Caryn Bailey at Rockin' Mama is a blogger who can tell any story and make it funny. Or interesting. Or heartfelt. She is a truly gifted writer whose way with the pen is truly remarkable.

She graciously agreed to lend The Stir one of her favorite posts for Mother's Day as part of our celebration of mom bloggers we love. See below:

It was supposed to be a great day.  How could it not be, when we started out the morning with Cinnamon Pancakes.  I know he’s been feeling the effects of my divided attention.  He’s been the center of my world for the past 2 1/2 years.

Jody Meltzer is a blogger from Boston who has the unique talent of making you both laugh and cry in the same post. Her blog Mommy Dish is the kind of blog that really makes you connect.

She shared one of her already published posts with us at The Stir in honor of Mother's Day. See below:

I had to celebrate Mother’s Day early this year. I wish I could say it was solely because my Mom deserves a week of festivities for putting up with my antics for 39 years, but that’s not the case. Cancer–the rudest, most obtrusive, unkind, unrelenting, and unwelcome S.O.B disease ever created–dictated the terms.

Amanda Hirsch is a blogger and writer who has published a book on motherhood called Feeling My Way: Finding Motherhood Without Losing Myself. It's the kind of book that every new mom should be reading and Hirsch has a blog, to boot.

In honor of Mother's Day, she has shared one of her favorite posts with The Stir. Please see below:

NOTE: I realize I've probably opened myself up to some unsavory traffic by writing about my boobs, but I couldn't write about new-mom-body-image without mentioning them; so -- if you're only reading this because it came up in a search for "boobs," I'm sorry to disappoint you, there are no pictures or exciting descriptions here. Unless you find descriptions of spit-up exciting. In which case, you're worse than I thought.

Parenting is a challenging endeavor no matter what your personal situation may be. Raising children is just not easy, but it can be fascinating, especially when you have great blogs to follow and read. Mombian is that kind of blog.

Written by Dana Rudolph, this blog is honest, smart, and always informative. Today, she helps The Stir celebrate Mother's Day by sharing one of her best loved posts with us. See below:

When I asked my 7-year-old son what he thought I should write in my parenting column about Mother’s Day, he said, "Tell them that having two moms is just like having two people of any kind take care of you, except it’s more work on Mother’s Day."

Jane Roper is one of the most eloquent writers and bloggers I have ever had the privilege to read. As a blogger for Babble, she discussed her now 6-year-old twins in an always funny, sometimes sarcastic, and refreshingly honest manner. She is also a novelist and memoirist whose book Double Time was recently released in paperback.

In addition, she has her own blog -- Jane's Calamity -- where she discusses her daughter Clio's cancer diagnosis and what it has meant in her family. Moving doesn't even begin to cover it. She has been kind enough to share a post with us for our Mother's Day celebration of bloggers we love. See below:

A Mother's Prayer for Privacy

Dear Lord,

Thank you for my beautiful, loving, creative, and otherwise spectacular children. I am grateful for the many blessings and profound love that they have brought to my life. I just have a few little requests:

Emma Johnson is not a writer who pulls any punches. She's not afraid to share her truth on her blog Wealthy Single Mommy or in her life. It is one of the reasons many are drawn to her blog, where she shares all her thoughts on divorce and single motherhood and on motherhood in general.

In honor of the week leading up to Mother's Day, Johnson shared one of her most poignant posts with The Stir. A Letter to My Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Daughter. It is beautiful, indeed. See below:

Dear Helena,

One day when you were a baby, Aunt Tina and I were smooching all over you. After all, what’s better than kissing a baby – all that smooth, perfect skin, those rolls of fat, all that love that just oozes out of them? Kisses and kisses and kisses. “We’re giving her extra kisses now so she can store them for times in her life when she might not have as many kisses,” Tina said. That was exactly right.

Jennifer Singer of My Jenn-Eration talks about motherhood the way we all feel it. She is relatable and poignant, always honest, and tells it like it is.

We love her and know you will, too. She has graciously agreed to take part in our "12 Days of Gratitude" series featuring some of our favorite bloggers musing on the concept of thankfulness. See below:

It is so hard to believe another year has nearly gone by, and soon, Dylan's and Ruby's birthdays will be upon us. Though they technically share different birth dates, I went into labor with each of them on the same date, exactly two years apart. For that reason, December 14 will forever be my official labor day.

Amber Dusick of Parenting, Illustrated With Crappy Pictures is hands down one of the funniest bloggers out there today. She will make you pee your pants laughing and help you not take this whole parenting gig QUITE so seriously.

We love her and know you will, too. She has graciously agreed to take part in our "12 Days of Gratitude" series featuring some of our favorite bloggers musing on the concept of thankfulness. See below:

I'm still recovering from the holiday break. It is hard to get back into the swing of things after you've slacked off for so long. 

Really? I'm expected to put clothes on my kids again? Can't January be a pajama month too?