....and all of it together tells an extraordinary story of celebrating each other and helping create a better world.</blockquote>\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connors\' turn. Be sure to visit <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">Her Bad Mother</a> and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','10,000 comments for 10,000 children: Blogust 2012!','','publish','open','open','','4055','','\nhttp://herbadmother.com/2012/08/we-are-vast-and-we-contain-multitudes/','2012-08-09 12:57:50','2012-08-09 16:57:50','',0,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/?p=4055',0,'post','',620),(4057,1,'2012-08-07 14:55:45','2012-08-07 18:55:45','This post is my contribution to <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a>, Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.\r\n\r\nShot@Life is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from our communities that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-2','','','2012-08-07 14:55:45','2012-08-07 18:55:45','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-2.html',0,'revision','',0),(4056,1,'2012-08-07 14:54:47','2012-08-07 18:54:47','This post is my contribution to <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a>, Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nShot@Life is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\nWoeverWorld-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from our communities that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://Crowdrise.com/\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. [<strong>optional add in if you want</strong> -- If you want to contribute $20 to help save a child\'s life, join Anne Geddes\' Blogust matching Crowdrise for Shot@Life here (link coming) ]\n\nThis post is my contribution to the UN Foundation’s <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Shot @ Life Blog Relay</a>. Thirty bloggers are participating in this relay and I’m #6. The first 1,500 comments left on the previous five relay posts have already raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! $20 is what it costs for one child to receive four life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds. Even though the initial donation has already been reached, new fundraising efforts have been started (<a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\" target=\"_blank\">like by Anne Geddes</a>) to continue to match each comment with $20.','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision','','','2012-08-07 14:54:47','2012-08-07 18:54:47','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),(4058,1,'2012-08-07 14:56:53','2012-08-07 18:56:53','This post is my contribution to , <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from our communities that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-3','','','2012-08-07 14:56:53','2012-08-07 18:56:53','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-3.html',0,'revision','',0),(4059,1,'2012-08-07 14:57:14','2012-08-07 18:57:14','This post is my contribution to Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from our communities that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-4','','','2012-08-07 14:57:14','2012-08-07 18:57:14','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-4.html',0,'revision','',0),(4060,1,'2012-08-07 14:58:10','2012-08-07 18:58:10','<blockquote>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!\r\n\r\n$20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from our communities that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-5','','','2012-08-07 14:58:10','2012-08-07 18:58:10','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-5.html',0,'revision','',0),(4061,1,'2012-08-07 15:00:43','2012-08-07 19:00:43','','Blogust_email_template','','inherit','open','open','','blogust_email_template','','','2012-08-07 15:00:43','2012-08-07 19:00:43','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4062,1,'2012-08-07 15:01:13','2012-08-07 19:01:13','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n<blockquote>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!\n\n$20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from our communities that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em></blockquote>\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-6','','','2012-08-07 15:01:13','2012-08-07 19:01:13','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(4063,1,'2012-08-07 15:01:17','2012-08-07 19:01:17','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n<blockquote>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!\r\n\r\n$20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from our communities that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-7','','','2012-08-07 15:01:17','2012-08-07 19:01:17','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(4064,1,'2012-08-07 15:04:46','2012-08-07 19:04:46','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n<blockquote>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Did you know that I grew up in a developing country? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that a $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></span></a><em>. </em></span>\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!\n\nThe initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSo PLEASE. Leave a comment, make a donation, spread the word. It makes a real difference.</blockquote>\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-8','','','2012-08-07 15:04:46','2012-08-07 19:04:46','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-8.html',0,'revision','',0),(4065,1,'2012-08-07 15:05:03','2012-08-07 19:05:03','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n<blockquote>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Did you know that I grew up in a developing country? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></span></a><em>. </em></span>\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!\r\n\r\nThe initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">So PLEASE, leave a comment, make a donation, spread the word. It makes a real difference. </span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-9','','','2012-08-07 15:05:03','2012-08-07 19:05:03','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-9.html',0,'revision','',0),(4066,1,'2012-08-07 15:33:43','2012-08-07 19:33:43','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-10','','','2012-08-07 15:33:43','2012-08-07 19:33:43','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-10.html',0,'revision','',0),(4067,1,'2012-08-07 15:34:50','2012-08-07 19:34:50','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you.','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-11','','','2012-08-07 15:34:50','2012-08-07 19:34:50','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-11.html',0,'revision','',0),(4068,1,'2012-08-07 15:37:12','2012-08-07 19:37:12','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-12','','','2012-08-07 15:37:12','2012-08-07 19:37:12','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-12.html',0,'revision','',0),(4069,1,'2012-08-07 15:37:40','2012-08-07 19:37:40','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-13','','','2012-08-07 15:37:40','2012-08-07 19:37:40','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-13.html',0,'revision','',0),(4070,1,'2012-08-07 15:40:43','2012-08-07 19:40:43','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see. I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-14','','','2012-08-07 15:40:43','2012-08-07 19:40:43','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-14.html',0,'revision','',0),(4071,1,'2012-08-07 15:41:12','2012-08-07 19:41:12','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see. I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-15','','','2012-08-07 15:41:12','2012-08-07 19:41:12','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-15.html',0,'revision','',0),(4072,1,'2012-08-07 15:42:49','2012-08-07 19:42:49','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see. I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-16','','','2012-08-07 