Book REVIEW! What Happened to Goodbye

Hi friends, my Blogher book club piece is up! YAY! Go check it out. 

Happy Link Day!

In honor of Mother's Day, (I KNOW IT WAS YESTERDAY!) I am giving you, dear friend, a gift.

See, I am so blessed with incredible women in my life, who teach and inspire me on a daily basis (or almost!) in real life and on the internets.

I had this really awesome idea to give you a PRESENT! But in this case, FOUR presents.

So my gift to you, today, is a bunch of women who write seriously good stuff. The links I give are people I either haven't ever met in real life or are people I initially met here on the interwebs and have since met.

Get it? So if you're my sister, you didn't make the list.

No offense sister. LOVE YOU!

So, here we go.

First up, ME. I wrote a Book Review for BLOGHER about a fantastic book called Girl In Translation. Read the review. Then read the book. It's AMAZING!

Next: This funny FUNNY mama not only runs her tush off, she teaches early morning seminary, helps her hubby with his business, and mamas her two cute kids. She is SO cool. Read her. You'll like her.

This particularly talented mom has two kids too! AND she is a musician AND she lives in Wisconsin and completely hates it. She has "gigs" in between diapers. She is crazy talented and is raising crazy talented kids too. IMPRESSIVE!

This mom is just too cool for words. She has four kidlets, her own violin studio, navigates the crazy medical world, doulas and basically makes me look bad. HAHA! Just kidding, she is incredible. I am SO blessed to be able to call her my friend.

So happy belated Mother's Day because creating a home and a family in this crazy world and then keeping it all together is a challenge, and some seriously good reading material to let you know you're not alone is SUPER HELPFUL, I promise.

Read them.
Follow them.
Love them.

Happy Mother's Day!

First Post of THE NEW YEAR!

Wellpers, people, it's 2011.

I rang in the new year by going to bed at 11pm. Cool, yes?

I am excited about 2011 and all that it might hold for me, and for us. One thing's for sure, there will be no baby #5 in 2011.

And forgive me whilst I wax nostalgic for a moment, will you?

Holy smokes, 2010 was the shortest year of my life!

One minute, I'm ringin' in the New Year in good ole Las Vegas. 

The next I'm telling the whole world we're moving to Utah, and by the way, I'm not pregnant, and I do NOT want to be pregnant.

Then, I look at my surroundings and find I'm in Utah, and I'm pregnant.

How did that work? I want to know.

Then we gardened and played and I puked, and summered like it was my job. WAIT! It WAS my job!

We found out Squishy was a boy! FOURTH BOY!

We played and played and played.

Then it was fall.

Then it was Halloween!

Then we MOVED.

All the while I got fatter and fatter.

Then, I blinked and my best Christmas present EVER arrived. (Seriously, the best!)

And then it was Christmas.

And now we've come full circle.

What is UP with that?

Tomorrow Ez will be one month old. How did that happen? I WANT TO KNOW!!!

I love you friends. All of you. Thanks for being around the last year.

(Didja click on ALL those links? Fun, huh?)

Guess what?

Happy New Year Dear Friends!

I'm posting today at Mormon Mommy Blogs all about New Year's resolutions and my secret to success (that I'm not good about doing at all!)

http://www.mormonmommyblogs.blogspot.com/

GO! Leave a comment about your New Year's resolutions. :)

Thanks!