Welcome to the last YNTR for the year! It’s so weird that 2007 is nearly over. I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas this week (those of you that celebrate it, of course) and are recovering from the chaos/letdown/hangover/rich food nicely enough. Right now, I’m watching my son play the Xbox 360 that we waited for over a year to purchase and finally hunted down at Best Buy last night after Sam’s Club apparently had tags on the shelf for items they no longer had in stock (because, you know, THAT made sense). He’s playing a Monster Jam game and it’s making me a little motion sick so I am compiling this post instead. You know, at least until Kile and I get our turn at the Xbox to play some more Halo 3 (word is: rules so far).
There aren’t many posts this week, but like I said last week, I expected that. Still, more people were posting this week than I expected so that was pretty nice. I appreciate having something to read during the “slow times”. Remember, just because I don’t comment, doesn’t mean I don’t read about a bazillion blogs. I’m just a really awful commenter. Anyhow, enough about me. On to the awesome posts I caught over the last week!
- “Perceptions…” from Crunchy Carpets. I could have written this post myself a couple years ago. Shoot, I think I did write this post, at least in my head if nothing else. Christmas is hard when you’ve lost someone, especially the first Christmas. And since her loss was so recent she’s still reeling. So she does what she must.
- “Holiday Homicide” from Petroville. This post CRACKED. ME. UP. Mostly because I totally understood how she felt. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE lobster. And fresh lobster is my idea of heaven. But I wouldn’t want to have to kill the poor things myself. Seriously? I love the picture of them in the box, claws raised to the heavens. Classic.
- “Wishing again that our babies would come with manuals” from Kerflop. I definitely know where she’s coming from with this one. I have a son that’s very much the same way about a lot of things. It’s boggling, it’s frustrating and it’s so sad to watch one of your children struggle with their emotions like this. I wish there were manuals too.
- “The Story of the Best Christmas EVAH” from misszoot. I’m so happy she got her whole family there for Christmas this year. I’ve seen in years past where she’s been sad to have her son away visiting with his father over the holidays and just trying to imagine how hard that would be. So I lived a little vicariously through her this week as she “SQUEE”‘d with excitement over her best Christmas EVAH.
- “Merry Christmas, Baby, Maybe” from amalah. Oh god, I hope so. I have fingers and toes crossed for her. Let the obsessive refreshing begin!
- “Letter from my son” from sweet | salty. This was a heartbreaking post from Kate (aren’t a lot of them, come to think of it?). As I said above, the Christmas season, especially the first, is especially hard. They may be better off, but what about us?
- “I’m Going To Request That He Change His Birthday To June. Maybe I’ll Have Money For A Gift” from Boobs, Injuries and Dr. Pepper. This gal is hysterical. I love the phone conversation with her mother, particularly the bit about the rubber boobie.
So that’s it for now. I’m going out of town tomorrow but I will still be scouting for more fabulous posts to feature. As always, if I’m missing something drop me a line and let me know!
This is me. I'm a thirtysomething stay at home mom to three kids. For years I was a stay at home mom to one kid and trying very hard to have more. It took a LONG time (ie: 6 1/2 years), but finally Liam arrived and charmed us with his blue eyes and ginormous, round head. Then we got a shock: I was pregnant again and this time it was a GIRL. Our hearts and home are full at last and now that we're done having babies, we get to relax (snort) and watch them grow (not too fast now, you hear?). Thanks for coming by, feel free to dip into my archives, read my About and History pages (just don't do Jackson's Story without tissues!) and make yourself at home.