15:42:49','2012-08-07 19:42:49','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-16.html',0,'revision','',0),(4073,1,'2012-08-07 15:44:02','2012-08-07 19:44:02','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see. I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-17','','','2012-08-07 15:44:02','2012-08-07 19:44:02','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-17.html',0,'revision','',0),(4074,1,'2012-08-07 15:45:34','2012-08-07 19:45:34','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see. I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-18','','','2012-08-07 15:45:34','2012-08-07 19:45:34','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-18.html',0,'revision','',0),(4075,1,'2012-08-07 17:16:32','2012-08-07 21:16:32','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see. I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-19','','','2012-08-07 17:16:32','2012-08-07 21:16:32','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-19.html',0,'revision','',0),(4076,1,'2012-08-07 19:19:18','2012-08-07 23:19:18','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see. I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-20','','','2012-08-07 19:19:18','2012-08-07 23:19:18','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-20.html',0,'revision','',0),(4077,1,'2012-08-07 23:29:09','2012-08-08 03:29:09','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, but my favorite commenter of all is the\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-21','','','2012-08-07 23:29:09','2012-08-08 03:29:09','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-21.html',0,'revision','',0),(4078,1,'2012-08-07 23:30:18','2012-08-08 03:30:18','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, but my favorite commenter of all what I call the unknown commenter.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-22','','','2012-08-07 23:30:18','2012-08-08 03:30:18','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-22.html',0,'revision','',0),(4079,1,'2012-08-07 23:33:59','2012-08-08 03:33:59','<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>“Courage doesn\'t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet\nvoice at the end of the day saying, \"I will try again tomorrow.”\n\n--Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey</blockquote>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div>\n\nI really needed to hear this today. What about you?\n\n</div>','Try again. Everyday Tip #67','','inherit','open','open','','3219-autosave','','','2012-08-07 23:33:59','2012-08-08 03:33:59','',3219,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/3219-autosave.html',0,'revision','',0),(4080,1,'2012-08-07 23:34:42','2012-08-08 03:34:42','','Try again. Everyday Tip  67','','inherit','open','open','','try-again-everyday-tip-67-2','','','2012-08-07 23:34:42','2012-08-08 03:34:42','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip-67.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4081,1,'2012-08-07 23:32:23','2012-08-08 03:32:23','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, but my favorite commenter of all what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-23','','','2012-08-07 23:32:23','2012-08-08 03:32:23','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-23.html',0,'revision','',0),(4086,1,'2012-08-07 23:41:44','2012-08-08 03:41:44','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, but my favorite commenter of all what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-27','','','2012-08-07 23:41:44','2012-08-08 03:41:44','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-27.html',0,'revision','',0),(4082,1,'2012-08-07 23:34:57','2012-08-08 03:34:57','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip-67.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4080\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip  67\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip-67-300x52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"52\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, but my favorite commenter of all what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-24','','','2012-08-07 23:34:57','2012-08-08 03:34:57','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-24.html',0,'revision','',0),(4083,1,'2012-08-07 23:36:01','2012-08-08 03:36:01','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip-67.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4080\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip  67\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip-67-300x52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"52\" /></a>\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, but my favorite commenter of all what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-25','','','2012-08-07 23:36:01','2012-08-08 03:36:01','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-25.html',0,'revision','',0),(4084,1,'2012-08-07 23:37:40','2012-08-08 03:37:40','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip-67.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4080\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip  67\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip-67-300x52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"52\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, but my favorite commenter of all what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-26','','','2012-08-07 23:37:40','2012-08-08 03:37:40','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-26.html',0,'revision','',0),(4085,1,'2012-08-07 23:40:36','2012-08-08 03:40:36','','Comment1','','inherit','open','open','','comment1','','','2012-08-07 23:40:36','2012-08-08 03:40:36','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4087,1,'2012-08-07 23:46:06','2012-08-08 03:46:06','','Comment2','','inherit','open','open','','comment2','','','2012-08-07 23:46:06','2012-08-08 03:46:06','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4088,1,'2012-08-07 23:45:07','2012-08-08 03:45:07','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, but my favorite commenter of all what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-28','','','2012-08-07 23:45:07','2012-08-08 03:45:07','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-28.html',0,'revision','',0),(4089,1,'2012-08-07 23:46:19','2012-08-08 03:46:19','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, but my favorite commenter of all what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-29','','','2012-08-07 23:46:19','2012-08-08 03:46:19','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-29.html',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `edt_posts` VALUES (4090,1,'2012-08-07 23:48:26','2012-08-08 03:48:26','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\n\nSo when they stumble upon your blog and let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters but my favorite commenter of all what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-30','','','2012-08-07 23:48:26','2012-08-08 03:48:26','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-30.html',0,'revision','',0),(4091,1,'2012-08-07 23:49:20','2012-08-08 03:49:20','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\r\n\r\nSo when they stumble upon your blog and let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact I couldn\'t think of one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I feel like  I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-31','','','2012-08-07 23:49:20','2012-08-08 03:49:20','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-31.html',0,'revision','',0),(4146,1,'2012-08-08 11:05:01','2012-08-08 15:05:01','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post and spreading the word you can make a real difference.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Thanks to our sponsors EVERY COMMENT is worth $20 per comment up to a maximum of $200,000 to vaccinate 10,000 children. THAT\'S RIGHT: $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. And yes, 10,000 comments -- including yours! Let\'s do it!