The Gambler

Auds at Barking Mad is giving away a $250 Target gift card! ( I KNOW. SHUT UP.) And all I have to do is share my own posts! My five favorites! So here you go:

5. Remember – This post was one of those that just spilled out, the keyboard click clacking away as my mind raced. And then it was accepted by Mama Manifesto, Bloggers Annex, and Blog Nosh Magazine. I couldn’t be more honored to be featured on those sites. So it had to be the first of my backwards five.

4. Dear Mother – My submission to The Mother Letter Project. I have to read it every once and awhile myself, to remind me that I’m just the right Mom for my boys, even when I don’t feel like I am.

3. Let’s do this – Pure nostalgia for me. I wrote this right before Asher’s surgery. It speaks of my faith, something I don’t speak of on this here blog all that often.

2. Invisibility – This post is about the quiet and mostly unnoticed work of mothers. It’s a post I wrote back when nearly no one read my blog. (Here’s a shout-out to Kim for thinking this post was great and shouting from the roof-tops that you’d found a new blog to love. You rock, friend. So glad to know you.)

1. Giving – A post that reminds me that my boys are always watching and learning from me. And I hope to teach them something full of grace and love with my life. I hope.

(Looking through your archives for “favorites” is fun, but much harder than I thought it would be. I would think “Oh yeah that one! That’s pretty good.” Then I would read it and think, “What was I thinking? LAME.” Tricky.)

(If I win the $250 to Target from Barking Mad, I will jump right out of my skin! If I win one of the In His Hands prize packages, I will run through the street screaming joyfully…apparently with no skin. Ew.)