You Need to Read - March 15 — slackermama . com

Five days left until my baby is here! Unreal. And I apologize right now for how short this week’s list is. I have 155 feeds piled up in my feed reader this morning from yesterday. But yesterday was such a hectic day and then we were at a friend’s birthday bash last night (where a heck of a lot of Rock Band was played) and were up awful late and then slept in this morning… so you know how it goes. I could go through all those links and put off publishing my list until later in the day, but I’d rather get it up for you all right now. Instead, I’ll include any possible links from yesterday in NEXT week’s list. Which reminds me: I will have to publish next week’s list from the hospital. I’m not sure exactly if that’ll happen or not. I’d like to think it will, but you know how it goes. So maybe, just maybe, next week’s list will have to be put off until the FOLLOWING week. Which would mean a super-duper double-sized YNTR list. I don’t know if the internet could handle such linky love. I guess we’ll have to find out. In the meantime, enjoy these super-fabulous links because they are super-fabulous.

The 40 Foot Gorilla in the Room from Crunchy Carpets. Boy, do I know where she’s coming from with this one. And her son reminds me so much of mine that it’s eerie. What a sweet little boy she has, with such a great heart. It’s hard to deal with the heartbreak and disappointment of losing our babies ourselves, but to see our children go through the same emotions is agonizing.
Shaking it off from flawed but authentic. Is this ever a rough subject. When people in our lives read our blogs, and object, or when random hateful people read them and send us vicious emails… it’s hard to see WHY we put ourselves through this. I just have to remind myself of this post and the beautiful and honest sentiments this author puts forth the next time I feel myself bogged down by the harshness of it all.
Great Ways To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day With Kids from Buzz Off. I love these ideas! Melissa always comes up with the most clever activities to celebrate the holiday. I know better than to think that I will actually do even half these activities, but I like the thought of doing them. And perhaps you aren’t as sloth-ish as I am at the moment and will actually do some of these fantastic activities with your kids.
The Long road to recovery from Running Stitch. Brit is awesome and this post is one of those that just SHOWS how awesome she is. I love what she has to say about the Harry Potter books because I feel exactly the same way. And I do often wonder if those books aren’t necessarily for kids, but moreso for adults because some of the themes involved are fairly mature. What do you think?
A Sh***y Post from Citizen of the Month. Poor Neil has had a time of it lately. I wouldn’t say this is a “sh***y post”, but the sort of thing a lot of of write when we feel we are out of ideas, out of inspiration, needing a little understanding from those out there who read us every day. And that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?
Newsletter Spam from leahpeah. I want to send out a big AMEN to everything Leah mentioned here. I hate when newsletters make it downright impossible for you to unsubscribe. Half the time I admit to just marking them as spam in gmail and letting the filters have their way with them, even though I know that’s beyond wrong.
Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story. Part XXXI from Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. OMG, if you aren’t reading P-Dub’s love story, you’ve GOTTA start. And you need to start from the beginning (just look up her “Black Heels to Tractor Wheels” category on her blog). I did last week and I was a spastic mess by the end of the evening. It was THAT GOOD. And this installment was perhaps the icing on the cake, the post I had been waiting for (since, you know, last week). If you are a die-hard romantic, you NEED TO READ this series. Seriously.
The Baddest Mommy on the Block from amalah . com. There is nothing bad about Amy as a mom. You all know how I feel about the c-section debate (or at least you should know by now). It’s a personal decision and no one has any right to make anyone else feel bad about it. I wish so many of us didn’t feel we had to explain WHY we make the decisions we do. I wish we didn’t have to feel so defensive. But we do. So big kudos and hugs to Amy. As long as she made the right choice for HER, that’s what matters.
Official: Two Parts for Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows… from The Leaky Cauldron. SQUEE!! I’m so excited about the last Harry Potter movie! Well, I’m excited about the second to last one too, but I will admit to often daydreaming about how the last movie will turn out. Knowing that they will not have plenty of time to give the story justice warms my heart. And I say a big BOO to naysayers who can only see studios wanting to make buckets of money (which of course they will) out of the whole deal. Who cares? As far as I can tell, it’s a win-win situation for everyone!!

So that’s all this week. Pardon me while I go have a Braxton Hicks, change my child’s rancid diaper and try to make a dent in the chores that need to get done this weekend. It’s really going to be a rather crazy weekend around these parts. Want to come help?

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