</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> </em>\r\n\r\nThanks to you - and the incredible response to Blogust 2012 - <strong>you\'ve inspired an additional donor to make a generous pledge of $170,000</strong> to this amazing blog relay and what it can achieve this month.\r\n\r\nIf we all reach this target, combined with the initial $30,000, we will be providing lifesaving vaccines to help protect 10,000 children in developing countries against some of the deadliest diseases.\r\n\r\nYour comments count.  And your donations, large and small, and the actions of the whole community, including our dear friend Anne Geddes, have helped inspire this amazing response.\r\n\r\nFor every comment made as part of Blogust 2012, $20 will be donated to Shot@Life to help provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries up to the additional $170,000 contribution made possible by this generous gift. <strong>We need your help to reach this goal of protecting 10,000 kids.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis response is an amazing tribute to you.  While we were already inspired when you helped us reach our initial goal of $30,000, we are equally as inspired knowing you will help us reach this new goal.  Keep posting.  Keep donating.  Tell your friends about Blogust.  Our actions together can make a huge impact....and all of it together tells an extraordinary story of celebrating each other and helping create a better world.\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">Her Bad Mother</a> and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','10,000 comments for 10,000 children: Blogust 2012!','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-76','','','2012-08-08 11:05:01','2012-08-08 15:05:01','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-76.html',0,'revision','',0),(4092,1,'2012-08-07 23:54:27','2012-08-08 03:54:27','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help!</em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBlog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-32','','','2012-08-07 23:54:27','2012-08-08 03:54:27','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-32.html',0,'revision','',0),(4093,1,'2012-08-07 23:54:30','2012-08-08 03:54:30','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help!</em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBlog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-33','','','2012-08-07 23:54:30','2012-08-08 03:54:30','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-33.html',0,'revision','',0),(4094,1,'2012-08-07 23:56:34','2012-08-08 03:56:34','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help!</em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBlog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\n\nBecause, why should you take the time to let this stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return. And yet,','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-34','','','2012-08-07 23:56:34','2012-08-08 03:56:34','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-34.html',0,'revision','',0),(4095,1,'2012-08-07 23:57:23','2012-08-08 03:57:23','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help!</em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBlog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, why should you take the time to let this stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return. And yet, you write.','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-35','','','2012-08-07 23:57:23','2012-08-08 03:57:23','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-35.html',0,'revision','',0),(4096,1,'2012-08-08 00:01:31','2012-08-08 04:01:31','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help!</em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBlog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let this stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-36','','','2012-08-08 00:01:31','2012-08-08 04:01:31','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-36.html',0,'revision','',0),(4097,1,'2012-08-08 00:02:22','2012-08-08 04:02:22','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help!</em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBlog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let this stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n(Especially if you leave a message today!)','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-37','','','2012-08-08 00:02:22','2012-08-08 04:02:22','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-37.html',0,'revision','',0),(4098,1,'2012-08-08 00:14:27','2012-08-08 04:14:27','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help!</em>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\n\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nWriting can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word. Every comment you leave today (and tomorrow, and the day after that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-38','','','2012-08-08 00:14:27','2012-08-08 04:14:27','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-38.html',0,'revision','',0),(4099,1,'2012-08-08 00:15:18','2012-08-08 04:15:18','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help!</em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-39','','','2012-08-08 00:15:18','2012-08-08 04:15:18','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-39.html',0,'revision','',0),(4101,1,'2012-08-08 00:19:05','2012-08-08 04:19:05','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\n\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nWriting can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-41','','','2012-08-08 00:19:05','2012-08-08 04:19:05','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-41.html',0,'revision','',0),(4100,1,'2012-08-08 00:15:22','2012-08-08 04:15:22','<p><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a></p>\r\n<p><em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em></p>\r\n<p><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help!</em></p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</p>\r\n<p>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</p>\r\n<p><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em></p>\r\n<p>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</p></blockquote>\r\n<p><strong>So please leave a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong></p>\r\n<p>The theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.</p>\r\n<p>I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.</p>\r\n<p>But blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.</p>\r\n<p>Writing can be lonely.</p>\r\n<p>In fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>This is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say hello.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>Because, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.</p>\r\n<p>And yet, you write.</p>\r\n<p>You agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)</p>\r\n<p>And in the end, you communicate.</p>\r\n<p>That\'s what blogging is all about.</p>\r\n<p>So thank you -- to all the commenters out there.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong></p>\r\n<p><em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em></p>\r\n','In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-40','','','2012-08-08 00:15:22','2012-08-08 04:15:22','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-40.html',0,'revision','',0),(4102,1,'2012-08-08 00:19:59','2012-08-08 04:19:59','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-42','','','2012-08-08 00:19:59','2012-08-08 04:19:59','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-42.html',0,'revision','',0),(4103,1,'2012-08-08 00:20:04','2012-08-08 04:20:04','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blog Relay for Good.