It's 6:30am. Gigi was fed over an hour ago and I really am pooped and should be hitting the sack before I am forced, with engorged boobs and squeaky baby no less, to arise from my slumber once again to revel in my milk supply (and her milk demand). But computer addict that I am, of course I checked my email and saw that I had a couple comments on the blog from other moms with kids who have Ds. Thanks to TrisomyMommy for the link! Her blog has paved the way for ALWAYS having something good to read what with her blog and all her links to other good blogs.
In fact, those comments led me on a wild blog bounce (my millionth in a fraction of the number of days) from link to link to link. And I have to say...I am TRULY impressed with the number of GOOD (nay, GREAT!) blogs out there that deal with Ds families. The writing, the design, the eloquence I have been seeing is at once humbling and inspiring (and of course, it makes me want to take my writing more seriously...no more of this half-assed stuff...--
OK. OK. Let's not go OVERBOARD...I am bound to still have halfassed stuff...)
But anyway. I have started linking to some of the blogs I've found. There is a real variety...different people in different places. Different experiences. But then too, there is such a community feeling. A community I really feel I SHOULD and WANT to get involved in. I have already learned so much--and I don't really want to ireinvent any wheels around here. Though, heck...maybe I sell myself short...perhaps I will (in the future anyway) at least be able to help inflate some tires. But really, these bloggers, besides providing me with entertainment, are a valuable resource.
Here's where I say something stupid which will show you a glimpse into my ridiculous obsessive thought patterning. I actually started wondering if it would be ok to just add those links in with my others since they are so clearly clumpable. Unlike my other links which are truly a random assortment (Note "A Random Assortment" is what I used to have my blogs listed under), these links are similar. And my Virgo mind, I have to say, it does find solace in ordering.
I also started to wonder if I should start a whole new blog specific to all things baby and Ds. I mean, not that I have any kind of huge readership, but will the people who read me now give a flying turd about babies and Ds??
O.K. I am rambling. And feeling incoherent. (So much for avoiding halfassed writing). What I, for some strange reason, feel the need to tell you (ok. is this just another example of my need to justify, to clarify, to get permission? I am such a permission asker. I bug even myself!), dear reader is that I have come up with this. A decision! (Incredible though it may be that I am even capable of making one!)
I am not going to start a new blog. Not now anyway. Why, really?! And. I am going to clump all my links together.
Here's why:
1.) Because, whether you like it or not, this is what is going on in my life now and what I am going to talk inevitably about. Like it has existed before, this blog has no specific intentional 'bent'...it just is what it is...and I have never been good at defining that. I don't have a specific readership or base...really, I think the only people who read this (hello, all 5 of you) are people who know me and for one reason or another like to keep in relative contact with me out here in The QC.
2.) Ds is the reality for me and my family now. It is not something to be categorized. We were what we were before and now we are what we are now. Besides. I don't think I could write ONLY about Ds. I mean, what about Iggy, what about TV on DVD, what about Christmas and what I ate for dinner last night?! SOMEBODY has to write about these things! (Sigh...it really DOES make you wonder why I feel I have any business filling up the internets with my ramblings, don' it? Though come on...I love blogs about notmuch too! Is it just this voyeuristic underpining? Maybe. I don't know. Perhaps searching for a place to belong? A person who understands? A funny anecdote? It's all those things...and MORE! Woot.) Blogs! The other white meat.
3.) Sometimes I like to write about how bored I am. And it sure is excitng for my readers! And that has nothing to do with Ds. Though maybe at some point it will have to do with Ds. Ds...how utterly boring! Although...I can't really imagine it getting too boring. Not now anyway. Though I have hope that one day it will just be...you know, neither here nor there. Just a thing in our lives. In fact, it's getting to be that way already (dare I say that so soon after G's birth? Am I really already just ok with it?) I mean, I think I am. Today sitting with her on the couch my mind went "Oh yeah, she has Ds." And it's not like I really forgot it or anything, it just hasn't been the biggest deal. First and foremost she is my cutie-pie. So yeah...who knows, maybe I'll get bored with Ds. As a topic anyway. And then I can get back to telling you all about the lint I picked out of my bellybutton!
4.) Um....I forget where I am going with this.
So. No longer a Random Assortment. But a Not-So-Random Assortment list of links exists over there on the right now. Check them out if you are so inclined. You might find out the hours of a really cool cafe and knittery in Portland, OR, or maybe you'll learn about what it's like to be super smart and clever and teach a Classics class, or maybe it's a reading list you are looking for, or perhaps you want to learn a little bit about Life in LA? Heck...you could be looking for anything. Maybe you just need a good site to pass the time while you are pretending to work? Whatever it is...you should at least check out some of these links someday, I think you'll be glad you did...and, welp, if you're inclined, you'll likely learn a little something about Down Syndrome too....
And now that I got that out of my system, and all the fine print has been excruciatingly spelled out for one and all, on with the show!
