Creating Kris ~ a young mom blogs…

family difficulties: blog pause

I’m sorry that my blog has been on a bit of a hiatus… our family has been going through a very difficult time.

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Favourite Blogs & Blog Carnival

I wanted to share a little “link love” today and also chat about some current happenings in the Blogosphere right now…

* In case you haven’t already heard, the YM Blogs over at (my very own) YoungMommies.com have a FABULOUS contest up right now! All young moms (by our definition, moms who had their first child before age 30) are eligible to win one of two prizes – a book giveaway and a Summer Fun pack. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment! The contest is almost over (ends today!) so be sure to stop by soon! Click here to read the contest details.

* If you’ve read my recent post Introducing the me underneath it all…, you know about the Blog Carnival happening at Graceful Agony, a chronic pain blog I read. The First Round of posts has been posted! So here is the thread to visit if you want to read all the posts that were created as part of the carnival. I also wanted to share the graphic that I created for the carnival (I really love how it turned out):

* For this link, the blog itself is not a new one in my reading list (I was a featured artist there last month), but I have recently stumbled on a post there that is new to me that I wanted to share! I found this post on the blog Ideas for Scrapbookers that shows you how to create little covers for 3×3 post-it notes – an awesome last minute gift! Totally perfect timing for me to see this because tomorrow is Avery’s last day at his current daycare so I am in the middle of putting together some gifts for his teachers.

Other Blogs I try to keep up with once in a while:
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Introducing the me underneath it all…

I usually don’t write much about my disabilities and my problems with pain anymore, but I’d like to step into that area a little for the sake of participating (for the very first time) in a blog “carnival”. One of my favourite new blogs, Graceful Agony is hosting the carnival and the first topic is “Let me Introduce Myself”.

For me this is an interesting topic because I have changed SO much since I started suffering from chronic pain that I feel like I’m introducing a whole other person. On the surface, I appear the same, but there’s another “me underneath” that only a few people ever see or hear from. Usually people only see that I’m a busy young mom with a home and family to take care of. We enjoy a beautiful home that makes people say “you’re so lucky!” but I can only think “if only you knew…“…

If you can look beyond the exterior of my upper-middle class family environment (with a supportive spouse, two relatively-healthy kids – a boy and girl, and a nice new house in a great family neighbourhood), my youth and attractiveness (“you don’t look like you’re hurting that much!” or “you’re too young to be this disabled”), my seemingly-set-for-life career possibilities (a couple of university degrees, a glowing CV), my talents and abilities, my previous fitness level, my previously sharp brain and amazing memory, etc.!, you’ll see a different picture entirely than what you expect:
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