</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-43','','','2012-08-08 00:20:04','2012-08-08 04:20:04','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-43.html',0,'revision','',0),(4104,1,'2012-08-08 00:21:45','2012-08-08 04:21:45','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">making a donation if you can</span></a>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-44','','','2012-08-08 00:21:45','2012-08-08 04:21:45','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-44.html',0,'revision','',0),(4105,1,'2012-08-08 00:21:45','2012-08-08 04:21:45','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">making a donation if you can</span></a>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-45','','','2012-08-08 00:21:45','2012-08-08 04:21:45','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-45.html',0,'revision','',0),(4111,1,'2012-08-08 00:27:33','2012-08-08 04:27:33','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">making a donation if you can</span></a>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-51','','','2012-08-08 00:27:33','2012-08-08 04:27:33','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-51.html',0,'revision','',0),(4106,1,'2012-08-08 00:22:07','2012-08-08 04:22:07','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">making a donation if you can</span></a>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-46','','','2012-08-08 00:22:07','2012-08-08 04:22:07','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-46.html',0,'revision','',0),(4107,1,'2012-08-08 00:22:09','2012-08-08 04:22:09','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">making a donation if you can</span></a>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-47','','','2012-08-08 00:22:09','2012-08-08 04:22:09','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-47.html',0,'revision','',0),(4108,1,'2012-08-08 00:23:00','2012-08-08 04:23:00','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">making a donation if you can</span></a>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-48','','','2012-08-08 00:23:00','2012-08-08 04:23:00','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-48.html',0,'revision','',0),(4109,1,'2012-08-08 00:23:00','2012-08-08 04:23:00','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">making a donation if you can</span></a>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-49','','','2012-08-08 00:23:00','2012-08-08 04:23:00','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-49.html',0,'revision','',0),(4110,1,'2012-08-08 00:23:45','2012-08-08 04:23:45','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">making a donation if you can</span></a>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-50','','','2012-08-08 00:23:45','2012-08-08 04:23:45','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-50.html',0,'revision','',0),(4112,1,'2012-08-08 00:27:34','2012-08-08 04:27:34','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">making a donation if you can</span></a>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-52','','','2012-08-08 00:27:34','2012-08-08 04:27:34','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-52.html',0,'revision','',0),(4116,1,'2012-08-08 00:39:51','2012-08-08 04:39:51','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nWriting can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-55','','','2012-08-08 00:39:51','2012-08-08 04:39:51','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-55.html',0,'revision','',0),(4113,1,'2012-08-08 00:28:25','2012-08-08 04:28:25','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-53','','','2012-08-08 00:28:25','2012-08-08 04:28:25','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-53.html',0,'revision','',0),(4114,1,'2012-08-08 00:28:29','2012-08-08 04:28:29','<p><em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em></p>\r\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>The theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.</p>\r\n<p>I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.</p>\r\n<p>But blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.</p>\r\n<p>Writing can be lonely.</p>\r\n<p>In fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>This is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>Because, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.</p>\r\n<p>And yet, you write.</p>\r\n<p>You agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)</p>\r\n<p>And in the end, you communicate.</p>\r\n<p>That\'s what blogging is all about.</p>\r\n<p>So thank you -- to all the commenters out there.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong></p>\r\n<p><em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em></p>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em></p>\r\n<p><em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em></p>\r\n<p><em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em></p>\r\n','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-54','','','2012-08-08 00:28:29','2012-08-08 04:28:29','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-54.html',0,'revision','',0),(4115,1,'2012-08-08 00:28:29','2012-08-08 04:28:29','<p><em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em></p>\r\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>The theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, comment on.</p>\r\n<p>I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.</p>\r\n<p>But blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.</p>\r\n<p>Writing can be lonely.</p>\r\n<p>In fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>This is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>Because, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.</p>\r\n<p>And yet, you write.</p>\r\n<p>You agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)</p>\r\n<p>And in the end, you communicate.</p>\r\n<p>That\'s what blogging is all about.</p>\r\n<p>So thank you -- to all the commenters out there.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong></p>\r\n<p><em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em></p>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em></p>\r\n<p><em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em></p>\r\n<p><em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em></p>\r\n','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-54','','','2012-08-08 00:28:29','2012-08-08 04:28:29','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-54.html',0,'revision','',0),(4125,1,'2012-08-08 08:58:04','2012-08-08 12:58:04','','Comment12','','inherit','open','open','','comment12','','','2012-08-08 08:58:04','2012-08-08 12:58:04','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4117,1,'2012-08-08 08:44:36','2012-08-08 12:44:36','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Aly-Raisman.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4118\" title=\"Aly Raisman\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Aly-Raisman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"612\" /></a>\r\n\r\nCongratulations to Aly Raisman, Needham\'s hometown girl.\r\n\r\nIt\'s very strange to hear the girl that sells you cupcakes (and Raisman\'s high school classmate) and the guy that sells you birthday cards being interviewed on NPR.\r\n\r\nCan\'t wait for the parade!','She did it!','','publish','open','open','','she-did-it','','','2012-08-08 08:44:36','2012-08-08 12:44:36','',0,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/?p=4117',0,'post','',0),(4118,1,'2012-08-08 08:43:05','2012-08-08 12:43:05','','Aly Raisman','','inherit','open','open','','aly-raisman','','','2012-08-08 08:43:05','2012-08-08 12:43:05','',4117,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Aly-Raisman.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4119,1,'2012-08-08 08:44:19','2012-08-08 12:44:19','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Aly-Raisman.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4118\" title=\"Aly Raisman\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Aly-Raisman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"612\" /></a>\n\nCongratulations to Aly Raisman, Needham\'s hometown girl.\n\nIt\'s very strange to hear the girl that sells you cupcakes (and Raisman\'s high school classmate) and the guy that sells you birthday cards being interviewed on NPR.