Well, it's been some ride on the rollercoaster this year, folks, hasn't it? And today, on the final day of the old year, I'm going to do something new and different here on the old blog:
Besides my Squashed Mom year in review post, "The Squashed Best of 2011" (which went up Thursday) all about where my blog has gone in 2011 (and, no, "to Hell in a handbasket" is NOT the right answer, here, folks) I also want to share some of the awesomeness I have found in OTHER people's blogs, on the interwebs, among my blogging friends and brethren.
So I have compiled for you a short, very unscientific, VERY incomplete list of a few of my faves and raves of 2011.
And if you know I love you and you don't have a post on this list? Please know it's just an artifact of my tired, ADD-rific mommy brain. I'm probably slapping myself on the forehead right this instant, going: "Doh! How could I have forgotten THAT amazing post by wonderful HER!" - so please add a link to your one of your favorite 2011 posts in the comments section!
Here goes...
In no particular order, I have been moved to laughter. tears, astonishment, or action by these wonderful posts (among many more) this past year:
Mothering, Disability and Race from the lovely Elizabeth of a moon, worn as if it had been a shell
In the Beginning from my blog-heart-friend Adrienne of No Points for Style
the ghost of john wayne and the perils of eleven from the adventurous Deborah of MaNNaHaTTaMaMMa
Invisible from the delightful Momo of Momo Fali.
Adventures in Depression from the wonderful and very brave Allie of Hyperbole and a Half
Who Are You? from the wise and deep Alysia of Try Defying Gravity
I Dreamed You from the amazing Amanda of Last Mom on Earth
The Only Way To Make It Through This from our dear Empress (Alexandra) of Good Day Regular People
Whispered fingertips from Kris of Pretty All True who needs no qualifier, because she just IS all that.
The Obsessive Joy of Autism from Julia Bascom of Just Stimming and also Quiet Hands because her words are THAT important.
This Is Not Really About Cake from the "badass" Kelly of Mocha Momma
Of Spiderman, a bully, and lessons learned from the great-assed Cheryl of Mommypants
I keep thinking about the nurse. from the kick-ass Eden of Edenland
Top Ten Things You Should (and Shouldn't) Say to The Parent of an Autistic Child from the highly opinionated (and often hysterically funny) Stark Raving Mad Mommy.
On growing up with strange sensory reactions, and the difference between passing and being passed off. from outspoken Amanda of Ballastexistenz
I want my son back from the inspiring Blue Sky of Looking for Blue Sky
worst case scenario from the incomparable Maggie of Flux Capacitor
what i would tell you from the beloved Jess of a diary of a mom
Sunshine on the water is so lovely from eloquent Emily of Emily Rosenbaum
in the midst of this from the, well, extraordinary Heather of The Extraordinary Ordinary
The Bridge: One Terrible Night from Anna See of An Inch of Gray who has gone where none of us wish to go, with more grace and fortitude than I can possibly imagine.
I could go on and on and on, but 21 feels like a nice number, so I'll stop here. In hindsight, looking over it, I find this list was probably a bit heavy on the autism and special needs stuff. But then again, so is my life. So. is. my. life.
Wishing all of you a wonderful New Year, a terrific 2012, wherever the next turn of the great wheel takes you!
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