As you know, the @steemitmamas has received a generous delegation of 7500 SP from @steem-hodler and @news-today! We are the first recipients of their Delegation Initiative. If you missed our announcement you can read it here in our initial post! We are so grateful for their generosity and care for the life of Steemit!

We had a BLAST yesterday reading great content and supporting our community with nice upvotes! It feels great to be able to give back in a big way...

Yesterday @khimgoh and I learned that we needed to vote on more posts than we expected. Our goal is to deplete our VP down to about 80% everyday by voting on posts with a 50% vote weight. We want to spread our vote as much as possible to share the love with many. After voting on 20 posts we realized we still had some cushion left to do more! We are also giving a vote to our delegators daily!

We also decided we didn’t want to clutter up our feed too much which in turn clutters your feed as well. So instead of resteeming every post we vote on we will only select a few of our favorites. Speaking of favorites, here are some featured posts from yesterday’s upvotes...

[Casual Portraits] Back to School + The Reason I Got Into Photography by @oheyo

Today marked my first first day of school that left me with no more babies at home. That's right— all three kiddos are now fully school-aged, and that means this mama's heart is swole as all hell, brimming with mixed emotions and tears.

Have you experienced these emotions yet, sending all of your kiddos off to school? @oheyo just experienced this and shares her thoughts. She also shares about what got her started in photography.

The Thai Life And What To Expect || Mingle, Snaps, Level Up by @kaerpediem

What I won't be trying are the insects and bugs, sold as snacks. I was once tricked into eating one of these fried worms. It wasn’t bad until my prankster friend told me what I was chewing on. Chaos ensued from all who were tricked. I just swallowed quickly... guess having it in my stomach was better than having it in my mouth.

Will you be heading to SteemFest 4 in Bangkok this November? @kaerpediem gives us a run down on some of her plans while there. From the foods to the shopping, many Steemians will be having a blast as they mingle away and get better acquainted!

Sucked Up By Something That Came From The Sky by @ginnyannette

What are their intentions? I wondered. Are they simply passing through on their search for higher ground, or do they intend to take up permanent residence? It was impossible to tell. Being that I was extremely outnumbered, I began to panic a little. I got the vacuum cleaner.

Reading this post was as if I was reading an adventure book. The way @ginnyannette walks us through her experience was as if you were right there with her. Her adventure with insects and the vacuum cleaner will surely have your attention :)

We want to make the most out of this delegation in the short time that we have. We will be curating along the following lines...

• First and foremost we will be looking for posts related to motherhood and parenting. Please share your experiences, passions, discoveries, memories...etc.
• Children, education and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths) related.
• The @needleworkmonday and @freewrite community
• Family and family finances or personal finance
• Steem Fest 4 related posts
• General positive and inspiring posts

Your posts can be in the form of blogs or vlogs and must include the @steemitmamas tag! This is a requirement in order to receive a vote from us!

Please drop us a comment if you find good posts that we can vote on!

Alright people! It’s time to shine! Let’s see those quality posts! 💗

One proud Steemitmama,
@crosheille