\n\n&nbsp;','She did it!','','inherit','open','open','','4117-revision','','','2012-08-08 08:44:19','2012-08-08 12:44:19','',4117,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4117-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),(4120,1,'2012-08-08 08:45:40','2012-08-08 12:45:40','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Aly-Raisman.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4118\" title=\"Aly Raisman\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Aly-Raisman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"612\" /></a>\n\nCongratulations to Aly Raisman, Needham\'s hometown girl.\n\nIt\'s very strange to hear the girl that sells you cupcakes (and Raisman\'s high school classmate) and the guy that sells you birthday cards being interviewed on NPR.\n\nCan\'t wait for the parade!','She did it!','','inherit','open','open','','4117-autosave','','','2012-08-08 08:45:40','2012-08-08 12:45:40','',4117,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4117-autosave.html',0,'revision','',0),(4121,1,'2012-08-08 00:41:51','2012-08-08 04:41:51','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nWriting can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\n\nSo they comment.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-56','','','2012-08-08 00:41:51','2012-08-08 04:41:51','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-56.html',0,'revision','',0),(4122,1,'2012-08-08 08:50:47','2012-08-08 12:50:47','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at our typewriters or scribbling in notebooks. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nWriting can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I have to forget that other people are going to read my words or I freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words. And when you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the unknown commenter: The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nSo they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-57','','','2012-08-08 08:50:47','2012-08-08 12:50:47','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-57.html',0,'revision','',0),(4124,1,'2012-08-08 08:57:43','2012-08-08 12:57:43','','Comment11','','inherit','open','open','','comment11','','','2012-08-08 08:57:43','2012-08-08 12:57:43','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4123,1,'2012-08-08 08:54:22','2012-08-08 12:54:22','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" title=\"Comment1\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"101\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"Comment2\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"115\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-58','','','2012-08-08 08:54:22','2012-08-08 12:54:22','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-58.html',0,'revision','',0),(4126,1,'2012-08-08 08:58:56','2012-08-08 12:58:56','','Try again. Everyday Tip12','','inherit','open','open','','try-again-everyday-tip12','','','2012-08-08 08:58:56','2012-08-08 12:58:56','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip12-.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4127,1,'2012-08-08 08:58:26','2012-08-08 12:58:26','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\n\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\n\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\n\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\n\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-59','','','2012-08-08 08:58:26','2012-08-08 12:58:26','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-59.html',0,'revision','',0),(4129,1,'2012-08-08 09:00:29','2012-08-08 13:00:29','','Try again. Everyday Tip13','','inherit','open','open','','try-again-everyday-tip13','','','2012-08-08 09:00:29','2012-08-08 13:00:29','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4128,1,'2012-08-08 08:59:11','2012-08-08 12:59:11','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip12-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4126\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip12\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip12-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"98\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-60','','','2012-08-08 08:59:11','2012-08-08 12:59:11','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-60.html',0,'revision','',0),(4130,1,'2012-08-08 09:00:15','2012-08-08 13:00:15','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\n\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\n\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\n\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\n\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip12-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4126\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip12\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip12-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"98\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-61','','','2012-08-08 09:00:15','2012-08-08 13:00:15','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-61.html',0,'revision','',0),(4134,1,'2012-08-08 09:02:48','2012-08-08 13:02:48','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\n\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\n\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\n\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\n\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-65','','','2012-08-08 09:02:48','2012-08-08 13:02:48','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-65.html',0,'revision','',0),(4133,1,'2012-08-08 09:01:31','2012-08-08 13:01:31','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-64','','','2012-08-08 09:01:31','2012-08-08 13:01:31','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-64.html',0,'revision','',0),(4131,1,'2012-08-08 09:00:37','2012-08-08 13:00:37','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip12-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4126\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip12\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip12-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"98\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-62','','','2012-08-08 09:00:37','2012-08-08 13:00:37','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-62.html',0,'revision','',0),(4132,1,'2012-08-08 09:00:37','2012-08-08 13:00:37','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip12-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4126\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip12\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip12-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"98\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-63','','','2012-08-08 09:00:37','2012-08-08 13:00:37','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-63.html',0,'revision','',0),(4135,1,'2012-08-08 09:20:37','2012-08-08 13:20:37','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\n\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\n\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\n\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\n\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-66','','','2012-08-08 09:20:37','2012-08-08 13:20:37','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-66.html',0,'revision','',0),(4137,1,'2012-08-08 09:44:58','2012-08-08 13:44:58','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\n\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\n\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\n\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\n\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\n\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-68','','','2012-08-08 09:44:58','2012-08-08 13:44:58','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-68.html',0,'revision','',0),(4136,1,'2012-08-08 09:43:54','2012-08-08 13:43:54','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Have I ever told you that I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"> grew up in a developing country</span></a></span>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</span></a></span>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">making a donation if you can</span></a></span>, and spreading the word you can make a real difference. </strong></span></span>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment! Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-67','','','2012-08-08 09:43:54','2012-08-08 13:43:54','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-67.html',0,'revision','',0),(4138,1,'2012-08-08 10:54:10','2012-08-08 14:54:10','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post and spreading the word you can make a real difference.</strong></span></span>\n\n<strong>Thanks to our sponsors EVERY COMMENT is worth $20 per comment up to a maximum of $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. THAT\'S RIGHT: $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. And yes, 10,000 comments! </strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\n\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\n\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\n\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\n\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> </em>\n\nThanks to you - and the incredible response to Blogust 2012 - you\'ve inspired an additional donor to make a <strong>generous pledge of $170,000</strong> to this amazing blog relay and what it can achieve this month.\n\nIf we all reach this target, combined with the initial $30,000, we will be providing lifesaving vaccines to help protect 10,000 children in developing countries against some of the deadliest diseases.\n\nYour comments count.  And your donations, large and small, and the actions of the whole community, including our dear friend Anne Geddes, have helped inspire this amazing response.\n\nFor every comment made as part of Blogust 2012, $20 will be donated to Shot@Life to help provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries up to the additional $170,000 contribution made possible by this generous gift. <strong>We need your help to reach this goal of protecting 10,000 kids.</strong>\n\nThis response is an amazing tribute to you.  While we were already inspired when you helped us reach our initial goal of $30,000, we are equally as inspired knowing you will help us reach this new goal.  Keep posting.  Keep donating.  Tell your friends about Blogust.  Our actions together can make a huge impact....and all of it together tells an extraordinary story of celebrating each other and helping create a better world.\n\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">Her Bad Mother</a> and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-69','','','2012-08-08 10:54:10','2012-08-08 14:54:10','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-69.html',0,'revision','',0),(4139,1,'2012-08-08 10:54:41','2012-08-08 14:54:41','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post and spreading the word you can make a real difference.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Thanks to our sponsors EVERY COMMENT is worth $20 per comment up to a maximum of $200,000 to vaccinate 10,000 children. THAT\'S RIGHT: $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. And yes, 10,000 comments -- including yours! Let\'s do it!</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> </em>\r\n\r\nThanks to you - and the incredible response to Blogust 2012 - you\'ve inspired an additional donor to make a <strong>generous pledge of $170,000</strong> to this amazing blog relay and what it can achieve this month.\r\n\r\nIf we all reach this target, combined with the initial $30,000, we will be providing lifesaving vaccines to help protect 10,000 children in developing countries against some of the deadliest diseases.\r\n\r\nYour comments count.  And your donations, large and small, and the actions of the whole community, including our dear friend Anne Geddes, have helped inspire this amazing response.\r\n\r\nFor every comment made as part of Blogust 2012, $20 will be donated to Shot@Life to help provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries up to the additional $170,000 contribution made possible by this generous gift. <strong>We need your help to reach this goal of protecting 10,000 kids.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis response is an amazing tribute to you.  While we were already inspired when you helped us reach our initial goal of $30,000, we are equally as inspired knowing you will help us reach this new goal.  Keep posting.  Keep donating.  Tell your friends about Blogust.  Our actions together can make a huge impact....and all of it together tells an extraordinary story of celebrating each other and helping create a better world.\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">Her Bad Mother</a> and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-70','','','2012-08-08 10:54:41','2012-08-08 14:54:41','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-70.html',0,'revision','',0),(4140,1,'2012-08-08 10:54:42','2012-08-08 14:54:42','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post and spreading the word you can make a real difference.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Thanks to our sponsors EVERY COMMENT is worth $20 per comment up to a maximum of $200,000 to vaccinate 10,000 children. THAT\'S RIGHT: $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. And yes, 10,000 comments -- including yours! Let\'s do it!</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> </em>\r\n\r\nThanks to you - and the incredible response to Blogust 2012 - you\'ve inspired an additional donor to make a <strong>generous pledge of $170,000</strong> to this amazing blog relay and what it can achieve this month.\r\n\r\nIf we all reach this target, combined with the initial $30,000, we will be providing lifesaving vaccines to help protect 10,000 children in developing countries against some of the deadliest diseases.\r\n\r\nYour comments count.  And your donations, large and small, and the actions of the whole community, including our dear friend Anne Geddes, have helped inspire this amazing response.\r\n\r\nFor every comment made as part of Blogust 2012, $20 will be donated to Shot@Life to help provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries up to the additional $170,000 contribution made possible by this generous gift. <strong>We need your help to reach this goal of protecting 10,000 kids.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis response is an amazing tribute to you.  While we were already inspired when you helped us reach our initial goal of $30,000, we are equally as inspired knowing you will help us reach this new goal.  Keep posting.  Keep donating.  Tell your friends about Blogust.  Our actions together can make a huge impact....and all of it together tells an extraordinary story of celebrating each other and helping create a better world.\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">Her Bad Mother</a> and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','Leave a comment, save a life: In praise of the unknown commenter','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-71','','','2012-08-08 10:54:42','2012-08-08 14:54:42','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-71.html',0,'revision','',0),(4141,1,'2012-08-08 10:55:28','2012-08-08 14:55:28','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post and spreading the word you can make a real difference.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Thanks to our sponsors EVERY COMMENT is worth $20 per comment up to a maximum of $200,000 to vaccinate 10,000 children. THAT\'S RIGHT: $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. And yes, 10,000 comments -- including yours! Let\'s do it!</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> </em>\r\n\r\nThanks to you - and the incredible response to Blogust 2012 - you\'ve inspired an additional donor to make a <strong>generous pledge of $170,000</strong> to this amazing blog relay and what it can achieve this month.\r\n\r\nIf we all reach this target, combined with the initial $30,000, we will be providing lifesaving vaccines to help protect 10,000 children in developing countries against some of the deadliest diseases.\r\n\r\nYour comments count.  