Divorce is something that no married couple ever wants to go into without considering all other options first. There are no winners in a divorce, so exploring all your options and seeking reconciliation, if possible, is the preferable course of action. When it becomes apparent, however, that the marriage is over, both parties need to enter proceedings fully prepared. These 20 blogs are for couples who are going through separation and thinking about filing for divorce.

Considering Separation: What You Need to Know

Separation is often the first step that couples take before filing for divorce. Whether the separation is for an agreed-upon trial period, or is a precursor to filing for divorce, married couples need to prepare for what’s ahead. Talk it over with your spouse, and seriously consider what is best for both of you before making definite decisions on your future. These four blogs will help you decide on how you move forward and will help prepare you for life without your spouse.

• Divorce Test
• My Husband Is Living In Our Home – Doesn’t He Owe Something For This?
• Separation: Tips to Help
• Divorce and Separation: Being On Your Own Again

Reconciliation Attempts

Many married couples will attempt to reconcile their differences in order to save their marriage before divorce becomes a real consideration. This is a very stressful period for both husband and wife, as uncertainty about the future and ghosts from the past put strains on an already fragile relationship. This stage of a break-up determines the future of your marriage, so think carefully before committing to any major decisions. These four blogs are aimed at those married couples who are attempting to save their marriage.

• Divorce and Reconciliation Attempts
• The Divorce Life-Cycle Stage 5: Reconciliation
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: How Can You Call Your Divorce Quits If You Decide to Reconcile
• ATTEMPTING TO SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE

Children and Divorce

When there are children involved, divorce is no longer just about the wants and needs of the husband and wife. Regardless of your feelings for each other, both of you must look after the emotional wellbeing of your children. They will need support from both parents, and reassurance that they are not to blame for your decision to separate. These four blogs will guide you through how to help your children cope with separation and divorce. There are also accounts from the child’s perspective, which is something that all married couples need to consider.

• Helping kids cope with the split.
• Children Of Divorce Are Anything But Resilient
• Talking to your child about divorce – Children and Divorce Series
• Cause and Effect

Dividing Possessions and Assets

Divorce does not just deal with the emotional and interpersonal break up of a marriage, but the material aspects, too. Possessions and assets need to be divided, preferably in a way is fair and agreeable to both parties. There are many different factors that come into play when it comes to dividing assets, such as prenuptial agreements, property rights and investments. There is no simple template for how assets are divided; however, it is in your best interest to learn your rights and responsibilities. These four blogs deal with the distribution of property and assets in the case of divorce.

• Division of Property and Debt in Divorce
• Division of Marital Property in a Divorce: Part 2
• New Tax Changes May Affect the Division of Assets in Your Divorce
• The Importance of Pleading Certificates of Pending Litigation

Filing for Divorce: What You Need to Do

If you and your spouse have made all attempts to reconcile without success, then it may be time to file for divorce. A long drawn out divorce does not benefit either party, so knowing how to file for divorce and getting the proceedings over with as quickly as possible is preferable. Remember, until your divorce is finalized you are still husband and wife. There are laws that you must abide by and procedures to follow. These four blogs deal with the actual process of filing for divorce and what you need to do.

• How to File for Divorce
• 4 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Filing For Divorce [EXPERT]
• Residency requirements to file for Divorce
• The Basic Steps To Filing for Divorce

Barring a successful reconciliation, an amicable divorce is best all around – especially if there are children involved. It is understandable that one or both parties may feel hurt, betrayed or vulnerable because of the break up, too, so give each other the space that each of you needs.

Maybe you’ve always liked to take pictures and want to take your photo shooting abilities to the next level, but have never had any formal training.  If you don’t know where to start, don’t worry, it’s not as hard as you might think.  First things first, you’ll need to make sure that you have the right equipment.  Once you have your gear, you’ll need to shoot a lot of pictures.  Practice.  Practice.  Practice.  Thankfully, with the invention of the digital camera, you see your pictures immediately and can shoot as many as you want without it costing you a thing.  While you are practicing, you might want to take a little advice from the experts on these 30 blog entries.

Equipment

It’s not necessary to go out and buy the most advanced and expensive camera that they have on the market.  However, you do need to have a little better equipment than just a point-and-shoot camera if you want to go to the next level, because fancier cameras allow you to do more with your pictures.  Other equipment, like a light meter, is helpful.  Check out these five blog posts and see what else the experts recommend.

1. 10 Tips for Buying Camera Gear on eBay
2. Tips for Buying Used Camera Equipment
3. Inside Product Photography Advice: Photographing Camera Equipment
4. Buying Photography Equipment – 3 Vital Tips to Buy The Right Equipment
5. Photo Tips—Photography Equipment; When to Buy It

Landscapes

What’s the difference between an amateur taking a picture of a sunset and a professional photographer shooting the same sunset?  The amateur can just point and click with his camera and may end up with a slightly dark photo.  The professional, on the other hand, has made some adjustments to her camera so that she allows the most light into her shot.  For more tips from the experts, take a look at these five blog articles.

