In February of 2006, Lindsay and I launched the Perfect Post Awards in order to share personally captivating posts within a supportive community of talented bloggers like you. Our mission statement has been simple all along - The Perfect Post Awards are a chance to read some of the best stuff written each month- and to spread a little warm fuzziness, too.
If you’d like to present an award next month, e-mail me and I’ll send you the latest award button code a few days before the 1st. If you’re interested in looking through our past award posts, they can be found here. Thanks to each and every one of you for making the Perfect Post Awards such a great success!!
DizziLizzi for ‘Twas the Month Before Christmas
Lizzi’s post smacked me in the face with a HO HO HO. I’m big in to Christmas but this year I’m on a Santa-restrictive diet. How he got into the mix really didn’t dawn on me much until my kids were old enough to know it was a total sham. (Don’t hate me…but we freaking LIE to our children every year. How is this good? And don’t even get me started on the Easter Bunny. Talk about bizarre.)
Santa and a man-sized bunny that breaks into your house and leaves baskets filled with eggs and chocolate (wtf?) aside, the meaning of both Thanksgiving and Christmas seem to be getting lost more and more each year.
Here’s a taste to wet your holiday whistle:
‘Twas the month before Christmas when all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying nor taking a stand.
Why the PC Police had taken away,
The reason for Christmas - no one could say.The children were told by their schools not to sing,
About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.
It might hurt people’s feelings, the teachers would say
December 25th is just a “Holiday”.
Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit
Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!You’ll have to click over to Lizzi’s to read the rest. The one thing I can assure you is that you’ll have an opinion. Please feel free to share it.
Here’s the list of this month’s winners:
Suburban Turmoil awarded Girls are Pretty
Something to Say awarded Scribbit
Out of My Tree awarded Miss Britt
Mommy Speak and Fluttercrafts awarded Cry It Out
The Daily Bitch awarded Shoo Fly
Weekly Scheiss awarded Here in the Hills
PunditMom awarded Jen Lemen
Childs Play x 2 awarded Claire’s Dad
Serendipity Mine awarded The Bloggess
Table for Five awarded Spilt Milk
Absolutely Bananas awarded Midwestern Mommy
Playgroups are No Place for Children awarded Swistle
My Life as a Hotfessional awarded Pyreflies Over Zanarkland
Using My Words awarded A Garden of Nna Mmoy
Foggy City Mommy awarded The Spirit of the River
Alex Year One awarded Get in the Car!
To Think is To Create awarded New Mama’s Nest
The Mummy Chronicles awarded Blooming Yaya
Where Was I awarded Pointless Drivel
Chicken And Cheese and Kellyology awarded A Child Is Born
The Berry Patch awarded Wonderland
Miscellanious Adventures of an Aussie Mum awarded Toddler Planet
The Dust Will Wait awarded Life is Like a Lunchbox
Midwestern Mommy awarded Slacker Moms R Us
Poot and Cubby awarded Slouching Past 40
Letters to My Daughters awarded Beyond the Map
This Full House awarded Denver Mile High Mamas
Girl Con Queso awarded Mama Drama
A Child is Born awarded Bodhi. Baby.
Petroville awarded DizziLizzi
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Thanks for all your work on this :-) You gals rocks ;-)
Hi. Thanks for doing this.
As for the post, I think its awful that consumerism is taking over Christmas, but it really makes me mad to see conservatives attacking liberals during the Christmas season and blaming them for consumerizing Christmas, when really it is not really a poltical issue at all, but an issue of consumerism. It seems anti-Christmas spirit to be pointing fingers in this time of good-will. The truth is, if people want Christmas back they need to start in their own homes and their own hearts and not blaming the other side. As a family with both Jewish and Christian roots, I don’t care whether someone says Happy Holidays or Merry Chritmas, I just want people to think about the meaning of the season and put politics aside and be kind to each other.
Sorry for venting. You can blame my pregnancy hormones.
And hey, you asked for my opinion.
I love your opinion, R! I feel the same way. My issue is not political at all but more of sad realization that tv commercials drive this holiday more than the good will in our hearts. I wish I had a time machine…
Yes, I knew you weren’t political on this. I think the poem was, but it wasn’t yours and i knew that. I think we’re on the same page exactly.
I just wanted to thank you for pulling this together each month … it’s a great idea and I”m so glad to have joined in for my second month in a row. It’s great to honor bloggers this way.
There is nothing so sweet as waking up to find you won an award.
*grin*
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Thanks for hosting these awards. I got one this month from Matthew.
Great site here too.