And your donations, large and small, and the actions of the whole community, including our dear friend Anne Geddes, have helped inspire this amazing response.\r\n\r\nFor every comment made as part of Blogust 2012, $20 will be donated to Shot@Life to help provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries up to the additional $170,000 contribution made possible by this generous gift. <strong>We need your help to reach this goal of protecting 10,000 kids.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis response is an amazing tribute to you.  While we were already inspired when you helped us reach our initial goal of $30,000, we are equally as inspired knowing you will help us reach this new goal.  Keep posting.  Keep donating.  Tell your friends about Blogust.  Our actions together can make a huge impact....and all of it together tells an extraordinary story of celebrating each other and helping create a better world.\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">Her Bad Mother</a> and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','10,000 comments for 10,000 children: Blogust 2012!','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-72','','','2012-08-08 10:55:28','2012-08-08 14:55:28','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-72.html',0,'revision','',0),(4142,1,'2012-08-08 10:55:28','2012-08-08 14:55:28','<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post and spreading the word you can make a real difference.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Thanks to our sponsors EVERY COMMENT is worth $20 per comment up to a maximum of $200,000 to vaccinate 10,000 children. THAT\'S RIGHT: $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. And yes, 10,000 comments -- including yours! Let\'s do it!</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\r\n\r\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\r\n\r\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\r\n\r\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\r\n\r\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\r\n\r\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\r\n\r\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\r\n\r\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\r\n\r\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, you write.\r\n\r\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\r\n\r\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\r\n\r\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\r\n\r\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>During Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> </em>\r\n\r\nThanks to you - and the incredible response to Blogust 2012 - you\'ve inspired an additional donor to make a <strong>generous pledge of $170,000</strong> to this amazing blog relay and what it can achieve this month.\r\n\r\nIf we all reach this target, combined with the initial $30,000, we will be providing lifesaving vaccines to help protect 10,000 children in developing countries against some of the deadliest diseases.\r\n\r\nYour comments count.  And your donations, large and small, and the actions of the whole community, including our dear friend Anne Geddes, have helped inspire this amazing response.\r\n\r\nFor every comment made as part of Blogust 2012, $20 will be donated to Shot@Life to help provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries up to the additional $170,000 contribution made possible by this generous gift. <strong>We need your help to reach this goal of protecting 10,000 kids.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis response is an amazing tribute to you.  While we were already inspired when you helped us reach our initial goal of $30,000, we are equally as inspired knowing you will help us reach this new goal.  Keep posting.  Keep donating.  Tell your friends about Blogust.  Our actions together can make a huge impact....and all of it together tells an extraordinary story of celebrating each other and helping create a better world.\r\n\r\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connor\'s turn. Be sure to visit <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">Her Bad Mother</a> and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','10,000 comments for 10,000 children: Blogust 2012!','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-73','','','2012-08-08 10:55:28','2012-08-08 14:55:28','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-73.html',0,'revision','',0),(4143,1,'2012-08-09 12:56:08','2012-08-09 16:56:08','<strong>UPDATED ON 8/9/12: A big huge thank you for your comments yesterday! Your comments on this post alone are worth over $10,000 -- and will help over 500 children get the vaccines they need. But Blogust is just beginning -- <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/\">check out the main Blogust page every day in August</a> to find which blog is hosting fundraising comments for the day. You can comment on every blog that\'s participating on the relay, and every comment left every day in August is worth $20. Our goal to raise $200, 000 by the end of the month is in sTHANK YOU.</strong>\n\n<strong>{Psst! Today\'s host is none other than Catherine Connors of <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/2012/08/we-are-vast-and-we-contain-multitudes/\">HerBadMother.com</a> -- please go comment on her post and let\'s keep the relay going!}</strong>\n\n<em style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is my contribution to the Shot@Life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Blog Relay for Good.</span></a></span></em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em></em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By leaving a comment on this post and spreading the word you can make a real difference.</strong></span></span>\n\n<strong>Thanks to our sponsors EVERY COMMENT is worth $20 per comment up to a maximum of $200,000 to vaccinate 10,000 children. THAT\'S RIGHT: $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. And yes, 10,000 comments -- including yours! Let\'s do it!</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Have I ever told you that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of children. The need is real, and it\'s true that sometimes $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\">diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</a>. But we\'re trying to do something about it, and you can help! </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers love comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away alone at typewriters (uh, if we could find them) or scribbling in notebooks.\n\nInstead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see and hopefully, react to.\n\nDespite the stereotype, bloggers are connectors at heart.\n\nI know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. They like you already.\n\nBut blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while googling for cookie recipes. They don\'t owe you anything. So when they stumble upon your blog and something you wrote inspires them to let you know a little bit about themselves...well, it makes all the difference in the world.\n\nI don\'t know if you\'ve heard, but writing can be lonely.\n\nIn fact, for me it <em>has</em> to be lonely. I make myself forget that other people are going to read my words or I\'ll freeze up. It\'s only after I hit publish that I allow myself to think of who might read my words.\n\nWhen you let me know a bit about you, it makes me -- and everyone else who is reading -- feel less alone.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"Comment11\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Comment11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"125\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is why, when I was asked to highlight one comment or commenter that has made an impact, I couldn\'t think of just one person. I love it when my friends and family leave me a comment, of course, and I\'m eternally grateful for my small band of consistent commenters, but I want to honor what I call the \"unknown commenter\": The person who doesn\'t have a blog and still wants to say connect.