Recently, we caught up with some of our guest writers and asked them to share what they've been up to since being featured. We've heard from several more of our friends, and we're pleased to share their adventures with you.

Deana (mazeway) tells us: I'm trying harder than seems reasonable to get a dog. It seems that 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 3 hermit crabs, and 9 foster rodents just wasn't enough. I've filled out applications, I'm having home visits, my references are being checked...And yet, to have a baby, all I had to do was get drunk. Go figure.

Mamacita: What have I been doing lately? Hmm, let me think. Nothing really extraordinary. The usual baking bread and giving it away, creative cooking with mysterious leftovers nobody wanted the first time around, writing my name (and other words, oohh, naughty Jane!) in the dust that lies thick on my furniture, (Erma Bombeck was right; dust IS a protective covering for furniture!), taking care of my now-tumorless sister, doing a million loads of laundry (most of it not mine), and giving away my furniture to needy offspring so they'll have a place to sit, which means, of course, that there is now no place to sit in MY house. Or rather, no place for a guest to sit, because I gave my guest room futon to my daughter so HER guests can sit/sleep on it. I've graded a zillion grammar tests, and NOT graded a zillion essays (yikes, I've GOT to get on that; they're due MONDAY MORNING!) and I've gone to a birthday party for my boss where we stood her against a wall and threw candy corn at her (I hang out with a dignified crowd), and I've helped judge blogs for the BOB'S. I think the coolest thing I've done lately is join Jim Turner's latest project "The Parents Planet," with a new blog called "Teach Your Children Well." (I still have my regular blog; this is in addition to that.) (The Parents Planet will be a place where parents and teachers can go to read several parenting/teaching blogs all in one place, and get advice, tips, nostalgia, etc, about children and parenting.) Jim (Genuine, to most of the blogging community) has done a marvelous job with this new project (of course, he does a marvelous job with EVERYTHING, in my humble opinion) and when it's unveiled, it's going to be an incredibly wonderful and useful resource for parents, teachers, and future parents/teachers. I have nothing but the highest respect and admiration for Jim; his deep love for his wife and children glows on the lines and between the lines of everything he does for the community of 'regular people' - type bloggers. That's US, and that's ME, and I am very, very grateful for his friendship and his expertise and his creative projects. Anyway, "The Parents Planet" will be unveiled soon, and I truly believe it will be something wonderful for anyone who loves children. I am proud to be asked to participate. Oh, and I really need to join "Parenthesis Anonymous" to address my intense overuse of certain punctuation marks. Sigh. My daughter wondered why people as cool as the MommyBloggers were interested in me. I answered her honestly: "I don't know." I only know that the MommyBloggers made me feel important, and honored, and that to have a group of people I'd long been a fan of single ME out was. . . .one of the most awesome things that's ever happened to me. I thank you, from the bottom of my heart. You all rock, and I love you all.

Melanie Lynne Hauser: Thanks, ladies. Hmmmm....Not sure what to add. As a proud Mom, I'm delighted to say my oldest son was accepted into a very prestigious summer workshop for college credit at a university that is a really long plane ride away from home, which is freaking me out. Just a bit. (That superpower ability to fly would really come in handy, you know!) My youngest son is now a Christian Rock Band drummer, which is the source for a lot of South Park jokes in our household. As a writer, it's fun to share that the German edition of my book - titled simply, "Super Mom" - will be published in May. And I'll be attending the Virginia Festival of the Book in March, on a panel called "Disparate Housewives" with two other wonderful writers; and we have some exciting things planned in conjunction with Mother's Day. ('Cause, of course, what better present for your dear old Mom than her own personalized copy of CONFESSIONS OF SUPER MOM?) And then, of course, there was my recent discovery of a five dollar bill between the couch cushions. That was a good day.

