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So I’m reading the first ten posts in Google Reader in the Relaxed Parents folder (as opposed to the Buddhism folder or the Social Media folder or a number of extraordinarily dull other folders, the contents and continued existence of which I really should review). Then I’m going to sleep.
“Don’t talk back to Darth Vader, he’ll getcha…” – on Dad Centric.
Yogamum has inspired me to struggle on with a yoga practice of some kind through her amazing creation of the WoMoPracMo community and her brave and honest posts continue to inspire me in many other ways. I know many of my regular readers visit her blog so I hope she doesn’t mind me mentioning her.
Penguin Unearthed provides me with a little intellectual grit and substance on an almost daily basis at the moment (because she’s, like, posting almost daily) which frequently overlaps interestingly with my studies.
MamaParo hasn’t been writing this blog for very long but she has a gifted wordsmith for a daughter (obviously a family trend going by her other blogs).
Creative Type Dad is writing about poop. (It’s an American word for ‘poo’.) At the end, he mentions a concern about something I’ve actually witnessed happening – and we have the stain on the back of the nursery door to prove it! But congratulations, anyway – it’s a huge milestone only other parents who’ve been there can appreciate.
SusieJ is baking. I can only gape in amazement at the idea of someone who regularly takes on recipes as complicated as this.
Meanwhile, Blogschmog is celebrating Twitter. I love Twitter but suffer from not having a gang to twitter with.
LA Daddy is singing 70s porn music to his children. Hmm. As the man who made his two year listen to the Aphex Twin (and his mother played him Grinderman), I’m in no position to criticise. At least the LA D is actually joking.
A Was Alarmed is doing a meme which I may hijack. And Charlotte is having a midlife crisis.
And I’m going to bed, after reflecting that never was there such a gift as the Internet in general and the people I’ve encountered through it in particular.
What’s going on in the first ten posts on your reader?
Ah, while not the last in my reader, your blog was the last I said I was going to read tonight, so I can only cite the last 2 read — this one (great post) and your ‘Why I Do Yoga’ post. I’ve got to get to sleep or I’ll sleep through my yoga class tomorrow as soon as I hit the mat!
Thanks for the link (and the compliment), unrelaxeddad. I got to this too late in my reading, so I think I might do it tomorrow night. Good meme!
Wow!! That can actually happen….
Now I’m a little frightened
I’m caught up on my reader (yes, I’m spending WAY too much time online)!! Thanks for all these brilliant links!
And watch out for Darth Vader, he’ll getcha!
Thanks for the compliment, and the links! Elina is over the moon with your compliment :)
First ten bloggers on my reader never updated their blogs!
I’m so glad I’m not the only one!! Thanks for the update about what’s going on with everyone else!
I’m almost never behind on my feed reader…because it’s not that huge, and because it’s a highlight of my day. I can’t go without it! But I wonder about tomorrow…I feel a cold coming on, the boy’s got pinkeye, the girl’s decided to be a major punkette…maybe I’ll crawl into bed tonight and not get out!
Hey all. How do people stay caught up?!? Perhaps I should give up sleeping!
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I didn’t know you weren’t tagged for that meme, (Un)relaxeddad (I’m behind on *everything* at the moment, except perhaps writing, which makes a change). So consider yourself tagged from me!
I can relate to poo posts at the moment. I just had a total freakout when one small person, who is meant to have learnt how to do number twos in the potty, decided to do one in his nappy minutes after I’d got him ready for bed (he’s still in nappies at night because we’re still at the beginning of this toilet training lark and probably will be for a long, long time). GAH!!!!! I know if I introduced bribes he would get the idea instantly, but then he would expect the bribes until he was 21. It’s finding that balance of: “How much do I want to be tormented and by what?”