\n\nThey read. They feel. So they comment.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"Try again. Everyday Tip13\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Try-again.-Everyday-Tip13-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"132\" /></a>\n\nBecause, honestly, why should you take the time to let a stranger know you liked their words? They don\'t even know who you are! You have nothing to sell, no blog for them to link to. You are getting nothing in return.\n\nAnd yet, you write.\n\nYou agree. You disagree. (Maybe you agree to disagree?)\n\nAnd in the end, you communicate.\n\nThat\'s what blogging is all about.\n\nSo thank you -- to all the commenters out there.\n\n<strong>CALL TO ACTION: Please leave a comment on this post -- it can be about anything, but if you don\'t know what to say, tell me about a person in your life that inspires you. </strong>\n\n<strong>I would be so grateful if you would spread the word about this post. Every comment you leave today (and <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">tomorrow</a>, and the day after and on and on that until the end of August, COUNTS.) </strong>\n\n<strong>Communication makes a real difference -- <strong>you can give a child a shot at life! </strong></strong>\n\n<em><strong>If you want to learn more about <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shot@Life</a>, you can find them on  <a href=\"https://twitter.com/shotatlife\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shotatlifecampaign\">Facebook</a>.</strong></em>\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\n<em><a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.</em>\n\n<em>During <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August,</a> are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY! The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!</em>\n\n<em><strong>However, we are not stopping there! Read on to see how your comments so far have inspired and additional $170,000 donation: </strong> </em>\n\nOFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION\n<blockquote>Thanks to you - and the incredible response to Blogust 2012 - <strong>you\'ve inspired an additional donor to make a generous pledge of $170,000</strong> to this amazing blog relay and what it can achieve this month.\n\nIf we all reach this target, combined with the initial $30,000, we will be providing lifesaving vaccines to help protect 10,000 children in developing countries against some of the deadliest diseases.\n\nYour comments count.  And your donations, large and small, and the actions of the whole community, including our dear friend Anne Geddes, have helped inspire this amazing response.\n\nFor every comment made as part of Blogust 2012, $20 will be donated to Shot@Life to help provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries up to the additional $170,000 contribution made possible by this generous gift. <strong>We need your help to reach this goal of protecting 10,000 kids.</strong>\n\nThis response is an amazing tribute to you.  While we were already inspired when you helped us reach our initial goal of $30,000, we are equally as inspired knowing you will help us reach this new goal.  Keep posting.  Keep donating.  Tell your friends about Blogust.  Our actions together can make a huge impact....and all of it together tells an extraordinary story of celebrating each other and helping create a better world.</blockquote>\n<em>Since this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connors\' turn. Be sure to visit <a href=\"http://herbadmother.com/\">Her Bad Mother</a> and leave a comment on her post tomorrow.</em>','10,000 comments for 10,000 children: Blogust 2012!','','inherit','open','open','','4055-autosave','','','2012-08-09 12:56:08','2012-08-09 16:56:08','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-autosave.html',0,'revision','',0),(4145,1,'2012-08-08 11:01:08','2012-08-08 15:01:08','<a href=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" title=\"Blogust_email_template\" src=\"http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Blogust_email_template.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"123\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that I<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic\"> grew up in a developing country</a>? I saw first hand what a difference vaccines make in the lives of real people. The need is there, and sometimes it is as simple as the fact that $20 is the difference between life and death. $20 is what it costs for one child to receive 4 life-saving vaccines: measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio; as hard as it is to believe, preventable <a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/learn/problem/\"><em>diseases like these take the life of a child every 20 seconds</em></a><em>. </em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div><em>**********</em></div>\r\nThis post is my contribution to the Shot@Life, <a href=\"http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/\">Blogust: Blog Relay for Good.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/\">Shot@Life</a> is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation that educates, connects and empowers the championing of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries.\r\n\r\nDuring Shot@Life\'s Blogust, 31 bloggers, one each day in August, are writing about people from our communities who have inspired us. The first 1,500 comments in the Blogust: Blog Relay for Good raised $30,000 for childhood vaccines ($20 per comment) in a matter of days! YAAAY!The initial donation commitment (<a href=\"http://shotatlife.org/blogust/blogust-frequently-asked-questions.html\">see FAQs</a>) is now complete and your comments have helped vaccinate <strong>1,500 children</strong> in developing countries!\r\n\r\n<strong>However, we are not stopping there!</strong> World-renowned photographer and Shot@Life Global Advocate <a href=\"http://annegeddes.com/\">Anne Geddes</a> has been so inspired by the response from the blogging world that she has kicked off a new fundraising initiative on <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">Crowdrise.com</a> to continue helping Shot@Life raise $20 per comment!<em> Our part is to keep commenting -- each new comment raises the target of the number of children we want to reach! You can learn more about it at <a href=\"http://Blogust.org/\">Blogust.org</a>. </em>\r\n\r\nSince this is a relay, Blogust participants are passing the baton to the each other. Yesterday, <a href=\"http://socialsavvymom.com/2012/08/07/blogust-the-gift-of-the-written-word/\">Tiany of Social Savvy Mom</a> wrote about the gift of comments and how the words of online friends helped her through a difficult time. Now she has passed the baton on to me, and tomorrow it\'s Catherine Connors\' turn. Be sure to visit Her Bad Mother tomorrow -- and comment all month long!</blockquote>\r\n<strong>So PLEASE, leave a comment, <a href=\"http://www.crowdrise.com/shotlifeblogust/fundraiser/unfoundation\">make a donation if you can</a>, and spread the word. It makes a real difference. </strong>\r\n\r\nThe theme of the Blogust relay is \"Comments Count.\" If you\'re a blogger I don\'t have to explain what this means to you. Bloggers live for comments -- if we didn\'t, we\'d be typing away at our typewriters. Instead, we\'re posting our words on the internet for the entire world to see. I know that most of you don\'t have blogs, but I\'m willing to bet that most of you are on Facebook. You know that feeling you get when someone \"likes\" pictures from your vacation? That\'s what a blog comment feels like...times 72 (give or take) because your friends on Facebook are, well, your friends. Blog readers? They come to be entertained, or perhaps they just find your blog randomly while google searching for recipes. They don\'t owe you anything.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','4055-revision-75','','','2012-08-08 11:01:08','2012-08-08 15:01:08','',4055,'http://www.everydaytreats.com/2012/08/4055-revision-75.html',0,'revision','',0),