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A Perfect Post for April - So, You From Wisconsin?

The kids and I recently had the pleasure of introducing my friend Dana (she's from Wisconsin) to her first seaside experience, not to mention the best damned "boardwalk pizza" in the Garden State!

Okay, New Jersey is not perfect - people are buying gas less and spending most of their money on groceries, including us - but, I'm comforted by the fact that waterfront is at least within walking distance.

Until, I read my friend Cheryl's post on how she was, you know, okay with leaving the waves behind - she's ALSO from Wisconsin.

A Perfect Post: Take a parent, add politics and mix well.

 

This is one of my favorite pictures of my parents - it was taken shortly after their engagement in 1963 - and is a perfect depiction of a young couple, living in America, at that time.

Except, they weren't American citizens.

My parents immigrated during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and met for the first time here, in New Jersey, on a blind date.

They carried green cards, worked whatever jobs they could get and learned to speak English by listening to radio commercials and watching television show, like and Gunsmoke and Bonanza.

Except, they were more like:

A Perfect Post - November '07

One of the reasons I enjoy blogging - besides, the flexible hours and the fringe benefits of hanging out in my pajamas and having unlimited access to the delete button - is the extreme sense of community and random acts of kindness I've seen across the blogosphere, lately.

Especially, if you've EVER given me a blogging award - see right sidebar - then, I think some of you bloggers are perhaps the coolest people on earth (albeit, a little crazy in the keyboards) but, I love you anyway!

[snicker]

So, I'd like to take a moment and share in a little linky love with my nomination of the Perfect Post Award for November, 2007.

I'd like to present to you, my friend Amber (a.k.a. Crazy Blogging Canuck) and her post over at Mile High Mamas entitled, "Get Found, Kid."

Amber shares her mother's heart-wrenching battle with Multiple Sclerosis (having been diagnosed with the disease 25 years ago) and this post really resonated with me.

I agree with Amber; watching a loved one suffer is is like living with "...a monster hiding under the covers."

My aunt is dying - having faced smackdowns with death, nearly all my life - but, her monster just refuses to give in.

Then, Amber wrote this about her mom:

"There were times she just wanted to die. And I wanted her to die. Not because I could bear the thought of losing her but because when you see someone you love suffer so much you want the ultimate healing - even if that means death."

Oh, I perfectly understood what she meant - having felt the same for my aunt - but, sharing in her pain just sort of made mine seem a little less, you know, ugly.

Thank you Amber, for sharing one monster of a perfect post!

[Oh, and just so you know:  You can visit the rest of the Perfect Posts for November hosted by Petroville and Suburban Turmoil, or feel free to stop by The Imperfect Parent and check out my article for December, "The Sanity Clause."]