It's 6:30am. Gigi was fed over an hour ago and I really am pooped and should be hitting the sack before I am forced, with engorged boobs and squeaky baby no less, to arise from my slumber once again to revel in my milk supply (and her milk demand). But computer addict that I am, of course I checked my email and saw that I had a couple comments on the blog from other moms with kids who have Ds. Thanks to TrisomyMommy for the link! Her blog has paved the way for ALWAYS having something good to read what with her blog and all her links to other good blogs.
In fact, those comments led me on a wild blog bounce (my millionth in a fraction of the number of days) from link to link to link. And I have to say...I am TRULY impressed with the number of GOOD (nay, GREAT!) blogs out there that deal with Ds families. The writing, the design, the eloquence I have been seeing is at once humbling and inspiring (and of course, it makes me want to take my writing more seriously...no more of this half-assed stuff...--
OK. OK. Let's not go OVERBOARD...I am bound to still have halfassed stuff...)
But anyway. I have started linking to some of the blogs I've found. There is a real variety...different people in different places. Different experiences. But then too, there is such a community feeling. A community I really feel I SHOULD and WANT to get involved in. I have already learned so much--and I don't really want to ireinvent any wheels around here. Though, heck...maybe I sell myself short...perhaps I will (in the future anyway) at least be able to help inflate some tires. But really, these bloggers, besides providing me with entertainment, are a valuable resource.
Here's where I say something stupid which will show you a glimpse into my ridiculous obsessive thought patterning. I actually started wondering if it would be ok to just add those links in with my others since they are so clearly clumpable. Unlike my other links which are truly a random assortment (Note "A Random Assortment" is what I used to have my blogs listed under), these links are similar. And my Virgo mind, I have to say, it does find solace in ordering.
I also started to wonder if I should start a whole new blog specific to all things baby and Ds. I mean, not that I have any kind of huge readership, but will the people who read me now give a flying turd about babies and Ds??
O.K. I am rambling. And feeling incoherent. (So much for avoiding halfassed writing). What I, for some strange reason, feel the need to tell you (ok. is this just another example of my need to justify, to clarify, to get permission? I am such a permission asker. I bug even myself!), dear reader is that I have come up with this. A decision! (Incredible though it may be that I am even capable of making one!)
I am not going to start a new blog. Not now anyway. Why, really?! And. I am going to clump all my links together.
Here's why:
1.) Because, whether you like it or not, this is what is going on in my life now and what I am going to talk inevitably about. Like it has existed before, this blog has no specific intentional 'bent'...it just is what it is...and I have never been good at defining that. I don't have a specific readership or base...really, I think the only people who read this (hello, all 5 of you) are people who know me and for one reason or another like to keep in relative contact with me out here in The QC.
2.) Ds is the reality for me and my family now. It is not something to be categorized. We were what we were before and now we are what we are now. Besides. I don't think I could write ONLY about Ds. I mean, what about Iggy, what about TV on DVD, what about Christmas and what I ate for dinner last night?! SOMEBODY has to write about these things! (Sigh...it really DOES make you wonder why I feel I have any business filling up the internets with my ramblings, don' it? Though come on...I love blogs about notmuch too! Is it just this voyeuristic underpining? Maybe. I don't know. Perhaps searching for a place to belong? A person who understands? A funny anecdote? It's all those things...and MORE! Woot.) Blogs! The other white meat.
3.) Sometimes I like to write about how bored I am. And it sure is excitng for my readers! And that has nothing to do with Ds. Though maybe at some point it will have to do with Ds. Ds...how utterly boring! Although...I can't really imagine it getting too boring. Not now anyway. Though I have hope that one day it will just be...you know, neither here nor there. Just a thing in our lives. In fact, it's getting to be that way already (dare I say that so soon after G's birth? Am I really already just ok with it?) I mean, I think I am. Today sitting with her on the couch my mind went "Oh yeah, she has Ds." And it's not like I really forgot it or anything, it just hasn't been the biggest deal. First and foremost she is my cutie-pie. So yeah...who knows, maybe I'll get bored with Ds. As a topic anyway. And then I can get back to telling you all about the lint I picked out of my bellybutton!
4.) Um....I forget where I am going with this.
So. No longer a Random Assortment. But a Not-So-Random Assortment list of links exists over there on the right now. Check them out if you are so inclined. You might find out the hours of a really cool cafe and knittery in Portland, OR, or maybe you'll learn about what it's like to be super smart and clever and teach a Classics class, or maybe it's a reading list you are looking for, or perhaps you want to learn a little bit about Life in LA? Heck...you could be looking for anything. Maybe you just need a good site to pass the time while you are pretending to work? Whatever it is...you should at least check out some of these links someday, I think you'll be glad you did...and, welp, if you're inclined, you'll likely learn a little something about Down Syndrome too....
And now that I got that out of my system, and all the fine print has been excruciatingly spelled out for one and all, on with the show!