742nd Friday Blog Roundup

I somehow missed NIAW this year. I didn’t see posts leading up to NIAW, and I didn’t receive any emails from Resolve about it. (Actually, just realized that it has been a long time since I’ve received any emails from Resolve. And there are none in my SPAM folder.) So I didn’t remember until I saw the post featured below.

On one hand, it feels weird to miss it. On the other hand, I often don’t connect with the NIAW theme. Maybe I’m just not great with themes in general, but I don’t know what I would have said for Infertility Uncovered.

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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:

• “Why I Can’t ‘Get Over It’” (My Path to Mommyhood)
• “Living My Life” (Infertile Phoenix)
• “So Close. So Far. 35 weeks, 4 days.” (By the Brooke)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Dreaming in Diapers has a post for NIAW, though she, too, missed the actual week but still wanted to acknowledge it.  She uncovers how infertility has touched every aspect of her life, admitting that writing it all down makes her feel naked. Except that we all get it. If only the general public got it, too.

Infertile Phoenix’s life has changed drastically from where it was five years ago, but she also has the wisdom gained from those five years. I love that sentiment: “…my past self may not have been able to handle it. That might’ve been the end of me. I would’ve melted into a puddle right there. But, I am not the me of five years ago. I am the me of five years ago plus the past five years.” Cheers to wisdom gained.

Lastly, Lavender Luz has a post about creating an adoptee-centered narrative. She writes about a documentary she saw of a woman trying to discover her origin story. She explains, “But to take on her quest, Reshma needs to explain to everyone — over and over again — that she loves her parents. That her search doesn’t negate them.” It’s a powerful post about “the need to know oneself.”

The roundup to the Roundup: I missed 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 26th and May 3rd) 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.