696th Friday Blog Roundup

One of my books is on sale for the first two weeks of June on all platforms, and it’s for the best reason EVER.  (Okay, maybe not ever, but it’s a really cool reason.)  Apart at the Seams is on sale for $1.99 from June 1st to June 15th because June 13th is National Sewing Machine Day.  There is a whole day on the calendar to celebrate sewing machines.  We live in an amazing world.

So head over to your favourite place to get books and pick up Apart at the Seams for two dollars.  Technically under two dollars.  You can’t even get a spool of thread for that price.

Please help me spread word.

And the twins’ book was chosen by Amazon to be one of their Summer Toy List picks!  They get a super neat badge above the book name.

Hello Scratch! is on their STEM in the Summer list.  Amazon’s explanation:

STEM toys go beyond the classroom and after the school year to educate and excite kids of all ages. STEM toys encourage kids to learn and develop skills in the core disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The 2018 Summer Toy List captures the best STEM toys which have clear goals and encourage kids to learn and continue developing STEM skills while having fun during the summer. Keep your kids learning this summer by using the Amazon 2018 Summer Toy List where you can explore hundreds of this year’s top STEM toys.

I am so freakin’ proud of them.  Their book rocks AND teaches basic computer science concepts AND how to make retro video games.  And they indulge me in my Yahtzee obsession.  They really are cool 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:

• CIO Citizen, which is the awesome Facebook project of an ALI blogger
• “MicroblogMondays: Santa Cruz” (Searching for Our Silver Lining)
• “Gifts of Infertility Series #25 – A Reminder of What is Important” (No Kidding in NZ)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Constant in the Darkness has a post about how infertility colours our experience.  She sees a child wearing a t-shirt that reads: Bio Kid.  Guess where her mind (and my mind!) went…

The Road Less Travelled has a hard post about what is always a hard time of year.  20 years ago this month, she was happily pregnant with Katie.  20 years later, she is delaying travel plans to care for her ill father-in-law.  She writes, “On the bright (?) side — I was fretting that by taking vacation in early August, we would not be here for Katie’s milestone 20th ‘anniversary’ dates. Be careful what you wish for, right?” Sending a lot of love.

Lastly, My Path to Mommyhood has a post about what it means to look forward when you know you need to honour and remember what came before.  She explains, “Immerse is the key word — you can visit, you can reflect, but you can’t be a functioning, forward-thinking, forward-planning person if you are forever immersed in the events of your past.”  It’s a beautiful post about getting to a place where you can “celebrate the life you have and not the one you were denied for inexplicable reasons.”

The roundup to the Roundup: Apart at the Seams is on sale AND the twins’ book, Hello Scratch, is being featured by Amazon.  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 May 25th and June 1st) 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.