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If this is your first time visiting, the Perfect Post Awards are a way for bloggers to give their favorite post of the preceding month a little extra recognition. They’re also a great opportunity to read some really wonderful writing and find a few new blogs to bookmark in the process.
This time, my award goes out to a blog most of you will recognize. Finslippy is always a good read, but her bittersweet tale of Minty Bear is so well-written that I was biting my knuckles reading it. I won’t bore you with details; just go read it. And when you’re done, check out some of the other Perfect Posts on the list. And if you’d like to give out your own Perfect Post Award, e-mail Kimberly or me and we’ll add you to the mailing list.
Petroville awarded This Full House
An Imperfect Life awarded Niihaus
Mama Tulip awarded The Redneck Mommy
Masked Mom awarded The Silent K
Chicken and Cheese awarded Binkytown
Alpha Dogma awarded Rosebud and Papoosie Girl
The Kids are Alright and Dispatch Mom awarded Her Bad Mother
MacDonald Clan awarded My 3 Gifts
Brillig the Great awarded Emma Sometimes
In the Trenches of Mommyhood awarded Gray Matter Matters
The Wooden Porch awarded Earthgirlknits
Emancipation of a Drama Queen awarded Captain Crankypants Strikes Again!
Write About Here awarded Frog and Toad are Still Friends
I Agree with Me awarded Ridge Walker
What was I Thinking awarded One Good Thing (part 1 & 2)
Miscellanous Adventures of an Aussie Mum awarded Her Bad Mother
Coming to a Nursery Near You awarded Dad Gone Mad
Something to Say awarded Soccer Mom in Denial
Poop Happens awarded Old Horsetail Snake
The Ravin’ Picture Maven awarded Slouching Towards 40
Playgroups are No Place for Children awarded Tulip Mom
Oh, The Joys awarded World of One Thousand Different Things
ValueWit awarded Eyespeak
Poot and Cubby awarded Get in the Car!
Old Horsetail Snake awarded It Occurred To Me
The Dust Will Wait awarded Rabbit Run Cottage
Fenicle awarded Toddler Planet
She Laughs at the Days awarded Actual Unretouched Photo
Jenny awarded Slacker-moms-r-us
>OK, I gotta know. Am I the only person who reads this list every month, scanning for their own name in the list?Yes?
>Hey there,I’ve enjoyed your blog for a while now, the first time coming across it via an unschooling connection, http://suburbanturmoil.blogspot.com/2006/11/unschooling-updated.htmlI was the mom with two gifted kids, one in public school one unschooling. I was just reading your blog tonight, no particular reason, and just thought it’s been awhile since I commented. Lol, I won’t be offended if this gets deleted. Since that time, my oldest, in 11th grade, IB student who speaks four languages, has a manic depressive father who’s threatened to kill her, who wasn’t rattled much by all these events, was finally rattled. She had planned to go to the movies with her two best friends in the world. For unknown reasons, she changed her mind and came home early. The friends she was to be with died that night on the way to the show.Tragedy has an interesting way of playing out ones fate. After this terible event, this child of mine could no longer deal with walking into the school. She needed to not sit and spin idol time to think about what happened. This incredibly smart young lady, left school, took her GED, and will be graduating from the Fire Academy two weeks after she turns 18 instead of graduating from high school. She plans to give of herself to try and keep others from feeling her loss. I was surprised to say the least, but I totally respect her choice of career change. I know this isn’t the topic of this particular post, and I’m quite aware that the personal events that happen in my world isn’t your readership’s concern. Just thought it might help some understand that the most important thing is to love and support your kids. I re-read what I posted before and stand by it. I personally am once again amazed at how fast life can change.
>All that matters is that as parents, you do the best you can do for each child. Be open and honest with them. And love them for all their worth.
>I read it every month too…can anyone nominate someone? um, I have a post I’d like to nominate and don’t if that’s okay or not.
>Hey, thanks! Secretly I’ve always wanted to get one of these. And to think, I just had to BREAK MY SON’S HEART to do it. (Sob.)
>Kara, send an e-mail to suburban.turmoil@yahoo.com and I’ll put you on the mailing list for next month. Yes, anyone can give out an award, provided it’s a post from the previous month and it’s not something from their own blog.
>Wow, what a stong month. Time to get reading.
>I ain’t never got no award.
>Lindsey,I can call you Lindsey now that I’ve met you for REAL, right?I just read about minty. Practically had me in tears. I had to go get Bear’s “Flipsy” and cuddle it for a long, long while.(Yes, it’s really ‘Flipsy Jr.’… but then we found Flipsy Sr and now, well, let’s just say at this point we’re practicing Flipsy population control.)Thank you so much for doing this…these post awards have really expanded my world.
>OK, next time if I ask if I can call you by name, maybe I should spell it right?Sorry, Lindsay.*muttering in shame*