Comments on: Welcome Special Guest Carrie Lofty!

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Htklfmwg — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:04:33 +0000

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By: Jeannie Ruesch

Jeannie Ruesch — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:14:11 +0000

Hi Carrie, Thanks so much for visiting us ! I’m late to the comments list, but I’m looking forward to reading your book.

And so true, carving out a place for yourself is essential to a mom’s well being. My hubby’s favorite saying, “If Mama Ain’t Happy, NO ONE is happy.”

By: Carrie Lofty

Carrie Lofty — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:44:58 +0000

Selective listening is a skill that all moms need to develop. I used to think it sounded callous, but now I realize how essential it is when they just get to chattering away. I wonder if men have the same thing when listening to women? Heh.

This was fun! Thanks for your great response to me, my book, and the hot dude on the cover. Not that I can claim credit for him….

By: Tiffany James

Tiffany James — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:57:25 +0000

Carrie,

Great post and congrats on your success!

I love this: “Carve out a place for yourself. Protect that place and nurture it.”

It reminds me of a quote I pulled out of a magazine years ago. It says: “Virginia Woolf said every woman needs a room of her own. She forgot to mention the room should have a door with a lock.”

Hehehe – I love that. I now have an office with a locking door but before I’d just use my highly developed sense of selective listening (I learned it from my kids) and go to my room within my brain! That’s the place I carved out…and I LOVE that place. :0)

Thanks for being here today!

Tiffany

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:27:15 +0000

Good to see you here, Carrie! I’m glad I’m not the only one to pose in the mirror for myself…

Dancing to tunes that get our feet moving and not those of our children is a metaphor, I think…they can learn from our rhythm (or lack of it) and our interpretaion of meter, melody and instruments.

Our art = not our children’s art, exactly, but they’ll take what we have to teach and make it theirs.

Best a mommy can hope for! Your girls are SET.

By: Helen Hardt

Helen Hardt — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:28:52 +0000

I have to agree with Renee and Viola — that cover is HOT! I’m looking forward to reading it. Thanks so much for being here, Carrie!

By: Viola Estrella

Viola Estrella — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:16:31 +0000

Hi Carrie,
Your book sounds great. Now I have to disco to the bookstore and get it. And how can I resist that cover?

By: Eliza Knight

Eliza Knight — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:56:45 +0000

Welcome Carrie!

I love that you dance disco and strike poses in the fogged up mirror (one of my favorite past times is making faces in the mirror, lol)

Great post!

By: Renee Knowles

Renee Knowles — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:30:21 +0000

Carrie,

Thanks so much for guesting at MW today! Great post! I have to say that I just finished What a Scoundrel Wants last week, and I adored it. You have a fabulous voice and a superb story-telling ability.

(Oh, and the cover is really hot too!)

Renee

By: Kris Kennedy

Kris Kennedy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:14:33 +0000

Carrie~
Great post. I need to get the music going in the morning to wake me up–good idea.

Vabnessa~ LOL on your adult stepsons wanting to putting police tape around the sex scenes in your book!

I like the idea of figuring out what’s ‘mine,’ without being territorial about it. Some things I do just for me, or perhaps the WAY I do them is just for me.

Thanks for coming by to the MamaWriters today!

~Kris