Obsession of the Day: Other Blogs

I have become an avid reader of several blogs since I began writing my own.  I find one that I begin to like, and through one blog I find another, and so on.  

The first blog I discovered was dooce.com.  Check it out!  It's quite funny, and the look of it is just really cool.  I think that dooce is one of the most popular blogs on the web, and I know it beat out Postsecret.com as best American blog site.  dooce is just about a very sarcastic woman, Heather and her family.  Heather is a former Mormon turned atheist, and she has also battled severe depression.  She even had to check herself into an institution in order to save herself right after her daughter was born.

Heather's blog led me to theredneckmommy.com, another blog about a sarcastic mother.  Tannis, the mother, is a little untraditional.  She has tatoos and has posted naked pics of herself on the blog.  She also loves to talk about boobs and sex.  

I then found sarcastica.org, a blog about a 19 year old who just had a baby only a few days ago.  It's really cool how she has handled everything and hear her talking about becoming a brand new mom.  

From sarcastica, I found thespohrsaremultiplying.com.  I began to read this blog by yet another mother and her family when my heart was shattered.  Beautiful little Maddie passed away, and every word of her mother's just drips with unbearable sadness.  

From thespohrsmultiplying.com, I found what I believe to be my FAVE!  Mattlogelin.com.  I found it yesterday, and I spend most of the day reading all of the past posts and SOBBING.  Not just crying a little, not just fully crying, but sobbing.  Matt's story is heartbreaking.  A year ago, his beautiful wife Liz, his high school sweat-heart and the love of his life, gave birth to a little girl named Madeline.  The following day, Liz stood up to go visit her baby and collapsed.  Liz never woke up.  In 27 hours, Matt lost his wife and true love but gained a daughter.  His blog follows him coping with his life and raising a daughter on his own.  He is never sappy or over-dramatic.  He is just completely real, and sometimes his realty is earth-shattering.  

So, apparently I like to read blogs about people raising little children.  I didn't even realize that until just now.  Interesting.  Oh, and I really like to read blogs that make me cry (and laugh), often in the same post.