Two first time winners: Betty Bakedgood and Lori at The Lyons’ Din!

With both bloggers demonstrating excellent storytelling skills, Betty Bakedgood and Lori captured lovelinkers’ votes as well as those from their social media campaigns. They ran neck-and-neck for most of yesterday afternoon.

Betty’s post was a funny, well-detailed story that had me screaming at my laptop screen like I was watching a horror movie. Instead of “don’t go in there!” it was “girl, ring that doorbell and get in there!” I mean, who is locked out of her house for hours because of politeness? Not me. Way before I’m contemplating sleeping in my car when there are two adults and my baby comfortably snoozing inside, I’m ringing bells and blasting The White Stripes under my husband’s window.

But my anti-Betty Bakedgoodness may very well be why my husband and I no longer live together.

Do your thing, Betty B.

This week’s editor’s choice comes from Lori at The Lyon’s Din and tells of the amazing relationship between Cheryl, her husband Marty’s ex-wife, and Lori. Not only are Cheryl and Lori good friends, Cheryl is godmother to Lori and Marty’s daughter.

My favorite part of the story besides all of it:

One day when Daniel (Cheryl’s son and Lori’s stepson) was playing baseball, Cheryl and I were sitting in the stands together. He was in the dugout and needed a Gatorade. He called to his mom. He called to me. Neither of us heard him until he shouted, “Would ONE of my moms please get me a drink?”

I want Lori to adopt me. Her family is better than amazing, it’s the-mazing. I stole that line from some dude’s Twitter. You can use it.

Congrats to Betty B and Lori! Thanks to everyone who entered this week’s lovelinks. I was excited lurking on all your blogs reading all the comments left by lovelinkers. We take our sense of community seriously. Stick with us, you’ll never be lonely again.

The blogs are sorted in order of most votes to least votes in the matrix below. In the case of a tie, like if four blogs each got seven votes, the tied blogs are sorted by highest number of page views received since Tuesday.

Lovelinks #28 opens Tuesday.