lazy, linky friday

I have a post in drafts about some home projects we're working on. Or, should I say, we have STARTED but AREN'T REALLY WORKING ON THAT MUCH RIGHT NOW. (Ok, yes. That is what I should say.)

But finishing the post would involve me getting my camera and taking pictures and downloading and it just all seems so tedious. (Lazy.)

So I'll get to that, I promise, but for now, I'm sending you off around the internet to read other people who write so much better than I do.





Photo from mamapundit.com

Blogger and attachment parenting author Katie Allison Granju's son, Henry, died this week, just over a month after he suffered a drug overdose and a brutal attack. Katie has been heartbreakingly honest about their struggles parenting Henry while he was fighting for his life. I'm shattered that they lost their battle.

This post on crib chronicles expresses so eloquently all the emotions we as mothers feel when grieving with one of our own. I often feel like there is some complicated, intricate dance routine and if I learn and execute it perfectly, I can protect my kids from the horrors of this world. But there is no dance routine. There is no perfect answer to their searching questions. There is no exact right thing that you can say that will chart their safe direction in stormy seas. But on the very cusp of adolescence with my oldest, I keep searching. And gripping the parenting steering wheel with ever-whitening knuckles.






(picture from Hyperbole and a Half)

On a lighter note, I have a new favorite blog, Hyperbole and a Half. I was laughing so hard I was full on sobbing by the end of this post. This is another of my favorites. (Take a minute to visit the Little Bloggers Room if you need to first. You will be laughing HARD.)





(photo by Karen Walrond (Chookooloonks))

Jenny, the Bloggess, is another of my favorite humor bloggers. There is NO TELLING what she will be writing about when you click on her blog. But this post, The Traveling Red Dress, while funny, of course, is fabulous and something everyone should read. I mean it. Everyone. Photos by the fabulous Chookooloonks and her backstory is here. Also hilarious. (What would you do if one of your friends asked you to meet her in a cemetery and to bring bail money, just in case?) Feel free to write your own post about what YOUR red dress would be. Like Neil, who bravely went first.