How about I announce some winners? Has it been long enough? Har, har.
As always, you’ve made picking giveaway winners extremely difficult for me. That’s a good thing. Thanks for the great comments! It took a bit of effort not to fret over this decision disproportionately. I love you all. (I might need a Decision Therapist.)
Jen from Backwoods Wife, give me a holler, along with Naomi from Nome’s Brag-a-Long. Come on down! You can each have your pick of travel mugs and Pocket Posh books. Thanks for making my birthday bright.
Jen: “Our 4-year-old daughter asked her Grandma to go to the park with her, to which Grandma replied, "Not right now, Grandma's pooped." Wide-eyed, Riley replied incredulously, "In your underwear?!"”
Naomi: You’ll have to navigate to Naomi’s hilarious story. I’ve chickened out of posting it on the main page. It involves a diaper change. (comments, p.6—at the bottom)
And because I’m a total softee—and I’m moved that hundreds of you took the time to add your thoughts to the birthday soup—I’m also handing out a gaggle of gift certificates to the following (I wish I could send every one of you a gift):
Becky W. – for expanding my vocabulary with the term, “The Skoots.” (p.1)
Megan – for her awesome banana slug / turtle joke (p.3)
Mary Beth – for having TWO 14-year-old boys at home & enduring it (p.3)
Liz Mouse – for weathering a baby’s birth the same week as selling one home and buying another (p.3)
Brittanie – for this fantastic quote: “Cleaning and sorting while you and kids are growing is like shoveling snow while it’s still snowing.” (p.5)
Julie – for a kind, gushing compliment that made me smile (p.6)
Carrie McW. – for not knowing she was pregnant till 24 weeks into it (p.4)
Marcy Mahle – for her ‘winning store display’—go read this one! (p.5)
Seanna Lee – for helping her mom deliver a baby on the couch when she was only three (p.4)
GG – by mistaking my remark about shaving my legs to read,“It is far easier to HAVE swollen ankles”—and her disappointment at not learning more (p.5)
Julie B. – for needing cheering up after being called an “Old Fogie Mama” for having a baby at 38. (p.5)
Chanel – for needing cheering up after shoulder surgery and enduring the hairiness that accompanies having your shaving arm in a sling for many weeks (p.5)
And to the following new mamas, all with babies that were due about the same time as my little guy. I am your Mid-Night Commiserator; we are sisters is sleep deprivation.
Kim (ChefMessy)
Ashley (love that green bunk bed, btw!)
Celeste
Bianca G.
Elizabeth Jeanne
Shannon
Sarah Cap
Thanks, everyone, for the birthday wishes, stories, laughs, etc. (Have a look—great stories!) As I have said before, I wish we all lived in one, weird, modern town where we could get together for sewing bees on Sundays and dance parties every Friday night. Thank you for your friendship.
Winners, I will email each of you with instructions. If you don’t hear from me in the next two days or so, assume my email got lost in the VooDoo Net and send me an email (link in sidebar).
* The collage shown above was made by the lovely Lynette Carroll using HB papers & such.
