984th Friday Blog Roundup
It is once again National Infertility Awareness Week, or NIAW, and the theme this year is Leave Your Mark. While I write and talk about infertility all the time, I find it hard to fit my feelings into a prompt.
I’m glad NIAW exists, but sometimes I struggle with knowing how to participate. I didn’t want the week to pass without acknowledging it.
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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 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. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
- None… sniff.
Okay, now my choices this week.
Infertile Phoenix writes about assumptions. She explains, “It’s not the small, individual comments that hurt or even annoy me anymore, not at this stage of my healing. It’s the overall onslaught of all of them. It’s all of the underlying assumptions.” It gives her insight into how much we need to step back and remember what we don’t know.
Lastly, Slaying, Blogging, Whatever… has a post on her child’s 16th birthday (happy birthday!). It’s an acknowledgment of how hard it can be to reach these days, and a reminder to her daughter that she is never alone. This touched my heart: “The wonder of her still amazes me and I am continually surprised by her thoughtfulness, kindness, humor and strength. I only hope she can eventually understand this in herself.”
The roundup to the Roundup: It’s NIAW. 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 April 19 – 26) 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.
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I love the quote you’ve pulled from IP’s post. That exactly explains my life now too. Very sadly, I’m nominating IP’s post for this week too, because she was able to announce a great response to her research, and conversely, talked about awful responses on her blog which are leading her to pull back from blogging. I certainly hope this is not the last time I nominate one of her posts for Second Helpings. https://infertilephoenix.blogspot.com/2024/04/well-received.html
Oh wow, this is the first year that NIAW came and went and I didn’t realize. At all.
I second IF although it hurts my heart to think of Phoenix pulling back and away because people said things that had to be horrific.
Loribeth’s post in the Invisible Load really made me think: https://theroadlesstravelledlb.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-invisible-load.html?m=1
And I loved The Brambles by you for the thought of having a deep connection to a park and reading in nature, by water. And I had no clue Maryland has no natural lakes!
https://www.stirrup-queens.com/2024/04/the-brambles/