The Miss Elaine-ous Life

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BlogHer ’12, The Love Post

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I have some really amazing friends.

They are amazing because they share their lives with me and their hearts with me and their souls with me.

They are amazing how they put their whole selves out there and they put their stories out there.

To help others.  To feel better.  To help others feel better.

To be heard and to have those who may have no voice (such as their own children) be heard.

They put their words on this screen so that you and I can know we are not alone and that we are not too fat or too thin or too young or too old but that we are who we are and that we are worth something.

They make us feel empowered and strong and fabulous.

They have suffered loss and known triumph.  They have taught us something and we have taught them too.

They have inspired us in ways we never dreamed.  And made us smile on a lonely night when our husband is traveling and the kids are FINALLY in bed and all we really need is a friendly “tweet” or email or comment to make us feel better.

They have laughed with us while sharing a too-small hotel room and given us hugs that make our heart explode and put a smile on our face that is bigger than Texas.

They’ve squealed upon meeting us in a hotel hallway in the middle of Manhattan and when we have kissed their babies we realized that we have loved them from the time they were in their Mothers’ wombs.

We have cried with them and supported them and helped to heal their hearts even with the love we send from across the country, our hearts attached by invisible strings stretching near and far, covering thousands of miles just to say “I’m here for you”.  And we have done the same for them.

They are bloggers.  Just like you and me.  They are people that without this place in cyber space, I never would have come to know otherwise.

They are nothing short of PHENOMENAL.

And they are my FRIENDS and the reason I traveled to NYC last week.

Absolutely, without a doubt THE reason.

with Rebecca @RNashPhoto and Jen and Melissa again at Blographer event
I FINALLY met my sweet friend @BOREDmommy!!!!!
And this lady KNOWS how to give the hugs and love! @KirstenPiccini
with sweet Nicole @ByWordsMusings and Natalie @MamaTrack with her insanely adorable baby girl and Kir and Jen and Kelly @Kpugs
@RachelVorhees and Jen @buriedwithkids laughing it up with Jen 
me and the wonderful @AngellaD in hotel hallway
And then @frelle joined us in the pic! 🙂  So fun!

@Hdurdil (thank you for the photo walk!!) and @Schmutzie
My friend and original BlogHer roomie, @Haleytweetstoo
Melissa and I at the Disney movie reception

My friend Colleen @AMadisonMom was apparently quite thirsty! HA! So great to meet her!!
With sweet @JulieDutch

The fabulous @ErinMargolin sporting her “smolder” look at CheeseburgHer

p.s. please excuse my big white hamhock in this shot.  
You shoulda seen what I had to crop out of this photo! (which includes 
Tracy’s hand on my arse, btw…)  
It’s hard sharing a king-sized bed with 3 other people. ;-P 

Also linked up to Just Write…

Comments

  3. Oh, I love these photos and I am absolutely jealous that you had all this fun without me, and in NYC to boot- wahhhhh!!! Seriously, girl, we met for the first time (I think, or maybe I am wrong) at Blogher 2009 Chicago, the ONLY Blogher event I have gone to. I am so thankful for the blogging world for giving me your friendship, and others too. xoxoxoxo

  5. I love your reason for going and it is my reason too. I am so happy to call you a friend and that I get to spend time with you. I love our first night dinner tradition. I hope we get to do it every single year.

  7. I love you, I love this post, and I miss you SOOOO much. please send me your address so I can mail you your prezzie!

    missing you like mad. so happy you felt better and didn’t have to leave early!

    xoxoxo

  8. I am so glad you had a fabulous time!! I know you weren’t expecting any less. I can only imagine how amazing Blogher is!!

  10. The conference was great!! This was my first year attending, but it certainly won’t be my last. It was great to look at your pics and know that I was there to share in the fun, even though I don’t know you. But I am a blogger 🙂

    Serena
    Thrift Diving
    http://www.ThriftDiving.com
    @ThriftDiving

  11. I wanna be your roomie too!!!!!!! Man, I wish I could have made it there. It looks phenomenal!
    So glad you had such a great time hanging with your ladies. 🙂

  17. HaHa!!! I was quite thirsty. BlogHer will do that to a girl.

    Awesome pics of amazing ladies. So fabulous to finally spend a little time with you. I’m already looking forward to seeing you again next year in Chicago.
    🙂

  18. I didn’t get to touch your booty??? WHA???
    Next time??? 😉

    I loved meeting you, every time you sat down I knew I would laugh and giggle and my heart would just feel HAPPY. You are just as phenomenal as I KNEW you’d be.

    thanks for the hugs, I loved every single one of them (and you…) . xoxox

  24. What a great post and what an amazing experience, I’ve heard such mixed reviews of the whole conference, but I LOVE to read the happy posts from those of us who made amazing connections. I wish I had the chance to sit and chat with you more – its hard when running from one party to the next I guess!!

  25. I love this because you are absolutely right. The best thing about conferences like this is the community. The people are always the best part, even if it is management of the people by the powers that be that falls short.

  26. Did I comment on this post already? I don’t know, but if so I’m doing it again. Because I love it. And I think that your post shows the beauty of BlogHer even when it was maybe not the way some of us hoped it would be. I am happy I got to stay in your room one night. I am sad I didn’t get to take your photo. And that you weren’t feeling well (all better now, right?!), and that I don’t even know when I will see you again. Party at Amanda’s house!