Stop, Drop and Blog

I closed the contest post to new comments and just ran the number of comments (24, if you’re nosy) through the Random.org number generator. Want to know who the winner is? It’s Kisha! Here’s her winning comment.

My daughter takes my breath away every single day. We tried for two years to have her, and we were beginning to worry that it would never happen. With all we went through to get her, I would get frustrated sometimes and once, I grumbled that the baby we were trying for had better be the “best kid ever”. Now, when my husband and I watch her learning new things every day and when she clings to us and pats us on the shoulder because she’s so excited to see us… we know that indeed, she IS the best baby ever!

Kisha? I’ve so been there, so said it, so felt it. And my guess is that the rest of my readers (moms and dads alike) know exactly where you’re coming from! I hope you have a fabulous Mother’s Day. (And, from the looks of the ticker on your LJ, some precious little girl has a first birthday coming up, no? WOOHOO!) Enjoy that as well!

And for the rest of my readers, especially those that entered the photo contest, I need you to come back on Sunday. That’s right. I’m going to make you wait. Sweat it out. Bite your nails. Because I know you have nothing more important going on all weekend then to wait to find out if you won my contest. (Ha!) But really, I want FireDad to help me pick the winning photo, four other photos and the five stories to include in our SUPER FABULOUS MOTHER’S DAY POST EXTRAVAGANZA! (I just made the name up on the fly. Like it?) And FireDad is actually at work through tomorrow morning. So, I’ll be picking the other winner and making the post with all of my favorites on Sunday in celebration of all of our entrants and all of the mothers who read this blog and, really, mothers everywhere. See? EXTRAVAGANZA!

Kisha, I’ll drop your red Cruzer Gator in the mail tomorrow. (Today is impossible as FireDad is at work and I’m home alone with both boys and will be for a total of 36 hours by the time he gets home tomorrow morning… oh, goodness.) For the photo winner, yet to be announced, yours will be dropped in the mail on Monday morning!

Oh, and, well, maybe tomorrow I might write a post about how this weekend makes me feel. But I really wouldn’t bet your home on it. This is just a hard time for me in general and the ability to focus on others via this contest and giveaway has helped me deal with (and/or avoid) my own emotions in a much calmer fashion. So, thank you, dear Blog Friends and Readers, for helping me get through this difficult time.