Hello Joeprah Nation!This is the front of the house version of the Joeprah Newsletter. If you haven't signed up for the newsletter, you are late (by like a couple hours) receiving all this valuable information.
First, I would like to say that the month of May has some exciting things in store for those loyal readers of, what I consider, the best site ever--Joeprah.com.I will be releasing the first ever series of articles that are only going to be available to "Registered Users."In this series entitled "Confessions of a Stay at Home Dad" I will go back to the beginning and allow readers to find out the story behind Joeprah becoming a stay at home dad.This series has already been touted by critics (I am my own worst critic trust me) as groundbreaking, and better than reading the obituaries.So if you haven't registered you will soon find yourself on the outside looking in, I have forced your hand in a stroke of brilliance to register.
Second, in May I will be continuing to upgrade my site (if that's possible), I am going to start by allowing registered Joeprah members to share there Twitter Home Pages, Cre8Buzz Profile Pages and BlogCatalog user pages within their profiles.This information will also be viewable in the “interactive blogroll.”
The third major improvement for Joeprah.com members is the addition of a gallery tab in your profile page. This gallery tab will allow members to further customize their profiles by utilizing state of the art technology.This technology will give members the ability to upload multiple images into their profile page making it just that more awesome.
I have had some folks wondering why they should register at Joeprah.com and after spending some time reflecting on the question I have realized that there are literally at least a couple of reasons to register.Here are my favorites:
Greater Exposure:
How many blogs do you know of that announce when you have logged on and allow you to have a customizable profile?Just mine?I thought so.At Joeprah.com, when you log in, your profile ID is displayed on the left sidebar and each time someone looks at your profile you will notice your “hit counter” go up. These hits mean more people notice your website/blog and this means more possible visitors to your site.Win/win.Also, being a member gives you an opportunity to upload a profile image that is seen whenever you comment on an article.Your username is directly linked to your profile and if someone clicks your name from within an article's comments, once again your hit counter reflects this.
Fun:
At Joeprah.com we strive to give our users a fun experience.Yep, that’s all I got on that one.
Money:
Money? What? Yep, now at Joeprah.com, you will have an opportunity to turn your zealous love for Joeprah into cold hard cash.The Independence Day Contest at Joeprah.com allows registered members to compete for cash.Lots of it.Well, depending on what you consider lots. Let’s just say compete for a sum of money.The rules of the contest are as follows:
The Independence Day Contest at Joeprah.com:
Rules:
Any registered member with a website can participate.
The contest runs from May 5th to July 4th
The member with the greatest number of referrals to Joeprah.com will win the prize money
You can refer people to my website using your website only
You can use links in a post or in your sidebar
Clicking your own links is both reprehensible and in poor taste of the contest
I will track referrals via a state of the art traffic program
The prize for the website with the most referral traffic to Joeprah.com is $25.00 (USD), eh
If you plan on participating you should announce your intentions by responding to this newsletter stating your intention and listing your website address
It costs nothing to play
Cash will be paid on the week of July 4th either through PayPal or cashiers check to the winner.
I have created some badges that you can proudly display at your site to help get yourself some referral traffic or to just spread the love of Joeprah throughout the internet.Here are the badges with their accompanying code (you do not need to copy the images, just the code):
I will post bi-monthly updates for the participants which will give those involved in the contest an idea of where they stand. These updates will be done through a post which only registered users can have access to.
Thanks as always for all your support! So, go forth register, update your profile with your Twitter/Cre8Buzz/BlogCatalog info, take a chance at winning the $25 Independence Day Contest and subscribe to Joeprah to stay up to date with all my most recent posts.
I have updated my site, yet again, and this time I have added some exciting new content. I spend numurous hours a week on the net reading news headlines, articles and blogs. Whenever I find an article that provides useful parenting information, I will post this article within my site utilizing state of the art twenty first century technology. Simply go the 'Blog' section of Joeprah and click on the 'Parenting News' menu item and you will see articles I have found throughout the net that you can view without even leaving Joeprah. Why waste your time searching countless hours for fresh news when I can do it for you? Stay informed, stay up to date...stay at Joeprah.com.
I had to pass on a bit of news to my loyal readers about something very exciting in the land of Joeprah. It may not seem like a big deal to many, but for me--it's huge. I have a place on the Examiner.com as the National Fatherhood Examiner. What does that mean? It means I get to expose my smart ass self to a larger audience and as a bonus I get to champion common sense parenting for a large media outlet. I plan on delivering some articles from Joeprah on my National Fatherhood Blog, but I will also feature some articles there that can only be found there. This makes all those times that my wife was like, "Why can't you stop blogging tonight and watch (insert horrible chick flick title here, if you can't think of one Coyote Ugly will suffice) with me?" and I was all like, "Sorry, this is important." seem somewhat realistic. If you care to make my day/week/month/year, why don't you stop by my new home and say hi, you'll be glad you did.
This is such a big thing for me. My kids and how awesome they are have always been my source of validation, as a stay at home dad, but this type of recognition really makes a dude feel good.
So, by now, some of you have figured out there are some benefits to registering at Joeprah.com. Actually, the benefits are striking when you think about it. First,
Who is Joeprah? I am a stay at home dad to three daughters. I have an amazing wife and under the direction and encouragement of close friends I started this site over a year ago. You can follow me at The Examiner.com, Twitter, Stumble Upon and Cre8Buzz . Read more...
