Favorite Posts Friday {8.3.12}.

Well, it's been a week or three since I've gotten an FPF post up, so this one is a bit long.  But it's a smattering of everything I've enjoyed the most over the past few weeks!


sKIDmarks - Some things you may need to know before you become a stay-at-home Mom - This is my new favorite blog.  My friend Ericka (can you still call someone your friend when you haven't seen them for, oh I don't know, maybe 4 years?  Thanks to Facebook, I say yes!), who is flippin' HILARIOUS herself and needs to start her own blog, told me to check it out and I'm so thankful I could kiss her (you know, if I ever see her in person again).  And when I saw this post, I fell even more in love with this blog.  Every ounce of this post could not be more true.  I adore it.


Bower Power - Soaking -- These are simply some beautiful words about a mother's love.  If you're a Mom (or just a softy), it's guaranteed to make your eyes leak, especially if you have a little boy.

Harper's Happenings - Rewind - 3 year olds are terrorists -- This weekend is the big Blogher conference in NYC, so lots of ladies are bringing back their favorite posts while their having all kinds of lady-blogger fun in the Big Apple.  I'm fairly new to Harper's Happenings, so I haven't seen this one before.  And I'm very glad I did.  Brennan isn't 3 yet, but holy bananas his attitude sure is changing a lot lately.  I just read this whole post and nodded in agreement blurted out "Oh my God, YES!" to pretty much every part.  I felt like I was at one of those fun churches where they yell out "Amen!" and such while the preacher is preachin'.

Bower Power - It's a little... -- This is one of the cutest, most creative gender reveals ever.  Not that I'm surprised at all, because Katie is one of the cutest, most creative people ever.

Brittany Herself - Jeggings Weather -- I legitimately spit out the water I was drinking when I got to the part about pulling up your Spanx in front of your husband.  I'll do A LOT of stuff in front of Brian, but if he's in the bedroom when I want to put on my fat-sucker-inner, I will walk into the bathroom (naked), close and lock the door, and then walk out with just the girdle and a bra on.  I mean, we get pretty up close and personal in life, but that is just something that no one should ever see.  I accidentally caught a glimpse of the process in the mirror one time.  Once I regained feeling in my retinas (and vowed not to eat for 2 months) I promised myself I'd never make that mistake again.  Moral of the story?  Read this.  It's spit-out-your-drink-funny.  I promise.

Blue-Eyed Bride - The Differences That Unite Us -- I wish more people would think this way.  It's true, I may be skeptical of the way some of my friends choose to parent.  I often think that things might just "work better" if they tried a different way of doing things.  And in the same regard, I often think things might work better if I tried a different way of doing things.  I just hate it when people get all judgmental or "my way or the highway".

Baby Rabies - Pre-Kid Problems -- This is just so funny to me.  I hate to compare problems in life - whether it be my problems vs. someone else's problems or my problems now vs. my problems in my past lives.  Because really, it's all relative.  I will freely admit that my life now is so.fucking.much.harder than ever before.  It's harder than when I was a working mom of one.  And that was harder than working without kids, which was harder than working without a mortgage, which was harder than college, which was harder than high school...  But the thing is, I really, truly, legitimately thought that my life was so hard at each of those points.  And people would say, "Oh you just wait til ::insert various life stages here::" and I would get super annoyed because THEY JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH.  The point is, maybe 'harder' is a bad term to use.  Maybe it's just a different kind of hard.  I say this because I can see people getting all huffy about this if they don't have a sense of humor kids.  (And I can say that because I was totally one of them at one point in time).

Baby Rabies - A Horror Story about Reptiles in Toilets -- You guys.  I'm not afraid of the lizards we have here.  They're harmless and pretty much like chipmunks or squirrels back in MI.  But finding one in the toilet after I pee is downright terrifying to me.  It has been one of my biggest fears since moving to Florida.  That and finding a cockroach in the toilet.  And a baby alligator.  What???

** No one asked me to feature their blog. I'm just passing along my favorites with hopes that you might find something you like too. And if you find a blog you like, I hope that you'll do like I did and follow their blog, whether by RSS, Friend Connect, or email. And do the same for mine if you like!