A Mom’s Life at NeenMachine.com was nominated for Best Parenting Blog in the Blogger’s Choice Awards. I am lagging behind in the voting, though and I could use a little help. If you could click on over and give me vote, I would appreciate it!

This website will be turning 1 year old in February and I am at a crossroads. When I ventured onto the net 11 months ago, I was a complete “newbie”. I knew nothing about website building and all the stuff that goes along with it. Having spent the last 11 years mastering the field of parenting, I decided to focus my site on parenting tips.

In the 11 months since I wrote my first post, I have not only been writing, but I have created more than one website. I have experimented with a lot of different platforms and business models but nothing inspired me. Even writing about parenting became tedious, my heart wasn’t in it.

I would like to say that at that point I had an “aha!” moment. But no, I am much to practical for that.

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I am a parent that loves all things Apple. So today, like so many other Apple devotees I watched and waited for Steve Jobs to deliver his keynote speech at MacWorld 2008.

For the uninitiated future Applers out there, MacWorld is the annual conference where Steve Jobs introduces all the Apple goodies that they have been working on all year long.

This year did not disappoint. The new innovation of the year - MacBook Air. This computer is billed as “the World’s Thinnest Laptop”. And thin it is. There is even a video showing how the computer fits into one of those standard sized manilla interoffice type envelopes. Weighing somewhere around three pounds this is a business traveller’s dream.

Of course, a few things had to be sacrificed to make such a thin computer. The glaring omission to me is the lack of a cd/dvd drive. Apple thinks of everything, and created a way for the MacBook Air to wirelessly connect to the dvd drive of another computer, but even though in theory it is ultra cool, in practice it is more inconvenient than just popping the disk into your own computer.

But then you wouldn’t own “the World’s Thinnest Laptop”, would you?

More Apple-ish thoughts and parenting tips for all you techy parents tomorrow.

This week’s version of Friday Giveaway Roundup is on Saturday because my internet was down yesterday.

• MomGadget is giving away an internet password organizer. Something we all need these days!
• Erika at Momsational has several goodies this week
  • win an Evenflo Triumph Advance Deluxe Convertible Car Seat
  • enter to win a Nikon CoolPix 5100 12.1 MP camera
  • and on this post you can enter to win a “boatload” of useful stuff for families.

Good luck to all!

Here’s a video you won’t want to miss. The kids will enjoy it, too. Louis Armstrong’s famous song, “What A Wonderful World” (what parent doesn’t love this song?), accompanied by an amazing show using hand shadows.

Thanks to Busymom for finding this wonderful, entertaining video.