1. 5 Tips for Getting Sharper Images
2. Interview With Jay & Varina Patel- Landscape Photographers Extraordinaire
3. Check Out These Awesome Photography Tips and Tricks
4. 5 Ways to Improve Your Photography Without Touching Your Camera
5. Top Tips for Landscape Photography

Kids

Professional photographers have a way of capturing the cutest shots of kids, and you’d probably like to know their secrets.  The biggest secret is to shoot the kids while they are playing.  Check out these five blog posts for some expert tips to help you capture professional looking pictures of your own kids.

1. 10 Tips for Photographing Children’s Parties
2. 5 Tips for Photographing Children
3. Tips on Photographing Expressive Children
4. Easy Tips for Photographing Little Kids
5. Cut the Cheese: 5 Tips for Photographing Kids

Food

Photographing food can be difficult.  You not only need to style the food in an appealing way so that it looks totally delicious, but you need to light it properly.  Pictures of food often end up looking dark, which makes the food look gray and unappealing.  Lighting can be tricky, but here are some tips from these five bloggers that might help improve your food photos.

1. 5 Tips for Photographing Food (from a Very Amateur Photographer)
2. Finding the Right Light
3. Top Tips for Photographing Food with Jamie Oliver
4. Easy Tips for Photographing Food
5. 5 Tips for Food Photography

Nature

When shooting nature shots, you need to get up early in the morning when the light is at its best.  If you wait too long, you’ll end up getting lots of shadows in your pictures because the sun is too high.  While walking around outside in the rain doesn’t sound like a lot of fun, rainy days actually do provide a nice light to photograph in.  For other tips and tricks, check out these five blog posts.

1. Tips and Tricks: Shooting in Winter with Kathleen Clemons 
2. 6 Tips for Photographing Shorebirds
3. Photographing Roses: Some Experiences and Tips
4. 7 Tips for Shooting and Selling Nature Stock Photography
5. Photographing Waves or Swells—Do You Know the Difference?

Nighttime

There’s something about night photography that is so much more dramatic than daytime photography.  Maybe it’s the mystery of what you can’t see or the twinkle of the lights.  Shooting pictures at night is tricky; here are some tips from the experts that can help.

1. Low Light Photography Tips: Shooting Landscape
2. Tips and Tricks for Night Photography
3. Tips for Shooting at Night
4. 7 Photographers Share Tips for Shooting in Low Light
5. 10 Tips for Shooting the Lights at Night

In the world of blogging, it is an unwritten rule that you must not deviate from your niche audience. However, when it comes to mommy bloggers, no such rule exists. There is a wealth of crossover in mommy blogs, which isn’t surprising given how much moms do in an average day. Mommy bloggers can delve into areas ranging from childcare and education to technology and transport. These 35 blogs are examples of exactly how versatile mommies are. You will discover tips on parenting from pregnancy right through to teenage years and beyond, along with inspiration for creating your own mom blog.

Pregnancy Blogs

Pregnancy blogs are where most mommies first cut their teeth in the online world. It helps to document the experience, and at the same time it provides valuable tips for other mommies who are searching for pregnancy information. It doesn’t do any harm to have a quick reference guide for your next child, either. These six blogs cover a number of topics; however, the main focus of each is on pregnancy.

• Pregnancy Blog
• A Little Pregnant
• Milk Friendly
• The Unnecesarean
• Dear Baby
• Digital Mom Blog

New-Born and Toddler Blogs

Every mommy needs support when caring for newborns and toddlers. So who better to get it from than other mommies who have already been there? The blogs here were created with new mommies in mind, which means lots of tips on breastfeeding, sleepless nights and budgeting for your baby. New-baby bloggers come from across the parenting spectrum, making this a hugely competitive niche.

• Chronicles of a Babywise Mom
• Baby Care Blog
• Young Mommies Blogs
• Rookie Moms
• New Mommy Oasis
• Dear Baby Blog

Children’s Food and Wellbeing

If there is one thing that all mommies eventually learn, it is how to come up with creative recipes for kids. Of course, nutritional eating is a concern for mommies, too. This niche is a collection of mommy bloggers who love creating, cooking and writing about food. If you are looking for ideas for recipes, or you think you could write your own mommy recipe blog, then these six blogs will give you the inspiration you need.

• Full Bellies, Happy Kids
• Kids Cooking and Cookbook Blog
• Jamie and Jen Dish it Out
• Playing Kitchen Blog
• Easy Kids Recipes
• Mom’s Kitchen Cooking

Personal Mommy Blogs

Nobody does personal blogs better than a mommy. These types of blogs typically chronicle the day-to-day trials and tribulations of parenting. It is the unique, personal voice, however, that keeps other mommies coming back to read every day. Personal mommy blogs are more like parenting groups than traditional blogs, in a lot of respects. These six mommy bloggers create a personal connection with their audience, while also providing invaluable parenting tips.

