Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient

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Scott Benner’s Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal Honored with Mom’s Choice Award

May 16, 2013, Ann Arbor, MI

Author Scott Benner’s best-selling parenting book, Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, has been named a 2013 recipient of the Gold distinction from Mom’s Choice Awards®. 

Globally recognized for establishing the standard of excellence in family-friendly media, products and services, Mom’s Choice Awards® honored Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal as an outstanding book within its “Adult Books: Parenting—Contemporary Families” category. An esteemed panel of judges that includes industry leaders in education, publishing, parenting, the performing arts, science, and medicine evaluated the book based on its production quality, design, educational value, entertainment value, originality, appeal, and cost. Products that receive honors from Mom’s Choice Awards® help families grow emotionally, physically and spiritually; they are morally sound and promote good will; and they are inspirational and uplifting.

A pithy, modern parenting book written from the viewpoint of a seasoned stay-at-home father with an inspiring story and an irreverent sense of humor, Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal delivers both hilarity and perspective to readers everywhere. With a wide range of topics that anchor individual chapters (fatherhood, marriage, sex, gender roles, diabetes, laundry, “dropping the baby”), the book is an entertaining collection of stories about the mishaps and misadventures of parenting.

According to Library Journal, “[Benner] asserts the secret to happiness is to never stop and never give up … his unabashed “dad humor” brings a distinct charm to his writing without being mawkish or overly sentimental.” The NYC Dad’s Group declared, "Scott Benner’s book, Life is Short, Laundry is Eternal, is a book that proves that the family route is one that is paved with bumps and washed with tears, but filled with fun and love."

Through the lens of Scott Benner’s experiences, readers are reminded that the path to happiness is paved by figuring out how to turn life’s challenges into life’s rewards. Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal tells the story of an American family that has overcome an array of obstacles to discover peace and joy within their own home.    

Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal is available everywhere that books are sold and on all eBook formats.

Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal has won a Mom's Choice Award!

This is quite an honor!

More details next week.

Arden's Day is the Wego Health 2011 Health Activist Award winner!

So excited... I'll post more later when my heart stops beating so fast.

What a wonderful surprise it was to be chosen from among so many deserving and wonderfully written health blogs. A day after learning that I won WEGO Health's 2011 Health Activist Award in the 'Advocating for Another' category, well,  I'm still a bit in shock. 

WEGO Health houses an amazing collection of communities and blogs about a sweeping range of medical issues. It's members offer advice and support to countless people that need it. If you or someone that you know is living with a medical condition and looking for community, I strongly suggest that you click on this link and see if there is a group tailored to your specific need - I bet that there is.

I want to thank WEGO, the independent judges and the type I diabetes community for embracing what I'm trying to do with this website. It was a genuine honor to be named as the winner in such a broad and powerful community of people. I'm proud of this site and the words that you'll find on it. Moreover, I'm happy beyond words that it helps people. Thank you all very much!

Arden's Day is a Wego Health 2011 Health Activist Award finalist

WEGO Health just announced the finalists in their 2011 Health Activist Award and Arden's Day was among them!

There were nearly fifty web sites nominated in my category, Advocating For Another, among them some names that I read and respect and others that I'm looking forward to finding out more about. It was a very humbling group to be included in and I am proud, happy and touched to have been judged as worthy of being called a finalist.

The winners will be announced on January 31st and we are very excited to be in the running.

WEGO is an online community that was set up to 'empower health activists to help others', please check out what they've built if you have the need... it's an amazing site! http://www.wegohealth.com/

CBS Philly’s Most Valuable Blogger: Editor's Choice Winner!

I'm so happy to announce that Arden's Day has been named the Editor's Choice winner of 'CBS Philly's Most Valuable Blogger Award in the Health/Fitness/Medical catagory!

Blogs were judged by a panel of CBS employees on frequency, presentation and content quality. Out of a possible 30 points we scored a 23.6 (of the 170+ sites in the contest the highest scored received was 25.6). I'm very proud and humbled that the site was so well received and thank CBS for sponsoring the contest.

Thank you to all who voted, your support makes this blog a reality. Without you, it's all just words lost in the expansiveness of the internet.

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