Ilina Ewen isn't a mom who pulls punches. This "left-leaning" mother of two lets it all out over on her blog Dirt & Noise, and we love her all the more for it.

She's helping us celebrate Mother's Day the way she always does: with no-holds-barred truth about how she came to be a mom.

I never wanted to be a mother.

As a girl, my imaginative play never included weddings, babies, or boyfriends. I used to line up my collection of dolls from around the world and stage my very own lilliputian Miss Universe Pageant.

Jordan Reid of Ramshackle Glam is one of those bloggers who would make you so full of hate jealous if only she weren't so impossibly cool and funny. She is glamorous and sweet and humble enough to somehow make it all work -- darn her!

We love her (can't you tell?) and we think you will, too. Here is her Mother's Day contribution below:

I couldn't sleep last night.

We’re making an offer on a second house (the one with lots of space that’s a bit of a blank slate, design-wise), and while I doubt the owners are going to come down enough to allow us to get it, they might ... and I am definitely more than a little nervous. It is such a big deal. And I’m scared.

When my first son hit the toddler stage I was convinced I had given birth to the most stubborn child on the planet. However, now that my youngest is four years old, I know I was wrong: the older child has the honor of being the second-most stubborn child on the planet. Somewhere along the line a particularly scandalous ancestor must have taken a Tijuana donkey show a little too far, because exotic DNA is the only explanation I can come up with for the mulish streak I've managed to breed into both of my offspring.

I'm kidding, of course, because it's actually incredibly obvious where my kids get their unreasonably unyielding nature: my husband. He's obstinate, fixed in his convictions, and tends to dig his heels in when he's told to do something he doesn't want to do, just like our children.

In Aurora, Colorado, a 6-year-old boy has been suspended for what seems to be a ridiculous reason on the surface -- singing a popular song. The details behind the case, however, paint a much deeper story that raises some real concerns about sexual harassment and how young children can be accused of it.

D’Avonte Meadows was singing LMFAO's song, "I'm Sexy and I Know It." It's a catchy tune, and we've laughed before when kids sing such adult lyrics, mostly because they have no idea what they're singing. D'Avonte, however, seems to have had some clue what they meant, and I'm not so sure the school overreacted by suspending him for three days as much as I did when I first read the story.

Kelli Nelson is a mom who isn't afraid to talk about her feelings in her blog The Sweetness of Life. And we love her for it.

Who could resist a blogger who can make us both laugh and cry? Been there! Here is her blog below:

Do you ever wonder if your children feel your love? I mean really feel it. Often when I look at one of mine, I wonder if they can feel the swell of my heart at that moment.

Even though Girl Child is 13 and, in some parents’ purview, too old for my iron-fisted censorship, I still keep an ear out for the stuff she’s listening to. There is just something blood-curdling about hearing your barely teenage daughter prancing around the house obliviously belting out the lyrics to Rihanna’s “Rude Boy”: “Come here, rude boy, boy; can you get it up?/Come here rude boy, boy; is you big enough?” No ma’am, no sir. Not on my watch.

Still, even with being on my toes for subliminal messages and overt sexuality, one occasionally slips past me, like The Wanted’s “Glad You Came,” which I would never have suspected is really about… orgasms?! At least that’s what one member of the band has strongly suggested. And I’ve been letting my daughter sing along whenever it comes on the radio which, if you listen to any given pop station, is like 30-50 times a day, no lie.

There's no question that childhood obesity is a vast problem in this country, but when it comes to how to address it, all sorts of debate erupts. When Dara Lynn-Weiss wrote for Vogue about the diet she put her overweight daughter on, people were outraged, and anti-obesity efforts are often denounced as fat shaming. So the question remains: How do we help our children maintain a healthy weight? One boy, 12-year-old Marshall Reid, illustrates why maybe we should ask them.

Two years ago, when he was 10, a schoolmate told him, "You're fat." After years of teasing, that was the final push he needed to change his life and get healthy. He went home that day and told his mother of his plan.

It's one of those incredible stories that could only happen today: Google Earth helped a lost boy find his mother. Twenty five years ago, Saroo Brierly was just a 5-year-old boy working with his brother cleaning trains in India. He got separated from his brother, and then he ended up on a train bound for Calcutta -- a 14-hour journey away from the village whose name Saroo didn't even know. It was impossible for him to find his family. He took to begging on the streets of Calcutta until he was finally taken into an orphanage and then adopted by a couple in Australia.

Fast-forward to 2011: Saroo never forgot his birth family. So he figured out how far outside from Calcutta he must have started. And then he used Google Earth to scour the region for familiar landmarks.