• And Then She Snapped
• The Floundering SAHM
• Dancing and Dishes
• Unscripted
• The Self-Help Mom
• Autumn at Oak Hollow

Parenting Teenagers

A house full of teenagers is a hot-bed of charged energy and activity. Any parent who is raising teenage children will testify to needing a little outside perspective every now and again. This is a subject that only the veteran mommies should tackle. These six bloggers have all been through the wars, so you can be sure that they know how to handle even the most petulant of teens. You can also tell by some of the names in this list that these mommies haven’t lost their sense of humor, either.

• Advice for Parenting Blog
• The Meanest Mom
• Mom to the Screaming Masses
• Annie Fox’s Blog
• Family Matters
• Radical Parenting

The Key to Coping with Multiple Children

These blogs are focused more towards generally coping with multiple children. This is another huge niche in the blogging market. However, there is still plenty of room for fresh perspective from new mommy bloggers. Many of these bloggers talk about their experiences with new technologies and advancements in parenting, which is what keeps the content fresh. These six top-ranking blogs are from some of the mommies who share their experience and tips on raising multiple children.

• Mommy for Two
• Planet Mom
• I’m a Lazy Mom
• Our Kids Mom
• The Playgroup is No Place for Kids

For years, mothers have been working hard at home and getting paid in kisses and hugs. Thanks to the Internet, modern moms can still collect payments of hugs and kisses while making a bit of cold, hard cash on the side. There is money to made from blogging, and moms have a lot of knowledge and information that others will pay to access. If you’ve wondered about ways you could stay at home with the kids and still have a reasonable income, consider these ideas for blogging.

1. Review Products for Amazon.com – This method of earning money can generate residual income over time. Basically, you will write reviews for products you are already familiar with. Whenever someone buys something that you recommend, you get paid a commission. When the customer comes through your site, even if they don’t buy the recommended item but go on to make another purchase, you will still get paid.
2. Use Adsense with Your Product Reviews – When you set up a site with product reviews, you can generate extra income by using Adsense on your site. These ads will complement the item you are reviewing and you will get paid each time someone clicks on the ads. Payment can range as high as $1 to $5 per click. If your site has high traffic, this can generate a substantial income over time.
3. Become an Expert – If you have a topic that you are passionate about or something that you are very familiar with, you can blog about the subject. Focus on growing a community of followers, and be sure to use social media like Facebook and Twitter to help. Once you have a thriving community of followers you can promote products like ebooks and instructional videos to start earning income. It may take some time to get this ball rolling, but it will be worth it in the long run.
4. Blog About Your Life and Experiences – Television is rife with “reality” shows in which viewers get to watch so-called private lives. Humans are very curious creatures that love looking into the lives of others. You can take advantage of this by blogging about your life as it happens. As you contact readers about various items that you use along the way via marketing resources, you will find many of your readers will purchase items based on your suggestions.
5. Blog for Others – There are sites that will pay you to write blog entries for them in order to generate quality content. Pay varies from site to site; you just need to make sure your payments will be secure.
6. Elance – This is a site that you can join where they match your interests with employers who are looking for writers. The nice thing about this site is that you can create a profile that includes all of your expertise.
7. Guru – This company also supplies you with a list of employers looking for writers. You can choose whether or not to bid on the projects and a paid membership will grant you access to dozens of opportunities on a regular basis.
8. Online Spokesperson – Digital media has opened up many doors for moms to share their expertise with others. Companies are beginning to reach out to more bloggers to promote their products now, because the traditional methods don’t have the high returns on investments that some digital efforts are showing. If you have or can generate a large following, then you may have what it takes to become a spokesperson for a particular brand.
9. Sponsored Content – Join a blogger network program, such as One 2 One, Role Mommy or Mom Select, and connect with brands or companies who are willing to pay you to blog about their products. You will need to disclose that you received payment for sponsored content.
10. Craigslist – Occasionally you will find opportunities for freelance writing jobs on Craigslist. Beware of the scams; you should never have to pay for the opportunity to write for someone else unless you are signing up for a clearinghouse service such as Guru or Elance, and even then basic membership is free.
11. Get Local – You don’t need to go after the giants in order to make money. Local businesses would also like to get recognized, and you can help them do that by allowing them to advertise on your site for a nominal fee.
12. Share Your Knowledge – Take advantage of your abilities by sharing what you know with others around you. Smaller businesses may not be aware of or know how to generate more customers by having an online presence. Share your knowledge with them and show how a blog can help generate a larger customer base. Market yourself and your expertise.
13. Use Your Creativity – If you are the creative type, you may find that blog design is a field that you can excel in. Don’t be afraid to test the waters. Create a portfolio and go out and find your customers while using your own blog as an active example of your work.
14. Online Consulting – As an online consultant, you aren’t just blogging about your expertise; you are also sharing it with others and getting paid to help them develop in that area. You can market your advice to novices who are anxious to learn the ropes. You get to set your own hours and fees.
15. Ask for Donations – It works! There are some bloggers who set up a donation station on their site and let their readers know what they need the money for to encourage donations.  If you have a project in need of funding, consider a crowd funding source such as Indiegogo.com. Your blogging will keep donors up to date on how the project is coming along.