Busy Mom: I, um, let's see...I, er, well...Since we last spoke, I have, um, done stuff and blogged about it. Hey, I did get to do something exciting a few weeks ago, I got to go on my annual mommies trip to the beach with my friends! Due to my mother's illness, my participation in this event was questionable, but I made it! We ate. We shopped. Ate some more. Shopped some more. Brought home illness. 5 out of 9 mommies surveyed had bronchitis after our little outing. Though there was about a day when it was questionable, I have recovered and am back to, um, doing stuff and blogging about it. I'm betting other previously featured Mommybloggers have all sorts of accomplishments to update you on. Oh wait, I've cooked dinner since I was with you last. Yeah, when I asked them, "Must you have dinner every night?" they said, "yes".

Lizzard: Howdy, Mommybloggers! In the past few weeks, besides blogging up and down my usual scary personal rollercoaster at badgerbag, I've written a book review for Strange Horizons, kept up with translation news at ALTAlk, and hollered about politics on othermag. The new BlogHer web site is about to launch, and I'll be writing there a couple of times a week, reporting on women's blogging in Latin America.

I read The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing; it was scary how my blogging in 6 different places was like its main character, Anna's, splitting off of subjects into different notebooks. Fortunately, unlike Anna, I don't obsess about whether I'm having the right kind of orgasm while I date annoying, insane, jerky, married Communist Party dudes. Don't you just want to cross the boundaries of fiction and time, and hand poor Anna a gift certificate to Good Vibrations? As a mom I also noticed that Anna always had a convenient roommate who loved babysitting, never said no, never had to have prior notice. But I'd recommend The Golden Notebook as essential reading for any mommyblogger who doesn't mind huge fat slightly confusing novels. It's an amazing exploration of a writing mom's relationship to the world of politics, creativity, and identity.

None of that is what I'm supposed to be doing. Work on my Comparative Literature thesis continues, but slowly. I keep doing more research and more translations, instead of narrowing my focus and finishing the introductory essay. I started using my poetics blog, Composite, to talk about stuff related to my research and the thesis, hoping that that will help me focus.

Meanwhile I have momming to do, homework to supervise, comic books to read with my son, and laundry never far away. Since the "holidays" I've had some nice days of hosting my friends' kids, doing insane projects with yarn, dressing everyone in cheetah costumes and being their audience for animal training shows, cookie-serving, that sort of thing. Hanging with Jo Spanglemonkey and Squid and our other mom-friends... We also have been playing more board games lately, as Moomin has grown out of Candyland and into stuff that's WAY more fun. I highly recommend "King of the Beasts" - you can find it in game stores. "Gulo Gulo" is also a great game for kids around 5-8 and it's not boring for grownups.

What else is new and different... Next week I'm doing a reading of a super naughty, obnoxious porn story, or if you like you can call it "erotica", at the Jon Sims Center in San Francisco. Feb. 18-19 is WoolfCamp, at Grace Davis's place in Santa Cruz; it'll be a flaky girly blog-fest, with babies. The next weekend I scoot off to Seattle for Potlatch, a science fiction book conference; one of my lovely partners, Rook, will stay home with Moomin, but this in theory evens out because in April he'll go off to Sweden for a game con, Knutepunkt. In March I'm going to SXSWi and will also spend a day or two in the library in Austin (leaving Moomin in Houston with my parents.) Then, in May, bringing the whole family to WisCon, a feminist science fiction convention. In July... BlogHer will explode all our brains - I'll see you there!

That's way too busy! And too much stuff for one human being to do! And that's how I like it.

In case you missed our last update, we caught up with Mir and Karen:

We were also delighted to announce Karen's launch of Indigo Leaf, her online magazine, and to encourage everyone to submit.

We shared Mir's fundraising drive and intent to walk in the Boston 3-day walk to benefit the Susan G. Koman foundation. She's walking the walk, and we're so proud of her!

We will continue to share the latest from our friends as we hear it. Don't forget to check out Jenn's recent television interview on the mommyblogging phenomenon. We've put a link up in the side bar, and we couldn't be more proud of her! Please leave us a comment and let us know what you have been up to, as well!