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Follow Friday: Veronica Armstrong

I am absolutely addicted to this weeks Follow Friday, Veronica Armstrong.

Veronica’s blog recently went through a bit of a remodel including a name change. Formerly CrunchyVTMommy, she can now be found at VeronicaArmstrong.com and @veronicatheblog on Twitter.

Veronica blogs in words and pictures about the life she shares with her Ivy League husband and two adorable babes.

…there was a woman at a neighboring table who kept speaking to us while we ate. I am pretty friendly and didn’t mind but it was pretty awkward. It was super awkward when she asked whether we were having more kids and/ or planned on “getting fixed”. So very awkward.

Her honest, sometimes tongue in cheek, and always satisfying posts are more than enough to keep me around…

We went for a long walk on campus and looked everywhere for signs of Spring. Finally we noticed a bunch of students playing a game of soccer in a muddy field. That’s a sign of Spring! No one plays soccer in the winter wearing just shorts and a t-shirt. Success!

Follow Friday: Demand Euphoria

One of my favorite parenting blogs is written by a woman I came upon soon after I discovered the joys of twitter. The insightful, inspiring, and entertaining posts at Demand Euphoria are definitely worth the read. Vickie’s posts are written from a thoughtful, unique, and unconventional perspective. Happiness, trust, freedom, and love are just a few of the words that come to my mind. Even her tagline is amazing.

“That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!” -Calvin & Hobbes

The topics she writes on hit close to home for parents whether you agree with her or not. Recently posting about the man who shot his daughters laptop for posting what he considered disrespectful comments on facebook, Vickie opens the door to compassion and leaves space for the obvious.

The father himself admits that if he sold the laptop and took the money, that would be stealing, but to render the item useless? No problem. What is the disconnect here? How is destroying her property NOT stealing?

Follow Friday: Mom Makes Milk

Always the breastfeeding supporter, I encourage you to check out Bess Bedell and her new blog www.mommakesmilk.com. With photos, giveaways, new and thoughtful posts regularly, tons of support for breastfeeding moms and a considerable twitter following, mommakesmilk.com is worth more than a passing glance. Hoping to be an aid to nursing moms in need mommakesmilk is putting into action a plan to get going from ground up, a respectable mission indeed.

In mommakesmilk’s purpose statement we express the desire to reach a point where we are able to sponsor moms and moms to be and even be able to donate breast pumps. This is quite a costly hope for a young, immature site that is being run by one person who is not financially well off so the question was presented – how do we plan to do this? Good question!  Being that this is mommakesmilk’s second week in existence, this is something I am still figuring out myself but I am glad to share my ideas and hope with you all while I come up with them.

Follow Friday: Confessions Of A Judgmental Hippy

I am brand new to the blogging world and have mere months under my belt in the Twitter universe. Andi Starr has had her blog ‘Confessions of a Judgmental Hippy’ up for 3 years and I’m liking what she has to say.  A recent post of hers titled “I’m selfish and reckless? You’re a pig. Are we even?” is music to my ears… She breaks down an anti home birth propaganda article with the kind of intensity I love to hear.

yet another voice against homebirth. i thought it was bad with she-who-will-not-be-named roaming the internet in search of prey. now we have a so-called ‘parenting expert’ telling homebirthers ‘sorry, you’re selfish and reckless’. really? let’s break this article and argument down.

…We must be kindred spirits…

apparently she doesn’t understand that getting into the car in the first place is riskier than homebirth. and yes, i’ve linked to the car accident statistics website for her country. american car accident website is here.

:)