Tomorrow

Truth be told, Aviva and I began our blog before either of us had ever read even one single solitary blog. Nothing. Nada. Zip.

Whenever we've been in the company of seasoned bloggers and mentioned this factoid about ourselves, we get some pretty funny looks. We know we deserve em. It was a strange beginning but at the time we began our blog Mommy Guilt had just been published and our webmaster had recently returned from a huge convention where blogging had been the talk of the town. Our webmaster set up our blog and told us, "Write, dammit" and with that, we were pushed out into the blogosphere.

At first the blogosphere felt unfamiliar and fairly impersonal. Probably because we had about 4 readers, a minuscule start really, but compared to our knowledge about blogging? It was huge! It wasn't until we had been blogging for probably almost a year that we realized we could look at our webstats and figure out who visits our blog. (Go ahead and laugh. We know how it sounds). One day, a long time ago, we saw some visits from "Toddler Planet." I thought Toddler Planet was a toy store. Really. I did.

A few more months went by. I took a trip to Tampa, at the invitation of Becky, I spoke at her Mothers of Twins Club, where I met two more bloggers, this one and that one. I also attended BlogHer that year and then suddenly online connections became offline friendships. Amazing.

I also learned that Toddler Planet isn't a bookstore. Toddler Planet is a blog written by whymommy who lives sort of near me. I began reading whymommy's blog because she was reading ours. Then one day I read that she had gone to her OB/Gyn appointment and gotten some unexpected news. Whymommy learned she's got cancer. Bloggers from all around the world formed Team WhyMommy. I couldn't figure out how to put the square on our sidebar, our webmaster was out of town, but I continued to follow Toddler Planet and read of whymommy's fight and her dogged determination to educate others about her particular type of cancer.

I posted comments on her blog. But we still hadn't met yet.

And then, it happened. We both signed on to blog at DC Metro Moms Blog.

Two weeks ago I got to meet whymommy in person! It was wonderful to be able to meet this phenom and bask in her happiness that her final round of chemo was done and she was onto her next challenge, the counting down of the next 15 days until her double mastectomy.

Tomorrow is The Day.

Please join us here at Parentopia as we send our healing wishes to whymommy.

And while you are here, feel free to post/link your favorite recipe. I need to make and take something soon ,across state lines, over to whymommy!