Blogs... like a great book that just keeps going and going

It's no secret that I am a fan of blogs. I mean, hello, here I am. But I love reading blogs, too. One of my favorites, Momma Says the F Word (link can be found in the list to the left) just posted that she gave birth to her third baby (including super cute pictures!). I have been following that blog since her first baby was only a few months old. Seriously, it's like a good book that just keeps on going. Most of the books I like to read are just life stories (not mysteries, not sci-fi, etc)- just plain old stories of, "this is what happened to me (or these fictitious characters) ..." kind of stuff. So yeah, blogs that also simply capture the events in the life of a family- especially ones that do it with writing so witty and sarcastic that it makes you laugh out loud- are my favorite. I just added another one to my list- Pacing the Panic Room. Lots of great pictures there.

Sadly, I've also removed a few blogs from the list- they were all blogs that were dead for some time now, but I was hoping that they would magically resurrect. Alas, no such luck. In fact, one of the authors just wrote me an email saying, "I'd take that down if I were you." She told me she's left the blogosphere completely. So I suppose she won't see these words, "I will miss you, Domestic Nemesis."

I don't know if anyone feels similarly about my blog. It seems that mostly my blog has come down to family keeping up with Beni. I don't mind that (too much)- making my blog private kind of made that happen. Who knows...maybe when we move again, and I am not working, I can un-private it, and get some new life coming to it. Maybe not. We'll see.

The thing is, I've always been a fan of books that kept going just a little too long. Cause I like to know what happens next. I love to read epilogues, where the author spells out the happily ever after.

Right now I'm reading the second book of a quartet of books (I've already read book 1 and 3, waiting for 4 to come out in November, but have already pre-ordered it to my Kindle). Does it matter that I'm reading book 2 after having already read book 3? Not really. They are romance novels, so I already know how the books will go- the romantic couple are obvious from page 1- I know they will get together, then will have an issue that will split them up, and then they will get back together, and they WILL live happily ever after. These four books are about four friends that run a wedding business together (there's the planner, the florist, the baker and the photographer), and in each book, as you can imagine, one of them pairs off. So I know they will all find love. They will all plan each other's weddings and live happily ever after. You'd think that would be enough- 4 friends, 4 romances- but me, I would buy book 5, in which one of them has a baby. Of course, taking this direction would probably take the book out of the "romance" genre, but, I would buy it. And I'd but the next three where the other three had babies. I'm also the person who thinks of TV characters as friends. What can I say, I get invested in characters! Huh, funny, considering I've never felt very good at making friends in real life- which came first, the chicken or the egg?

So, that said... I am so excited for (my friends ;) Big W and Big K over on Momma says the F word on the arrival of their third baby. I've never met these people (although, I do actually have a real life link to them- only 3 degrees of separation- my friend is good friends with their cousin), but, like the characters in a good book, they feel like friends that I can just keep coming back to.