The year in review

I've only been blogging since August, and already a whole patch of posts -- 204 of them -- has grown (some weeds, some flowers). I want to highlight a few that have particular meaning to me and maybe you'll find a few that mean something to you as well.

LifeFiles columns
These are links to collections of columns published before I started blogging:

• LifeFiles #5


• LifeFiles #4


• LifeFiles #3


• LifeFiles #2.5


• LifeFiles #2


• LifeFiles #1

These are links to columns published simultaneously on this blog in the last few months:

• Life sucks


• I hate your husband


• Give up the remote & other tips for a happy home


• The scarlet S


• Whose name is it?


• Married to my computer


• You're not the man I married


• If I won the lottery


• So many reasons to hate the season

DotMoms posts
I started DotMoms as a group weblog for mothers and others who want to write about life on the homefront. I continue to edit it, but rarely contribute.

• The DotMomafesto


• Who are your role models?


• Screen time


• Saying no to the neighbors


• Where did your parenting style come from?


• What scares me


• It's 3:30 p.m., does your mom know you're blogging?


• Still grateful after all these years

MomintheMirror posts
Some of your favorites and mine.

• Reflection #2


• Peeing in private


• It costs a village


• The eye of God


• Weekends are for what?!


• Whose hair is it anyway?


• The family paper


• Birthday party etiquette


• Your turn to be last


• Dr. Seuss on blogs


• Suspicious of the Sno-Cone man


• The best seat in the house


• Weight a minute


• There's nothing domestic about family violence


• Block by block


• I want to be my cat
  
• Sex rules


• TV IV


• Wanna cuddle?


• I'm the little engine


• The 12 Days of Christmas, family style

Better left unsaid?
Topics I meant to write about but never did.

• I think in html


• Mommy really was kissing Santa Claus


• Shopping with a girl


• Flu frenzy


• I'd hate to be my manager


• Being No. 3


• Are families really necessary?


• Coasting


• Sometimes I get it right


• 32AA


• Where inspiration strikes


• Friends, but not really


• What I brought home with me


• The me in the pictures


• A snob about cleanliness


• The paradox of mourning


• My last meal would be a buffet


• Speaking with my hands


• What annoys me


• I want to follow my destiny, but which one?


• I am not my mother


• School non-choice


• A full schedule


• Night feedings (mine)


• Still the teacher's pet


• The family bed


• Saving men from themselves


• Devoted to you


• Game Boy junkies


• The ringing phone


• I follow directions obsessively


• School lunches


• Southern cell phone etiquette