686th Friday Blog Roundup

The twins had a snow day on Wednesday, which I suspect means that we’re going to lose a day of spring break.  But I’m not going to focus on that right now.  Instead I’m going to focus on the fact that I got an extra hour of sleep.

They took the day to organize themselves for the Penny War.  This just may be the most brilliant fundraising game.  Each kid brings in all of their pennies for Pennies for Patients.  You get one point for each penny, and 1000 points for each dollar.  (I guess you get extra points because no one needs to count out 100 coins.)  You dump all of your pennies into your grade’s bucket.  BUT you can also bring in nickels, dimes, and quarters and REMOVE points from another team’s bucket.  So if I put a nickel into another grade’s bucket, they lose five points.

The grades have been sabotaging each other’s buckets, which amuses me to no end, so they gathered in the Wolvog’s room to count out coins, sorting them into their penny boxes and sabotage bags.  Go forth and conquer, kids.

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Stop procrastinating.  Go make your backups.  Don’t have regrets.

Seriously.  Stop what you’re doing for a moment.  It will take you fifteen minutes, tops.  But you will have peace of mind for days and days.  It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week.  In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “Update from Yesterday” (Countingpinklines)
• “She Will Not Have My Eyes” (The OCD Infertile)

Okay, now my choices this week.

My Path to Mommyhood has a post about PCOS and about how taking care of one aspect of her health may be creating issues in another area.  She writes, “That was when I couldn’t stop crying. I mean, PCOS is one of many pieces that robbed me of having children, but it couldn’t stop there, apparently. And I received very little counseling about how it would affect me longterm. Only how it affected my reproductive life.”  It’s about the “ever after” that sometimes comes with what contributes to infertility.

Lavender Luz expands your definition of openness with a new way of looking at open adoption.  In her definition, the openness is on the part of each individual in the triad vs. only looping in the concept of contact.  It’s not the first time she has talked about this, but it’s such an important point to drive home for everyone involved with adoption AND the advice is really applicable outside of adoption, too, since openness helps in any relationship.

Lastly, In Quest of a Binky Moongee has a post about surrogacy; namely, the legal stuff other parents don’t have to think about.  She explains stuff that still needs to be done now that the twins are here and why she has waited on certain tasks.  The bureaucracy hoops she needs to jump through will make you start hyperventilating.  It all works out in the end, but it’s an eye-opening post.

The roundup to the Roundup: Dispatches from the Penny War.  Your weekly backup nudge.  And lots of great posts to read.  So what did you find this week?  Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between March 16th and 23rd) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week?  Read the original open thread post here.