839th Friday Blog Roundup

I don’t remember April Fools Day last year. I’m sure it happened; I mean, April 1st happened. But I don’t remember people doing stupid pranks.

Not so this year.

The pandemic no longer has the power to distract people from posting fake pregnancy announcements or online magazines from queuing up fake news articles to the delight of no one. I’m thankful we got a one-year break. If we did get a one-year break. I have zero memory of last April. To be fair, I was apparently very distracted by the lack of soap.

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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:

• “Because I Can” (No Kidding in NZ)
• “A Favour” (The Road Less Travelled)
• “Do You Have to Read This Blog in Secret?” (Childless by Marriage)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Uterus Monologues has a post about being torn between needing a break from childcare and feeling guilty. Which in turn becomes a musing on where she belongs now that she’s parenting after infertility. She writes: “I’ve found the transition surprisingly difficult and discomfiting – and, sometimes, brazenly painful. It’s uncomfortable, I think, because you find yourself empathizing with all angles, all at once.” I love this post because she gives space to something many people feel while parenting.

Finding My Plan B has a post about navigating life without a map. She tells a story of an actual walk that ended in a wonderful space, as well as the figurative walk of moving through life. She explains: “The absence of a map allowed me to experience the freedom of life the way I wanted to experience it, which may not have happened if I walked the route that others had mapped out for me, sound familiar?” It’s a smart reminder of the good things that can happen when you leave a path.

Lastly, FinallyMyLinesNow writes about the anniversaries that fertile people don’t have. They may move through pregnancy paying attention to milestones, but people pregnant after infertility or loss have additional moments they navigate. “Tomorrow, Sunday, I’ll reach 17 weeks. The last time I turned 17 weeks on a Sunday was October 2016. Zoe’s water broke right around 7 that morning. That was the start of a lot of changes in my life, my outlook, my values.” Send good thoughts her way.

The roundup to the Roundup: April Fool’s Day is back. 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 26 – April 2) 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.