Ack!
I feel like a cat with a fur ball. Ack! Ack!
It’s all I can say this week, because I am dying with excitement (ack!) and anxiety (ack!) over talking Friday at the Motherlode conference in Toronto about my experiences blogging about a child with physical differences. (Ack!) The conference is featuring mothering authors such as Andi Buchanan (who wrote MotherShock) (Ack!) and Ann Crittenden (author of The Price of Motherhood) (Ack!). I am sharing panel space with several well-known mother bloggers, including MUBAR, Postcards from the Mothership, Hello Josephine, and the Mother of All Blogs’ Ann Douglas. (Ack!) People have already been signing up for our session (ack!), which the organizers have been promoting on the materials mailed out to registrants (ack!); I splurged on new shoes, even (ack!).
Only to find this in the Toronto Star a few days ago. OK, scroll past the brilliant part at the beginning where the author describes how society is all talk, no action about supporting motherhood to where she writes about the Motherlode.
Do you see this? This part right here?
But O’Reilly says this year’s event takes it to a whole new level. It features 200 speakers from around the world on such diverse topics as teen mothers, raising bi-racial children, post-partum depression, mothering children with disabilities, and mommy blogs.
Mommy blogs! That’s me! I mean, us! Ack!
I’ll be here afterwards to blog about it; and if I’m not, call the ambulance. I probably had a heart attack.
Ack!
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1. Prescott
October 25, 2006 @ 5:30 pm
That’s so cool! Have fun, we look forward to hearing all about it. ACK!
2. Jessica Carlson
October 25, 2006 @ 7:56 pm
OMG, how cool is that! I don’t know you that well, but I’m so proud of you!!! Please come back with all juicy details. I would be just as excited/nervous.
Congrats!!!
3. Andrea
October 26, 2006 @ 6:49 am
Thank you.
Cool, and terrifying. Ack!
4. Cristina
October 26, 2006 @ 12:13 pm
Awesome!! So happy for you. Congrats on your speaking engagement. Can’t wait to hear all about it!