Parenting Sites 411

The list is short this week, but the sites I’ve included are no less awesome. So if you’re thirsting for some good reading material this weekend, look no further than these posts. They’ll keep you busy, entertained and thoughtful. I can guarantee that.

• “Shout Out to Bossy’s Gays” by i am bossy. This is a beautiful post, done “poetry style” and complete with a soundtrack. I’d like to echo her sentiment. I’ve known some awesome people who just also happen to be gay.
• “IZ NAKIES” from I Can Has Cheeseburger? Okay, it’s not a parenting blog, but it’s hysterical nonetheless. If you haven’t become familiar with lolcats before now, this website is sure to keep you entertained and suck all sorts of time from you this weekend. And this particular lolcat made me literally laugh out loud.
• “…to a land where joy shall never end…” by Oh, The Joys. She is almost always just hysterically funny but this time, we see her sensitive and serious side. A literally gut-wrenching post that all too many of us can sympathize with.
• “Longing for a Pocket” by Purple is a Fruit. Some readers had suggested to Linda that if she was curious about observing her own c-section, to watch a video of one first. She found one on YouTube and has since revised her earlier stance on viewing a c-section. Yikes, I can only imagine. I just think there are some things I’d like to see and do in this world and there are some things I can be perfectly happy being in the dark about. This is one of those things.
• “The First Experiment: Chickpea Cookies” by Ordering Disorder. Melissa is trying out that new Jessica Seinfeld book “Deceptively Delicious” out on her notoriously picky children and this was her first go. I was interested to see the outcome, as I saw the segment on Oprah with Mrs. Seinfeld earlier this week and wanted to see how these recipes went over in “real life”. I’m not a big fan of chickpeas though, so I was a little horrified at the notion of putting them into chocolate chip cookies. I probably would have mashed them up before hand instead of putting them in whole. But it sounds like they went over pretty well. I’ll be keeping an eye for her future “experiements”.
• “Instant Karma” by IzzyMom. Just about everyone at some time or another has had an awful neighbor. Reading this story about Izzy’s awful neighbor, I felt invested in the outcome, wanting to see her vindicated. And she was. Richly so. Down with awful neighbors everywhere!