Yeah. I have been The Suck at keeping up with ye ol' blog lately. I won't offer up any specific excuses, but I really HAVE been busy.
Anyway, I have several new blog stalks that I would like to share with my faithful readers...and I want to mention a few of my oldies but goodies, too.
I will start with Cecily. I have been reading her blog, like, forever. When I wrote my political post a while back, SHE was my inspiration for the bit about a woman's right to choose. I also share a lot of her beliefsas to where our country is headed if we keep allowing the government to do whatever they dang well please without any checks and balances. It has been my recent experience that the conservative right as a whole can act like a ginormous ass when it comes to expressing their disagreement with anyone else's viewpoint. I won't tolerate that here and if anyone goes to her blog from here to call her a murderer, you will be dead to me.
Next up is Calliope. She is cool as hell. She is a full time care giver for her Grandma who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease and is about to begin her battle with cancer. She is also single and thanks to the love and support of her friends in the internet and the generosity of her sperm donor, Churchill, she is expecting her first baby. Her blog is a constant reminder to me that there are still a whole lot of good people in this world.
I have a horrible habit of leaving Nate's blog open and clicking the refresh button at random intervals throughout the day in hopes of an update or a new photo of his incredibly cute daughter, Gwyneth Rose. Their story has been such an inspiration to me. Nate's wife Tricia has Cystic Fibrosis. She was preparing to undergo a double lung transplant when they found out they were pregnant. Gwyneth was born 15+ weeks early and shortly after her birth, Tricia got her much needed new lungs. Gwyneth is doing wonderfully while Tricia is now battling a type of lymphoma that is related to her transplant. Have some tissues handy if you decide to read their whole story; you will need them.
If you, yourself are or are personally acquainted with a Mormon, you will laugh your butt off at this blog. It is like a slightly magnified version of any of my Mormon friends:) Not only is she hilariously ridiculous, she has frequent super cool giveaways. I have yet to win one of them...but I continue to read, anyway.
If you need blatant proof that God is still performing miracles, go here. She is about to give birth to a baby boy that she was told would not make it to term. Every week that passes just reinforces my faith that there is a God and that He is good. Not only is she super talented at gestating babies, she is funny and takes the most gorgeous portraits I have ever seen.
If I am in a particularly foul mood, I just go here. Other people's stupidity never fails to make me chuckle.
And last but not least...I am utterly addicted to this guy's blog. Matt is raising his baby daughter Madeline, alone. His wife unexpectedly died of a pulmonary embolism as she was getting ready to head to the NICU to see her baby for the first time since she was born. Terribly tragic, but he seems to be an incredible father. He is totally honoring his wife's memory in the way he is raising his daughter.
Well, that wraps up this week's roundup. I know that the diversity is probably a bit more...diverse than you might have been expecting...but I am a complicated girl. I guess you already knew that, though;)
