In which this is some linky action

If you're snowed in, here are a few wanderings worth your time this weekend

I thought my fellow baby-wearing mamas out there would LOVE this video. (RSS subscribers, you'll likely have to click through to watch it...and it's worth it!)

• A beautiful and very real look at motherhood from Heather at the Extraordinary Ordinary. I love Heather's blog and often find something beautiful there. She really spoke to me on this one. Then that tiny boy, that little sleeping guy opened his big blue eyes and asked to eat with screeching sounds. And I loved him deeply despite my shaking and shivering. So I sat for the first time on the bed that was once ours and mine with this new baby on top of that macaroni shaped pillow thing that everyone said I needed to have. I struggled to get him all lined up and open mouthed to eat. I struggled. And I loved him enough to share something that was mine and ours and now his.
• The Big Picture is one of my consistently "OH MY WORD! THAT IS AMAZING!" stops on the Interwebs. They are doing an end of the year round up of the best photos of 2009. (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 here.)
• If you aren't reading NieNie's blog, you should be. She was horrifically burned over most of her body about a year ago. Her journey "back" is inspiring and life-affirming, hard and beautiful. The Arizona Republic is doing a series on her and if you have an evening, curl up and read this. It'll make you so very thankful to be alive. And it's much better than another night spent watching reruns of The Office.
• Jordon Cooper has a timely and insightful look at the missional challenges of churches and advocates "slowing down the path to the pulpit". Given our experiences these past few years, I have to say I agree.
• And finally, "It really sank in with the Christmas story. The idea that God, if there is a force of Love and Logic in the universe, that it would seek to explain itself is amazing enough. That it would seek to explain itself and describe itself by becoming a child born in straw poverty, in shit and straw... a child ... I just thought: 'Wow!' Just the poetry... Unknowable love, unknowable power, describes itself as the most vulnerable. I was just sitting there, and it's not that it hadn't struck me before, but tears came down my face, and I saw the genius of this, utter genius of picking a particular point in time and deciding to turn on this." Bono (H/t to Dave Carrol at Big Ear...a fellow Canuckian.)