Hi! I'm Lindsay Ferrier. You might remember me from a blog called Suburban Turmoil. Well, a lot has changed since I started that blog in 2005. My kids grew up, I got a divorce, and I finally left the suburbs for the heart of Nashville, where I feel like I truly belong. I have no idea what the future will hold and you know what? I'm okay with that. Thrilled, actually. It was time for something totally different.
December 1, 2006
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It’s the first of the month, which means it’s time once again for the Perfect Post Awards, a monthly award thought up by MommaK and me that allows bloggers to give some recognition to the best/funniest/most moving post they’ve read all month.
There was one blogger whose posts this past month moved me more than anything I’ve ever read. Chances are, you know who I’m talking about. “AT” from the Atomic Tumor website blogged constantly throughout his wife’s sudden and mysterious illness during the first week of November, her time spent in the hospital, and her eventual death on the 17th. Like thousands of others, I checked in several times a day to see how BJ was doing. She was a mother to 9 and 5-year-old boys and I was pulling for her recovery as a reader and as a mom. When she died, I cried all day long. AT, you allowed so many people to experience this journey with you, to feel like we knew BJ ourselves, and to appreciate every moment we have with our spouses and kids. And I thank you for that.
Giving a Perfect Post award to AT seems tacky beyond belief, so I won’t, but I did want to mention his amazing writing during what will doubtless be the most difficult period of his life.
Now, sit back and enjoy. You’ve got some great reading ahead of you. And if you’d like to participate in next month’s Perfect Post Awards, e-mail me and I’ll add you to the mailing list.
Petroville awarded Mamacita
Mom on a Wire awarded Her Majesty’s Throne
Mom 101 awarded Women Having It All
Stolen Moments awarded Cheeky Lotus
Notes from the Trenches awarded Journey Mama
Something Blue and Life of ‘Pie awarded Girl’s Gone Child
Little Bald Doctors awarded Mommymatic
Tracey (Mother May I) and Notes to Self awarded Jen Lemen
Digital Father awarded Redneck Mother
Chicken and Cheese awarded 24/7
Troll-Baby awarded Athena Dreaming
The Mummy Chronicles awarded Izzy Mom
Happily Ever After awarded A Deviated Path
Scribbit awarded Mental Tessarae
Artificially Sweetened awarded A Shot in the Dark
The Silent I awarded Dante’s Inferno with Children
Our Life Together awarded Not That You Asked
Masked Mom awarded 24/7
Lady M awarded Life: The Ongoing Education
Mommy Has a Headache awarded Steve Novak
Berklie awarded Troll Baby
Mamaritaville awarded My Ovaries Made Me Do It
Never That Easy awarded Halloweenlover
Oh, The Joys awarded The Sour Kraut
ChildsPlayx2 awarded Cynical Dad
Miss Cellania awarded Golden Lucy’s Spiral Journal
Local Girl awarded Mommy Needs a Mai-Tai
Pass the Torch awarded The Dust Will Wait
Six Kids awarded MotherPie
At Home in Rome awarded In Search of Dessert
Artist By Nature awarded Petroville
Pointless Drivel awarded Jabbering in My Jammies
Hectic Mom awarded The Underpaid Kept Woman
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>The haircut was definitely one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in a while. Thanks.
>Whoa whoa whoa, I get a dead wife, and THEN don’t get a perfect post award? Wheres the justice?:)
>Oh yeah, and did I mention AT has a wonderfully twisted sense of humor?If there were an award for incredible fortitude, honesty and grace in the face of absolute godawfulness, it would be all yours, AT.
>It is oddly comforting to know that you are following AT’s journey as well. The day BJ died was surrealistic– I was honestly grieving for a woman and a family I have never met. I, uh, DO have a life, so it is not my habit to become totally engrossed in a stranger’s. But AT’s beautiful writing, his clarity and poetry, just drew me in and I became one of the (apparently many) people who were compulsively checking in on him several times a day. I enjoy your blog so much. I am a lived-21-years-in-Hillsboro-Village-just-moved-to-BRENTWOOD-for-crying-out-loud kind of gal, myself. Life in the ‘burbs is certainly different, but I haven’t turned into a Stepford/tennis mom yet. And I have had to come face to face with some of my reverse-snobbery issues… As my 14 year old daughter says, “Mom–seriously, they NEED us here!”
>About 7 years ago I came extremely close to losing my husband in an accident. I didn’t think I could look at ATs saga for bringing back some of those memories… I just remember the horrors of my husband’s pain and suffering, (it was bad), the vague commentaries on his condition by his doctors (one actually just “gave up” and we had to find our own new doctor), the ineffeciencies and screwups at the hospital, trying to “keep it together” on the homefront and also preparing ourselves for the fact that he might die or never be the same. Bless AT for his honesty and sharing.
>That haircut post is wonderful! Thanks for the laugh – and getting out of the blogging box, so to speak.
>I just wanted to thank you for sharing AT’s blog. I must be living under a log, because I was completely unaware. And now I am riveted and sad and amazed and at a loss for words.
>I too, would like to thank you for sharing AT’s blog. There are no words, not a one, than can adequately describe how I’ve felt since reading it.