This past weekend, like I mentioned in my earlier post, was hectic with a slumber party among other planned activities we had, but I wanted to give folks a look at the slumber/birthday party festivities first hand. In this video I also feature another tool in my hair styling arsenal--the braid. Take a look and see how this dad braids hair and also take special note of my wife's jump roping skills in the middle portion of the video, you'll thank me for it.
I apologize, I have been absent for over 48 hours and my google reader is filled with blogs I need to read. I had a busy weekend. We hosted a birthday party/slumber party for our oldest daughter complete with relay races and dancing competitions, nail painting and movies, pizza and cake (not to mention all the snacks needed to make a slumber party a success). Anyways, I am lame and haven't posted anything about it. Tomorrow. As for now, I leave you with this fine video documenting the tale of the "Broken DVD Player."
I love my kids. They rule. Sometimes though, they push my buttons. You know, like when you just got done cleaning the house and they run through with mud on their shoes. Well, mine would never do that out of fear for their lives. The things they do are subtle and yet still very destructive. They plant little 'bombs' all around the house for me to find, and most often I find these 'bombs' when its too late. That sufficiently sets the picture I believe.
Enter my middle child. She is artsy and likes to do her own thing. She is as sweet as they come but forgets what you tell her the second you say it because she is thinking about other things in her head. Anyways, she made me a picture the other day out of a flower from her dance recital bouquet , tape and some of her heralded imagination. The only problem was she never actually gave me the picture--that plus she modified the reverse side of the picture (see below).
When I picked up the paper, I saw the flower petals on the front and thought to myself, "Ah, so creative." Then I saw like, oh--I dunno--500 ants scurying around under the lifted picture. I also noticed that the paper was abnormally heavy, almost weighted somehow. Upon flipping the paper I saw what had been causing both the sea of ants and added weight. My daughter had been eyeing up a Cadbury Egg and apparently got the nerve to take it with out permission. She chopped it in half and stuck it to the paper where it stayed like it was rubber cemented (ironically, this is how she sat in her time out chair). A) Don't take daddies Cadbury Eggs, and B) Do not invite ants into my domain, either offense is timoutable (wrd? sp?) but together it makes for nasty cocktail of jumping jacks and a lengthy timeout. Respect.
This is a series that I owe all to my good friend Momo. She had a post the other day that reminded me of a log I was keeping of all the crazy things I have said to my kids in my short tenure as a parent. You know, parental type things like, "Get your feet out of your milk!" or "Don't ride your car on the wall!" or "Don't put your finger in your ear, who knows where that thing has been!" Anyways, instead of use my old material, I will just call upon fate to provide me with content. This shouldn't be a problem, because A) my kids routinely do stupid things, and B) I am not shy in calling them out on being thick headed. Anwyays, as fate would have it, today (the first day I was on alert) my youngest child made me say, "Don't put your french fries in your chocolate milk!" Click the photo below for the bigger version.
First, I would like to start by saying the following demo is for photoshop newbs. Second, the subsequent photo is amazing. To set this up, I have a three year old little girl that is as smart as they come and knows when and how to get into our candy dish. That is the muse for this post, a toddler with ingenuity. The video below shows you just how I edit my more basic photos (in case you wondered).
Next, here is the resulting photo. Worthy of a click if I do say so myself.
I have been wanting to post/brag about something for a long time. Since Christmas my youngest daughter potty trained herself and as a family we have been out of the @-!-i-t for about four months. It is absolutely amazing! I am sure other graduations or new stages in our children's lives are important, but having all three of my stinkers out of diapers will always have a special place in my heart. Anyways, I put a video together with the potty theme in mind that shows everyone an image I see before my toddler and I get ourselves showered in the morning. Don't worry, the video is clean. Also, I would like to give mad props to Olympus for their awesome digital recording products. I have been using the VN-3100PC to record my daughters voices for the last month plus and it is great. It has a USB connection and converts the audio into a usable format that your computer can recognize. The VN-3100PC alone is just OK but anytime you want to edit audio files for personal or public use you need to be using Audacity. Audacity is quite possibly the best free software on the net...uh, I mean after Joomla and Firefox of course. I use Audacity to edit all of my voice recordings. You can trim audio clips and merge them together seemlessly. Audacity has a toolbox full of effects you can use to transform your audio clips. The possibilities are staggering. All these files you create can be exported as mp3s. To good not to explore. Anyways, here is another mind blowing video for your enjoyment. Holla!
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I had to pass on a bit of news to my loyal readers about something very exciting in the land of Joeprah. It may not seem like a big deal to many, but for me--it's huge. I have a place on the Examiner.com as the National Fatherhood Examiner. What does that mean? It means I get to expose my smart ass self to a larger audience and as a bonus I get to champion common sense parenting for a large media outlet. I plan on delivering some articles from Joeprah on my National Fatherhood Blog, but I will also feature some articles there that can only be found there. This makes all those times that my wife was like, "Why can't you stop blogging tonight and watch (insert horrible chick flick title here, if you can't think of one Coyote Ugly will suffice) with me?" and I was all like, "Sorry, this is important." seem somewhat realistic. If you care to make my day/week/month/year, why don't you stop by my new home and say hi, you'll be glad you did.
Who is Joeprah? I am a stay at home dad to three daughters. I have an amazing wife and under the direction and encouragement of close friends I started this site over a year ago. You can follow me at The 
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